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OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”

OpenAI’s upcoming smart speaker will probably cost over $300, “people familiar with the matter” have told Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman . The generative AI company has “discussed” charging up to $400, Bloomberg, which has been reporting on the…

$OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk$

OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk

OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities. So it is pausing some internal work on the model…

Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon

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Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon

NASA believes the crater left by the rocket is around 60 feet wide.

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Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months

Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months

The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture…

How snails engineer their slime

Snails are well-known for their mucus. The slime is highly valued as an anti-inflammatory and anti-aging ingredient in certain skin care products, and snails can secrete different kinds of mucus with properties tailored to specific…

Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

A US-made pickup truck by 2030 is part of Volkswagen Group's plan to revive its American business. According to a Reuters report , entering this competitive but high-margin market, as well as the large SUV segment, is the path forward…

Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 review: Health data overload, but built for the future

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 review: Health data overload, but built for the future

Samsung's latest smartwatch introduces new metrics, a longer-lasting battery, and hints at the future of wearables.

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Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech

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Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech

For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026 , James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that…

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Experts warn malicious AI skills are hitting more victims than ever — with one family amassing 1.7 million downloads

Experts warn malicious AI skills are hitting more victims than ever — with one family amassing 1.7 million downloads

Attackers cloned AI skills, later adding malicious code to steal credentials Zenity Labs found millions of installs and dozens of dangerous skill variants Vercel and Microsoft removed malicious skills, but manual removal is still required…

Moroccan police put on high alert near Ceuta — media

The sources said that these measures were taken after posts began circulating on social media about preparations for a new mass attempt to illegally cross the border with Ceuta

Unknown drones spotted over Bundeswehr base in western Germany — newspaper

Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that employees of a private security firm documented six drone flights between Thursday evening and Friday morning and promptly alerted police

I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware

I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware

It's a smart donut. That's the only conclusion I can draw about OpenAI's first, groundbreaking piece of AI hardware after reading Bloomberg's revealing but unconfirmed report . Here's the TLDR summary of these rumors: This donut-shaped…