Altman tells staff OpenAI expects to go public within a year

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees earlier this week that he expects the company to go public "within…

Webb finds strongest evidence yet for ‘black hole stars’

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the strongest evidence to date for the existence of so-called "black…

Serena Williams wins doubles match in tennis comeback

Serena Williams made her long-awaited return to professional tennis on Tuesday at the HSBC Championships at Queen's Club…

Neura Robotics raises $1.4B from Nvidia, Amazon, Tether

German humanoid robotics startup Neura Robotics announced on Wednesday a Series C financing round of up to $1.4…

Mastercard launches payment system for AI agents

Mastercard on Wednesday unveiled Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a payment framework designed to let AI agents and…

10 scientists win 2026 Kavli Prizes for work on dark matter, twistronics, and neurons

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Wednesday named ten scientists as recipients of the 2026 Kavli…

IAEA board passes resolution demanding Iran account for uranium stockpile

The International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors on Wednesday passed a U.S.-backed resolution demanding Iran disclose the…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei manages just one person

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, directly manages just one person at the artificial intelligence company…

Semiconductor market tops $300B in quarterly revenue for first time

The global semiconductor market surpassed $300 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, reaching $319 billion in…

BYD launches 1,500kW Flash Chargers in UK and Germany

BYD officially unveiled its Flash Charging network in the UK on Monday, introducing chargers capable of delivering up…

BBC cancels ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special, showrunner Davies exits

The BBC announced on Wednesday that it has cancelled the planned 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special and confirmed…

Miasma supply chain attack toolkit surfaces as open source on GitHub

Days after the Miasma worm compromised 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in one of the most aggressive software supply…

Yale team builds brain-computer interface users learn in under an hour

A team of Yale University researchers has built a noninvasive brain-computer interface that allows users to control an…

SK Telecom, NTT and Chunghwa Telecom launch $500M AI fund

SK Telecom, Japan's NTT and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom announced on Wednesday the creation of a joint $500 million…

Google-SpaceX cloud deal signals Azure upside, BNP says

Google's Alphabet Inc. decision to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for AI computing capacity is sending a…

New zero-day hits Windows Defender hours after record Patch Tuesday

Hours after Microsoft released its largest-ever Patch Tuesday update on Tuesday, a security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse…

TSMC posts record May revenue as AI chip demand surges

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported May 2026 revenue of NT$416.98 billion, a 30.1% increase from the same month…

North America’s soccer fan base tops 136 million ahead of World Cup

North America's soccer fan base has expanded by 10.9% over the past five years to more than 136…

May was world’s second-hottest on record, Copernicus reports

The world experienced its second-hottest May since records began, with an unusually early and severe heatwave scorching Western…

First cannabis-based chronic pain drug wins approval in Germany and Austria

German biopharmaceutical company Vertanical announced on Monday that Exilby (VER-01), a cannabis-derived oral tincture, has received marketing authorization…

IRGC claims drone strike on US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wednesday it struck a US military base in Bahrain with drones, hours…

SpaceX targets late 2027 for orbital AI tests ahead of record IPO

SpaceX is pushing to demonstrate space-based artificial intelligence computing infrastructure by late 2027, ahead of the "as early…

Belfast rocked by riots after Sudanese man charged in stabbing

Hundreds of masked protesters torched a bus, set vehicles ablaze, and blocked arterial roads across Belfast on Tuesday…

First person treated with cell-rejuvenating gene therapy for glaucoma

Life Biosciences on Monday announced that the first participant has been dosed in its Phase 1 clinical trial…

US warns Europe to tighten Ebola travel curbs or face restrictions

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday to discuss…

Meta to use off-platform activity to personalize feeds and AI

Meta announced on Sunday that it will begin using activity data shared by third-party businesses — such as…

OpenAI and Anthropic both call for global AI watchdog

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a blog post on Monday calling for the…

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Fable 5, making a Mythos-class AI model publicly available for the first time…

Google opens Gemini 3.5 Live Translate API to developers

Google Alphabet Inc. on Monday unveiled Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a speech-to-speech translation model that delivers near real-time…

Apple opens Xcode 27 to Google’s Gemini AI models

Google Alphabet Inc. and Apple are deepening their AI collaboration with a suite of developer tools unveiled at…