RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony’s disc-free PlayStation plan
Since Sony announced that it was planning to stop producing physical PlayStation discs in 2028, many people have been justifiably worried about how they will
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When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport
An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.
Kanishka Narayan becomes the UK’s first cabinet-level AI minister
Kanishka Narayan has become the first UK minister for artificial intelligence to sit at the cabinet table, a promotion that arrives as new prime minister
Brazil’s Pix becomes a trade flashpoint with the US, and the world is watching
Brazil’s instant-payment system Pix has moved from a domestic success story to the centre of a trade fight with the United States, and governments elsewhere
China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports
China is considering tightening export controls on its home-grown artificial intelligence models and the chips that run them, according to the Financial Times, in a move
Head of America’s AI safety agency resigns after three months
Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices
DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him
On March 31, 2026, a rather odd complaint arrived at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania District Attorney’s Office. It came from the local sheriff’s office, and
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
Drones capable of spraying water and fire retardants have been practicing how to snuff out wildfires early in California and Alaska this summer—demonstrating a possible
Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds
When Google’s AI answers a question, it is increasingly not reading a website. It is reading a Facebook post. New data suggests social platforms have
Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is
The EU’s AI transparency deadline is weeks away. Is your enterprise ready?
Providers and deployers of AI systems: You only have a couple of weeks left until you must explicitly inform users when they are interacting with
Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.
Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at
Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software
Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also
Tesla beat Q2 delivery estimates and the stock fell. Wednesday’s earnings face the same problem.
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase. The stock dropped. That reaction tells you everything