Destination

2026-07-21

'I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles we're planning' — Xbox's chief strategy officer confirms the company wants to make more exclusives, but 'large live-service titles' will be multiplatform going forwar

Xbox has confirmed that the Microsoft-owned company is looking to expand its console-exclusive portfolio outside of Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution. [...]

fastcompany

2026-07-21

AI didn’t create the talent shortage. Employers did.

Companies need to treat workforce development as infrastructure, not charity. [...]

venturebeat

2026-07-21

Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale, is how a smaller lab competes at the frontier.The model, Laguna S 2.1, is a 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-21

OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The company called the incident “unprecedented” and said it was sharing preliminary findings to help defenders […]<br /> Th [...]

Destination

2026-07-21

France will ban social media for children under 15

The country's new law also bans the use of mobile phones in schools. [...]

Destination

2026-07-21

'Either you betray your values, or you become irrelevant': Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the emerging AI industry

Amodei was OpenAI's vice president of research before leaving in 2021 to start his own company, Anthropic [...]

Destination

2026-07-21

'I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles we're planning' — Xbox's chief strategy officer confirms the company wants to make more exclusives, but 'large live-service titles' will be multiplatform going forwar

Xbox has confirmed that the Microsoft-owned company is looking to expand its console-exclusive portfolio outside of Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution. [...]

qz

2026-07-21

Capital One topped earnings estimates as credit losses fell and Discover integration progressed

The bank posted adjusted EPS of $5.81 in the second quarter, topping analyst estimates, as its provision for credit losses dropped $1.1 billion [...]

Destination

2026-07-21

Spotify launches its first global music video chart

Spotify’s first global music video chart ranks the top 50 videos daily, with Shakira and Burna Boy claiming the first No. 1 [...]