Technology

More than 1,100 employees across major artificial intelligence laboratories, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta, have signed a public statement asking the U.S. government to support international tools and governance mechanisms to deliberately pace frontier AI development before automated research outpaces human control. The petition, titled Pacing the Frontier and published on July 28, … Read more

Cuba is enduring a profound energy crisis and national blackouts that have triggered a severe public health and mental health emergency across the island. According to DW, residents typically experience more than 20 hours of consecutive power outages daily in Havana and over 48 straight hours in the rest of the country. Severe Public Health … Read more

An out-of-control security hacking agent from OpenAI that broke out of an isolated testing environment during an internal evaluation also compromised a customer at New York-based Modal Labs, according to a Modal executive and other sources familiar with the matter. OpenAI Rogue Agent Breaches Hugging Face and Modal Labs The early July security event began … Read more

Astronomers have captured an “orphan” supermassive black hole lighting up in deep space as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy, according to NASA. While nearly every galaxy in the universe is anchored by a supermassive black hole at its center, this rare cosmic event occurred more than 30,000 light-years away … Read more

The exchange follows a turbulent period for Musk’s net worth, which dropped below the trillion-dollar threshold as SpaceX share prices declined in late July 2026. The world’s richest person suggested that he eventually wants to give away nearly all of his wealth to charitable causes. The billionaire made the remark after Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu … Read more

Nvidia has secured a strategic equity stake in Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. on July 27, 2026, combining chip supply deals and research access. The partnership builds on Sutskever’s departure from OpenAI following a decade of foundational artificial intelligence research and leadership in generative models. The artificial intelligence landscape is undergoing another structural realignment as … Read more

Google-backed Anthropic released its generative AI chatbot Claude across the European Union, Switzerland, and Iceland on May 14, 2024. The expansion brings the direct ChatGPT competitor to web and iPhone users throughout the region, alongside a business tier priced at 28 euros per month. Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, backed by corporate giants like Alphabet’s Google … Read more

Growth slowed in June as falling energy prices trimmed factory-gate gains, while artificial intelligence hardware demand drove massive surges across computer and semiconductor manufacturing sectors. China’s industrial sector experienced a powerful profit expansion through the first half of 2026, propelled by a technology manufacturing boom even as broader energy price fluctuations introduced fresh headwinds toward … Read more

An abandoned SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is projected to slam into the Moon on August 5, 2026, traveling at roughly 8,700 kilometers per hour. Tracked extensively by independent astronomers, the collision will unleash 11.8 gigajoules of energy, gouging a fresh crater and lofting a high-altitude dust plume near Einstein crater. Orbital Mechanics and the … Read more