“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
Oct 9, 2026
Amazon has launched the Alexa Tablet 8, Tablet 11 and Tablet 12 Pro globally with Google Play Store access, Android support and built-in Alexa+ AI features. The lineup starts at $229.99, while the flagship Tablet 12 Pro features a 12-inch 2.5K display with a 120Hz refresh rate.
Every year, hundreds of animals die trying to cross State Route 62, connecting L.A. and Joshua Tree. The research to fix it is a bit unconventional.
The recipients of the six awards in science, literature, economics and peace work are being announced this week.
A report by the secretary general warned that new technologies could be used to access and criminalize people’s innermost thoughts.
The AI firm instead claims the researchers were fired for mishandling sensitive information.
Astronomers find most distant fast radio burst ever recordedAstronomers in a recent breakthrough have detected the most distant burst of radio waves that travelled more than 10 years before reaching Earth. The researchers believe that this fast radio burst was released from a really faraway...
Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg’s hand.
New details have emerged about an initiative that starts in December to fast-track the vaccines, similar to the successful push for the Covid-19 vaccine.
A bug in GoBalance, a tool many dark-web sites use to stay reachable during attacks, lets anyone work out the secret key that controls a site's .onion address using only public information, and then take that address over. Searchlight Cyber, which disclosed the flaw on October 8, says an attacker who recovers the key can redirect the site's visitors to a copy of the site they control.
Aaron Sorkin’s sort-of sequel to the 2010 “Social Network” dramatizes a whistle-blowing case at Facebook. Here’s what to know.
The Trump administration continues to crack down on immigration, with new restrictions on the H-1B visa programme. US Vice President JD Vance singled out Microsoft as having abused the system to recruit low-cost foreign workers, to the detriment of the American workforce. The tech giant has defended its hiring practices. Also in the show: Germany could join a UK-led fighter jet development programme, months after pulling out of a joint French project.
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents to accelerate business, a new report reveals they are tethered to security architectures built for a different era. The "Horizons of Identity Security" report from SailPoint highlights a critical “velocity paradox,” in which organizations invest in AI-speed business operations while continuing to rely on human-speed security controls, creating a
