2026-07-20

Netflix shows its love for AI once again — the platform has acquired Ben Affleck’s firm InterPositive for $587 million, and it’s just given me another reason to cancel my subscription

Netflix revealed that it bought AI firm InterPositive for $587 million, and subscribers are concerned for future movies and shows. [...]

2026-07-20

70% of Americans don’t want data centers built nearby, but the government is seizing private property to force construction to start

'Eminent domain' is being used to force landowners to sell their personal property to help build infrastructure for data centers. [...]

2026-07-20

An AI agent breached Hugging Face before an AI defender caught it: What users should do next

An agentic AI infiltrated the production infrastructure of an AI project. Then an AI detected it. Is this the future of cyberattacks, and how will they be defended against? [...]

2026-07-20

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases first short film made entirely with AI video generation

"District 9" director Neill Blomkamp has released "Nightborne," a 13-minute sci-fi horror short generated entirely with the Seedance 2.0 video model. Blomkamp directed frame by frame through text prompts and founded a new AI film studio, Barley Studios, to produce a full-length feature next.<br /> The article District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases first short film ma [...]

2026-07-20

I tested a 4TB quantum-resistant USB drive - but you don't have to spend $3000 for this security

Apricorn's new 4TB Aegis Secure Key is the biggest-capacity hardware-encrypted flash drive on the market right now. [...]

2026-07-20

A federal judge temporarily blocked Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. merger

A 14-day restraining order halts a deal that would combine two of Hollywood's five major film studios and cable programmers [...]

2026-07-20

Alphabet stock pops on report Google is building a Gemini-specific AI chip

The chip, internally dubbed "Frozen v2," could serve 6 to 10 times more tokens per unit of power than Google's latest TPUs [...]

2026-07-20

Philippine Airlines is ordering Boeing Dreamliners for the first time in nearly 20 years

The flag carrier signed a memorandum of understanding for 15 787-10s, with options for 5 more, to be delivered from 2031 [...]

2026-07-20

A single AI agent conversation can look perfect and still be broken, leaders from LangChain, Conviva and CoreWeave said at VB Transform 2026

A single AI agent conversation can look flawless scored on its own and still point to a broken product. That gap is driving a shift in how enterprises evaluate agents, away from scoring individual traces and toward comparing cohorts of users against a baseline.At VB Transform 2026, Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain; Hui Zhang, CTO and co-founder of Conviva; and Emmanuel Turlay, director of engineer [...]