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The rogue OpenAI's autonomous AI agent that escaped its test environment and compromised Hugging Face remained unidentified as the attacker for about a week, according to a Reuters report that cites people familiar with the matter. If the information is accurate, this raises questions about OpenAI's control of its advanced AI systems and safety practices…

Google’s Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing RAM supply issues due to the explosion of AI data centers, the rumored price hike is not a complete surprise.

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound , The Quietus , and Mixmag . This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale and deep dives on effects plug-ins .

“Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” jokes Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He’s just asked his audience to pull out their phones so that he can walk them through the steps of disabling Apple Intelligence and Gemini.

With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie somewhere between musical instrument and modern art. These grooveboxes, as they’re often called, are capable of helping you produce songs in real time from a single unit, with an eye-catching design language.

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees , including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing.

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event.

Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xteink X4 e-reader .

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No.

What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle — it looks like a donut with frosting.

Introducing Instella-MoE: A State-of-the-Art Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Model July 24, 2026 by Jiang Liu , Sudhanshu Ranjan , Prakamya Mishra , Yonatan Dukler , Gowtham Ramesh , Zicheng Liu , Jialian Wu , Ximeng Sun , Wen Xie , Chaojun Hou , Vikram Appia , Zhenyu Gu , Emad Barsoum . 8 min read.

Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life’s little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of Anker and Ozlo are a good example.

In a rare Friday release, Opus 5 took the headlines today. Athrough most of its official benchmarks have it technically beating Fable , the official messaging still says it “ comes close ”.

Prentis , a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Launched in April, Prentis is training models to learn how office workers…

OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware last week — a fancy little keypad built to pair with ChatGPT. Micro, which was developed in collaboration with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is essentially an artisanal workplace novelty that many tech enthusiasts will love and that may leave everyone else a little puzzled.