A power outage affecting thousands of utility customers prompted Waymo to temporarily adjust service in San Francisco. Riders received notices saying regular service and freeway routes were unavailable while the company monitored conditions.

Meta is reportedly preparing to hire a senior Amazon computing executive as it considers a broader move into cloud infrastructure.

Vertu is pitching a $6,880 AI-agent device to corporate executives, placing it at the extreme luxury end of the emerging market for agent-focused hardware.

AI inference cloud startup General Compute has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, using SambaNova inference chips as collateral. The financing signals growing investor interest in specialized hardware designed to run trained AI models more efficiently than conventional GPU infrastructure.Ownership advocacy group Fulu is offering a $10,000 bounty for proof that the PlayStation 5's software locks can be bypassed to install an operating system such as Linux. The challenge is framed as a test of whether consumers have the right to repurpose hardware they own.San Francisco's city attorney has sent cease-and-desist letters demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 face-swap apps. The letters allege that the companies profited from tools used to create nonconsensual intimate images and failed to prevent prohibited content from appearing in their app stores.Foundation Future Industries says it is exploring weapons capabilities for its humanoid robots, alongside potential roles in logistics, reconnaissance, and inspection. Robotics experts caution that dependable autonomous operation in complex combat environments remains years away.Proposed federal rules could give political appointees broader control over government grants, restrict grant-funded open-access publishing, and make support for analyzing NASA mission data easier to revoke. The Planetary Society is warning about the potential consequences for scientific research.Amazon-owned Zoox has updated software across 105 vehicles after an unoccupied robotaxi braked hard and stopped when heavy smoke obscured an active fire scene. A remote operator reversed the vehicle, and Zoox told regulators it knew of no injuries connected to the issue.Tests of 10 large language models found an average refusal rate of 34 percent for requests to create political criticism involving five restrictive countries. The rate fell to 14 percent across five countries rated as more permissive by Freedom House. The testing was funded by Meta.Greenworks is recalling about 554,780 Kobalt yard tools after 34 reports of batteries smoking, sparking, or catching fire while charging through USB-C inside the tools. Regulators reported no injuries or property damage, and affected owners can request replacement batteries.Over three years, a brain-computer interface combining AI decoding with electrical stimulation helped a man with complete tetraplegia regain hand movement and some sensation. Several improvements persisted for more than two years after the stimulation stopped.Vital Signals has opened $399 preorders for a cloud-connected ring that it says can continuously measure blood pressure without cuff calibration. The consumer model is classified as a wellness device, and cuffless technology is not yet considered accurate enough for medical diagnosis or treatment.Bun's team used 64 AI agents, four worktrees, adversarial reviews, and its test suite to port roughly 550,000 lines of code from Zig to Rust in 11 days. The effort produced about 6,500 commits and carried an estimated API-price cost of $165,000.Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella told company engineers that Anthropic's request limits and fallback behavior for its Fable model do not make sense. He also argued that businesses should have economical access to custom and open models instead of renting AI capacity from only a few providers.Nvidia has introduced Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model built for robots and vision agents operating in real time. The company also announced partnerships in Japan spanning industrial automation, drug discovery, medical robotics, and manufacturers including Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

San Francisco’s mayor is seeking tougher rules for autonomous vehicles after a Waymo-related traffic disruption reignited concerns about robotaxi oversight on city streets. SpaceX aborted its second Starship V3 launch after ignition, bringing another delay to the test program for its next-generation launch vehicle. Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy operation following a ransomware attack, illustrating how a cyber incident can disrupt manufacturing and food-supply operations. Two young people were arrested in the United Kingdom for allegedly participating in a hacking group. Police say the arrests disrupted the group’s operations, while the alleged involvement remains subject to the legal process. Epic Games is bringing AI-powered personas to Fortnite, expanding the role of generative characters and interactions within the gaming platform. Netflix says generative AI has been used in roughly three hundred titles, offering a concrete measure of how quickly the technology is entering film and television production. Compact-disc sales are rising as consumers rediscover physical media while continuing to use streaming services. A presidential teleprompter operator allegedly used nonpublic information about speeches to place bets on Kalshi’s prediction market. The claim remains an allegation and has not been established through a legal finding. Body bags were found outside OpenAI’s headquarters amid mounting security concerns among company executives, highlighting escalating threats directed at prominent artificial-intelligence organizations. A reverse-recruiting startup is offering an AI agent that searches for work on a user’s behalf and charges only when it succeeds in finding a job.

