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Apple used a Tuesday morning press release instead of a keynote to introduce the biggest jump in Mac silicon since the M1 Ultra launched in 2022. The M6 and M5 Ultra chips, unveiled August 25, 2026, land in a redesigned Mac mini and a refreshed Mac Studio, and the headline numbers are hard to ignore:…
Android Police published a real-world comparison this week that’s landing hard with a specific slice of the tech audience: developers and privacy-conscious users tired of routing every prompt through a cloud API. The outlet’s testers ran a locally hosted, open-source AI tool against ChatGPT and Gemini across everyday tasks and, according to their write-up, the…
Russian-speaking cybercriminals spent seven weeks this spring running a coding assistant like a junior pentester, and it worked. According to an exclusive Reuters report published August 27, 2026, and a companion investigation from Tel Aviv-based Gambit Security, an affiliate of the Aurora ransomware operation used the AI agent inside Cursor, the code editor SpaceX now…
A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”
On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting “red…
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the open-source hub where developers share and download AI models, for $12.9 billion. The Information broke the story on August 26, 2026, citing a person with knowledge of the talks, and the report has since been echoed by Forbes, CNBC, Fortune and Tom’s Hardware. Neither company has…
A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration’s actions labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk constituted “unlawful retaliation.”
Anthropic is giving AI agents a way to reach beyond screens and software and start operating machines in the physical world. The Claude maker on Thursday unveiled the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a new specification that lets AI agents communicate […] The post Anthropic launches Model Hardware Standard to let AI agents control physical machines…
Three deadlines are colliding at once in cloud AI right now. OpenAI retired its Assistants API on August 26, 2026, taking the Azure OpenAI Assistants API (Preview, classic) down with it on the same date. AWS pushed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the wider Bedrock 2 platform into general availability with a visual agent builder in…
As a millennial who views artificial intelligence with skepticism and dread, imagine my surprise when my septuagenarian parents became obsessed with Claude.
