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“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it’s a nonprofit studying AIs’…
Three new AI models shipped inside a 26-day window this September, and none of them are the flagship everyone expected to write about. Claude Sonnet 5.5 landed on September 28, 2026. GPT-6 Luna arrived alongside its pricier sibling Sol on September 22. Gemini 3.8 Flash beat both of them out the door on September 2.…
Every weekend, thousands of amateur tournaments get organized on top of three pieces of software most players never think about: start.gg, Challonge, and Battlefy. A local fighting game meetup, a Discord Valorant ladder, a university Rocket League league, and even portions of officially sanctioned esports circuits all run their brackets through one of these three…
It’s Tuesday, September 29, 2026, and in the last 24 hours, AI stopped being a chat window. AMD paid $8.2 billion for a lab that teaches machines physics. Nvidia put a hardware leash on rogue agents, then asked insurers to […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 29, 2026: Anthropic, ByteDance, Google, Meta, OpenAI,…
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These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along with plenty of other popular products. It’s all to hype up October Prime Day, which starts October 6th at 3AM ET and lasts through 3AM ET on the 8th if you’re on the East…
A purported ad-blocker exfiltrates reams of sensitive information and benefits from having Google’s stamp of approval despite researcher warnings.
YouTube quietly flipped a switch on September 28, 2026, and more than 50 countries got access to a gaming feature Google has spent three years testing in near-silence. Playables, the platform’s embedded arcade of no-download mini-games, is now live across the European Union and the Nordic countries, according to PocketGamer.biz. The expansion took the feature…
AMD confirmed on September 28, 2026 that it will acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence AI lab co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at $8.2 billion. The deal is AMD’s second-largest ever, trailing only the roughly $50 billion Xilinx acquisition it closed in 2022, and it marks the chipmaker’s most direct move yet…
