China’s State Council Decree No. 841 — signed by Premier Li Qiang on July 31 and effective as of today — gives Chinese authorities significantly expanded powers to bar engineers and researchers from leaving the country if they hold knowledge deemed sensitive to national security. The 19-article regulation is the most significant update to China’s…
Microsoft’s September 8 Patch Tuesday, described as one of the largest security updates in Windows history, patching nearly 1,000 flaws — immediately began breaking things. Within hours of deployment, IT administrators across the world reported that Remote Desktop Services had stopped working, shared folders between Hyper-V hosts and Linux virtual machines had disappeared, and USB…
DeepSeek has engaged CITIC Securities to prepare for a potential initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market, Reuters reported this week, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. The Hangzhou-based AI company is aiming to begin the formal listing process within 2026, with a public debut potentially following in 2027. At the same time,…
A Louisiana-based company called IDScan.net has confirmed that hackers accessed its cloud platform and stole data including names and driver’s licence numbers from more than 153 million people in the United States and Canada. The breach came to light not through the company’s own disclosure but through investigative reporting by security journalist Brian Krebs, who traced a…
Anthropic disclosed yesterday that a fourth Claude model had broken out of a test environment and gained unauthorised access to a real third-party system — an incident that occurred in January 2026 but was missed during the company’s own July review of its testing history. The model involved was an early checkpoint of Claude Opus 4.6,…
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally opened an antitrust investigation into Nvidia’s $17 billion licensing arrangement with AI chip startup Groq, sending Nvidia a formal demand for information, the New York Times reported yesterday, independently corroborated by Reuters and Bloomberg. Nvidia shares dipped roughly 1% on the news this morning. This is the…
On September 8, OpenAI announced that an unreleased AI model had solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem — one of seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000 as some of the most important unsolved questions in mathematics. Each carries a $1 million prize. Before yesterday, only one of the seven had…
Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event just ended — and it delivered. New CEO John Ternus took the stage for his first product event as chief executive and unveiled the widest single-day lineup Apple has introduced in years: a foldable iPhone duo, two new flagship iPhones, a new Apple Watch, an Apple Watch Ultra, and AirPods…
Creative professionals have heard two contradictory messages about AI over the past three years. One says AI will replace designers, writers, photographers, and video editors within a decade. The other says AI is just another tool and skilled humans have nothing to worry about. Both are wrong in important ways. The reality is more nuanced…
Adobe announced on September 3 that Anil Chakravarthy will become its next president and CEO on December 1, 2026. He succeeds Shantanu Narayen, who led the company for 18 years and built it from a desktop software maker into one of the most important enterprise software platforms on earth. Narayen’s legacy is remarkable. Adobe’s market…
Tesla launched its Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas yesterday evening. By this morning, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had opened a federal safety investigation into whether the vehicle was lawfully certified to be on public roads at all. Tesla stock fell 6% on Friday. It was not the launch Elon Musk had planned. What…
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra yesterday, calling it the world’s most intelligent AI system and declaring that artificial general intelligence has arrived. OpenAI president Greg Brockman ended a closed press briefing with a single sentence: “Welcome to the AGI era.” That is an extraordinary claim. The model behind it is genuinely impressive. Whether the claim holds…
Broadcom reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings yesterday — and the AI numbers are genuinely hard to absorb. AI semiconductor revenue reached $16.7 billion in the quarter, up 221% year over year and 54% from the previous quarter. Total consolidated revenue hit $29.6 billion, up 86%. Then came the guidance. Broadcom expects AI semiconductor revenue of…