Attackers are attempting to target X users following the launch of X Money. After numerous X users reported receiving unsolicited password reset emails, a representative said the social media company was actively investigating the issue but had not yet found evidence that the hacks were successful. On Tuesday, X product engineer Mridul Singhai posted to…
On Tuesday, Google announced it’s rolling out five new updates designed to make Android phones more accessible, useful, and personalized. Announced in a blog post, the features include those aimed at reducing motion sickness, helping blind and low-vision users navigate their surroundings, remembering where users leave important items, and another that adds new ways to…
OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” in preparation for its imminent release. “We plan to make Astra available soon,” OpenAI’s blog post reads, “but access to its most advanced cybersecurity capabilities will be more limited.” The…
AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a spherical that valued it at $3.2 billion. This simply 5 months after asserting its $30 million Collection A at a $300 million valuation in April. That’s greater than a 10x improve in lower than half a yr and, in response to Y Combinator companion Gustaf Alströmer, the…
Apple has adopted Google’s lead and formally modified the title of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its Apple Maps service lower than every week after President Trump ordered the change. Apple Maps customers in the US will start to see Lake America, not Lake Ontario — one of many 5 Nice Lakes in North…
The CEO of a flying car company backed by Larry Page has left the company. Ken Karklin, who was Pivotal’s CEO for more than four years, left the role this week, according to a press release. Pivotal said Karklin is “pursuing new endeavors” but didn’t offer any other information about the executive’s departure from the…
JioHotstar, the streaming platform managed by Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, is taking its model outdoors India for the primary time and can change Hotstar within the UK, Canada, and Singapore because it begins a wider international push. The streaming service will launch with greater than 160,000 hours of leisure content material however with out the…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon,” but will make the model’s advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners in its Daybreak Blue early-access program…
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, three months after the Fable 5 line shipped in June 2026. The two are the same underlying model behind different safeguard layers. Fable 5.1 is generally available as claude-fable-5-1; Mythos 5.1 stays restricted to vetted organizations. Both carry a 1M token context window and 128K…
John Ternus has officially taken the reins as Apple CEO, succeeding Tim Cook, who held the role for fifteen years. The company’s former senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Ternus enters the CEO role at a critical time for Apple. On September 9, the company will host its annual iPhone event, which is rumored to…
