TII’s Falcon H1R 7B can out-reason models up to 7x its size — and it’s (mostly) open

For the last two years, the prevailing logic in generative AI has been one of brute force: if you want better reasoning, you need a bigger model. While "small" models (under 10 billion param [...]

Nvidia's agentic AI stack is the first major platform to ship with security at launch, but governance gaps remain

For the first time on a major AI platform release, security shipped at launch — not bolted on 18 months later. At Nvidia GTC this week, five security vendors announced protection for Nvidia's a [...]

Falcon Northwest FragBox review: A compact gaming rig that does everything right

Mafia: The Old Country demands to be played on an enormous screen. As much as I love my 32-inch Alienware OLED gaming monitor, it doesn't do justice to Mafia's cinematic vistas of Sicily. Bu [...]

Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process

At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI  — were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital d [...]

Light Phone III review: Minimalism stretched to the point of frustration

Like untold millions of smartphone users, I have a bit of a problem. I’ve been trying, with middling success, to be more mindful about how I use my phone. I’ll often uninstall various social media [...]

The FAA is grounding SpaceX's Starship after its latest explosion

The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation into what caused the company's Starship rocket to explode mid-flight on January 16. Until the FAA approves [...]

SpaceX's Grok 4.5 launches at half the price of rivals — here's why that could rattle Anthropic and OpenAI

Elon Musk's SpaceX released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, the first artificial intelligence model the company has trained specifically for coding and autonomous agents — and the first tangible product [...]

AI agents that automatically prevent, detect and fix software issues are here as NeuBird AI launches Falcon, FalconClaw

The mantra of the modern tech industry was arguably coined by Facebook (before it became Meta): "move fast and break things." But as enterprise infrastructure has shifted into a dizzying maz [...]

Boeing Starliner astronauts finally head home, nine months later

Eight days. That’s how long Boeing Starliner’s mission — its first flight test with crew aboard — was supposed to last. But this mission has been singular in almost every way, and astronauts B [...]