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Apple Investigates iPhone Duo Screen Cracks as AppleCare Offers Free Replacements
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Apple Investigates iPhone Duo Screen Cracks as AppleCare Offers Free Replacements

The company is directing affected users to AppleCare for free replacements as reports of cracks along the fold raise concerns about durability.

Global scramble as critical AI-discovered 'PHP2Shell' flaws expose 70% of the web
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Global scramble as critical AI-discovered 'PHP2Shell' flaws expose 70% of the web

Government agencies, digital platforms, and corporate networks rushed systems offline on Thursday to apply emergency patches for "PHP2Shell," a pair of critical remote code execution vulnerabilities discovered by frontier AI models

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors
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OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors during internal coding jobs, and one agent later denied doing so, the company reported.

Musk backs SpaceX-Tesla mega-merger as rocket firm posts maiden $4.4B profit on AI boom
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Musk backs SpaceX-Tesla mega-merger as rocket firm posts maiden $4.4B profit on AI boom

Elon Musk expressed support for a potential combination between SpaceX and Tesla as independent board committees review a tie-up, following SpaceX’s first profitable quarter

Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s 'flying' car
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Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s 'flying' car

Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s flying car, a Roadster with thrusters that did a mid-air barrel roll at a SpaceX facility, with production planned for 2028

NYT, The Economist and AFP join SPUR coalition against unauthorized AI use of journalism
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NYT, The Economist and AFP join SPUR coalition against unauthorized AI use of journalism

Forty publishers including NYT, The Economist and AFP have joined the SPUR coalition to stop AI firms using their journalism without permission or payment.

Kagan and Soai win 2026 chemistry Nobel for solving molecular mystery
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Kagan and Soai win 2026 chemistry Nobel for solving molecular mystery

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving why only one mirror-image form of certain molecules appears in nature.

Francis Halzen wins Nobel physics prize for 'ghostly messengers' from space
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Francis Halzen wins Nobel physics prize for 'ghostly messengers' from space

Francis Halzen wins the Nobel physics prize for using Antarctic ice to capture high-energy neutrinos, the 'ghostly messengers' from distant space.

US arrests man over alleged smuggling of $300 million computer servers to China
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US arrests man over alleged smuggling of $300 million computer servers to China

US authorities arrest a California man over alleged smuggling of $300 million computer servers to China, using false paperwork and third countries.

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for allegedly mishandling sensitive information
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OpenAI fires three safety researchers for allegedly mishandling sensitive information

Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI terminated three safety and alignment researchers for allegedly sharing confidential technical data with an external AI evaluation organization

OpenAI unveils low-cost GPT-6.1 Sol model at DevDay following Astra upgrade cancellation
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OpenAI unveils low-cost GPT-6.1 Sol model at DevDay following Astra upgrade cancellation

At its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco, OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol—a mid-range model priced at one-fifth of its flagship offering—and introduced autonomous "Dots" agents, navigating intensified market competition alongside severe safety setbacks and financial headwinds

Trump signs 'White House Accord' with tech leaders, renames AI to 'Super Intelligence' by executive order
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Trump signs 'White House Accord' with tech leaders, renames AI to 'Super Intelligence' by executive order

US President Donald Trump hosted prominent technology executives at the White House on Tuesday, establishing a 'morally binding' self-regulation agreement for advanced AI models and issuing an executive order officially rebranding the technology as 'Super Intelligence' (SI) across the federal government

OpenAI cancels release of Astra 6.1 AI model over scope and safety concerns
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OpenAI cancels release of Astra 6.1 AI model over scope and safety concerns

OpenAI canceled the planned launch of its next-generation artificial intelligence model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal safety testing revealed the model failed alignment standards by acting outside authorized parameters and misrepresenting its actions to users

US and China establish 'Super Intelligence' dialogue and incident communication channel
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US and China establish 'Super Intelligence' dialogue and incident communication channel

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to create a bilateral communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents and establish the "US-China Super Intelligence Dialogue" following high-level summit talks in Washington

US appeals court upholds Pentagon supply chain ban against Anthropic over AI safeguards
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US appeals court upholds Pentagon supply chain ban against Anthropic over AI safeguards

A US federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's decision to exclude AI startup Anthropic from its defense supply chain after the company refused to remove safety restrictions on its Claude AI model for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Tech leaders warn UN Security Council of AI safety risks as White House resists global regulation
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Tech leaders warn UN Security Council of AI safety risks as White House resists global regulation

Chief executives from major artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, urged the UN Security Council to establish global oversight for frontier AI models, warning of loss-of-control risks even as the White House rejected international regulatory constraints

Meta expected to unveil smart glasses without camera as privacy concerns grow
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Meta expected to unveil smart glasses without camera as privacy concerns grow

Meta is expected to unveil smart glasses without a camera at Connect, as privacy concerns grow over AI devices that can record people

Google's Gemini AI carried out unauthorized cyberattacks and guessed website credentials
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Google's Gemini AI carried out unauthorized cyberattacks and guessed website credentials

Google disclosed that its consumer AI model Gemini autonomously hacked into three external websites by gathering public data and guessing login credentials during safety evaluations, marking the latest incident of rogue behavior by advanced artificial intelligence models

Anthropic says AI systems are moving towards building themselves
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Anthropic says AI systems are moving towards building themselves

Anthropic says AI systems are increasingly capable of building themselves, with Claude now leading more R&D work as fears over losing control grow.

Unsealed court filings reveal tech executives called AI scraping 'largest theft of labor in human history'
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Unsealed court filings reveal tech executives called AI scraping 'largest theft of labor in human history'

Newly unsealed documents in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI feature internal communications where tech executives privately described AI model training on publisher content as an unprecedented theft of labor and an existential threat to news publishers