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A growing movement in software development is pushing the boundaries of AI automation, with some companies now running what they call "Software Factories" where AI agents write, test, and ship code without any human ever reviewing it.
Moltbook, a social network designed specifically for AI agents to interact with each other, has exposed the personal data of the real humans those agents are supposed to represent—highlighting the novel privacy risks that emerge when AI systems network independently.
A bold new iPhone color variant dubbed Hermes orange has ignited an unexpected resurgence for Apple in China, with the vivid redesign generating massive social media buzz and drawing Chinese consumers back after a prolonged sales slump in the crucial market.
Apple engineers are working to make CarPlay compatible with AI chatbot applications like ChatGPT over the next few months, signaling the companys next major integration of artificial intelligence into its ecosystem.
Nearly every software engineer is experiencing some degree of mental health crisis this week, according to prominent developer Tom Dale, citing not just job loss anxiety but manic episodes triggered by watching software shift from scarce to abundant.
A New York federal judge took the extraordinary step of terminating a case this week after a lawyer repeatedly submitted filings containing AI-generated fake citations, including one document with out-of-left-field references to ancient libraries and Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451.
Super Bowl LX featured an unprecedented showing of AI-focused advertising, including the first fully AI-generated commercial from Svedka vodka and a pointed competitive ad from Anthropic taking aim at rival OpenAI.
Salesforce has announced that Heroku, the pioneering cloud platform that helped define modern web development, is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model" with no plans for new features—a move widely interpreted as the beginning of the end for the once-beloved service.
TikTok could be forced to fundamentally redesign its app after the European Commission issued a preliminary ruling that the platforms addictive features breach the blocs Digital Services Act.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has created a new engineering quality czar role, shifting security chief Charlie Bell into the position as the tech giant grapples with ongoing reliability concerns. The company has recruited a Google executive to fill Bell former security leadership role.
Multiple cloud providers have launched hosted OpenClaw offerings just days after analyst firm Gartner warned the AI assistant tool carries "unacceptable cybersecurity risk" and urged administrators to block its deployment.
A new crypto startup called RentAHuman.ai has launched with an unusual pitch: letting autonomous AI agents hire and pay humans to perform physical-world tasks that software cannot accomplish, positioning itself as the "meatspace layer" for AI systems.
The sole maintainer of sudo, one of the most fundamental utilities in Unix and Linux computing, has issued an appeal for help to keep the project alive after maintaining it single-handedly for more than 30 years.
Intel has announced plans to enter the GPU manufacturing market dominated by Nvidia, building out a dedicated team to develop graphics processing units as demand for AI accelerators continues to surge.
Texas Instruments is in advanced negotiations to acquire wireless chip designer Silicon Labs in a deal likely valued at approximately $7 billion, according to the Financial Times, marking one of the largest semiconductor acquisitions in recent months.
Apple has announced Xcode 26.3, a major update to its integrated development environment that introduces full support for agentic AI coding tools including Anthropic Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex, connected via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).
H Company has launched Holo2, a 235-billion parameter AI model that the company claims takes the lead in UI localization — the challenging task of adapting software interfaces for different languages, cultures, and regional preferences.
Security researchers are warning that networks of AI agents carrying out and sharing instructions from prompts could become the next major cybersecurity threat, drawing parallels to the Morris worm that infected 10% of the early internet in 1988.
European governments and businesses are responding to Trump tariff pressures by dramatically increasing investment in domestically controlled technology infrastructure, accelerating a long-discussed but slow-moving push for tech sovereignty.
Elon Musk has merged SpaceX, his profitable rocket company, with xAI, his loss-making artificial intelligence startup, creating a combined entity valued at approximately $1.25 trillion and positioning for what could be the largest tech IPO in history.
TikTok usage has recovered from the dip that followed its U.S. ownership change, erasing the gains made by rival short-form video platforms that had temporarily captured fleeing users.
Google Home users can finally use smart buttons to trigger automations, with the platform adding long-awaited support for physical button inputs as starter conditions.
India Supreme Court has issued a stern warning to WhatsApp, declaring that the messaging platform cannot play with the right to privacy as it investigates the company data-sharing model, monopoly power, and user consent practices.
YouTube has started blocking third-party mobile browsers from using a background playback loophole, with Google confirming the feature is intended to be exclusive to YouTube Premium subscribers.
Longtime HP CEO Enrique Lores is leaving for a top job at PayPal, with HP appointing an interim chief while it searches for a permanent successor.
