Netflix paid 587 million dollars to acquire an AI filmmaking startup associated with Ben Affleck.

Jensen Huang’s visit to Japan is drawing fresh attention to Nvidia’s relationships and strategic priorities in the country.

An Apple lawsuit is raising questions about whether the litigation could disrupt OpenAI’s hardware plans.

Kodak introduced the EC35, a low-cost point-and-shoot camera designed for 35-millimeter film.

Samsung is cutting jobs in its U.S. smartphone operation, while other parts of the company benefit from demand for AI hardware.

A science creator demonstrated a sealed mercury-and-neon device that produces a visible electrical effect when exposed to high voltage.

Apple allegedly began recording conversations during Genius Bar appointments and using artificial intelligence to summarize them.

India’s first privately developed orbital rocket reached orbit on its debut launch.

Washington, D.C., is considering autonomous-vehicle rules that would establish testing thresholds, permit fees, and a per-mile tax. Uber opposes the measure and favors a hybrid ride-hailing model, while Waymo broadly supports it and has already met the proposed testing requirements.Christopher Nolan is encouraging greater scrutiny of artificial intelligence and the interests driving its adoption. The filmmaker likened the technology to a Trojan horse operating in plain sight and welcomed the skepticism he sees among younger people.Current AI is developing open technology for communities and languages often underrepresented by commercial systems. Its projects include an offline device supporting 22 Indian languages and an open-source chatbot, all part of an effort to build widely accessible public AI infrastructure.Astronomers have detected helium escaping from the rocky exoplanet LHS 1140 b, offering strong evidence that it has retained an atmosphere for billions of years while orbiting in its star's habitable zone. The finding does not establish the presence of life, but it validates a promising method for examining potentially habitable worlds.Physical game media continues to lose ground as console makers promote systems without disc drives and players rely more heavily on downloadable libraries. Grand Theft Auto VI is not expected to include a disc when it first launches, intensifying concerns about long-term ownership and the preservation of games.High school teams designed and built solar-powered cars for a five-day, 630-mile race across Texas. The Solar Car Challenge combines renewable-energy education with practical experience in engineering, budgeting, project management, and hands-on problem-solving.Unconfirmed leaks ahead of Samsung's July 22 event point to three new foldable phones and updated smartwatches. The rumored changes involve dimensions, displays, processors, cameras, and batteries, but the specifications remain uncertain until Samsung makes its announcement.The Justice Department says executive-branch employees will not be prosecuted for installing TikTok on government devices when their agencies permit it. The statutory ban remains on the books, creating a clear divide between the law and the government's current enforcement policy.Warmer conditions are expanding the territory and transmission seasons of disease-carrying mosquitoes in regions that were historically temperate. Public-health researchers say broader trapping, testing, and shared surveillance data are needed to identify emerging virus hot spots before human cases reveal an outbreak.

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. Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3 as an open-source model. The company says its evaluations showed frontier-level performance, although it still trails the strongest proprietary systems. Independent benchmarks also ranked it competitively among leading models. Honda is removing the Prologue from its U.S. lineup. The decision follows a broader retreat from some electric models as automakers contend with weaker domestic sales, tariffs, shifting priorities, and the end of the federal tax credit. The Justice Department reportedly advised executive-branch agencies that they may allow TikTok on official devices at their discretion. The change followed the transfer of the app's U.S. operations to a joint venture backed by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX. A 600-mile drive in a non-Tesla electric vehicle included dependable fast chargers and only brief stops. Compared with a similar journey three years earlier, the experience points to wider improvements in charging availability and reliability. The Stardust period-tracking app allegedly sent reproductive-health details to an analytics provider that was not identified in its privacy policy. By contrast, the nonprofit-run Euki app kept health information on the user's device and received the highest privacy score. Gemini usage is now metered by the computing demands of each request instead of a fixed request count. Model choice, prompt complexity, and subscription tier can all affect how quickly users reach their limits. A security experiment placed guardrail-triggering text inside simulated cloud secrets to interfere with AI-assisted attacks. Across 152 attack runs involving five AI models, the technique sharply reduced successful privilege escalation and persistence. Leaked hardware details suggest Google's Pixel 11a will pair the current-generation Tensor G6 chip with a MediaTek M90 modem. The combination could help reduce the battery drain and dropped-signal problems associated with earlier Tensor devices. Google is making the raw OBJ files for its Noto 3D emoji available to developers and creators. The models can be reused in virtual-reality worlds, independent applications, and other projects. Flock Safety chief executive Garrett Langley has apologized for previously calling critics and the Deflock camera-mapping group terrorists. He also acknowledged that opponents have valid concerns about the company's license-plate-reader network. A federal pilot across six states is testing artificial intelligence in the medical prior-authorization process. Supporters say automation could accelerate straightforward approvals, while physicians warn that it may increase wrongful denials without transparency and clinical oversight.

Meta is reportedly preparing to hire a senior Amazon computing executive as it considers a broader move into cloud infrastructure. Xi Jinping is promoting open-source artificial intelligence as part of China’s effort to reduce its dependence on technology controlled by the United States. Apple is recruiting people involved in developing OpenAI’s future products as competition for artificial intelligence talent intensifies. San Francisco authorities have ordered Apple and Google to remove AI-powered nudify applications from their app stores.

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. Databricks has reached an estimated valuation of $188 billion as investors continue pouring money into the largest AI data-platform companies. A new Zoom workaround gives meeting participants a way to state that they do not consent to being recorded, highlighting how unsettled workplace recording norms remain. Agility Robotics is expanding its footprint in Tesla's backyard as competition heats up around bringing humanoid robots into commercial use. Demand for AI infrastructure is tightening memory supplies, creating fresh cost pressures for smartphone makers and buyers in India. San Francisco authorities have ordered Apple and Google to remove AI nudify apps from their stores, escalating the regulatory response to tools that can create intimate images without a person's consent. Nuclear-energy startup Valar Atomics is said to be discussing a new funding round that could value the company at $6 billion. Federal authorities have arrested a man who allegedly hid malware inside Steam games to drain cryptocurrency from victims' wallets. Amazon is fixing an AWS billing bug that displayed charges totaling billions of dollars for some customers. Patreon has moved beyond asking AI bots to avoid creator pages and is now actively blocking automated scraping. Chinese President Xi Jinping is promoting open-source artificial intelligence as part of a strategy to reduce China's dependence on technology ecosystems controlled by the United States. Questions surrounding Polymarket's corporate structure appear to extend even to some former employees, deepening transparency concerns around the prediction-market operator. Federal contract records show ICE using data-broker tools to identify unaccompanied minors and people suspected of fraud. TikTok is testing a tool designed to detect when artificial intelligence has been used to recreate a person's likeness. Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky is defending the revived smartwatch brand's 30-day warranty as part of a trust-based approach to repairs and customer support. Apple Music is increasing its subscription prices, adding to the broader rise in what consumers pay for streaming services. Leaked images and specifications suggest the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is getting a redesign with a wider display. Chip Motors is preparing a compact, Jeep-like electric vehicle for the US market. The low-speed model is expected to offer remote self-parking. An inkjet-style manufacturing process is emerging as another way to produce OLED panels, with potentially different trade-offs in cost and large-scale production. Opposition to Flock's automated license-plate surveillance network is driving efforts to remove or disable the company's cameras. Roborock has introduced a robotic lawnmower that navigates with LiDAR rather than satellite positioning. SpaceX has lost an esti

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.