The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms
President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
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Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.
Vivo’s X Fold 6 accidentally feels like a throwback
It’s a quirk of the release calendar that when Vivo’s X Fold 6 launched in China this June, it was just another foldable. Now that it’s ready for its global release, the size and aspect ratio feel oddly old-fashioned. The X Fold 6 is much the same size as Vivo’s previous foldables, and most other…
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI’s AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor calls it a “newly refreshed Grokipedia.” Grokipedia’s old homepage was pretty much…
The new and huger Paramount has a new co-CEO
Paramount is appointing a new co-CEO ahead of the close of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ynon Kreiz, previously Mattel’s chairman and CEO, will be joining Paramount to lead alongside chairman and CEO David Ellison. According to Paramount, “Ellison will focus on the company’s long-term strategy, creative vision and direction, including its…
Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie
A24 pissed off one of the internet’s largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently hadn’t bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required. Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by…
Russia's Star Blizzard Ditches ClickFix to Widen Phishing Net
The APT actor is using a new tactic, dubbed "RedFlick," against Ukrainian-linked targets such as NGOs, think tanks, and journalists to deploy its CosmicPulse backdoor.
Grasshopper Splits From NetEase After 1 Game [2026]
Grasshopper Manufacture is an independent studio again. The Osaka-based developer behind No More Heroes and Killer7 confirmed on September 30, 2026 that it has separated from NetEase Games, ending a five-year run as a subsidiary of the Chinese publishing giant, according to reports from Game Informer and Insider Gaming. The change takes effect October 1,…
Nvidia-backed CScale emerges from stealth with $145M to build optical interconnects for gigawatt-scale AI
CScale emerged from stealth Wednesday with $145 million in Series C funding and backing from Nvidia and Intel Capital, betting that the next bottleneck in giant AI data centers will not be finding more chips. It will be keeping thousands […] The post Nvidia-backed CScale emerges from stealth with $145M to build optical interconnects for…
Logitech CEO Scouring the Globe to Beat Chip Shortage
Hanneke Faber on “begging and borrowing” her way through the AI-drive squeeze and applying the lessons learned at Unilever and P&G to tech.