The Tesla Model S has reached the end of its illustrious 14-year run, closing a chapter on the vehicle that transformed perceptions of electric cars from golf carts to luxury performance machines.
European publishing and legal software companies suffered sharp declines in share prices after US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic announced a tool aimed at companies in-house lawyers.
Mozilla has added a new feature to Firefox allowing users to disable all generative AI features with a single click, acknowledging that not everyone welcomes artificial intelligence integration into their browsing experience.
NASA has delayed the launch of Artemis II, the first mission to send astronauts to the Moon in more than 53 years, until at least March after a fueling test revealed persistent hydrogen leaks.
China has announced a ban on hidden car door handles, the design feature popularized by Tesla vehicles, citing safety concerns about emergency access. The regulation will take effect next year.
The Nintendo Switch has officially become Nintendo's best-selling console of all time, surpassing the legendary DS handheld with 155.37 million units sold since its 2017 launch.
SpaceX has formally acquired xAI, Elon Musks artificial intelligence company, in a deal that also brings the X social media platform under the same corporate umbrella. The combined entity aims to become what SpaceX calls the most ambitious vertically-integrated innovation engine on and off Earth.
The US Department of Homeland Security has confirmed it is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to create public-facing content, raising concerns about government use of synthetic media as immigration agencies flood social media with material supporting mass deportations.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced new policies supporting farmers' ability to repair their own agricultural equipment, a significant win for the right-to-repair movement that has long fought against manufacturer restrictions.
Russia-linked APT28 hackers are actively exploiting a newly disclosed Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability, with Ukraine's national cyber defense team warning that government agencies and EU organizations are being targeted.
Memory prices are surging far beyond initial forecasts, with DRAM expected to double and NAND flash to rise 55-60 percent in the first quarter of 2026 as AI-driven demand from hyperscalers and cloud providers overwhelms manufacturing capacity.
OpenAI has released a macOS desktop application for its Codex coding agent, marking a significant move in the increasingly competitive AI-assisted development tools market. The new app offers a polished interface for managing multiple coding agents running parallel tasks over extended periods.
Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving subsidiary, is seeking approximately $16 billion in new funding at a valuation of around $110 billion, signaling strong investor confidence in the self-driving technology leader.
A coalition of nonprofits is urging the US government to suspend Elon Musk's xAI chatbot Grok in federal agencies after it generated thousands of nonconsensual sexual images, raising national security and child safety concerns.
An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw is taking off inside tech circles, with users giving it unprecedented access to their computers, accounts, and daily tasks through messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.
Civitai, an online marketplace for AI-generated content backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is enabling users to buy custom instruction files for generating deepfakes of real people, with 90 percent of requests targeting women according to new research.
TikTok has restored US services after winter storms knocked out an Oracle datacenter that hosts the platforms American operations, an ironic failure given Oracle founder Larry Ellisons previous boasts about the companys infrastructure reliability.
A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised the update service for Notepad++, one of the most widely used text editors among developers, according to the projects author. The breach persisted for several months before being detected.
In just the past week, France has banned its public officials from using American technology, and more governments are considering keeping young people off Silicon Valleys biggest social media platforms in a growing global backlash against US tech dominance.
Microsoft has had a rough start to 2026, releasing two out-of-band emergency updates in the weeks following the first Patch Tuesday of the year. System administrators are expressing growing frustration as these supposedly atypical emergency patches become increasingly typical.
French consulting and technology services giant Capgemini has announced plans to divest its US government business unit, Capgemini Government Solutions, following criticism of its work assisting US immigration enforcement authorities.
Bill Gates has called accusations contained in the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein documents absolutely absurd, as reports of his connections to the convicted sex offender grow more lurid with each new document dump from the Department of Justice.
A former Google software engineer has been convicted of stealing AI hardware secrets from the company for the benefit of two China-based firms. One of the companies was founded by the engineer himself and intended to market technology to PRC-controlled organizations.
Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has announced it will pause human spaceflight operations for at least two years. The company says it needs to shift resources toward its lunar landing capabilities as the Trump administration pushes to accelerate Americas return to the Moon.
The Department of Justice massive release of Jeffrey Epstein files has exposed previously unknown communications between Elon Musk and the convicted sex offender, including an email in which Musk asked Epstein about the wildest party on his private island. The revelations contradict Musk previous denials about the extent of his relationship with Epstein.