Stripe and Advent International allegedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal for $60.50 per share, valuing the company at roughly $53 billion. The potential offer remains unconfirmed and is based on unnamed people familiar with the matter.

Apple Intelligence has cleared regulatory approval in China after Apple arranged to integrate Alibaba's Qwen models. Baidu is also developing features for Apple users in the country. Aina has raised five and a half million dollars to develop physical controls for AI agents. Its first device, Dune, is a context-aware keypad designed as an alternative to an always-listening wearable. Meta is introducing a parental safety feature that flags potentially concerning chats for human review before parents are alerted. The initial rollout is available through Instagram Parental Supervision in four countries. Applied Computing has raised twenty million dollars in Series A funding for Orbital. The system combines time-series, physics, and language models to analyze and simulate oil, gas, refining, and petrochemical facilities. OnePlus will stop launching products in the United States and Europe. Support for existing devices will continue under parent company Oppo, with future software updates transitioning those devices to ColorOS. Stripe and Advent International allegedly made a joint offer to acquire PayPal for sixty dollars and fifty cents per share. The unconfirmed proposal would value PayPal at about fifty-three billion dollars. Unionized Hyundai workers in South Korea staged a partial strike while seeking protections against the possible future use of Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robots in manufacturing. Google will begin distributing competing app stores through Google Play. The change follows Google and Epic's withdrawal of a proposal that would have altered the court's original antitrust remedies. Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, an open-weights model with nine hundred seventy-five billion parameters. It is designed to be customized with a user's own data. OpenAI and Work Louder have launched Codex Micro, a configurable keypad for AI-assisted work. It includes agent-status lights, programmable controls, and a dial for switching between reasoning levels. Starlink's V5 residential terminal is smaller and lighter than the previous model. It draws between thirty-five and fifty watts and comes with a Wi-Fi 6 Router Mini. Chinese regulators are imposing tighter emotional boundaries on AI companion services. The restrictions on virtual romance are tied to mental-health concerns and the country's demographic policy. XPeng's L03 starts at thirty-five thousand six hundred euros and is planned for sixty markets. The base model has a claimed WLTP range of three hundred twenty miles and can charge from ten to eighty percent in twenty minutes. Erythrulose has been detected in a molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way using radio-telescope data. The discovery provides further evidence that chemical building blocks associated with prebiotic chemistry can form in space. Skullcandy's Crusher 1080 ANC headphones cost two hundred eighty dollars and use Bose technology for noise cancellation, spatial audio, call microp

Microsoft is reportedly coaching its sales force on how to compete against OpenAI and Anthropic for enterprise AI customers.Microsoft has fixed a security vulnerability affecting Age of Empires Two.Whatnot has acquired Shaped to strengthen real-time recommendations across its live-shopping platform.Microsoft has issued patches for a record number of security vulnerabilities and says artificial intelligence played a role in its security process.Spotify has expanded parent-managed accounts to families using its free tier, bringing the feature beyond paid subscriptions.Meta’s NameTag facial-recognition technology exists, but remains a limited internal project, clarifying conflicting claims about its status.Apple is reportedly increasing AppleCare Plus prices for Mac and iPad coverage.xAI has sued a user for allegedly using Grok to create deepfake child sexual abuse material.FCC chair Brendan Carr plans to ease limits on the number of broadcast stations a single company can own.A patient in China has received what is being described as the world’s first implant of a commercial brain-computer interface.Policymakers in the United Kingdom are considering nighttime restrictions on digital-platform access for older teenagers.Nvidia is improving graphics and software support to make gaming more practical on ARM-based Windows PCs.Pebble says owners of its revived smartwatch will be able to replace a cracked display instead of replacing the entire device.Samsung says display changes in its next foldable phones will make the crease along the center less noticeable.

