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”
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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
OpenSearch Is Done Being Called “the Elasticsearch Fork”
I sat down with Bianca Lewis of OpenSearch at Open Source Summit India, right after the project’s second OpenSearch Con in the country. Bianca Lewis
Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until AI Started Poking Around and It Got Removed
Greg Kroah-Hartman just deleted a Linux driver that hasn’t mattered to anyone in years. The reason for removal wasn’t a bug report or a user
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
This year is the 30th anniversary of the launch of the original Quake by id Software, if you could believe it. To commemorate that, publisher
DOGE’s wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
It won’t come as a surprise that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) didn’t save taxpayers nearly as much as it claimed. Analysis from outside
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
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
Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale
Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the
AI boom forces companies to rethink how they measure business value
Artificial intelligence has quickly become a boardroom priority, inspiring significant investment across industries. Yet conversations about return on investment often remain tied to familiar software
New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
Sometime next week, NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti
The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie
Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. The pair