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Apple released iOS 27.2 on Monday, Oct. 26, just a few days after the launch of the iPhone Duo. While iOS 27.2 brings Siri AI to more languages and updates a few other features, it also patches 141 bug and security issues, including some that could allow a third-party to access data or run commands on your iPhone.  You can download iOS 27.2 now by going to Settings > General > Software Update > Update Now and following the prompts on your screen. According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 27.2 patches dozens of issues across your iPhone. Some of these…

Anthropic’s S-1 filing reveals massive revenue, eye-watering losses, and scary security risks. Anthropic’s recent S-1 filing gives Wall Street its first look inside the frontier AI gold rush. And well, it’s quite unsurprising. The filing exposes explosive growth but also staggering financial burn. The five-year-old company generated $16.3 billion in revenue during the first half of 2026. But infrastructure costs gradually drained its balance sheet, driving an $80 billion net loss over that same six-month window. Yes, it’s indeed an eye-watering loss. Anthropic’s 92-page prospectus reads like a tech thriller. The company admits its safety safeguards remain incomplete and vulnerable…

“That little synthesizer had a function that allowed you to make your own sounds, and I became completely captivated by the possibilities,” he says.Synthesizers were taking a more prominent place in pop music during the 1980s, adding to his fascination with the technology.As he advanced through school, Smaragdis wanted to study music made with synthesizers. But this was not an educational path offered by the more traditional European conservatories at the time.Instead, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston, into a program where he could explore the use of computers and synthesizers to shape and manipulate sound.“With computers…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Following the particularly severe haze episode in 2015, when skies over much of Southeast Asia were blanketed in smoke for many days between Jun and Oct, researchers at Harvard attempted to estimate the impact of the extraordinarily polluted air on health and mortality. After all, haze is treated mostly as an inconvenience, and few people believe it could kill them — but there is a real damage that it causes to millions exposed to it. According to past observational data, the impact is very real, as all-cause…

In 1950, Alan Turing asked whether machines can think. Rather than argue over definitions, he turned the question into a party game, where an interrogator trades typed messages with hidden players and tries to work out who is who. Since then, chatbots have gotten so good that they have already fooled humans in modern versions of the test. So, four researchers from Paris Cité University asked the obvious follow-up question in a new study published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports: can AI at least catch its own kind? How did the AI detectives do? The team put seven chatbots,…

A visualization shows the orbital path of the dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 in relation to the orbits of the solar system’s larger planets. Click on the image for a larger version. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / SLAC /AURA / R. Proctor) Astronomers sorting through data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile have found an icy world that has a good chance of joining Pluto in the solar system’s retinue of dwarf planets. University of Washington astronomer Mario Jurić joined the astronomer who made the discovery, Matthew Holman of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center…

AI giant Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei have repeatedly claimed that the company’s models will revolutionize biology and drug discovery. But in its IPO filing Monday, Anthropic struck a humbler note, acknowledging its lack of experience in physical experimentation and the potential pitfalls of drug development. Wherever it’s going, it seems, it will take some time to get there.Two years ago, Amodei wrote that he was “open” to the idea that AI systems could produce a thousand years of progress in biology in just five to 10 years. In August, he said on X that “Anthropic is ramping up its…

We’re living through an AI-fueled “Black October,” and things are changing fast. Hackers are using AI to breach countless companies. AI tools have uncovered security flaws that could leave 70 percent of all websites vulnerable. Governments are scrambling to secure their sites. Banks, too. And because cyberhacks can hurt supply chains, some longtime AI watchers are going full prepper, stocking up on food, cash, and more.In the center of this story is Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI companies, which was explicitly founded on the promise that it would be a “good guy” company in a world of dubious…

Restoring data after a cyberattack isn’t enough if the identity systems that control access are compromised. Dell Technologies Inc. is extending its cyber recovery tools to cover those systems, putting identity resilience alongside data protection. That gap is widening as AI ties data, identity, infrastructure and applications into interdependent systems, making data protection a core layer of enterprise AI. Backup and recovery alone no longer get the business running again, according to Rob Emsley (pictured, left), director of cyber resilience product marketing at Dell. “Without good identity and trust in identity, your ability to bring the business back is almost…

Like many leaders today, Prabha Jha has been feeling the significant impact artificial intelligence is having on business operations. While the rapid evolution of the technology can bring fear, uncertainty, and confusion, Jha chose a different response: excitement. She began asking herself, “How do I become part of this once-in-a-lifetime thing?” Jha holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from the University of Calcutta and earned her MBA while working at Verizon, where she continues to build her career. As she looked for an educational opportunity to engage more deeply with AI, MIT quickly emerged as a natural choice. Growing up, Jha…