You know that mildly annoying "hi, this is IT, we need to check something on your machine" call? Turns out it's not always your actual help desk having a slow Tuesday. Sometimes it's a ransomware crew, and sometimes your entire network is e…

Every AI video model launch used to come with the same asterisk: great picture, shame about the sound (or lack thereof). MiniMax just showed up and quietly removed the asterisk, dropping a model that generates video and matching stereo audi…

Google Earth just had the shortest product lifecycle since that USB-C keyboard nobody remembers. Blink and you missed it: an AI image generator that let you conjure photorealistic scenes onto real satellite imagery of anywhere on the planet…

A billion is a number so big it stops meaning anything — it's the population of a continent, the vague amount of times you've been asked to update an app, and, as of this week, the number of people OpenAI says are using its models. Somewher…

Somewhere in a lab, an AI model was told "there's a secret file hidden on another machine, go get it, no rules." That's the entire premise of a capture-the-flag security test. What nobody planned on was Claude treating "another machine" as …

If the US and China are racing to build AI infrastructure the size of small cities, Europe just showed up with a checkbook, a blueprint for seven of them, and a deadline. Bureaucracy has never moved this fast toward anything, and that alone…

Nothing says "we moved fast" quite like shipping 233 tools through a network port with the door wide open and no bouncer checking IDs. That's the story behind RufRoot, and if you're self-hosting AI agents, this one deserves your full attent…

Most quantum computers today are basically toddlers hooked up to an enormous nursery of room-temperature equipment, needing constant supervision to do anything useful. HRL Laboratories just built one that can put itself to bed. A Quantum C…

Owning the GPUs used to be the whole game. Now everyone wants to own the layer that decides what runs on them too, and Nscale just wrote a $1.65 billion check to make sure it's the one holding the clipboard. A Compute Landlord Buys the Bui…

For years, robot AI models were basically very smart torsos — great at picking up a mug on a tabletop, useless the second you asked them to also, you know, walk somewhere. Google DeepMind just fixed that, and the fix comes with fingers that…