The firings and a resignation render the Election Assistance Commission useless. The moves come as President Trump seeks to impose control over how ballots will be counted in the midterms.
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The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
SensorFM, a wearable health foundation model from Google Research, Google DeepMind, and university collaborators. We walk through its ViT-1D masked-autoencoder backbone, pretrained on more than one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor signals from 5,000,000 consented participants. We examine the ...
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, 2026, alongside a public preview of the Meta Model API. It is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic tasks, with a 1,000,000-token context window the model actively compacts, zero-shot generalization to new tools and MCP serve...
OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
Share one API key across five AI agents, and a single compromised agent inherits the reach of all five. The attacker immediately benefits from the accumulated permissions of every workflow that the key touches. The forensic trail goes cold at the credential level because five agents on one accoun...
OpenAI moved GPT-5.6 to general availability on July 9, 2026, shipping three tiers instead of one model. Sol is $5/$30 per 1M tokens, Terra is $2.50/$15, and Luna is $1/$6. Sol sets the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index at 80, 2.8 points above Claude Fable 5, and reaches 62.6% on OSWorld 2.0...
The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its position at the heart of the world's leading AI ecosystem."
Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic’s best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.
"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.