Mercedes Sprinter Vans
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Driverless Cars Are Here, But Full Autonomy Still Has Miles to Go

For years, the driverless car felt like a science fair project that never quite graduated. That’s changing. Robotaxis are picking up paying passengers in a growing list of U.S. cities, fleets are expanding overseas, and federal regulators are rewriting decades-old rules to make room for cars with no steering wheels. Yet anyone watching closely can see the technology is still wobbling through a tricky middle stage where ambition outpaces what the streets, the laws, and the public are ready to handle.

Subquadratic
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Miami’s Subquadratic Bets It Just Cracked AI’s Oldest Math Problem

A small Miami startup says it has done what every frontier AI lab has been chasing for nearly a decade. The company, called Subquadratic, claims its new SubQ model finally escapes the quadratic scaling wall that has bottlenecked transformers since 2017, and it has the eye-popping numbers (and skeptical critics) to match.

Dayton
Posted inAI and Machine Learning Data Science Software Development

The Revolt Against America’s Data Center Boom

Across small towns, suburbs, and even rural farmland, residents are showing up to town halls in record numbers with one message for tech giants: build your servers somewhere else. What started as scattered grumbling has turned into an organized, bipartisan movement that’s already reshaping how and where Big Tech expands.

OpenAI Microsoft exclusivity
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OpenAI Slips Microsoft’s Cloud Leash as the AI Platform Wars Erupt

The most consequential alliance of the AI era just got an open marriage. After years of running almost exclusively on Microsoft Azure, OpenAI is free to sell its models through any cloud, and Microsoft is walking away with a fatter wallet and fewer legal headaches. Both sides are calling it a win, and honestly, the math checks out.

Claude Mythos
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Uncovered Thousands of Zero-Days, So the Company Locked It Away

Anthropic just did something no major AI lab has done before. It built a frontier model so capable at finding software flaws that it decided the public shouldn’t have it. The model, called Claude Mythos Preview, has already surfaced thousands of previously unknown bugs in the software most of the world runs on, and the company is now racing to get those holes patched before attackers build anything similar.

Hempstead, NY
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Google Says Quantum Computers Could Break Today’s Encryption by 2029

Google recently sent shockwaves through the tech and cybersecurity worlds with a startling announcement: the company is fast-tracking its migration to quantum-resistant encryption, setting 2029 as its internal deadline. That’s years ahead of what most governments and agencies have planned, and it raises serious questions about how safe our digital lives really are right now.

Samsung Galaxy S26 Photo Assist
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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Lets You Rewrite Your Photos With a Text Prompt

Samsung’s latest Galaxy S26 smartphone lineup brings a completely overhauled Photo Assist feature that lets you edit your images by typing plain-English descriptions. The tool can change backgrounds, restore missing elements, and shift a daytime scene to nighttime, all with a few tapped-out words. But for all its fun creative uses, the feature is raising real questions about where the line sits between photo editing and photo fabrication.

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The Viral Gadget That Promises to Silence Your Eavesdropping Devices

Have you ever mentioned a product in conversation and then seen an ad for it minutes later on your phone? You’re not imagining things, and you’re definitely not alone. A new pocket-sized gadget called Spectre I from a startup called Deveillance went viral recently with a bold pitch: it can stop your phone, your laptop, and your Alexa from recording what you say. The internet loved the idea. Security experts? They have questions.

OpenClaw security risks
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Why Companies Are Racing to Ban OpenClaw From Their Networks

A viral open-source AI agent called OpenClaw has been making waves for its ability to automate everyday tasks with surprising autonomy. But its rapid rise has also triggered alarm bells at some of the biggest names in tech, with Meta and other companies now banning the tool from corporate devices over mounting cybersecurity fears. The situation puts a spotlight on a growing tension between the appeal of AI agents and the very real risks they carry.