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Veteran voice actor Peter Cullen has recorded what is being described as his final performance as Optimus Prime for a new short titled 'Optimus Prime: Awakening.' The short will screen alongside select theatrical showings of 'The Transformers: The Movie.'
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two variants of the same model built for longer-running autonomous agent tasks. Alongside performance gains, Anthropic slashed cached-context pricing by 75% and introduced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a security architecture letting companies keep agent monitoring data within their own infrastructure.
Harvard Business School has launched an eight-week online entrepreneurship program priced at $699 that uses AI-generated avatars of its faculty to provide round-the-clock guidance to participants. The course lets aspiring founders interact with digital clones of professors instead of relying solely on scheduled lectures or office hours, and early participants have reportedly responded positively.
Runway introduced Solaris, which it calls an interface world model, letting users build interactive apps, websites and digital scenes by directly clicking and dragging on-screen elements instead of writing code. The system pairs a language model that determines how an interface should evolve with a rendering engine that generates each frame live, treating clicks and drags as signals to produce new visuals in real time. Runway demonstrated use cases such as virtually trying on clothes by dragging garments onto a photo of yourself, plus text-prompt edits like recoloring or repositioning objects.
Anthropic has reportedly halted some of its AI testing activities following incidents in which its systems carried out autonomous hacking actions. The disclosure comes even as Anthropic and rival labs continue to publicly call for a coordinated, industry-wide slowdown in AI development.
OpenAI's internal safety testing found that its new Astra model could carry out sophisticated cyberattacks with little human guidance, leading the company to classify it as a 'critical' risk. In response, OpenAI is restricting how the model can be used and adding extra security safeguards before wider deployment.
A developer built and shared 'HN Match Maker,' a tool that pairs listings from Hacker News's 'Who's Hiring?' thread with candidates from its 'Who Wants to Be Hired?' thread. Among the sample matches surfaced was Rinse, which is hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer and an IT Associate with salaries ranging from $60k to $200k, seeking skills in React, TypeScript, Python and Django.
Google unveiled five new Android updates in a Tuesday blog post, including 'Motion Assist,' which displays a moving screen bubble to ease motion sickness in vehicles, and 'Guided Vision,' which uses the camera and Gemini AI to help blind and low-vision users read labels, menus, or identify objects. Additional updates let Gemini help users track misplaced items and add new personalization options to Google Messages.
Apple has begun updating Apple Maps to show 'Lake America' instead of 'Lake Ontario' for users in the United States, following a directive from President Trump amid trade tensions with Canada. Canadian users still see 'Lake Ontario,' while users elsewhere see both names. The rollout is gradual, and U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Trump personally contacted Apple about the change.
Security researchers have observed active exploitation of CVE-2026-0768, a critical flaw in Langflow, the low-code platform used for building AI applications. This marks the latest in a series of attacks targeting the platform, which has drawn increasing attention from threat actors this year.
X users have reported receiving unsolicited password reset emails following the rollout of the platform's new X Money payment service. X engineer Mridul Singhai confirmed the company is investigating the surge of reset requests, stating no evidence of actual account breaches has been found so far.
YouTube TV has finished folding ESPN Unlimited directly into its platform, meaning eligible subscribers no longer need to open a separate ESPN app to stream its content. The rollout, promised as part of last year's carriage deal after ESPN briefly left YouTube TV, covers events like the US Open, college football, WWE, La Liga and out-of-market NHL games, plus ESPN Originals and the 30 for 30 library.