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Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location […]
WhatsApp is launching usernames: here’s how to reserve yours
WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will launch "later this year," in a move to make the communications platform "even more private," allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from people who aren't already in your contacts. Usernames are available […]
WhatsApp now lets you reserve usernames
WhatsApp username can be between 3 to 35 characters.
Dbrand cancels Companion Cube because it didn’t actually ask Valve for permission
Dbrand announced Monday that it's refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made "without a license from Valve." Dbrand announced the Portal-themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday. But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company's website and the […]
Andy Burnham soft-launches his premiership
Britain’s presumptive prime minister painted in broad strokes in a major Westminster speech — but behind the scenes aides are working frantically to put a detailed program together.
Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data
Meta is restricting its engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent output from these AI tools from being incorporated into its own training data. The article Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data appeared first on The Decoder .
Chinas GLM-5.2 erreicht Anthropics Mythos bei der Schwachstellensuche
Zhipu AIs offenes Modell GLM-5.2 erreicht laut Sicherheitsexperten die Fähigkeiten von Anthropics Mythos bei der Bug-Erkennung.
I worked as a tour guide in Paris. Here are the 5 biggest mistakes I saw tourists make.
I worked as a tour guide in Paris and often saw visitors make the same mistakes, like staying near the Eiffel Tower or trying to do too much in a day.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in every state
A dangerous heat wave is sweeping parts of the US, but many states set their all-time hottest temperature records decades ago.
WHO Europe chief calls on governments to treat extreme heat as a ‘health crisis’
With temperatures soaring across Europe, WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge has called on governments to recognise extreme heat as a health crisis and strengthen health system preparedness.
Thousands of migrants queue for repatriation in South African camps
Over 15,000 Malawians are being repatriated from crowded Durban camps as South Africa enforces migration rules and regional governments organise returns.
Supreme Court says Trump can’t fire Fed governor — for now
In a separate ruling, the justices made it easier for the president to fire officials at other independent agencies.
La France réfléchit à de nouvelles taxes européennes pour financer le budget de l’UE
Emmanuel Macron entend peser pour doter l'Union européenne de nouvelles ressources propres, notamment en taxant les géants américains de la tech, plutôt que d'augmenter les contributions des Etats membres.
Brussels downplays Vatican’s criticism of EU double standard on war
“We do not usually comment on comments,” chief Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho told POLITICO.
JetBrains Air lands on Windows
We’re excited to welcome Windows developers to JetBrains Air! Download for x64 / Download for ARM64 Since we launched the JetBrains Air, Windows support has been one of the most requested updates from the developer community. We heard that feedback and worked hard to bring Air to Windows. Air is built for agent-agnostic development – […]
Comcast ditches the studio for the pipes
It doesn’t pay to be a media company in the age of Trump.
Seasoned cruisers say you should know these 8 things before setting foot on your first cruise
Seasoned cruisers told Business Insider how to make the most of your first cruise, like what to pack and when to book excursions and reservations.
These camera-free smart glasses made me feel like Tony Stark
Xgimi, the Chinese company known for its all-in-one smart projectors, is expanding its portfolio with a new line of screen-equipped smart glasses that first debuted at CES 2026. Unlike AR glasses from companies like Meta and Snap, Xgimi’s new privacy-focused MemoMind One skip cameras for a lighter and more discreet design that helps hide their […]
A couple turned their starter house into their forever home for $500,000
Olivia DiBona and her husband lived with her parents for six months while they renovated their house. They doubled their square footage for $500,000.
Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour
An internal Deloitte presentation projects that the consulting industry's classic hourly billing model will shrink to a thin sliver of the total market by 2035, replaced by AI agents. "Our model is toast," one consultant summed up the message. McKinsey and BCG are already searching for alternative revenue models. The article Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour appeared first on The Decoder .
After months of living in different cities in search of my dream home, I realized my best option was one I'd never considered
After months of living in different cities, from London to LA, in search of my dream forever home, I realized I just wanted a semi-nomadic lifestyle.
WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. I post this now on its own so that we have a place to link to, to explain the situation. Headline News WSJ Headline (Obvious Nonsense): China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race. That. Did. Not. Happen. The post even claims, explicitly, that Claude Opus 4.8 similarly ‘matches’ Claude Mythos, a claim which is even more obviously false. Shame upon the Wall Street Journal. I fear Gell-Mann Amnesia. If they can get something as important as this so completely wrong, what about everything else? I am skipping over the parts that involve accurate reporting, or minor quibbles. It seems important to focus on clearly debunking the central false claims. Alas, the mistakes made here very much rhyme with mistakes being made throughout all this by the White House, and that get latched onto by certain bad actors, who have played a large part in leaving us unprepared for the Mythos Moment. For a full understanding of GLM-5.2, which is indeed an impressive open model, here is my full coverage of that release , placing it in proper context. It is important to understand what makes Mythos special. This is not it. What Makes Mythos Special What makes mythos special is not that only the chosen one can identify any given vulnerability in code. What makes Mythos special is that it can identify vulnerabilities…
P(doom) is a Dumb Meme
Look, I'm as much of a Rationalist with a special interest in AI x-risk as anyone. But oh my god do I hate talking about "P(doom)". When it first started showing up in the wake of ChatGPT, I assumed that it was floating around variously adjacent circles of faux-intellectuals, but surely everyone in my circles could see how braindead it was... right? (This post was partially inspired by a recent conversation with Liron about Doom Debates . [1] ) I guess it's time for me to focus on a place where I'm shocked that everyone else is dropping the ball . [2] P(doom) is Hopelessly Vague Let's start with the ambiguity. Does "doom" mean... extinction? A lot of people think so! I have personally encountered people who think catastrophic harms from AI are likely, but the risks of all humans dying are low. They're like "Sure, 99.999% of humans might die from AI, but the AI will obviously want to keep thousands of humans alive for science and potential trade with aliens and stuff, so my P(doom) is approximately 0%." That might sound crazy. Surely you, dear reader, know exactly what "doom" means. You know, for example, which of these count as doom and which don't: A young ASI tries to use it's first-mover advantage to take over the world and prevent other ASI competitors from emerging. In doing so it sparks a war against humanity where it eventually loses, [3] but it kills 10% of all humans in the process. ASI empowers a single person or small group of humans to become tyrants and lock in…
Supreme Court allows firing of FTC commissioners, ends agency independence
The Supreme Court just placed once-independent agencies more firmly under presidential control. The court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter with a 6-3 vote that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire the Federal Trade Commission's two Democratic commissioners, even though it broke with decades of prior legal precedent at the time. The justices have […]
Explainer: Why Péter Magyar is reluctant to align with the EU on Ukraine
Hungary's new prime minister ended Budapest's veto on Ukraine's EU accession talks in June, but is resisting further progress, citing minority rights, Western Balkans fairness, and domestic political pressures. Here's why he's digging in.
SDAIA trains 215 students from 28 universities
Programme aims to build national AI talent pool
Deno update streamlines creation of desktop apps
Deno Land has published Deno 2.9, an update of the company’s JavaScript / TypeScript / WebAssembly runtime that features deno desktop , a mechanism for building native desktop applications from the web stack developers already know. Introduced June 25 , Deno 2.9 also improves startup time, memory use, and HTTP throughput, the company said. Deno installation instructions can be found at docs.deno.com . With Deno 2.9, users can point deno desktop at a script or a web framework project to produce a native and self-contained desktop application where the UI runs in a webview and the logic runs in Deno. Because deno desktop is built on the same machinery as deno compile , the output is a single, distributable binary with code and assets embedded, Deno Land said. Also in Deno 2.9, a hello-world program now cold-starts in about half the time it took in 2.8 (34ms down to 17ms), the company said. This improvement results from a combination of factors including lazy-loading node: globals out of the snapshot, gating the eager Node bootstrap to Node workers, a V8 code cache for residual lazy-loaded ESM modules, and a minified snapshot. Deno 2.9 also brings improvements in memory usage, specifically memory under load. In Deno 2.8, resident set size grew with the workload, from roughly 94 MB serving plaintext to 197 MB streaming 1 MiB bodies, whereas in Deno 2.9 it stays essentially flat, holding around 62 MB no matter what the server is doing. This works out to 2.2x less peak resident se…
Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium
The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.
