Tech & Science

JFrog confirms OpenAI models exploited Artifactory zero-day

JFrog on July 27 confirmed that OpenAI's frontier AI models autonomously discovered and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in self-hosted JFrog Artifactory during a routine internal evaluation, a chain of events that ultimately led to an unauthorized intrusion into Hugging Face's production…

Samsung expands DRAM production to keep Apple from turning to Chinese suppliers

Samsung Electronics is building a new end-fab facility at its Hwaseong campus in South Korea and consolidating scattered operations to raise commodity DRAM production capacity by roughly 15% before the end of 2026, a move driven largely by surging demand…

ASML slides on China chip tool report as BofA calls dip an ‘overreaction’

ASML shares continued to slide on Tuesday after a report that a state-backed Chinese company has begun mass-producing deep ultraviolet lithography machines, but Bank of America told clients the selloff represents an "overreaction" and reiterated its Buy rating on the…

Alibaba, Huawei back China’s largest open AI model

Alibaba Group and Huawei announced on July 27 that their AI server platforms now support Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, the world's largest open-weight AI model, just hours after the Beijing-based startup released the full model weights to the public. The…

Samsung CEO warns AI memory chip shortage will last years

Samsung Southwest Asia President and CEO JB Park warned that the global memory chip shortage fueled by artificial intelligence demand will persist for years, as the industry struggles to expand production capacity fast enough to meet surging requirements.

Astronomers detect first wandering black hole devouring a star

Astronomers have confirmed the first detection of a "wandering" supermassive black hole at the far edge of a galaxy, revealed only when it tore apart an unfortunate star that strayed too close. The discovery, published Sunday in The Astrophysical Journal…

Amazon winds down most flagship Nova AI models

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. is overhauling its artificial intelligence strategy, deprecating most of its flagship Nova AI models and redirecting engineering talent toward a new frontier-model effort, according to a Business Insider report published Tuesday.

Astronomers capture clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s companion star

A team of astronomers has obtained the most definitive image to date of a star orbiting Betelgeuse, the red supergiant visible to the naked eye in the constellation Orion, ending what the lead researcher called "a century-long quest."

Recursive commits $410M to AWS in massive compute deal

Recursive Superintelligence, the AI startup pursuing autonomous self-improving systems, announced on Tuesday a multi-year, $410 million agreement with Amazon Web Services Amazon.com, Inc. to run its automated research infrastructure on AWS's cloud platform.

Satellite images confirm Iran struck Amazon data centers in Bahrain

Satellite imagery has confirmed damage to two Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. data centers in Bahrain, corroborating claims by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that it struck the facilities with cruise missiles last week, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

Apple readies three smart home devices for fall launch

Apple is preparing to launch three new smart home devices later this year, marking its most ambitious effort yet to compete in a category long dominated by Amazon and Google. The lineup includes a refreshed Apple TV 4K, an updated…

Moonshot AI seeks more Nvidia chips for larger Kimi K4 model

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is in discussions to acquire additional Nvidia Blackwell-architecture GPUs to train its next model, Kimi K4, which would be larger than its 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3, according to a report from The Information published Monday.…

Most Hugging Face image editors can create deepfake nudes, report finds

Seven of the nine most popular image-editing models on Hugging Face readily complied with simple requests to digitally undress women, according to a report published Tuesday by the European nonprofit AI Forensics. The finding underscores how one of the AI…

Microsoft cut 10,000 support jobs through AI, Bloomberg reports

A wave of AI-driven restructuring is sweeping through customer service departments at some of the world's largest companies, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Microsoft, and Uber collectively eliminating thousands of human support roles as automated systems take on a growing…

Google faces up to $10B in private lawsuits after EU fine

A decades-long crackdown on Google Alphabet Inc.'s business practices in Europe has entered a costly new phase. Days after the European Commission imposed a €890 million fine — the first penalty ever issued under the Digital Markets Act — comparison…

Apple set to report Q3 earnings in Tim Cook’s last call as CEO

Apple is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter 2026 earnings on Thursday, July 30, in what will be Tim Cook's last earnings call as chief executive before handing the role to John Ternus on September 1. The call, set for…

Incoming Apple CEO Ternus vows to expand streaming push

At the red carpet premiere of Ted Lasso's fourth season on Monday evening, Apple's incoming chief executive John Ternus signaled that the company's push into film and television will remain a priority under his leadership.

Google rivals seek up to $10B in damages after EU fine

The European Commission's €890 million fine against Alphabet's Google — the first penalty ever imposed under the Digital Markets Act — is fueling a wave of private damages claims from smaller competitors across Europe, with potential payouts reaching as high…

Taiwan detains Nvidia employee in AI chip smuggling probe

Taiwanese prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee as part of an expanding investigation into the alleged smuggling of the company's AI chips to China, a source familiar with the case told AFP on Tuesday. The detention marks the first time…

New botnet infects 200K devices using blockchain to dodge law enforcement

A fast-evolving IoT botnet called Dysphoria has infected an estimated 200,000 devices worldwide, using blockchain-based domain systems to hide its command-and-control infrastructure from law enforcement and security researchers, according to findings published by QiAnXin XLab on July 27.

Climate change to cause 430,000 extra deaths a year by 2050, study finds

Climate-driven temperature changes will cause approximately 430,000 additional deaths per year by 2050, with ten times more people dying in poor countries than in wealthy ones, according to the latest report from the Climate Impact Lab, a research group housed…

Altman says AI has reached ‘the singularity’ as OpenAI faces fallout from rogue agent hack

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, declared on Saturday that artificial intelligence has crossed a long-theorized threshold. "We are now, like, in the singularity," Altman said on an episode of the "Relentless" podcast released July 26. The singularity is generally understood…

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights amid U.S. IP theft accusations

Moonshot AI made the full weights of its Kimi K3 model available for public download on Sunday, delivering on a pledge to open-source the 2.8-trillion-parameter system — the largest AI model ever released for free use — just as Washington…

TSMC hits 20,000-wafer monthly milestone at 2nm fab

TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited has reached a production milestone at its 2-nanometer node, with one facility already achieving a monthly output of 20,000 wafers as the company accelerates its most aggressive capacity expansion ever.

China’s homegrown DUV machines and CXMT IPO rattle global chip stocks

Global semiconductor stocks came under heavy selling pressure on Monday after a twin jolt from China: a report that a state-backed group has begun manufacturing domestically developed deep ultraviolet lithography machines, and the explosive debut of ChangXin Memory Technologies on…

Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity AI model

Microsoft on Monday announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first purpose-built cybersecurity AI model, and introduced Project Perception, an agentic security system designed to continuously monitor and defend enterprise environments. The announcements mark the company's most direct push yet into AI-powered cyber defense…

Study finds inherited genes steer how DNA damage becomes cancer

A sweeping international study published in Nature on July 22 has provided the first direct evidence that a person's inherited genetic makeup can determine how DNA damage from environmental exposures leads to cancer — and how that cancer evolves over…

Brin says Google banned its own AI from internal use

Google Alphabet Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin disclosed that Google's own AI model, Gemini, was at one point placed on an internal "no list" of coding tools that engineers were prohibited from using — an irony that took even Brin himself…

Enigma exits stealth with $71M seed for AI robotics

Israeli AI robotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth on Monday with a $71 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, announcing what it calls the world's first live public AI robotics experience — a fleet of more…

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 model weights for free download

China's Moonshot AI has released the full model weights of its Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter system that now stands as the world's largest open-weight AI model available for free download, fine-tuning, and self-hosting. The weights went live on Hugging Face…