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AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how fast the technology should develop, the best way to regulate it, and how to prepare society for smarter-than-human AI, among other things.That makes it all the more remarkable that they — along with 85 other experts in tech, biology, and national security policy — recently signed on to an open letter calling for more robust regulations around gene synthesis. They’re all concerned that AI systems might be used to help develop and even deploy dangerous biological weapons designed through gene…
Every time Apple released a new iOS update, people swore their iPhones suddenly felt slower. This rumor has followed Apple for years and while the company always denied it, the suspicion never really went away. With its latest iOS 27 update, I believe Apple has finally put this rumor to rest. I installed the beta on my iPhone Air, but the bigger story is what’s happening on the older models. Reports from people running iOS 27 on even older iPhones say their phones feel faster, not slower. That’s the opposite of what the planned obsolescence crowd has been claiming all…
Ravie LakshmananJun 13, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Software Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20253, is rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.4 and 10.0.7, an unauthenticated user could create or truncate arbitrary files through a PostgreSQL sidecar service endpoint,” Splunk said in an alert this week. “The vulnerability exists because the PostgreSQL sidecar service endpoint lacks authentication controls, allowing any network-reachable user to invoke file operations without credentials.”…
OpenAI is under investigation by a coalition of state attorneys general, according to the Wall Street Journal. On Friday, June 12, the company received a subpoena seeking information and documents related to its activities and impact on users. The Journal said it viewed the subpoena sent by New York’s attorney general. Based on what the publication saw, the AGs are asking for documentation about the company’s advertising, user engagement and retention, as well as its handling of its users’ data and health information. They also want to know about the company’s activities related to minor and senior users, its deep…
RJ Scaringe got his PhD from MIT studying internal combustion engines. Then he founded a company to make them obsolete. In 2009, fresh out of grad school, he launched what would become Rivian. The company spent nearly a decade in stealth mode before arriving at the 2018 LA Auto Show with two electric rides nobody had seen coming.The road, however, hasn’t been easy. Rivian lost $3.6 billion in 2025, and has burned through nearly $25 billion in the past eight years. It has spent more money over the same period than almost every other pure EV maker. Rivian’s IPO was…
A new Windows zero-day has turned BitLocker, one of Microsoft’s most trusted data-protection features, into the center of another disclosure fight. The Register’s Jessica Lyons broke the news that security researcher Nightmare Eclipse released exploit code for a claimed BitLocker bypass called GreatXML, which the researcher says can spawn a command prompt with broad access to a protected BitLocker volume. The release followed another zero-day, RoguePlanet, which SecurityWeek reported could exploit a Microsoft Defender race condition to gain SYSTEM-level privileges. The bigger concern for Windows admins is not just one bug. It is the pace of public exploit drops, the…
The Hertz Foundation announced that it awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students as well as an incoming graduate student. They are: Annika Marschner, Alvin Q. Meng, Zachary S. Siegel, and Matthew Wanta.The prestigious science and technology award provides each recipient with five years of financial support — a stipend and full tuition equivalent — which gives them an unusual measure of autonomy to pursue ground-breaking research in their graduate work.“What particularly impresses me about this cohort is their fearlessness in taking on new challenges and advancing the frontiers of science,” says Philip Welkhoff, a Hertz Fellow and director of the malaria program…
French foundation model developer Mistral AI SAS is reportedly in talks to raise €3 billion, or about $3.5 billion, from investors. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the round could value the company at €20 billion. That’s nearly double the valuation it received after its most recent raise in September. The €1.7 billion investment was led by ASML Holdings NV, the world’s top maker of advanced lithography machines. Today’s report didn’t specify the investors who could participate in Mistral’s new raise. ASML might chip in given that late-stage funding rounds often include contributions from existing backers. Mistral’s investor roster…
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Tata Consultancy Services has finalized a global premier partnership with Anthropic, aiming to move frontier artificial intelligence from experimental pilot projects into scaled enterprise production. Under the agreement, the IT services giant will establish a dedicated corporate business unit focused on Anthropic’s Claude models, while immediately equipping 50,000 of its own internal employees across engineering, finance, legal, and marketing with enterprise licenses. The joint strategy targets high-consequence sectors like healthcare, aviation, and financial services, where operational errors carry severe regulatory penalties. The strategic alignment comes during a volatile market correction. Shares of TCS touched a 52-week low this week, caught…