Apple’s design studio has lost nearly every Jony Ive-era designer. Incoming CEO John Ternus says he’ll fix it.

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Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions

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Amazon says human-in-the-loop AI oversight is failing because humans stop paying attention

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New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason

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Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule

Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites

Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside

Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor

AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches Apple Watch in accuracy test

Jio Platforms files for India’s largest-ever IPO, with nearly $3 billion earmarked for debt repayment

ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records

Wharton researchers coined ‘cognitive surrender’ to describe what happens when people let AI think for them

BYD rejects claims it violated Hungary’s environmental rules at its Szeged EV factory

The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots

Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO

Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years

NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars

Amazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI

Sony’s $7.85M PlayStation Store antitrust settlement has been preliminarily approved

Norway is banning generative AI in elementary schools starting this autumn

17 fusion startups have now raised over $100M each, and the total keeps climbing

The bet against bigger models: Aether AI lands $20mn for causal AI

A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware

France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy

Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.

The UK’s top data and AI regulator has quit, a first in the office’s 40-year history

Google’s AI is confidently telling people that horror fan-fiction monsters are real

Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer

Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for ‘first-class groveling’, new book claims

A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.

As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit

Google is using Nvidia’s own playbook to break its grip on AI chips

Immigrant-focused VC Geek Ventures returns with larger checks

The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.

Bernie Sanders’ AI bill would hand the public half of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI

AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.

A city hit pause on AI data centres. Amazon responded by investigating its own engineers.

Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.

AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

Warren raises €10M to fix Belgium’s broken workplace pensions

The world thinks China is winning the AI race. It just doesn’t trust the winner.

Two AIs just matched or beat doctors on diagnosis. The catch: none of the patients were real.

A $5M tech-worker PAC is taking on Big Tech’s $100M war chest over AI rules

Disney is joining the AI-ad arms race, just as audiences turn on ‘slop’

GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry