The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys
The main antagonist of Toy Story 5, in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad, a genius new villain for the
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The unprecedented and deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, explained
An unprecedented outbreak of hantavirus has rocked a luxury cruise ship off the coast of West Africa, triggering a tsunami of news stories and a
Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The Fed chair called the banks.
Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The Federal Reserve chair and
The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.
The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more
Akamai’s stock had its best day in 22 years. It took one AI contract.
Akamai Technologies disclosed a 1.8 billion dollar, seven-year cloud infrastructure deal with a customer it described only as “a leading frontier model provider.” Bloomberg
Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.
Google launched a 99 dollar screenless fitness tracker and a 9.99 dollar per month AI health coach powered by Gemini. One day later, Whoop
A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is
Quantinuum filed for an IPO worth 20 billion dollars. It has 31 million in revenue and a quantum computer that does not exist yet.
Quantinuum filed for a US initial public offering on Thursday that could value the company at more than 20 billion dollars. In the year
ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View
ABC is fighting back against the Trump administration’s attempt to police broadcast television content, saying in a filing that the Federal Communications Commission is violating
Sony says “efficient” AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
Anyone following the modern game industry knows that easy-to-use game engines and the accelerating shift to digital distribution have helped enable a massive increase in
Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.
Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial control systems that regulate pumps, filters, and chemical dosing. In some
Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber’s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in
Manufacturing qubits that can move
To get quantum computing to work, we will ultimately need lots of high-quality qubits, which we can tie together into groups of error-corrected logical qubits.
Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
Tweety McTreason has signed off on a plan to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, though insiders caution that the plan is not