Federal investigators confirmed that the driver had the accelerator fully pressed during the fatal Tesla crash in Texas.Body-scanning startup Neko Health raised another seven hundred million dollars to expand its technology-driven preventive health business.OpenAI introduced a two-hundred-and-thirty-dollar keyboard for its Codex development tools while remaining involved in a legal dispute over hardware.Apple's planned advertising program for Maps will exclude home-service businesses, unlike the map ads offered by Google.SpaceX shares fell to the company's initial public offering price of one hundred and thirty-five dollars ahead of a scheduled Starship launch.Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open model, as it pursues alternatives to one-size-fits-all artificial intelligence.OnePlus is reportedly preparing to wind down its smartphone operations in the United States and Europe.Google is developing its largest clean-power project about forty miles from an xAI facility that operates an unpermitted gas power plant.Information exposed by a hack suggests that AI music generator Suno allegedly scraped material from YouTube for use as model-training data.Microsoft released patches for a record number of security vulnerabilities and said it used artificial intelligence during the security process.Stripe and Advent reportedly offered about fifty-three-point-four billion dollars to acquire PayPal.Apple Intelligence received approval to launch in China using Alibaba's Qwen artificial-intelligence technology.India is putting billions of dollars behind a major expansion of smartphone production at home, aiming to make the industry less reliant on China.US authorities charged Russian operators of so-called bulletproof web-hosting services over cyberattacks that allegedly took sixty-two million dollars from victims.Researchers are examining fundamental gaps between today's artificial-intelligence systems and the learning abilities of human infants.Roblox will discontinue Connect, its video-chat and calling service.Filmmakers are using generative artificial intelligence to produce low-cost movies for direct-to-video distribution.A Google teaser shows a glowing element built into the camera bar of the forthcoming Pixel 11.An unconfirmed bankruptcy rumor involving Lucid is adding to concerns about the financial outlook for electric-vehicle manufacturers.Chinese authorities are extending their campaign against the social trend known as lying flat to artificial-intelligence companion chatbots.Washington, DC, passed legislation banning surveillance-based pricing for concert tickets and capping resale prices.Withings has introduced a smart scale that activates the feet’s sweat glands, potentially revealing warning signs linked to health issues.Smart glasses are beginning to appear in criminal cases, raising legal and privacy concerns about wearable cameras.

Anthropic and Blackstone are betting that helping companies deploy AI could become an even bigger business than building the models themselves.

Rime has raised twenty-four million dollars in Series A funding to expand its technology for handling enterprise customer calls.

Reelful has introduced an AI tool that transforms photos and clips from a camera roll into short videos for social media.

AI coding startup Emergent has raised one hundred and thirty million dollars in Series C funding, reaching unicorn status just over a year after its launch.

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf is developing a way for AI agents to work across the open internet.

Realta Fusion is turning a former food factory into a development site for its fusion reactor technology.

Oak has emerged from stealth with sixty million dollars to tackle the identity and access problems created by the rise of AI agents.

A company founded by a SpaceX veteran has raised sixty-five million dollars to update how wire harnesses are designed and manufactured.

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang may launch an AI drug discovery company with a proposed valuation of two billion dollars.

Apple may work with PrismML on compression technology that could make AI models small enough to run directly on an iPhone.

A demonstration satellite is planned to test an orbital mirror that would reflect sunlight toward Earth after dark.

New York has become the first state in the country to impose a ban aimed specifically at AI data centers.

Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis has called on the United States to lead the creation of an international organization for AI standards.

A veteran of Apple’s Face ID development is building an AI model to analyze signs of human brain health.

Motorola has introduced the Edge 70 Max with a focus on power and support for Qi2 wireless charging.

Samsung Display has developed a more damage-resistant foldable panel that also makes the crease down the middle less visible.