2026-07-10

20 things to know about freelancing before you quit your job

From self-employment taxes to client contracts to the loneliness nobody warns you about, here are 20 realities of freelance life worth understanding first [...]

2026-07-10

Meet the Battery Startup Taking on China’s Giants

Solid-state batteries are safer and more capable—but harder to mass-produce. They also represent an opportunity for non-Chinese companies to get back in the game. [...]

2026-07-10

Enterprise AI is entering an evaluation gap: Agents are gaining autonomy faster than companies can verify them

Enterprise AI teams are giving agents more freedom at the same moment their confidence in automated testing is collapsing.Half of enterprises have deployed an AI agent or LLM feature that passed internal evaluations and yet still caused a customer-facing failure — one in four more than once — according to the June 2026 VB Pulse survey of 157 qualified enterprise respondents at companies with 1 [...]

2026-07-10

Metal balls from space are popping up on Australia's beaches

Sadly, we don't think aliens were involved in this particular space balls incident. [...]

2026-07-10

MIT Study Lights Way for Bright, Efficient Quantum Dot LED TV Screens

Despite a step forward, don't expect the next level of TV panels to be widely marketed anytime soon. [...]

2026-07-10

'Today, the token economy is emerging': AI use in China increases 1000-fold with usage exceeding 140 trillion tokens a day

With AI token consumption rising dramatically since 2024, AI companies are adapting their pricing to be based on consumption. [...]

2026-07-10

Trump is refusing to sign the housing bill — but it's becoming law anyway

The president announced Friday he will not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, citing Senate Republicans' failure to pass an election bill [...]

2026-07-10

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"

According to OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Sol independently fine-tuned the smaller Luna model, triggered by a single "fairly under-specified prompt." In OpenAI's internal RSI benchmark for recursive self-improvement, Sol scores 16.2 points higher than GPT-5.5. OpenAI believes the "automated researcher" is within reach.<br /> The article OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post [...]

2026-07-10

This 1-pound drone killer is the size of a Subway sandwich — but it can outrun a Black Hawk

Nordic Air Defense’s K100XR is a foot-long carbon fiber drone that can exceed 220 mph and uses AI to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft. [...]