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Microsoft on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the U.S. military after a report in investigative journalism outlet ProPublica sparked questions from a U.S. senator and prompted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to order a two-week review of Pentagon cloud deals.

Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, has raised $2 billion in funding at a $10 billion pre-investment valuation, the company said. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, Jane Street and others. The fundraising is one of the largest of its kind

Following several significant CarPlay-related announcements at last month’s WWDC event, Apple has announced that car keys will soon be supported by 13 new…

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A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.

Earlier this year, I was a part of a CNN documentary, Twitter: Breaking the Bird, which gave memuch pause for reflection about the state of social media and how we got here. This year alonewe&#8217…

Only eight months after its launch, Sweden's Lovable has raised a $200 million Series A round led by Accel at a $1.8 billion valuation.

Apple has rolled out the Emoji Game, which was originally announced for iOS 26.

To mark World Emoji Day, the consortium that decides on new emojis has unveiled a selection of which ones will be formally announced in September, and then come to devices starting at some point in iOS 26.

Uber will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Lucid and Nuro as part of a huge new robotaxi deal that will kick off in the US in 2026.

TSMC is working to build two plants in Arizona faster, a move that could bring more Apple chip production to Arizona quicker — but don't expect the newest chips.

Chinese-government hacking attacks against US targets are more serious than ever before, current and former officials said in interviews.

Republicans who voted against the cryptocurrency regulation legislation objected to how the bills were structured.

On Tuesday, Google said Big Sleep managed to discover CVE-2025-6965 — a critical security flaw that Google said was “only known to threat actors and was at risk of being exploited.”

Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

First announced earlier this year, sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 is now in testing with insiders across all preview channels.

Research leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are urging tech companies and research groups to monitor AI's "thoughts."

The Claude AI products will help financial professionals make investment decisions, analyze markets and conduct research, Anthropic said.

xAI's first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda.

That means developers will soon be able to run MLX models directly on NVIDIA GPUs, which is a pretty big deal. Here’s why.

A top Democrat criticized the move to spend a billion on offensive hacking operations as the budget guts a billion from U.S. cyber defense.

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg

OpenAI and Anthropic say AI can help students learn—not just cheat—even if real-world use suggests otherwise.

You either loved or hated Apple’s 2013 black “trash can” Mac Pro (I loved mine), and Apple added the desktop to its vintage and obsolete products list as of July 11. The 2013 Mac Pro…

Sort your albums any way you like. I love playlists for discovering new music, but sometimes I just want to listen to an entire album. Adrian Schönig’s Longplay app, which makes it fun to bro…