A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready For a While
As the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues.
Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say
Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel.
Apple Podcasts will soon let creators offer exclusive videos to subscribers
Apple announced this week that creators will soon be able to offer video through Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, “including subscriber-exclusive episodes, ad-free video, early access, and bonus content.” Here are the details. more…
VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI
The VC firm says that AI-native companies are growing faster than any technology, ever.
Microsoft's new Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 feature Snapdragon X2 Plus chips
Microsoft's smaller Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 are getting a much-needed chip upgrade.
Microsoft brings Snapdragon X2 Plus to 13-inch Surface Laptop, 12-inch Surface Pro
Microsoft's lowest-end systems are getting upgrades to Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus processors.
Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button
Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also has a customizable action button for the first time, which is primarily designed for quick access to Copilot (of course), but can be configured to work with oth...
Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus
The Surface Pro 12-inch Second Edition comes in black, silver, or violet. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware featur...
XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.
Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension
Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model
Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
Discord will try to automatically estimate ages, require verification when it can't.
Apple releases watchOS 27.0.1 to fix Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 bug
Apple is rolling out watchOS 27.0.1 for Apple Watch today. The company says the update fixes an issue where some Apple Watch units would unexpectedly restart. The update is available exclusively for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 users. more…
Check Point warns of hackers exploiting Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw
Cybersecurity company Check Point has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-85102, a pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the VPN certificate-handling functionality of its Security Gateway product. [...]
YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
YouTube's next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely
The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare-earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
An adorable little bear that wants to help you buy things. Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch f...
Here’s everything new for Apple Calendar in iOS 27
iOS 27 is packed with new features for Apple Wallet, Messages, Notes, and other system apps—including Calendar. Here’s everything new for Apple’s Calendar app in iOS 27. more…
Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains
A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.
LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820496 Points: 66 # Comments: 7