Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog to Beyoncé’s Say My Name, and Harry Styles’ As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this … Read more
The FCC is planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets
The Skyrover X1 vs the DJI Mini 4 Pro. | Image: AirPhotography Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC’s getting ready to wield that power for the … Read more
The Odyssey turned me into an IMAX believer
After seeing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for the first time early last week, I came away impressed, but somewhat conflicted about two of the film’s more fantastical set pieces. While those scenes were beautifully crafted and tremendously acted, there was something a little bit off about the way they hit my eye. I spent days … Read more
HireQuotient Extends AI Recruiting Capabilities to Paylocity Customers in Frontline Industries
San Francisco, United States, July 20th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–HireQuotient, an AI-native recruiting platform, today announced its integration with Paylocity (Nasdaq: PCTY), bringing AI-powered candidate sourcing and screening capabilities to Paylocity customers in manufacturing, building services, construction, healthcare and insurance, which are industries where deskless and frontline hiring has historically been underserved by AI recruiting tools. Employers in … Read more
What Is an Agent, Actually?
What is an Agent, Actually? Distinguishing LLMs, agents, orchestration, and frameworks When I wrote my first tutorials on open-source multi-agent frameworks in 2024, “agent” already meant something genuinely complicated – an LLM’s behavior already depended on scaffolding well beyond the model itself: a defined role, a memory system, a planning process, coordination layers. The complexity … Read more
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
NodeMeta Expands Its Multi-Utility Web3 Vision With OneKey, TrustScan AI and NTE
The project aims to build a connected digital economy where NTE can be used across node participation, staking, AI-based services, marketplace transactions, ecosystem access and future blockchain applications. A Multi-Utility Economy Powered by NTE NTE is the central utility token of the NodeMeta ecosystem. It is currently deployed on BNB Smart Chain with a defined … Read more
SpaceX in your index fund, explained
AUUUUUGH | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX – a giant gamble, and, in my … Read more
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next … Read more
Educational Byte: Why Some Cryptos Have Supply Caps – and Others Don’t
One of the problems of fiat (traditional) currencies is unlimited supplies: governments can print new bills and coins to their heart’s content, and this could increase inflation to the point of killing the currency itself. Money needs to be scarce to work, and when it’s not anymore, then it doesn’t work anymore. That’s why numerous … Read more
AI Agents & Non-Human Identities: Why They Must Be IAM Users
Why autonomous AI agents and non-human identities need first-class status in enterprise IAM Non-human identities (NHI) do not need to be human. But they must be users in IAM — the Identity and Access Management layer enterprises use to govern who or what can access systems. Not users in the social sense. Not employees. Not … Read more
Get Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2 and 13 other great PC games for $15
Borderlands 3 is among the 15 games in the 2K Megahits 2026 Bundle. | 2K Games The aptly-named “2K Megahits 2026 Bundle” from Humble includes 15 Steam games for $15. It’s a smattering of the publisher 2K’s biggest games of the 2010s, including BioShock Infinite, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands 3, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. … Read more
The PlayStation replica ornament is an homage to a great, yet fragile console
The ornament requires three 1.5-volt coin batteries, which are included in the box. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it’s technically a multi-part chime? There’s the synthy section where “Sony Computer Entertainment” shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next … Read more
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
Ford’s $30,000 electric truck: all the news about the company’s big EV re-do
The end of the Ford F-150 Lightning was also the start of a new era for the automaker. After failing to capture the market with the electric version of its popular F-Series truck, Ford is going back to the drawing board with its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform. The first offering will be a $30,000 electric … Read more
Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe
The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
The lawsuit from the states alleges that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.
Judge pauses Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
A judge partially granted the request from a dozen state attorneys general to temporarily place the $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on hold, as reported by Variety and Reuters. US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said that based on the new company’s market share, “the Court is persuaded that it can presume … Read more
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LG’s glossy OLED gaming monitor is rare to find under $400
LG’s UltraGear Glossy OLED gaming monitor deliver deep, true-to-life blacks. | Image: LG If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your gaming monitor, LG’s 27-inch 27GX704A-B pairs a glossy WOLED panel with a fast refresh rate, and it’s currently on sale for $379.99 (about $70 off) at Amazon and directly from LG, marking a new low … Read more
LG’s monitors come with an unwanted addition for Windows: McAfee pop-up ads
This LG 34GX900A-B is one of the monitors found auto-installing LG’s app on users’ PCs. | Image: LG A video from Gamers Nexus explains how, after connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor to a PC running Windows 11 for the first time, Windows Update is silently installing LG driver updates and the LG Monitor App … Read more
Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
Welcome to the “what is a photo” debate, Adobe. | Image: Adobe Adobe’s experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a “more natural (SLR-like) look” for iPhone photography, the Indigo camera app is now being updated with a suite of generative AI tools. And the … Read more