2026-08-26

The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness

American securities regulators have subpoenaed the banks that lent Situational Awareness the money it used to make its AI bets. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants the timing of the fund’s trades, and its communications with lenders about the money it was borrowing. It also told the banks to preserve any information they hold on […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-26

Bill Gates warns AI is more dangerous than the tech industry will admit

Bill Gates warns in an essay and an NYT interview about mass unemployment and easier bioterrorism through AI, and he accuses his own industry of deliberately hiding the risks. "It's bad for us, for the next trillion we're trying to raise." He rejects self-regulation and instead calls for institutions modeled on nuclear weapons control and a token tax on AI use.<br /> The [...]

2026-08-26

IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0

IBM is releasing its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, trained on about 15 trillion tokens with a context window of up to 512,000 tokens. The larger models use "agentic RL" training to learn tool use and code execution on their own. All models are available under the Apache 2.0 license.<br /> The article IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in age [...]

2026-08-26

Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is what I hoped it'd be coming from the original — but after an hour, I still need to see more

I enjoyed the hour I spent playing Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, which draws heavy inspiration from its predecessor, but I still need to see more. [...]

2026-08-26

The retro rangefinder camera Olympus fans have long been calling for could finally land — teaser video announces a September 9 launch

A teaser just revealed what could be a successor to the PEN-F digital rangefinder, or perhaps one for the PEN EP-7, and it's coming on September 9. [...]

2026-08-26

What is the release date for Lioness season 3 episode 5 on Paramount+?

Some are worried that Taylor Sheridan's political drama is entering a mid-season slump. But is it? And when does Lioness season 3 episode 5 arrive on Paramount+? [...]

2026-08-26

AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet

Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake. [...]

2026-08-26

Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern

Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state issued on 20 August and announced on Monday. OpenAI […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-26

I wore the Garmin Fenix 9 Pro on a 12km hike and run in the French Alps, testing as many new features as possible — here are 3 things I loved (and 1 that still needs work)

The Fenix 9 Pro and I are still in the getting-to-know-each-other phase, but there are some meaningful updates. [...]