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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. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to…
In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few…
Researchers show that file-change notification systems can leak keystroke timing, browsing activity, and WhatsApp media events. The post Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Four major AI labs shipped new flagship models inside the same three-week window this September: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 (and the access-restricted Claude Mythos 5.1), Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4.1 Flash. That pace is exactly why a growing number of engineering teams stopped hardcoding a single provider into their…
Three separate corners of the AI trade converged into a single trading story on September 24 and 25, 2026. Meta’s Muse AI agent kept pulling chip stocks higher, Akamai disclosed an $11.6 billion, seven-year compute commitment from Anthropic, and Oracle sent a force-majeure notice tied to its Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico.…
A cybersecurity disclosure published this week has put a hard number on something the industry has warned about for years: AI agents can now run an entire hacking operation, start to finish, for about the price of a fast-food meal. Gambit Security said on September 22 that a Chinese-speaking, financially motivated operator used three open-source…
Arm has never sold a data center CPU with its own name on the box. That changed on September 14, 2026, when the company introduced the Arm AGI CPU, its first ground-up silicon product for AI infrastructure, alongside a new semi-custom platform called Neoverse CSS N4. The launch lands three weeks after AMD posted the…
Blackstone Real Estate has closed on a 134,200-square-foot research building at 350 Cobalt Way in Sunnyvale, California, paying $95 million for a property leased entirely to Nvidia through August 2036, according to The Business Journals. County records reviewed by The Registry put the actual transfer price at $99.6 million, a gap that reporters attribute to…
An ad-filled Microsoft Edge broke my daily article proofing routine, turning a long-overdue browser switch into an immediate need.
Silent Hill: Townfall is out. Konami and Annapurna Interactive released the game globally on September 24, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC, and the review roundup that landed this week tells a familiar story for the franchise: critics like it, some love it, and almost none of them are calling it a classic. Developer No…
