Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Acquisition Unravels After China Blocks the AI Deal
Meta’s $2 billion-plus acquisition of AI-agent startup Manus has unraveled less than a year after it was announced, transforming what…
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Bitcoin’s 2025 Loss Exposed Its Growing Dependence on Stocks, Rates and Global Liquidity
Bitcoin ended 2025 with its first annual decline since 2022, falling roughly 6% despite reaching a record above $126,000 only…
SoftBank’s $4 Billion DigitalBridge Deal Advances as AI Infrastructure Bet Grows
SoftBank Group’s planned $4 billion acquisition of DigitalBridge has moved substantially closer to completion, turning what began as another major…
China Proposes Strict Rules for Human-Like Emotional AI Services
China’s cyberspace regulator has released draft rules for public comment that would impose stricter oversight on artificial intelligence services designed…
Jennifer Lewis Is Using 3D Printing to Engineer Soft Robots and Living Human Tissues
Jennifer Lewis is pushing 3D printing far beyond making rigid objects layer by layer. Her Harvard research group is developing…
New York Times Reporter John Carreyrou Sues xAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI Over Copyright Claims
New York Times investigative reporter John Carreyrou, best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos, has filed…
German Engineer Michaela Benthaus Makes History as First Wheelchair User to Travel to Space
Michaela Benthaus, a German engineer currently working at the European Space Agency has become the world’s first wheelchair user to…
Tru Image Accelerates Digital Automotive Imaging to New Heights
Tru Image, a leader in automotive imaging and vehicle cloning technology, has reached a major milestone with the successful cloning…
TikTok Shop Introduces Personalized Gift Cards to Challenge Amazon and eBay
TikTok Shop has launched a new digital gift card feature, enabling users to purchase and send customizable credits that can…
New York Passes AI Safety Law Targeting High-Risk Artificial Intelligence
New York Governor, Kathy Hochul has signed landmark legislation imposing new safety and transparency requirements on powerful artificial intelligence (AI)…
GPT Image 1.5 Challenges Google in Enterprise-grade Visuals
OpenAI has rolled out a major update to its image generation tools, sharpening precision and consistency as enterprises increasingly rely…
Data Breach at 700Credit Exposes Personal Information of 5.6 Million People
A cybersecurity incident at 700Credit LLC, a provider of credit checks and identity verification services for auto dealerships, compromised the…
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as Disney Makes $1 Billion Investment and Signs Sora Licensing Deal
OpenAI launched its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday, touting advances in reasoning, coding and long-context processing as the…
Australia Enforces World’s First Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
Australia has become the first country to ban social media access for children under 16, ordering major platforms to block…
Carmageddon: Rogue Shift Reinvented the Series as a Roguelite—With Mixed Results
Carmageddon returned in February 2026 after roughly a decade away, but developer 34BigThings did not attempt to recreate the controversial…
Look AI Launches Real-Time Fashion Design Tool With Live Rendering and Smart Pattern Tech
Look AI, a new design tool developed by a China based technology firm, is using advanced algorithms to streamline the…