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Researchers have accidentally created a compact chip that produces a powerful, multi-colored light source known as a frequency comb, a technology that could dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of data transfer. The discovery, detailed in the journal Nature Photonics, was made while the team was working on an unrelated project to improve LiDAR technology.
The research group, led by...
Microsoft has announced it is delaying the planned Xbox Game Pass price increase for some existing subscribers in select countries. The decision comes after the company announced a 50 percent price hike for Game Pass Ultimate last week. The price change will still apply to new purchases but will not immediately affect current subscribers with auto-renewing plans in markets such as Germany,...
Google has released the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, a new specialized model available in preview through the Gemini API. It is built on Gemini 2.5 Pro and enables developers to build AI agents that can control websites and mobile applications by clicking, typing, and scrolling, just as a human would.
While AI models can often interact with software through structured APIs, many digital tasks,...
The open-source projects React and React Native, along with supporting projects like JSX, are transitioning to a new, independent organization called the React Foundation. The move is designed to formalize the governance of the popular JavaScript library and give a larger role to the community and companies that have contributed to its development.
The React Foundation will operate as part of the...
A research initiative led by Microsoft, known as the Paraphrase Project, has demonstrated that artificial intelligence can be used to redesign biological toxins in ways that evade current biosecurity screening software. The project, detailed in a paper published in the journal Science, identified a “biological zero-day”—a previously unknown vulnerability—and developed a defense for it by applying...
SoftBank Group announced on Monday that it has agreed to buy the robotics division of Swiss engineering firm ABB for $5.4 billion. The move is designed to strengthen the Japanese company’s position in artificial intelligence.
The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, means ABB will no longer pursue its previous plan to spin off the robotics business into a separately listed company....
Artificial intelligence has become the single largest uncontrolled channel for corporate data exfiltration, surpassing both shadow SaaS and unmanaged file sharing, according to a new report from AI and browser security company LayerX. The research, based on real-world enterprise browsing telemetry, indicates that the primary risk from AI in the enterprise is not a future threat, but a present-day...
Google is expanding the availability of Opal, its AI application that lets users create mini web apps from text prompts, to 15 additional countries. The tool, which launched in the U.S. in July, is designed to help non-technical users build app prototypes without writing any code.
The app is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El...
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is reportedly in the process of raising $20 billion in a new financing round that includes a significant investment from Nvidia. The funding is larger than initially planned and is structured to secure the massive number of processors required to build out the company’s AI infrastructure.
According to people with knowledge of the matter, the...
Google has shared early results from its research on CodeMender, a new AI-powered agent designed to improve code security automatically. The agent can both reactively patch new vulnerabilities and proactively rewrite existing code to eliminate entire classes of security flaws.
As AI-powered tools become more effective at discovering software vulnerabilities, the volume of identified issues is...