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Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious overlap in business model: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palantir, ServiceNow, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Mistral, Andreessen [β¦] The post Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI appeared fir...
OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Users link Apple Health and, where supported, records from US [β¦] The post OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records appeared first on AI News.
The biggest update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) since its launch is almost here. Lead maintainers froze the release The post MCPβs biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around appeared first on The New Stack.
Over two days this month, two of the most credible people in the industry published framework manifestos on X. Microsoft The post Microsoft and Google DeepMind agree on AI control β but not on who holds it appeared first on The New Stack.
In digital operations management, AI agents give organizations a competitive edge by reducing incident volume and accelerating recovery. The potential The post 5 ways SRE AI agents are set to augment human capabilities appeared first on The New Stack.
If software engineers are no longer writing code, what are they doing? Thatβs the question on millions of minds. AI The post Stop correcting AI code. Build the system agents need. appeared first on The New Stack.
When operations teams get an alert, three questions need to be answered before any action can take place: Without a The post 5 steps to build great service architecture and operational resilience appeared first on The New Stack.
A change to a service that consumes from Kafka is not validated until it has run against the real system: The post How routing keys isolate Kafka consumer tests on a shared broker appeared first on The New Stack.
The fight over open-weight AI entered a new round over the last week. On July 22, White House officials accused The post Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and 22 others defended open weights. Anthropic and OpenAI didnβt sign. appeared first on The New Stack.
On Friday, Anthropic launched Opus 5, the latest iteration of its heavyweight model. Arriving just two months after Opus 4.8 The post Opus 5 costs a third of the price β and thatβs actually the problem appeared first on The New Stack.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to share a public letter backing frontier open-weight models. Signed The post Jensen Huang made his first X post. He used it to lobby Washington about open-weight AI. appeared first on The New Stack.
Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, the latest version of what used to be the companyβs flagship model (before the The post Anthropicβs Opus 5 is almost Fable 5 appeared first on The New Stack.
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Every sprint I have sat through ends with a retro. Gather in a room, say what went well, say what did not, write it on a board nobody reopens. Release day gets a postmortem too, eventually, when someone remembers to schedule it. This one ran itself, on the cycle that had just finished, no calendar invite required. I felt the instinct the moment Ship closed: tell someone what you learned, write it down before the feeling fades into a vague memory of a lesson. The deploy had gone out. Quiet. Nothi...
πAfter deciding to strengthen my programming fundamentals as part of my DevOps learning journey, I started learning Java. I know these are basic concepts, but every experienced developer once started here. Building strong fundamentals makes learning advanced topics much easier later. "Starting from scratch is never a weakness. Whether the concepts are basic or advanced, every lesson learned today becomes the building block for tomorrow's expertise." In this blog, I'll summarize everything I lear...
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Herodotus wrote of a bird that lived five hundred years in Arabia, and when its life came to an end, it did not wait to be surprised by death. It built its own nest of cinnamon and myrrh, set the nest and itself alight, and let a new bird rise from what the fire left behind. The Hestia argued for tending a fire that must never go out. Thatβs true, and it isnβt the whole truth. Teams end. People leave. Companies get acquired, reorganized, shut down, and five years from now some part of this whole...
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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is exactly what I want from a superhero fighting game. I want it to be energetic. I want it to be packed with familiar faces and lesser-known characters. Most importantly, I want it to be developed by Arc System Works, the developer behind Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball FighterZ. My dream is finally coming true, and with Doomsday right around the corner, itβs arriving at the perfect time - and at the perfect price. Thereβs nothing like learning new combos and going from...
Kratos' story isn't over yet, as God of War developer Sony Santa Monica announced that the main face of the franchise will lead a new game, following the launch of God of War Laufey in February 2027. Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con, Santa Monica Studio head of creative Cory Barlog briefly announced a new Kratos-led game that will connect directly to next year's new God of War adventure that stars his deceased wife, Faye. "Everything we are doing in the Faye game is a continuation of what came be...
The God of War Laufey release date has been announced and, much like we anticipated, you won't have to wait too long before you can play Faye's story. At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Sony Santa Monica Studios officially announced that the God of War Laufey release date will be 16 February, 2027. https://twitter.com/SonySantaMonica/status/2080831512820519253 Game director Cory Barlog also announced that the game will ship with physical discs. That announcement comes just weeks after Sony announced t...
Sony's PlaYStation Network was experiencing network issues today, July 24, but those problems now seem to have been resolved. As usual, your mileage may vary, but the hours-long outage now seems to be fixed. The official PlayStation Status page notes that, "All services are up and running." The outage earlier today was severe. All services were initially impacted, including account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store, and PlayStation Direct. The website Downdetect...
