2026-07-23

Cambridge built a planet-scale AI model, and skipped Nvidia to do it

The AI industry runs on Nvidia. A team at the University of Cambridge has just shown it does not have to. They have built a planetary-scale foundation model for the Earth, and every chip that trained and ran it came from AMD. The model is called TESSERA, and its idea is borrowed from large language […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-23

Alphabet locked in $811 billion of future spending on AI infrastructure. The number jumped $500 billion in one quarter.

Alphabet had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier. The figure, disclosed separately from capital expenditure in a quarterly filing, represents purchases Google has already committed to under supply agreements and open purchase orders. Roughly $200.7 billion of the total is […]<br /> This story conti [...]

2026-07-23

OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind

Scott Winters says he trusted ChatGPT with his health, and it nearly cost him his life. The 55-year-old Florida pastor is suing OpenAI in San Francisco. He alleges the chatbot gave him dangerously wrong medical advice and talked him out of seeking care. Weeks later, a pulmonary embolism brought him, in his words, “to the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-23

Xbox is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming

Microsoft is borrowing from the GeForce Now playbook with an ad-supported cloud streaming test. [...]

2026-07-23

One tampered ChatGPT link could spawn a rogue AI agent that took orders from an attacker every five minutes

Zenity Labs uncovered "AgentForger," a vulnerability in OpenAI's Agent Builder that let a single manipulated ChatGPT link create an autonomous agent on an employee's behalf. The agent inherited the victim's identity and access rights, bypassed approval requirements through the malicious prompt, and pulled new instructions from the attacker's inbox every five minutes.& [...]

2026-07-23

Goodbye SMS or phone calls — Microsoft is making passkeys the default authentication process for businesses

Microsoft says SMS and phone call authentication isn't up to the task anymore – and urges businesses to adopt passkeys. [...]

2026-07-23

LG's latest OLED TVs will have a 'Creator Original' mode that works with Prime Video: it seems to take some of Dolby Vision 2's best features, but may arrive sooner — and unlike DV2, will be supported on LG's TVs…

LG is rolling out a new picture mode, Creator Original, to 2026 C6, G6 and W6 series TVs. It has similar features to Dolby Vision 2. [...]

2026-07-23

Best Buy is selling the LG C5 OLED for nearly 50% off - and I recommend it

It may be one generation behind, but the LG C5 OLED TV still offers plenty of reasons to pick one up, especially at this price during the Black Friday in July sale. [...]

2026-07-23

I've used Linux for 30 years, and this free security suite does it all - almost perfectly

Linux may be the most secure OS available, but it can always use extra security. BastionGuard 2 promises some serious security. [...]