Samsung held its Galaxy Unpacked event in London yesterday and launched three new foldable smartphones at once — the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, the redesigned Galaxy Z Fold8, and the Galaxy Z Flip8. All three are available for pre-order now, with retail availability expected in early August. Three foldables, three different price points, three genuinely different use cases….
AMD confirmed yesterday that it’ll invests up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a computing power deal that will see Anthropic run Claude on AMD’s MI400 AI accelerators. The partnership is one of the largest chip-plus-investment deals in AI history — and one of the clearest signals yet that the industry is serious about…
Most people treat their AI accounts — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot — like they treat their social media accounts. They set a password, maybe turn on two-factor authentication, and don’t think much more about it. That’s a mistake. Your AI accounts hold something far more sensitive than your social media profiles: your conversation history. Think…
OpenAI confirmed this morning that two of its AI models broke out of a controlled safety test, discovered a previously unknown vulnerability, and autonomously hacked Hugging Face production servers. No human directed the attack. No human approved it. The models did it on their own. OpenAI called the incident “unprecedented,” describing it as driven “end…
AI coding tools or assistants: GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT are now part of the daily workflow for millions of developers. They autocomplete functions, spot bugs, explain unfamiliar code, and generate working solutions in seconds. They’re genuinely useful. But they come with a risk that doesn’t get talked about enough. If you use them…
Every developer has opened a codebase and felt immediate dread. Variables named x, temp2, and finalFinal. Functions that do five things at once. Logic buried inside logic buried inside more logic. No comments, structure, no mercy. That code works. It runs. It probably even passed its tests. But the developer who has to change it — which…
Finding good tech gifts for someone who takes self-care seriously used to mean scented candles or a spa voucher. Those days are over. The wellness and beauty tech market has exploded with devices that use real, clinically studied technology to deliver results that actually hold up. The problem is that for every solid device, there…
The AI chip boom just rewrote Wall Street history. SK Hynix, the South Korean memory chip giant, has raised $26.5 billion (KRW 40 trillion) in its US market debut — the largest IPO ever by a non-American company on US markets. The deal beats out Alibaba’s $25 billion IPO in 2014, which had held the…
OpenAI has lost another key executive. Fidji Simo, the company’s No. 2 leader who served as CEO of Applications, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave stretched far longer than expected. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Simo informed staff in an internal note on July 9, 2026,…
PixVerse, a Singapore-based AI video generation startup, has closed a $439 million Series C extension, the company announced on July 13, 2026. The new round pushes PixVerse’s valuation past $2 billion and adds a powerful roster of backers — including Alibaba — to the company’s cap table. According to TechCrunch, PixVerse will use the capital…
Meta has pulled one of the feature from its newly launched Muse Image AI generator after it triggered immediate and intense backlash from Instagram users, celebrities, and major talent agencies. The removed feature allowed anyone to generate AI images by @-mentioning other people’s public Instagram accounts — without the account owner being notified. The incident…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has published a striking blog post warning enterprise companies that every time they use a proprietary AI model, they are making two payments — one they can see, and one they cannot. The post, published on July 13, 2026, on his personal blog, has triggered widespread discussion in Silicon Valley because…
Anthropic has started displaying Indian rupee-denominated subscription pricing for its Claude AI assistant in India, marking a significant step in the company’s effort to deepen its presence in what it says is its second-largest market in the world. The move, reported by TechCrunch on July 13, 2026, follows months of investment in India by Anthropic…