Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns
The phrase Japan’s digital minister chose was deliberately stark. Hisashi Matsumoto warned that the country risks becoming an “AI colony” if it fails to keep
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Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes
One of Anthropic’s engineers hasn’t written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up, but because Claude does it now. As
SpaceX Has $30 Billion Deal to Provide Google With A.I. Computing Power
Elon Musk’s rocket company said Google would pay it $920 million a month, as it prepared for its initial public offering.
Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected
For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s
A Chinese startup just dethroned Nvidia on the benchmark Nvidia helped build
Two days. That is how long Nvidia’s latest robotics model sat at the top of the RoboArena leaderboard before a startup from Hangzhou knocked it off. On
Proton Drive is Now Faster (And Getting a Linux Client Soon)
If you have been following Proton Drive this year, you know the pace of development has picked up. The developers have been busy rolling out
Canonical Promotes Steam Snap to Stable on ARM64, With Plans to Rebuild It from Scratch Later
Canonical’s Steam snap for ARM64 has been promoted to stable, nearly five months after a call for testing drew feedback from users across a wide
Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licences six months after enabling them. One company reportedly ran up a $500
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site
Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on
Tech industry cut 38,242 jobs in May, worst since 2024
Technology companies announced 38,242 job cuts in the US in May 2026, the highest monthly total for the sector since August 2024, according to research
16 ways to speed up Windows 11
Windows 11 does a lot under the hood to speed up a PC’s performance, but PCs tend to slow down over time as they accumulate apps, files
Highly reviewed speaker can be hacked over the air to infect connected devices
Operating system makers take many steps to prevent their wares from accepting commands from remote devices. The safeguards, designed to thwart malicious attacks, typically require
Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test
Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an
Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving
Russia intends to switch on a commercial version of its homegrown answer to Starlink next year, according to people familiar with the programme cited by