zdnet

2026-07-17

This air purifier is helping keep my home's air free of wildfire smoke - and it's on sale

Get cleaner air for less with the Blueair Blue Pure 211i Max air purifier for 20% off on Amazon right now. [...]

Destination

2026-07-17

‘The Odyssey’ Backlash Failed Tremendously

For all the hysteria over “woke” casting and ahistorical choices, Christopher Nolan’s epic is on track to make $200 million globally during its opening weekend. [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-17

Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises

Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp called the disparity “a complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth” and said it is […]<br /> This story continues at [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-17

Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall Street, and academia was swift and pointed. TNW covered the model’s capabilities at launch, but the political and […]<br /> This s [...]

Destination

2026-07-17

A bug in AWS has caused some customers' bills to spike from a few cents to billions of dollars

"The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges," Amazon said. [...]

venturebeat

2026-07-17

Brex built its AI agent policy by watching what agents actually do, not by writing rules first

OpenClaw has become one of the most widely adopted agentic frameworks, but it has yet to prove itself at enterprise scale. Agents need real credentials — API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — to work effectively, and Brex found that traditional guardrails couldn't contain what those agents were doing with them.Brex set out to overcome these limitations by building an internal platfor [...]

Destination

2026-07-17

Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy

American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint. [...]

Destination

2026-07-17

Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?

Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028. [...]

zdnet

2026-07-17

This Levoit is the best smart air purifier I've tested (and it's on sale)

The Levoit Vital 200S-P is the smart air purifier to beat, with a washable prefilter and a capacity to clean up to 1,800 square feet in one hour. [...]