FedEx orders 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger in $300M deal
The order — Harbinger’s biggest ever — comes as the startup is reportedly considering an IPO.
Month: September 2026
Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick
Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.
Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
“One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company.”
DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions…
The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the computers of AI company Hugging Face,…
Microsoft adds native Linux container support directly to Windows 11
Setting up Linux environments on Windows 11 often requires third-party tools, but native WSL container streamlines the process.
New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks
Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel The post New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps
The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software. The post DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps appeared first on SecurityWeek.