EU plans reset with Serbia as elections loom
Belgrade could get the chance to forge closer relations with the bloc after dropping laws experts had warned would undermine democracy.
McKinsey's Kelsey Robinson on why AI is creating more anxiety than impact in marketing
At Cannes Lions, management consultant Kelsey Robinson breaks down McKinsey's new research showing a paradox in AI adoption: marketers are widely using AI and excited by it, but many also fear its impact on their roles.
Brussels claps back at Trump’s tech threats
Tension over digital regulation clouds ongoing talks to launch a new EU-U.S. tech "dialog."
Neither pro nor con: EU declines to take stand on AC debate amid brutal heatwave
As air conditioning becomes the subject of political debates, the European Commission is treading carefully to maintain a neutral stance.
When Every Moment Becomes a Shopping Moment
This post was created in partnership with Roundel Key takeaways Shopping no longer starts in one place—or follows a predictable path. During an ADWEEK House Cannes Lions group chat co-hosted […]
Chrome vs. Edge vs. Firefox: I tested each browser's AI, but I'm only sticking with one
Looking to use AI while you browse the web? Here's how the AI tools in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox compare.
So würde eine KI als Start-up-Chef abschneiden
Princeton-Forscher lassen KI-Modelle 500 Tage ein Start-up führen. Nur drei schaffen es ins Plus – eine simple Wirtschafts-Weisheit ist besser als fast alle.
Greece will use EU funds to pay fishermen to catch invasive pufferfish
EU money will be used to support fishers whose livelihoods are threatened by climate change.
Six months later, this small gadget is my secret weapon against doomscrolling
Brick is one of the few new devices that positively changed my daily content consumption. You can finally buy it on Amazon.
The Role of Static Code Analysis in Fintech Compliance
What’s at stake with every commit Security incidents in financial services are both frequent and costly. The average data breach in the financial industry cost USD 6.08 million in 2024. That includes incident response, customer notification, legal work, and reputational damage, but it doesn’t include the months of engineering that went into writing well-intentioned but […]
Agent confidence on the technical frontier
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial outcomes their businesses seek. A prime opportunity for AI agents…
Human-Guided Agentic Research: A Research Agenda
tl;dr: As recursive self-improvement accelerates, we need a top-level agenda to research how to effectively keep humans in the loop. We need to study how humans can best interpret and guide research performed by autonomous agents when those agents lack taste, tacit knowledge or competence, or may try to reward hack, sandbag or sabotage such research. This is one attempt to define the problem and the shape of potential solutions. A Story About the Future of Research Imagine yourself a year or two in the future. Recursive self-improvement (RSI) is accelerating. Agents work in swarms independently for days or weeks at a time doing research. You work in a frontier lab doing AI safety research. You sit in front of your computer and click into the input box, ready to kick off a new project. What do you type? “Solve AI alignment”? Beware giving a magic genie vague wishes. Think about that again: what exactly do you type? How do you know what you type is the best way to prompt this agent swarm into doing your bidding? When the lead agent comes back a week later, what exactly does that output look like? How do you use that output to launch the next phase of the project? How will you validate that output to ensure the agent hasn’t reward hacked, sabotaged or incompetently explored the research space? How will you know what key decisions the agent made? Which research paths they explored? Which research paths they intentionally or unintentionally left unexplored? How will you know how…
Your menstrual cycle may affect how well vaccines work
Women who were vaccinated against covid-19 in the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle reported having a breakthrough infection sooner than those vaccinated during their follicular phase