For the first time, an artificial intelligence system has created a series of previously unknown viruses capable of infecting and eliminating certain types of bacteria. This breakthrough opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. However, it also raises concerns about the potential misuse of this technology to design biological weapons. For several years now,…
Framework, a company that makes modular repairable computers, said it has notified all of its customers that hackers stole their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses, due to an incident at a company that provides business intelligence. On Thursday, several Framework customers said on social media that they had received an email from…
Cloudflare is the latest company to join the race to build a new web browser. But instead of pitching a Chrome alternative to consumers, the internet infrastructure provider launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents. AI software is evolving from chatbots that answer questions to agents that can complete tasks on users’…
The Trump administration is paying another $1.2 billion to cancel an offshore wind lease, this time to German utility RWE. The energy company said in an announcement that the wind farms would have been built off the coasts of California, Louisiana, and New York. Instead, RWE will spend $900 million to buy a small stake…
SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg. Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public meeting on Wednesday that his company will be…
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model that runs entirely on-device. It plans, calls tools, and works through multi-step tasks on phones, laptops, PCs, and robots. The model has 2.69B total parameters, a 131,072-token context window, and a 128,000-token vocabulary. Pre-training used approximately 34 trillion tokens. Two checkpoints shipped: LFM2.5-2.6B-Base for fine-tuning, and LFM2.5-2.6B post-trained…
A New Mexico Court judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay a fine of $567 million, on top of the $375 million levied in March, in a case regarding social media harms and addiction. This brings the total fines the company has to pay to $942 million. The court also ordered Meta to make changes…
Microsoft has open sourced code-testing-generator, a polyglot agent that writes unit tests and then proves they work. It ships in the dotnet-test plugin inside the MIT-licensed dotnet/skills repository. The agent targets a gap that coding assistants usually leave open. A prompt like ‘generate unit tests’ does not say which framework, file location or assertions to…
What if, instead of typing the next silly question you have into Claude or ChatGPT, you asked a random guy instead? That’s the idea behind ChatTJB. It’s the creation of 32-year-old Tucker Bryant, a public speaker, artist, and former project manager at Google. A San Francisco billboard describes ChatTJB as “the leading chat interface powered…
Developers detest drudgery. The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate away the boring tasks involved in building things. And, as vibe coding has proved, they’ve even managed to find ways to not do most of the work of putting products together. So I wasn’t very surprised to…
