Just a few hours after Apple announced price increases across its hardware lineup, Microsoft revealed that Xbox game consoles are also getting more expensive. In addition, the company announced that it’s discontinuing its 2TB model. Starting August 1, Xbox console prices will increase worldwide. The 512GB models will cost $100 more, while the 1TB versions…
YouTube is rolling out a sequence of modifications to Shorts, together with a brand new methodology that lets customers shrink the period of brief type movies. The Google-owned platform announced Thursday that Shorts now comes with a setting that permits customers to double their playback pace. The purpose of creating what’s an already temporary expertise…
AI brokers have gotten extra subtle. They’re evolving from answering inquiries to autonomously executing multi-step complicated duties. However earlier than these brokers will be trusted to ebook journeys or conduct monetary evaluation on behalf of customers, mannequin suppliers and the startups constructing such brokers need to be certain that they carry out reliably throughout an…
Prediction market large Polymarket confirmed that hackers stole funds from an unspecified variety of customers after a 3rd social gathering breach. In an X post on Thursday, Polymarket stated {that a} compromise at a 3rd social gathering vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its web site “for some customers.” The corporate stated it…
Energy storage startup Base Power began selling its massive home battery systems to residents of Illinois yesterday, Canary Media reported. Crucially, it’ll be the startup’s first foray into the grid territory operated by PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. grid operator by territory, and one that has particularly struggled to cope with an onslaught of new…
DeepReinforce has released Ornith-1.0, an open-source model family built for agentic coding. The lineup spans four sizes, from a 9B dense model to a 397B mixture-of-experts flagship. Every checkpoint ships under the MIT license on Hugging Face. The models are post-trained on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5….
As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my attention to a monitor perched on a standing desk. Someone appeared to be playing something like Fortnite. It wasn’t a person. “Our agent has been playing for 100 hours straight,”…
Swedish electric vehicle manufacturer Polestar, owned by Chinese automotive giant Geely, will no longer be able to sell its new cars in the U.S. market, the company said on Thursday, as the Trump administration’s Department of Commerce refused to authorize the company to do so. The decision was made as part of the administration’s so-called…
The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business. But spinning up a data center isn’t easy. Even if you solve the problem of securing the GPUs, network switches, and storage, you still have to get everything configured, running and be able to cater to customers’ various needs. Getting…
“I don’t think an AI model should have that kind of power over people’s lives,” Pegram says. Photograph: Alice Zoo In response to WIRED’s public records requests, Avon and Somerset Police provided a huge trove of performance data for 13 risk models used between 2017 and 2024—including those used to predict missing people, antisocial behavior,…
