2026-07-27

Google promised not to show ads based on your emails. AI could undo that

Connecting Gmail to Google’s AI gives the company a much more detailed look into your life. Google only says that it’s not mining those insights for ads today. [...]

2026-07-27

Our electric grid wasn’t built for this kind of demand

Speed-to-power is being limited by speed-to-build. [...]

2026-07-27

The glaring hole in Congress’s plan for an AI kill switch

The proposed safeguard could rein in closed AI systems, but experts say open-weight models are already beyond the reach of any centralized ‘off’ button. [...]

2026-07-27

Young adults are using ChatGPT to script their in-person conversations. Psychologists call it an “epidemic of self-mistrust.”

A growing number of young adults are using AI chatbots to script not just their texts but their in-person conversations, the Wall Street Journal reported. Niharika Abbaraju, a 20-year-old cancer researcher, uses ChatGPT at work for research, but off the clock it becomes her conversation coach, drafting dating app lines, party icebreakers, and real-time responses […]<br /> This story contin [...]

2026-07-27

Microsoft launches its own cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash but still depends on OpenAI for the toughest tasks

Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that scores 96 percent on the CyberGym benchmark when embedded in its MDASH multi-agent system. Microsoft says costs should drop by 50 percent compared to pure frontier models, since only tough cases get passed to GPT-5.4. For complex reasoning, Microsoft still relies on OpenAI.<br /> The article Microsoft launches its own cybe [...]

2026-07-27

I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but couldn’t get in — and it exposed the next big problem facing the major AI players

I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but I couldn’t get in, and it's proof the AI race is no longer just about better models — it's about access. [...]

2026-07-27

I’ve spent months with the Honor Magic V6, and no other foldable can touch it for durability or battery life

The Honor Magic V6 is a superb foldable phone, with leading durability and battery life. [...]

2026-07-27

15 things that were mainstream 30 years ago and have quietly disappeared — and what replaced them

Things that disappeared from the 90s once felt permanent, from phone books to fax machines, and here's exactly what replaced each one today [...]

2026-07-27

Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs

Microsoft opened a new front in the AI security wars on Monday, unveiling its first custom-built cybersecurity model and a sweeping agentic defense platform — and making an argument that could reshape how enterprises buy AI: the future belongs not to the biggest model, but to the cheapest one that's good enough, routed intelligently.The company announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact securit [...]