Every industry is bracing for AI to automate the boring parts of the job. Turns out ransomware crews got there first — except the boring parts of their job were also the entire job, and the robot they hired forgot to keep a copy of th…

Three frontier AI models dropped within nine days of each other this month, which is either the healthiest competition tech has seen in years or a sign everyone's compute bill is due at the same time. Google's entry showed up fashionably la…

Big Blue just had its worst day on the stock market in company history, and the culprit isn't a hacked mainframe or a botched product launch. It's AI — just not in the way IBM would have liked to be part of the story. The Number That Spook…

Jensen Huang flew to Japan this week and, in true Jensen fashion, skipped the omiyage box of snacks. He brought 27,500 GPUs instead. Sovereign AI, Now With Extra Vera Rubin On July 16, Japan's government, local industrial partners, and Nvi…

Somewhere in the South China Sea, a ship's crew reeled in the catch of the century. It weighed several tons, was on fire moments earlier, and used to be the first stage of a rocket. The World's Most Extreme Game of Catch On July 10, a Long…

The traditional security researcher move is to find a bug, write a strongly worded disclosure, and let some poor maintainer lose a weekend fixing it. OpenAI's new approach skips the strongly worded part and just... fixes the bug itself. The…

Patch Tuesday used to be a calendar reminder you could safely ignore until Thursday. Not this month. Microsoft just shipped fixes for 570 vulnerabilities in one go, and two of them were already being actively exploited in the wild — which i…

Twelve tries in, you'd think SpaceX would run out of superlatives for "biggest rocket ever." They have not. Starship is back on the pad for flight 13, and this time it's bringing friends nobody's seen in orbit before. The Super Heavy Boost…

Somewhere in Beijing today, a lot of very lonely chatbots got laid off. China's new rules on humanlike AI just took effect, and two of the country's biggest tech giants are pulling the plug on their most emotionally clingy features right on…

Quantum encryption has spent years being the physics equivalent of a garage band — technically brilliant, wildly impressive at parties, but never quite ready to headline a real venue. This week it got signed to a label. Or, well, it got ins…