We got our first full gameplay look at Blade and Green Goblin in the latest Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Open Beta that's running from July 24th to July 27th. Check out some high level gameplay of both characters here running on PC with max settings.
Jimothy, the short-spined raccoon who has captured the hearts of the internet, is coming to World of Warcraft. Over the past few weeks, Jimothy the raccoon has gone absolutely viral, as Seattle locals share images and videos of the animal celebrity going about his daily life. He's hard to miss, as his unique spinal condition gives him a noticeably shortened torso and neck that makes him look like a goblin in raccoon form. Naturally, as Jimothy's popularity skyrocketed, so too did the brands begi...
The newest trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil movie from Weapons director Zach Cregger has arrived, and the version of the trailer posted on the PlayStation YouTube page is full of jokes and references to Sony's controversial decision to end support for physical game discs in 2028. The movie, which hails from Sony Pictures, doesn't have a heck of a lot to do with the PlayStation brand outside of the Sony connection, but since it was posted on PlayStation's YouTube page, people took the oppor...
A Blizzard employee who used developer tools to allegedly help a group of friends complete a challenging Mythic+ dungeon in World of Warcraft is no longer with the company, Blizzard has confirmed. Earlier this week, a thread on Reddit called attention to a suspicious Mythic+ 23 dungeon run. A simple look at the key in question on Warcraftlogs, a site players use to track dungeon and raid performance, showed the dungeon shouldn't have been completed in time, as after the final boss the group stil...
The original Halo might not be the only entry in the series to get a full redo, with the secret ending of Halo: Campaign Evolved giving a wink and a nod to fans by hinting at a Halo 2 remake. Spoilers for Halo: Campaign Evolved (and the 2001 original) follow. Completing the campaign on Legendary difficulty adds a light-hearted sequence featuring Sergeant Johnson, who is relaxing on a makeshift beach chair on the shore while somehow viewing the original Legendary joke ending from Halo: Combat Evo...
Red Faction still has the best destruction in games ever.
Secret housing changes are afoot.
Yoshi-P is not chortin' it.
Fair is fair.
Does your music require the human touch?
Videogame piracy.
Magmotor has been providing motors for demanding use cases for decades and offers custom systems for robotics. The post Magmotor makes motors for a changing world for 150+ years appeared first on The Robot Report.
The robot-in-table design is meant to save space in the operating room, with J&J saying its novel architecture takes up 30-50% less space than boom-and-cart systems. The post Photos: First look at J&Jβs Ottava surgical robot appeared first on The Robot Report.
By training GEN-1 to work with new hands, Generalist said a single base model can learn sensorimotor policies on different robots. The post Generalistβs GEN-1 foundation model now supports a range of robot end effectors appeared first on The Robot Report.
Discover how time series databases help robotics teams manage high-volume sensor data, power AI insights, and keep systems running at scale. The post How time series databases unlock real-time data for robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.
Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that resemble a QR code.When you hold your phone camera up to a QR code, light strikes the image sensor as only a first step to revealing the data hidden behind the black and white matrix. The receiver here is doing something d...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 Julyβ4 August 2026, PRAGUEActuate 2026: 18β19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026: 27 Septemberβ1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHHumanoids Summit Seoul: 22β23 September 2026, SEOULEnjoy todayβs videos! In just six months, ...
How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
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A running look β in reverse chronological order β at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law
An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.
Kalshi claims the trailer is βdefamatoryβ and contains βboth fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.β
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a "duress password" that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport on January 24th, 2025. Federal agents detained Tunick at the airport, allegedly questioning him about child exploitation images. However, a motion filed by Tunick's lawyers [β¦]
Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (this will be his fourth), is slated to make its debut on Amazon Prime on October 7th. The new trailer dropped at Comic-Con 2026 and doesn't contain many surprises. If you're familiar with Carrie at all, it hits all the expected notes. Though it's clearly been updated for [β¦]
Subscribing to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on a recurring basis has been tough to justify recently, even after Microsoft reduced the monthly cost from $29.99 to $22.99. But you can get a better deal on a three-month subscription (valued at $69) by grabbing a digital code at Eneba that costs $39.01 at the time of [β¦]
While perhaps less dramatic than in years past, Marvel nonetheless had some big reveals lined up for Comic-Con. The highest profile was certainly the announcement that Ryan Gosling would be joining the MCU as Ghost Rider, with the Shawn Levy-directed (Deadpool & Wolverine) standalone feature set to drop sometime in 2028. The studio also brought [β¦]
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