Carvana has transformed a Dallas dealership into a "customer exploration and discovery" center, focusing on test drives without sales pressure. Staff support, not sales, is the emphasis, with purchases directed to the app. The unique design features interactive LED screens and unlocked cars for easy comparison.
Chinese AI models are competitive with US counterparts, but hardware lags. While domestic chips are used for inference, pre-training still relies on foreign silicon. China is pushing for self-sufficiency in AI hardware across all development stages.
Samsung'un 2023 çıkışlı Galaxy S23 serisi ve diğer popüler modelleri, Android 17 tabanlı One UI 9.5 güncellemesini alamayabilir. Şirketin 4 nesil güncelleme taahhüdü bu modeller için sona eriyor.
ByteDance and Tencent Holdings are cutting prices for their AI models, joining rivals like Xiaomi and Alibaba in a price war sparked by intense competition in China's AI market. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Mini is now half price, while Tencent reduced costs on its TokenHub platform. This follows similar moves by other major tech firms aiming to attract users amid a vibrant but crowded AI landscape.
Anthropic has suspended its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, after US authorities raised security concerns. The company stated it was ordered to suspend foreign nationals from using the model, which it described as "too powerful." The suspension comes amid a separate lawsuit between Anthropic and the Trump administration over AI tool usage.
Valentina Sánchez, a 13-year-old blind girl, impressed Pope Leo XIV and Spanish Royals with her tactile explanation of the Sagrada Familia's Jesus Tower model. She gifted the Pope a drawing, and he gave her a rosary.
Tech executives believe China has an advantage in deploying AI applications to consumers, despite lagging in computing power. However, concerns about overvaluation of Chinese AI firms are rising.
Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre (HKGAI) launched HKGAI-V3, a new large language model based on DeepSeek V4. It offers tenfold efficiency in token compression and a hundredfold increase in agent runtime, running on domestic chips for potential export of Chinese AI.
Ünlü aktör Mickey Rourke, eski eşi Carre Otis'ten 1990'lardaki şiddet dolu evlilikleri için sosyal medyadan özür diledi. Rourke, tüm sorumluluğun kendisinde olduğunu belirterek pişmanlığını dile getirdi.
A documentary examines Frederick von Mierers' 1980s cult, Eternal Values, which lured models with promises of spiritual enlightenment. Despite its charismatic leader's obvious flaws, the group engaged in financial exploitation and sexual practices, leaving members like John Hoyt feeling abandoned.
MiniMax, a Shanghai-based AI company, hires Citic Securities to prepare for a yuan-denominated share sale on China's onshore market, capitalizing on heightened global investor interest in AI stocks.
Ethereum's ETH token is in a medium-term bear phase, with market sentiment deteriorating due to ETF outflows, high-profile departures from the Ethereum Foundation, and competition from other networks. Analysts cite structural weakness and a lack of institutional buying pressure.
Anthropic decided not to release its powerful AI model, Claude Mythos, to the public. Instead, the company launched a security tool aimed at addressing software vulnerabilities.
Stability AI has launched Stability Audio 3.0, a new family of audio models capable of generating professional-grade music up to 6 minutes and 20 seconds long. Four models are available, with smaller versions offering open weights, while the largest model is accessible via API and paid services.
Child safety advocates, including Jonathan Haidt, have urged the FTC to investigate Roblox, citing concerns over its "engagement-maximising design features" and exposure of children to harmful content and adults. They allege the platform prioritizes profit over child safety.
Google announced Gemini 3.5 Flash, its new default AI model, at Google I/O 2026. It offers faster performance than Gemini 3.1 Pro for agentic and coding tasks at a lower cost, with enhanced safeguards against harmful content.
Audemars Piguet's new "popular" edition of its Royal Oak watch, priced around 400 euros, has sparked massive demand with queues in Italy, France, Japan, and the US. Stores in Dubai and Great Britain closed for security. The resale market is already seeing prices over 1000 euros.
A Swedish firm uses AI and vehicle cameras to identify road defects, while a tech leader discusses replacing the internet's outdated business model, alongside an offline AI teaching app by a young entrepreneur.
In the 1980s, then Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad launched his “Look East” policy, urging his country and others in Southeast Asia to emulate the state-led economic development models of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, rather than those of market-dominated Western nations. China subsequently emerged as a prime example of state-led development, but Japan is now leaning again towards a more dirigiste model under the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, not only in...
The Trump administration is drafting legislation that would require AI companies to submit powerful models for government review before public release. The policy reversal was triggered by Anthropic's Mythos, an AI model capable of autonomously finding tens of thousands of software vulnerabilities across every major operating system—too dangerous, Anthropic decided, for public release.
DeepSeek's launch of its V4 AI model could trigger a broad reassessment of stocks across the AI industry chain from chipmakers to LLM developers, analysts say. The breakthrough model is described as the most powerful open-source platform capable of challenging US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, delivering top-tier coding performance and significant advantages in reasoning and agentic tasks. AI chipmakers including Cambricon Technologies and Moore Threads Technology stand to benefit from increased demand for high-performance chips produced in mainland China. China's AI chip market could rise to 1.34 trillion yuan by 2029 from 142.5 billion yuan in 2024, representing 54% annual compound growth.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an OpenAI reasoning model matched or outperformed experienced physicians in diagnosing patients using only electronic health records. In one case, the AI correctly identified lupus-related heart inflammation as the underlying cause of a pulmonary embolism when doctors initially suspected medication failure. The study published in Science highlights AI's potential to assist clinical diagnosis while emphasizing the technology should augment, not replace, physicians.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shut down any hopes of opting out of the company's new AI tracking tool, telling employees directly that there's no choice in the matter. The Model Capability Initiative logs keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots on work computers to train Meta's AI agents—all while the company prepares to cut 8,000 jobs. Employees are calling it dystopian. Meta is calling it necessary.
China has stepped up its tech war with the United States, blocking Facebook owner Meta’s US$2.5 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Manus and raising cybersecurity concerns about Anthropic’s new AI model Claude Mythos Preview. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced it was prohibiting the Manus deal in a one-sentence statement on Monday, which didn’t give a specific reason. Meta is now planning to unwind the acquisition, which means untangling...
