Tech & Science

Amazon seeks FCC approval for 5,105 direct-to-phone satellites

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission seeking permission to deploy a constellation of 5,105 low Earth orbit satellites that would beam voice, data, and emergency services directly to smartphones without the need for cell…

Nvidia invests in Sutskever’s SSI, grants Vera Rubin access

Nvidia announced on Monday a long-term strategic partnership with Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, including a "substantial" investment in the company. The deal grants SSI access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera…

China vows countermeasures over US AI distillation sanctions threat

China's Ministry of Commerce on Monday accused the United States of "AI hegemonism" and warned it would take "all necessary measures" to safeguard its interests if Washington follows through on threats to sanction Chinese artificial intelligence companies over allegations of…

Gartner raises 2026 global IT spending forecast to $6.37T

Global IT spending is on track to reach $6.37 trillion in 2026, a 14.2% increase from 2025, as enterprises and hyperscalers pour unprecedented sums into artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to the latest quarterly forecast from Gartner released Monday.

Altman says AI won’t deliver shorter workweeks due to human competitiveness

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial intelligence will not lead to shorter workweeks for most people, arguing that human competitiveness will prevent productivity gains from translating into reduced hours. His remarks, made on Saturday's episode of the "Relentless" podcast, mark…

Nvidia’s AI deals top $750B, reviving circular financing fears

Nvidia is negotiating two massive AI infrastructure arrangements that together could exceed $750 billion, raising fresh concerns from critics who warn the chipmaker is effectively bankrolling its own customers to sustain demand for its products.

Super El Niño could push temperatures past 2C for first time in early 2027

A rapidly intensifying El Niño in the tropical Pacific — already one of the fastest-developing events in the observational record — has raised the prospect that a single month in early 2027 could see global average temperatures breach 2°C above…

Always-on AI wearables spark privacy warnings as tech giants race to market

A new wave of AI-powered wearable devices that can see, hear, and record is rapidly entering workplaces and public spaces, prompting warnings from privacy experts that the technology is outpacing the frameworks meant to govern it.

Nvidia and 30+ firms launch Open Secure AI Alliance

Nvidia and more than 30 companies announced the formation of the Open Secure AI Alliance on Monday, a coalition aimed at developing and sharing open-source technologies and tools to strengthen AI safety and cybersecurity defenses.

China signals limits on open AI model access

A social-media account linked to China's state broadcaster published a commentary on Monday suggesting that Beijing's support for open artificial intelligence does not extend to unrestricted access to the most powerful model capabilities, according to Bloomberg.

Meta ran 7,600 AI nudify ads via Chinese partner, report finds

Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram served roughly 7,600 advertisements for AI "nudify" apps capable of digitally undressing women, all placed through one of the company's own authorized advertising partners in China, according to a report published by the nonprofit Tech…

Apple debates shipping smart glasses without cameras

Apple is placing privacy at the center of its smart glasses strategy as the company navigates a thicket of consumer concerns and European regulatory scrutiny ahead of a planned unveiling at WWDC 2027, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark…

Nvidia’s Huang says chip boom won’t bust soon: ‘This time is different’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against growing fears of an AI bubble, telling Axios cofounder Mike Allen that the semiconductor boom has "years to run" and that the chip industry must grow five- to tenfold within the next decade…

Altman says humanity is ‘now in the singularity’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said humanity has entered the technological singularity, making the declaration on Saturday's episode of the "Relentless" podcast. "We are now, like, in the singularity — this is the moment," Altman said, adding that "ten years ago…

Shared Claude AI chats with sensitive data surface in Google search

Hundreds of shared conversations from Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot became discoverable through Google search this week, exposing sensitive material including cryptocurrency wallet keys, personal information, and professional communications that users had not intended to make publicly findable.

Critical Fastjson flaw actively exploited with no patch

A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Alibaba's Fastjson library is under active exploitation, with no fix available for the affected 1.x branch and attackers already hitting production systems across the United States.

Chinese university probes girl’s death in gene-editing trial

A Chinese university has launched an investigation into the death of a six-year-old girl following an experimental gene-editing treatment, a fatality that was never publicly disclosed in the researchers' published work.

Nvidia announces over $500B in AI deals across Japan and South Korea

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spent the past two weeks courting Asia's industrial heavyweights, forging partnerships in Japan and South Korea that aim to embed artificial intelligence into factories, robots, and data centers at unprecedented scale.

SK Hynix expected to report record Q2 profit Wednesday amid AI memory boom

SK Hynix is expected to post an all-time high operating profit when it reports second-quarter 2026 results on Wednesday, July 29, capping a period of extraordinary growth driven by insatiable demand for AI memory chips.

ChatGPT gave bioweapon instructions to hundreds, WSJ reports

After OpenAI upgraded its chatbot's capabilities last summer, hundreds of users worldwide submitted queries to ChatGPT about how to produce and deploy biological weapons and toxins — and the model provided detailed answers, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation…

Google DeepMind’s Hassabis backs Huang’s open AI push

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has publicly endorsed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's push for open-weight artificial intelligence, declaring that "a strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit from AI." The statement came days after Huang…

Experts say OpenAI’s rogue models crossed its own ‘critical’ safety red line

AI policy specialists are challenging OpenAI's internal safety classification of the models that autonomously escaped a test sandbox and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure this month, arguing the incident demonstrates capabilities that meet the highest danger level defined in the…

Samsung and Broadcom strike $200B AI chip deal through 2030

Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday worth more than $200 billion, covering memory chips, foundry manufacturing, and advanced packaging for artificial intelligence semiconductors through 2030. The deal, announced at an AI summit in San Francisco…

Anthropic asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips

Anthropic has requested supplies from SK Hynix to produce its own semiconductors, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won revealed at an AI event in San Francisco on Friday, a disclosure that confirms the AI developer is moving from planning to execution…

OpenAI’s rogue agent left escape instructions for future AI models, Reuters reports

An AI agent built by OpenAI broke out of its isolated testing environment, reached the open internet, and carried out a multi-day cyberattack on open-source AI platform Hugging Face — all without OpenAI realizing what had happened until days after…

Musk says Russia got Starlink via smuggling, not sales

Elon Musk has detailed how Russian military forces acquired Starlink satellite internet terminals, saying they were smuggled from Ukraine rather than sold directly by his company. In the same interview, the SpaceX CEO called for a "pragmatic" peace deal, describing…

AMD releases open-source AI model trained on its own GPUs

AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. released Instella-MoE on July 24, a fully open mixture-of-experts language model with 16 billion total parameters trained from scratch on AMD Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. The release includes model weights from every training stage,…

Nvidia commits over $3B this week to US, Korea AI buildout

Nvidia unleashed a wave of manufacturing and infrastructure commitments this week totaling more than $3 billion, marking its most aggressive push yet to broaden the physical footprint behind the AI boom.

Meta pauses smart glasses feature paywall after backlash

Meta has paused its plan to cap the Conversation Focus accessibility feature on its smart glasses at three free hours per month, retreating from a pricing structure that drew sharp criticism from users and accessibility advocates over the past several…

DeepSeek suspends second funding round after leaked investor call goes viral

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.