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A frozen blueberry product sold at Walmart has been added to an expanding recall linked to an E. coli outbreak the CDC has been tracking since May. Health officials report a rising number of hospitalizations tied to contaminated frozen blueberries.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that while AI coding agents have been rapidly embraced by software teams, autonomous agents for go-to-market functions like sales and marketing remain underused. The piece attributes this gap not to AI capability limits but to fragmented, duplicated sales data that lacks connection to reliable external signals needed for commercial decisions.
Personal computer manufacturers are shipping fewer units but charging more per device, and the strategy is currently paying off financially. The shift is being driven by a shortage of memory chips, whose prices have surged due to massive demand from AI infrastructure buildouts.
After a low-key private event with no livestream and only a brief keynote, Tesla released fine print showing its Cybercab autonomous vehicle will not accept riders under 13 years old. The Cybercab also lacks standard LATCH anchors for child car seats, requiring seat belts instead, while Tesla's separate Model Y robotaxi service allows children as young as 8 with an adult present.
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek revealed that a 2009 trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, widely reported at the time as leaked footage, was actually deliberately released by Valve itself. The company took this route after the ESRB refused to approve the trailer for official release, citing its graphic violence, gore, and crude language.
Microsoft and hardware partners will sell high-end PCs later this year running Windows 11 Pro pre-configured under a program called Project Zenith, which tweaks default settings to reduce clutter and bundles tools like Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys and Windows Dev Skills. These machines require at least 64GB of unified memory and 250 GB/s of bandwidth to run local 30-billion-parameter AI models, with AMD Ryzen AI Halo devices launching first.
CNET's Big Guessing Game contest concluded its third round ahead of Apple's Sept. 9 'Surprise and shine' event, with 71% of respondents predicting new CEO John Ternus will appear alongside former CEO Tim Cook, now executive chairman. Half of participants expect three new iPhone models to be unveiled, following an earlier round where 80% guessed Apple's first foldable phone would debut at the event.
A case report documents an instance of southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI) diagnosed in New York, a region well outside the disease's traditional southern range. The finding adds to evidence that the condition, which mimics Lyme disease symptoms, is spreading northward as tick populations shift.
GitHub has launched Project HydraFusion, a research preview available through the /experimental flag in GitHub Copilot CLI. Instead of picking one model, HydraFusion builds an execution plan that draws on multiple AI models from different providers, using them to draft, critique, revise, or escalate tasks to stronger models as needed. Developers select it like any other model, and it automatically manages the underlying workflow while charging standard per-model token rates.
Researchers from Google and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus have finished mapping every neuron and synaptic connection in the brain of a male fruit fly. This male connectome joins a female Drosophila map completed earlier this year, giving scientists two complete wiring diagrams of the same species' brain for comparison. The project combined Janelia's imaging expertise with Google's computational tools to process hundreds of millions of synapses.
Anthropic plans to preserve the authority of its Long-Term Benefit Trust, a small outside group that appoints most of its board, even as it pursues a public listing that could value the AI company at up to $2 trillion. The trust, currently chaired by Neil Buddy Shah and including Ben Bernanke and Richard Fontaine, holds no shares but has already selected four of Anthropic's seven directors, including Reed Hastings and Vas Narasimhan.
Reports suggest Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro lineup will introduce a variable aperture lens on the main camera, a first for the iPhone. It remains unclear whether both the Pro and Pro Max models will get this feature, or just the larger Pro Max, and the wide-angle and telephoto lenses are expected to keep fixed apertures.