Microsoft just killed one of the coolest features of its Edge browser to favor more AI

Microsoft is discontinuing Edge Collections, a popular research and organization tool, as the company continues shifting the browser toward AI-powered Copilot experiences.

Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits
Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because the power supply cannot keep up with its capabilities. He said companies and governments face “very big social choices” as energy const…

Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack
Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack

The self-replicating Miasma worm has reached Microsoft‘s own GitHub repositories. GitHub disabled 73 repositories across four Microsoft organisations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, after the worm planted malicious code t…

An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.
An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.

A security startup’s autonomous AI agent found 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the open-source media library embedded in almost everything that touches video. The startup, depthfirst, says the run cost roughly $1,000 in compute. Some o…

Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek’s 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training

A research group that includes Huawei Technologies says it completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek’s V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model.

Reid Hoffman leaves Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with AI drug startup Manus
Reid Hoffman leaves Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with AI drug startup Manus

Reid Hoffman is stepping down from Microsoft‘s board of directors after nearly a decade. The company disclosed the departure in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Hoffman said he wants to go “founder mode” with Manus, his AI-powered drug discovery startu…

Could Americans Build Wealth Through AI? Why Trump May Be Considering Equity-Sharing Scheme

The policy has attracted support from both sides of the aisle on how to respond to AI, but economists still have concerns.

Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.
Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government “partnership” that would let the American public profit from the industry’s success. “There a…

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine

SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a month, this time with Google. Under the terms disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximate…

NSA using Claude Mythos for ‘offensive cyber operations,’ report claims — says ‘half-a-dozen’ Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency

US National Security Agency reportedly using Mythos for conducting cyber-attacks — report reveals Anthropic engineers inside the NSA