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Asus' Cetra Open wireless gaming earbuds are on sale for $22 off at Amazon and Best Buy, dropping the price to $206.99. It's the first discount the open-style earbuds have received since launch.
Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger publicly stated he believes there's more than a 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next ten years, adding that Anthropic hasn't yet solved this risk despite trying. His comments came in response to former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who resigned and accused both companies of recklessly racing toward self-improving superintelligence while gambling with human lives.
Roughly 30 humanoid robots marched and held signs outside Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry in a demonstration organized by the group Democratism. Organizers said the display was meant to illustrate how far robotics and AI have already progressed and to push for faster regulation addressing job losses in cognitive work.
Apple's standard iPhone 17 starts at $799, while the Google Pixel 11 and Samsung Galaxy S26 both launch at $899, a $100 gap that has flipped the usual value equation in the flagship smartphone market. Rising RAM and storage costs, plus heavier investment in on-device AI, are cited as reasons behind the higher pricing from Google and Samsung, and rumors suggest Apple may delay the iPhone 18 launch, potentially extending this pricing advantage.
Jensen Huang has for the second time this year proclaimed that artificial general intelligence has been achieved, this time tying his claim to OpenAI's newly launched GPT-6 Astra model. He highlighted that Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips, with 400,000 more coming online soon, even as independent benchmarks show Astra trailing rival Claude in some tasks.
Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli, former Google DeepMind researchers, have founded Fusionality in Lausanne to build standardized hardware and software for controlling fusion reactors. The company raised $3.7 million in pre-seed funding from Founderful and Playfair, with Felici as CEO and Buchli as CTO.
The developer behind the iMessage AI assistant Olly, which has processed over 18 million messages with roughly a third routed through OpenRouter's open-source models, published a technical breakdown of problems encountered at scale. The core issue: OpenRouter can send identical model requests to any of about 20 different hosting providers, each running the same weights but with different precision, optimizations and tool parsers, producing measurably different benchmark results. For DeepSeek V4 Flash, GPQA Diamond and TAU-Bench Airline scores varied by several points across providers on the same day.
Dell has launched the Alienware AW3926QW, a 39-inch 5120x2160 ultrawide OLED gaming monitor with 165Hz refresh rate and a 1500R curve, priced at $1,100. It uses an RGB stripe subpixel layout with a glossy coating and LG Display's latest Tandem WOLED panel, differing from the LG 39GX950B's RGWB matte design despite sharing the same resolution and refresh specs.
An Ohio man received a 15-year federal prison sentence after being convicted of cyberstalking and extorting numerous women by creating AI-generated sexually explicit videos of them and threatening to distribute the content. Authorities said he used these fabricated videos as leverage to coerce victims, marking one of the more severe sentences handed down for AI-enabled sextortion crimes.
A profile traces the early life of Lee Holloway, Cloudflare's co-founder and former CTO, who built core technologies like Anycast and same-IP access before stepping down due to frontotemporal dementia. The piece covers his upbringing in Cupertino, his early programming work at HomeWarehouse.com (acquired by Walmart), his computer science studies at UC Santa Cruz, and his meeting with future Cloudflare co-founder Matthew Prince through a professor.
A researcher using the alias Nightmare Eclipse publicly released details of a new zero-day exploit dubbed 'ShieldCrash' targeting Microsoft Defender, timed to appear right after Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The exploit reportedly allows attackers to gain SYSTEM-level access on affected Windows machines, the highest level of privilege on the system.
Star Trek celebrates six decades since its original series premiered in 1966, having since expanded into more than 25 series and films spanning multiple generations of fans. Media outlets are marking the occasion with retrospectives on the franchise's cultural influence, from its many captains to its shared lexicon of stardates, warp factors and Vulcan salutes.