3 Android Auto automations that make my drives much easier - and how I set them up

Android automations are nothing new, but incorporating them into you car can change your drive. [...]

OpenAI’s next ChatGPT-5.6 upgrade may be too powerful to launch like a normal app update

The new ChatGPT-5.6 is releasing on Thursday in a limited preview and comes in three different versions. [...]

Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. I [...]

‘GitLost’: researchers tricked GitHub’s AI agent into leaking private repos

Researchers tricked GitHub’s AI coding agent into leaking private repositories with nothing but a politely worded issue. The flaw, named GitLost, has no code fix, and GitHub has yet to even document [...]

MiniMax is building China’s biggest AI model yet, and plans to open-source it

MiniMax plans its biggest model yet, a 2.7-trillion-parameter system it intends to open-source, The Information reports. It would be the largest Chinese model on the market, and another squeeze on US [...]

Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters. MiniMax plans to release the model as open source.<br /> The article Chinese AI startup MiniMa [...]

Oregon's 30% electricity rate hike for data centers starts today — and everyone else gets a discount

The Oregon Public Utility Commission approved the new rates under the state's POWER Act, affecting 963,000 customers [...]

Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents

Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote MCP servers, use custom functions along [...]

Official renders for Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8, Watch 9, Watch 2 Ultra and Z Fold 8 leak

Renders of multiple new Samsung devices have arrived a few weeks before the company's next Unpacked event. [...]