Bank of England’s Breeden warns AI agents could trigger market meltdowns

Deputy governor Sarah Breeden says autonomous trading agents could amplify volatility if they all react the same way at once, and may demand new rules. The nightmare a central banker describes is rare [...]

Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts

A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift [...]

BP's deputy CEO is retiring, and the company won't fill the role

Carol Howle, a 26-year BP veteran, will step down in the third quarter as new CEO Meg O'Neill restructures the leadership team [...]

AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since [...]

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and editing via text prompts to the API for the [...]

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 at a steep discount to its top model as the company races toward a blockbuster IPO

Anthropic today released Claude Sonnet 5, a new AI model that the company says delivers near-flagship performance at mid-tier prices — a move designed to give cost-conscious enterprise developers ac [...]

Our Best-Tested Ice and Electric Coolers to Help You Survive a Scorching Summer

When summer temperatures spike, a mediocre cooler won't cut it. We tracked the temperature retention of 12 new models to find the top six ice chests and electric coolers to help keep your beverag [...]

I brought a Bose, Sony, and JBL speaker to the beach - this one's my new outdoor essential

All three brands make great Bluetooth speakers, but an unpredictable beach environment exposes their true strengths and weaknesses. [...]

New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions. [...]