TECH NEWS
If you’re one of the many Americans worried about catching the cyclospora parasite from lettuce bought at your local supermarket, there’s a safer option. You may want to try an indoor smart garden instead. You’ll feel comfortable knowing this is food you grew yourself, and it’s
TECH NEWS
Save $700: Right now B&H is offering this Nikon Z6 III mirrorless camera body for $1,997, which is a massive $700 off. Considering the camera’s usual price of $2,697, this is a fantastic deal. Nikon is an iconic camera brand and makes some of our
TECH NEWS
xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets “nudification” apps, claiming that the statute’s punitive provisions leave the company with “no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine’s image-editing features in various ways.” The law, the company argues,
TECH NEWS
Most AI imaging startups build one model per disease. A Cambridge company has raised $20m to build a single model for the whole chest. Then it can spin the rest out of that. Qureight makes AI imaging tools for lung and heart clinical trials. It closed a $20m Series B
TECH NEWS
BMW had two messages for staff this week. It is cutting about 8,000 jobs. And it is handing the brains of its future cars to Qualcomm for the next decade. The German carmaker will shed the roles in Germany by the end of 2027 through a voluntary redundancy scheme,
TECH NEWS
On Tuesday, Lilian Weng said she was stepping down from Thinking Machines Lab because the job was making her ill. On Wednesday, she was back at OpenAI. Weng co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former chief technology officer. She is rejoining OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement,
TECH NEWS
OpenAI made two announcements this week that look unrelated. One is generous. The other explains how it can afford to be. The generous one: OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027, Axios reported. The programme, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, starts with 10,
TECH NEWS
Microsoft went into its earnings facing one question: is the vast AI spending working? The numbers said yes, mostly. Revenue rose 18% to $90bn for the quarter to 30 June, and net income climbed 31% to $35.8bn, the company reported. Microsoft Cloud brought in $59.3bn, up 27%. The
TECH NEWS
Two of the biggest AI spenders reported on the same day. Microsoft’s spending showed up as cloud revenue. Meta’s showed up as a hole in its cash flow. Meta’s revenue rose 28% to $60.8bn, beating forecasts, CNBC reported. But profit fell 14% to $15.8bn, earnings
TECH NEWS
* Ukraine's deputy commander-in-chief says combat lasers could reach the front within two to three months * Tryzub's own May 2026 figures, 800 to 900 meters against FPV drones and 1,500 meters against reconnaissance UAVs, are far below the three- to five-kilometer claims made by military officials
TECH NEWS
* Ukraine says Russian defenses mistakenly destroyed one of Moscow's premier fighter jets * InformNapalm claims cyber intelligence turned Russian air defenses against their own aircraft * Russia insists a technical failure caused the reported Su-57 crash near Moscow A Russian Su-57 fighter jet recently crashed in the Moscow region, and
TECH NEWS
In Brief 2:07 PM PDT · July 29, 2026 Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she would step down from her role, citing health issues. “I don’t feel I’m able to continue at the pace a startup requires,” she wrote in an internal Slack
