Emil Michael, the Department of Defense's chief technology officer, said Wednesday he hopes the Trump administration will not pursue nationalization or partial ownership stakes in artificial intelligence companies. He made the remarks on CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street,' contrasting AI policy with the administration's recent equity moves in firms like Intel and U.S. Steel. Michael also voiced skepticism toward tightening regulatory oversight of AI companies.
Speaking at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, Russell Wilson described his transition from professional football into entrepreneurship and sports analysis. He reflected on how principles that guided him as a quarterback are now shaping how he manages teams outside of sports.
Apple's iOS 27 update splits the Weather app's main forecast screen into three tabs: Conditions, Precipitation, and Wind. Tapping the new icons instantly switches both the hourly and 10-day outlook to show rain chances or wind gust speeds, data that was previously tucked into separate menus.
Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corporation and Neuralink co-founder, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco about his company's biohybrid brain-computer interface, which has recruited a leading neurobiologist to run its first U.S. human trials. In his Disrupt Stage session, Hodak will argue that computing is moving beyond screens toward interfaces built directly on brain-computer interaction.
Amazon is currently selling a two-pack of Ring's Indoor Cam 2K for $59.98, a 50% discount that saves buyers $60 off the regular price. Each camera includes two-way talk, night vision, and USB-C power, letting shoppers add indoor monitoring to two rooms at once.
An analysis explains why dogs frequently appear in Renaissance religious paintings commissioned by Dominican monasteries, tracing the imagery to a medieval legend about St Dominic's mother and a symbolic Latin wordplay linking the order's name to dogs of the Lord. The piece argues this canine imagery was not controversial or heretical but a widely understood visual tradition tied to the order's founding myth.
Autonomous ride-hailing company May Mobility is merging with special purpose acquisition company ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp., a deal that could raise over $300 million and value the combined company at $1.4 billion. May Mobility says it will become the first U.S. public company focused solely on autonomous ride-hailing, distinguishing itself from broader autonomy players like Tesla, Waymo and Aurora.
A new analysis argues that long-standing estimates of Australia's Indigenous population before European contact were far too low. Researchers say the actual pre-colonial population was likely much larger than previously assumed, based on updated modeling and evidence.
Neurotech startup Paradromics reported that a 68-year-old woman with severe speech loss used its Connexus brain-computer interface to hold real-time conversations, including phone calls with her grandchildren. Surgeons implanted the 400-plus-electrode device at University of Michigan Health in June as the first case in a clinical trial, with the system wirelessly converting brain activity into a computer-generated voice.
A study slated for publication in Physical Review D proposes that neutrinos switching between types inside a collapsing star's core could help resolve long-standing mismatches between supernova models and observations. Current simulations of core-collapse supernovae largely ignore this flavor-swapping behavior, even though neutrinos play a central role in triggering the explosion. The researchers suggest accounting for these identity changes could bring predicted supernova rates and outcomes closer to what astronomers actually observe.
A developer named Fabian released Chat-Man, a tool that connects WhatsApp to AI agents through an MCP server, allowing programmatic reading, searching, and sending of messages. It also includes a web interface for non-technical users to manage groups, contacts, and bulk messaging, plus webhook support for starred conversations. Fabian built it after needing WhatsApp integration across multiple personal projects and wanting to avoid paying for separate integrations each time.
Charter's Spectrum brand has finished absorbing Cox, with former Cox customers now billed by Spectrum starting Wednesday. The deal, agreed in May 2025, cleared its last regulatory hurdle after the California Public Utilities Commission approved it last month, giving Charter over 35 million customers nationwide.
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