2026-07-28

Ukraine claims drone 'costing a few thousand dollars' obliterated a $50m Russian Buk-M3 AA missile launcher system in seconds

Ukraine says a drone worth a few thousand dollars destroyed a $50 million Russian Buk-M3. [...]

2026-07-28

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models

Dario Amodei published Anthropic’s formal position on open-weights models on Sunday, breaking a silence that had drawn accusations that the company wanted to ban open-weight AI to protect its business. “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” Amodei wrote. “Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good.” The post […]<br /> [...]

2026-07-28

Kimi K3's full weights are here, but they're 'open' with a caveat: What enterprises should know

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, creators of the increasingly famous "Kimi K" family of powerful, open AI models, today released the full weights for its largest and most performant version yet — Kimi K3. But enterprises evaluating the model should read the attached custom Kimi K3 usage license as carefully as the benchmark charts.VentureBeat previously covered Kimi K3 when it debuted t [...]

2026-07-28

Samsung's 9100 Pro 2TB SSD has dropped to AU$434 at Amazon, but you have less than a day left to grab it

The Samsung 9100 Pro 2TB is down to AU$434.47 at Amazon AU until 12pm July 29 — an excellent price for one of the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs around [...]

2026-07-28

Forget Garmin and Apple — this five-star fitness watch will have you smashing your PBs for under AU$160

Amazfit officially launched in Australia earlier this month, and Amazon has discounted one of our top-rated smartwatches, the Active 2, for a limited time. [...]

2026-07-28

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software. [...]

2026-07-28

16 products keeping my kids entertained whilst I work from home this summer – and half are less than £20

My shopping list for a calmer work environment during the summer holidays [...]

2026-07-28

Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports

For the better part of a fortnight, the tenant behind one of the largest data centre leases in Texas history existed only in the negative, described in Hut 8’s own filings as an “unnamed, investment-grade hyperscaler,” and now the Financial Times says the name is Nvidia. The FT reported citing five people familiar with the arrangement, that Nvidia is […]<br /> This story continue [...]

2026-07-28

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and its most senior Democrat, will host both chief […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]