Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.
A Microsoft Defender patch for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-50656) may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to consume all disk space. The researcher NightmareEclipse disclosed the issue, stating that new mitigations in mpengine.dll can lead to massive file caching.
OpenAI is sunsetting its ChatGPT Atlas browser, launched less than a year ago, on August 9th. The company is focusing on its new ChatGPT Work features, incorporating learnings from Atlas users to improve browsing and task completion on the open web.
Humanoid robots, remotely controlled by surgeons, successfully removed gallbladders from live pigs in a preclinical trial. This human-robot team-up offers a potentially cheaper and more accessible alternative to specialized surgical robots, with applications in rural areas, battlefields, and space.
Google's "My Ad Center" now features a label indicating if an ad was created or edited with AI. The label will be automatically applied to ads made with Google's tools, while ads made elsewhere require manual disclosure. Meta has a similar AI info label.
Meta has launched Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model for agentic coding, aiming to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. It offers multistep reasoning and complex process management at competitive pricing, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighting its strengths in agentic performance and tool use.
Google is rolling out a feature in My Ad Center to disclose when ads are created or edited with AI, aiming to prevent misleading content by informing consumers about synthetic ad imagery.
