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According to reports circulating over the weekend, director Jon Watts is attached to helm an upcoming Star Wars film, with a script from writer Simon Kinberg. The report has generated significant reaction online, though Lucasfilm has not issued an official confirmation.
Anthropic launched Sonnet 5.5, a faster and lower-cost model that it says outperforms its predecessor at coding, task completion and document creation. The release follows last week's launch of the pricier Opus 5.5, with a cheaper Haiku 5.5 model still to come. Anthropic said Sonnet 5.5 does not push the frontier of model capability, but includes improved cybersecurity safeguards compared to earlier Sonnet versions.
IEEE TryEngineering has launched a six-book STEM series for readers ages 8 to 12, published by Lerner Publishing Group and titled Tomorrow's Technology With TryEngineering, Powered by IEEE. Each title pairs age-appropriate explanations with real-world examples and design challenges, covering subjects like artificial intelligence and communication technology, and draws on ebooks and videos from tryengineering.org. The project involved several IEEE societies, including Communications, Computer, and Oceanic Engineering, plus the Transportation Electrification Council.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that many organizations treat every setback as a crisis and every win as cause for celebration, with no steady middle ground. The piece says high performers are hit hardest because they're repeatedly given extra work as 'sure bets,' and outlines a five-step leadership approach: calm, clarify, choose, support and recognize.
An Entrepreneur contributor recounts visiting a global retailer whose new AI customer-service recommendation engine looked successful on paper, with faster response times and more accurate suggestions. But observing representatives directly revealed they juggled four screens and manually copied data between disconnected tools, causing many to ignore the AI's recommendations entirely.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that many workplace failures stem from an 'expectation gap' — the difference between what a leader means and what a team understands. The piece proposes a four-step method: state the desired outcome, demonstrate what success looks like, confirm understanding, and recap the agreement in writing.
Sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf, including ADIA, PIF, Mubadala, QIA and ADQ, are directing a growing share of their capital into Africa, targeting energy, logistics, critical minerals and digital infrastructure. Countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Zambia, the DRC, Kenya, Nigeria, Angola and South Africa are being assessed individually based on their distinct economic strengths. An IMF working paper from September 2025 found that GCC outbound investment correlates positively with non-hydrocarbon GDP growth in the Gulf itself.
Nvidia has introduced a new safety platform designed to monitor and constrain the behavior of autonomous AI agents, incorporating a hardware-based watchdog component. The system is intended to detect and intervene when AI agents act outside expected or safe parameters.
ResiClub reports that home prices are moving in different directions across the nation's 50 largest metropolitan housing markets, with notable variation at the regional and local level. The report does not present a uniform national trend, instead highlighting divergence from market to market.
Anthropic has released Sonnet 5.5, an update to its mid-tier AI model that the company says runs 30 percent faster than its predecessor and burns tokens more slowly, cutting costs. Anthropic says the model outperforms its more powerful Opus 5.5 on agentic coding benchmarks and now carries cyber capabilities strong enough to trigger the same safeguards applied to its Fable and Opus models. The company also says a refreshed version of Haiku, its smallest model, is coming in the next few weeks.
Android devices include a developer options menu, accessible after tapping the Build Number field seven times in Settings > About, that lets users adjust animation speeds. Within this menu, setting the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale to 0.5x makes system animations play twice as fast, a feature that has existed since Android 4.0.
Amazon has cut the price of the Arlo Video Doorbell 2K (2nd Gen) from its $79.99 list price to $28.50, a 64% reduction. The device supports wire-free or hardwired installation, records in 2K with a 180° field of view, and includes two-way audio, motion alerts and night vision. It works with Alexa and Google Home, and the discount requires an Amazon Prime membership.