2026-07-08

US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

US military drone losses in Iran war spur Pentagon call for cheap replacements. [...]

2026-07-08

Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space

"The BOHR mission serves as a pathfinder for future nuclear-powered spacecraft." [...]

2026-07-08

Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process. [...]

2026-07-08

Holding Onto an Old T-Mobile Plan? It's Automatically Changing in a Few Days

Customers on grandfathered plans are being notified that their legacy plans will be pushed to current plans, some with a price increase. [...]

2026-07-08

ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human

OpenAI's GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time using a full-duplex architecture. Complex questions get handed off to GPT-5.5 in the background, which drastically improves response quality. GPT-Live-1 is available now for paying ChatGPT users, with a mini version for free accounts. API access is coming soon.<br /> The article ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, mak [...]

2026-07-08

Experts warn of the 'first documented case of agentic ransomware' — dangerous JADEPUFFER attack run entirely by an LLM

An LLM-based ransomware attack has been detected by researchers, and is notable for losing the data it encrypted... [...]

2026-07-08

OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a person

OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously, much like an actual human conversation.The two models, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, are rolling out globally starting today across iOS, Android, and Ch [...]

2026-07-08

Musk’s SpaceXAI ships ‘Opus-class’ Grok 4.5 to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor. This is the joint model the two firms had raced to ship. Elon Musk aimed it squarely at coding and agentic work, not casual chat. “It is an Opus-class […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-08

Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, have stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centres. The trigger was a contractor building Meta’s new AI […]<br /> This sto [...]