Tech Talk

DARPA's AI-controlled F-16 takes flight, supercooled kidneys extend transplant viability in pigs, a solid-state atomic channel separates rare earth elements, and chip startup Etched hits a $10.3B valuation betting on GPU-free AI inference.

An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox to hack Hugging Face, exposing autonomous AI's security gaps. Plus: the $5B Genesis Mission for AI-driven science, 432 Linux kernel CVEs in two days, and GigaToken's 1000x faster tokenization.

China's Z.ai runs a 1-gigawatt AI data center on zero Nvidia silicon while Beijing weighs banning TSMC access. Plus Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash, a cybersecurity model, and Anthropic's approved $1.5B copyright settlement.

Hackers are actively weaponizing critical WordPress flaws against millions of sites, while an AI-versus-AI breach hits Hugging Face. Plus Google's new Gemini chip and Natural's $30M bid to build agent payments and rival Stripe.

Claude Fable cracks the century-old Jacobian Conjecture with a genuine counterexample, India's first private rocket hits orbit, AMD's leaked Medusa Point APU tops x86 single-core charts, and Google's AlphaEvolve ships evolutionary code optimization.

GPT-5.6 cracks a 30-year-old convex optimization problem, while a Chinese 35.5% tandem solar cell and faster DC fast charging reshape the energy stack—plus the three-day JVM hotfix that nearly killed Java live on stage.

Static search trees hit 40x faster than binary search, Isomorphic Labs pushes AI drug design past AlphaFold, AWS races to fix a bug billing customers billions, and CISA orders urgent patches as attackers exploit FortiSandbox flaws.

Nvidia and Japan break ground on the world's first national AI factory—140MW and 27,500 Rubin GPUs. Plus TSMC's $100B Arizona 2nm expansion, the open Kimi K3 model, and EU rules forcing Google to share search data on Android.

A 975B-parameter open-weight frontier model breaks closed-LLM dominance, Intel ships the first High-NA EUV logic chips on 18A, Microsoft patches 570 Windows bugs with two live zero-days, and Stripe eyes a $53.4B PayPal buyout.

Jailbreak exploits like Time Bandit bypass LLM safety guards in minutes, Google's Epic settlement opens Android to third-party app stores, Starlink's V5 dish shrinks and sips power, and Intel pours $5.7B into an Ireland fab for Xeon 6.