Claude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday. That’s some big upgrades for Claude Code. OpenAI, the competition, offered us GPT-5.3-Codex, and this week gave us an app form...
Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case
“Extremely difficult to believe” Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon. Frustrated by fake citations and flowery prose packed with “out-of-left-field” references to ancient libraries...
Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
Open source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were laced with code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems and, in some cases, backdoored devices,...
Why $700 could be a “death sentence” for the Steam Machine
Bad news for Valve in particular? On the surface, it might seem like every company making gaming hardware would be similarly affected by increasing component costs. In practice, though, analysts...
COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions
The remaining question, though, was where all this methane was coming from in the first place. Throughout the pandemic, there was speculation that the surge might be caused by super-emitter...
Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars
On the road with AI The Waymo World Model is not just a straight port of Genie 3 with dashcam videos stuffed inside. Waymo and DeepMind used a specialized post-training...
To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn’s second stage reignites
Engineers at Blue Origin have been grappling with a seemingly eternal debate that involves the New Glenn rocket and the economics of flying it. The debate goes back at least...
Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars
This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracán. Does this feel like an unusually restrained color for a Lamborghini? The car is the new Temerario. Credit:...
New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse
“He puts forward logical alternative hypotheses,” said Cahill of Novoplansky’s critique. “The original work should have tested among a number of different hypotheses rather than focusing on a single interpretation....
Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy
The automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles—at least here in the United States—continues to unwind. Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as...
Lawmakers ask what it would take to “store” the International Space Station
NASA shall evaluate the “viability of transferring the ISS to a safe orbital harbor” after retirement. The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette...
AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents. On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products built around the same idea: instead of chatting with a...
The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)
In 2018, we lamented as Nintendo officially replaced the Virtual Console—its long-running line of downloadable classic games on the Wii and Wii U—with time-limited access to a set of games...
With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code
Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the new macOS desktop app....
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from...
Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites
Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites. Credit: Aurich Lawson | NeoCities One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing,...
Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party
Such studies have nonetheless been met with skepticism when it comes to interpreting the behavior as evidence of animals’ ability to engage in make-believe. For instance, it’s possible the animals...
Bad sleep made woman’s eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck
Exhausted elastin As such, the correct next step for addressing her floppy eyelids wasn’t eye surgery or medication—it was a referral for a sleep test. The patient did the test,...
Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android “very soon”
Android has its own AirDrop-like feature called Quick Share (formerly Google Nearby Share), but until recently, it couldn’t communicate with Apple’s AirDrop. As we reported in November, the European Union...
OpenAI is hoppin’ mad about Anthropic’s new Super Bowl TV ads
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch complained on X after rival AI lab Anthropic released four commercials, two of which will run during the...
