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The U.S. Navy tested a wind-powered Saildrone Surveyor SD-3001 unmanned surface vessel armed with Lockheed Martin's JAGM missiles during RIMPAC 2026 exercises. Controlled via the Navy's ARES system, the drone fired two JAGMs while operating alongside the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, and also demonstrated electronic warfare capabilities by working with an MH-60S helicopter to identify a mock threat.
Anthropic has published a new framework called Model Hardware Standard that sets rules for how AI agents should interact with physical devices such as microscopes, liquid-handling systems, quantum computing hardware, manufacturing machines, and robot arms. The company plans to test it with trusted partners to refine safety measures before releasing it more broadly.
Anthropic, working with HHMI Janelia Research Campus, has begun a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification letting AI agents safely control physical lab and manufacturing devices like microscopes, liquid handlers and robotic arms. The standard is being shared with a first group of research labs and manufacturers before it becomes open source, and it works with any device with a programmable interface using protocols such as Model Context Protocol.
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 team says its new Frontier AI Defense service, which pairs threat intelligence with AI models, compressed roughly one to two years of penetration testing into three weeks and found dozens of vulnerabilities in customer systems. The researchers warn that the same AI-driven speed and automation available to defenders could soon give low-skill attackers, known as script kiddies, capabilities once reserved for well-funded, state-sponsored hacking groups.
Apple has begun silently pushing App Store updates to fix Apple Watch apps that failed to launch under the watchOS 27 beta. The updates carry a note stating Apple itself repackaged the app for compatibility, with no new features added. Apple told developers this automated fix rollout will wrap up by August 31, ahead of watchOS 27's public release expected in mid-September.
Biorobotics researchers at the University of Queensland and biomedical engineers at UNSW have created 'paraborgs'—giant burrowing cockroaches equipped with cameras and miniature auto-injection systems. In tests, the insects hit targets with injections 95% of the time when within 15cm, and completed the full navigate-and-inject sequence successfully in 72% of trials.
IBM revealed a new mainframe processor at Hot Chips 2026 that lets a single core natively execute both Arm and IBM Z or LinuxONE instructions, rather than pairing separate cores for each architecture. Built on a 2nm process with 11 cores running above 5.7 GHz, the chip includes AI accelerators for fraud detection and a dedicated data processing unit for I/O. It is the first hardware result of IBM's April 2026 partnership with Arm, aimed at future IBM Z and LinuxONE systems.
Qualcomm has revealed early details of its next-generation Oryon CPU core, claiming it will hit clock speeds of up to 5GHz and become the fastest mobile processor core available. The upcoming chip design will feature two 5GHz 'Prime Core' units alongside six 'Performance Core' units, plus a new shared cache system called FlexCache that dynamically allocates memory across cores based on workload demands.
Nvidia is gaining backing from more game studios for its RTX Spark technology and ARM-based chip architecture, signaling a shift toward wider hardware compatibility for PC gaming. This move could allow games to run more consistently across different laptop configurations, regardless of the underlying chip design.
Apple unveiled its M6 processor, first appearing in the Mac Mini, built on a 2nm manufacturing process with 12 CPU cores, a 12-core GPU, and a dual 16-core neural engine. Apple claims roughly 20% faster multithreaded performance and larger GPU gains over the M5, along with memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s, though independent testing hasn't yet confirmed these figures.
New leaked photos shared on Weibo by tipster Digital Chat Station show what appears to be Xiaomi's upcoming book-style foldable, featuring a wide inner display, noticeable bezels, and a punch-hole front camera. The design closely matches Xiaomi's own HyperOS 4 teaser image, lending credibility to the leak ahead of the device's confirmed September debut as the Xiaomi 18 Fold.
A robotics industrial cluster in Shanghai that houses over 100 companies opened its doors for a carnival-style event where visitors could watch quadrupedal robots climb stairs, remote-controlled bots duel with water beads, and humanoid machines perform tasks like brewing coffee and folding laundry. DexForce and other firms used the event to let families interact directly with their technology.