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Even older emulation-focused handhelds can't escape RAMaggedon... View Source

4 Min Read NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the Lighthouse Nebula. The results provide new insight into the structure of some of the most extreme objects in the cosmo... View Source

Using the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 31 black-hole-powered quasars in the early universe. The most impressive of these new discoveries is the most ancient and distant quasar ever seen, shining with the light of a trillion suns just 670 million years after the Big Bang.Quasars occur when supermassive black holes with masses millio... View Source

Anker’s Soundcore Boom 2 is fully waterproof. Bluetooth speakers with big sound and great features are hard to find for under $100, with most offerings being some variation of the same basic (and often small) design. Thankfully, through July 10th Woot has the Anker Soundcore Boom 2 on sale for $69.99, which is $20 cheaper than the discounted price at other retailers like Amazon, and about half its... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. priced its US listing of American depositary receipts at $149 each, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public... View Source

OpenAI's long-awaited super app is here... View Source

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be "sunsetting" Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation. In recent months, OpenAI has also shut down the video genera... View Source

We’ve been hearing plenty about how Meta’s workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the cake — or acorn, perhaps. As Wired reports, a squirrel got loose inside one of the company’s buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, after someone received it in the mail. It’s unlikely the creature had plotted to infiltrate the Meta office, but it coincidentally made it just... View Source

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called on Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. to step up their efforts to expand memory chip production in the US to help address a global shortage in components critical to the development of artificial intelligence... View Source

If Google's AI tools are used, it will automatically be noted in My Ad Center... View Source

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google's "My Ad Center," as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced on Thursday, adds a "created or edited with AI" label under the "how this ad was made" tab. Users can find it by tapping the three dots or info button on ads, which pulls up the same panel where you ca... View Source

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been appointed to Anthropic’s long-term benefit trust, an oversight body meant to keep the artificial intelligence company accountable to its public mission. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Funk became the oldest person to fly in space in 2021... View Source

Theo spent six figures in tokens testing OpenAI’s 5.6 Sol model to see whether if its better than Fable and what OpenAI have done to make it even better than 5.5. They breakdown why they both moved their agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs ... Read more... View Source

Flock surveillance cameras are blanketing the country, and to no one’s surprise, innocent people are being caught in their dragnet. At our sister publication The Drive, automotive journalist Joel Feder reports how he was suddenly swarmed by armed cops while test driving a Range Rover with his wife in Minnesota. The police used four squad cars to box him in in a coordinated maneuver; when he... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s US share sale is set to boost an ailing vehicle that was once essential for Asian firms looking West, and Wall Street is hoping the frenzy for artificial intelligence infrastructure will encourage competitors to follow their path... View Source

The IER-M500 earphones were designed for fit and comfort during stage wear... View Source

Two new reports from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluate data from the Umbra X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation for the NASA Earth science research and applications community. The results of these evaluations help to inform NASA program management and the user community about the quality of these commercial data for use in NASA science. N... View Source

SpaceX is nothing if not ambitious.Elon Musk's company just filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate a 100,000-member constellation of "Gen3" satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO).This will presumably be an updated version of SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, according to astronomer and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, who reported the news via X t... View Source

At the Automate Show, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Thomas Black saw a lot of robots, but it was clear to him that there is still a long way to go before widespread, everyday use of the machines. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It has a proprietary OS, a QWERTY keyboard and dual(ish) screens... View Source

The massive surge of fossil fuel-powered data centers cropping up across the country are emitting an enormous amount of pollution, a pulsing indication that we’re headed in the wrong direction in the midst of a climate crisis. The extent of the this polluting activity is confounding. As climate action group Floodlight found in a recent investigation spotted by Wired, Texas has become the epi... View Source

Veteran hosts like Marc Maron, Al Franken and the Culture Gabfest crew are hanging up their headphones and setting down their mics... View Source

Environmental and scientific organizations are banding together to demand federal environmental reviews of space-based data center projects, which plan to put more than a million new satellites in Earth orbit over the coming years. Over the last few months, a number of different companies have requested licenses from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch data centers into spac... View Source

Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to "identify potential issues earlier," which means "customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release." Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI to quickly exploit security weaknesses over the past seve... View Source

OpenAI is introducing a new artificial intelligence agent that’s meant to field a wider range of complex tasks for hours at a time, bolstering its push to appeal to more business professionals... View Source

Google’s 2020 Nest Thermostat is $50 off. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you’re looking for a relatively affordable way to cut down on cooling costs, Google’s Nest Thermostat can help. It’s packed with smart controls and energy-saving features, and right now it’s on sale in white for $79 ($50 off), which is its best price of the year, at Amazon.  Google Nest Thermostat Wher... View Source

If you drive, your car’s tires are shredding more than just tread: they may be mincing up our grey matter too. New research by a team in China discovered an alarming link between a chemical commonly found in tires and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. The chemical, called 6PPD-Q, is formed when fine tire particles meet ozone. That happens anytime new chunks of tire are exposed to the a... View Source

Franklin Templeton’s Katrina Dudley said the bull case for infrastructure spending on artificial intelligence is winning out over bear arguments and sees the investment theme remaining durable through 2027 and potentially into the year beyond... View Source

Apple TV’s riveting sci-fi series, "Silo," is stretching its narrative legs for its third and penultimate season. Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) deals with amnesia after her fiery return to Silo 18, satisfying secrets are revealed, and we strap in for temporal jumps 352 years back to the "Before Times" to figure out how the apocalypse arrived."We rolled the dice a bit and hoped it would work and were... View Source

About two weeks after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama - rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a "limited preview" period - the company has received the Trump administration's green light for a public rollout of the model. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it "the best model we have ever produced." To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day... View Source

KPMG UK is cutting 10% of staff across its support teams, according to a spokesperson for the company, in the latest round of job cuts by the Big Four accountancy firm... View Source

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals — the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take this image. A recent paper in Science suggests that the sulfur formed when magma de... View Source

SpaceX already has their AI compute and energy problems solved. They will leverage this to win the battle for AI... View Source

The big boy is back. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is bringing back the RX10 superzoom camera after a nearly nine-year gap between models. The newly announced RX10 V retains the same 24-600mm equivalent f/2.4-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 25x zoom lens of its last two predecessors, but it has lots of upgrades elsewhere. The new 20.1-megapixel 1-inch-type sensor is a stacked design, allo... View Source

Satellites perform a delicate dance to maintain their orbit, by locking themselves to a speed just fast enough to counteract the downward pull of gravity. To stop their orbit from decaying too much, satellites use small in-space thrusters, which broadly speaking, fall into two categories: chemical or electric. The former uses a combustible fuel source that gets accelerated through a nozzle, while... View Source

US stocks rose as investors put aside concerns over the latest flare-up between the US and Iran to pile on technology stocks after recent declines spurred dip buying... View Source

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. That’s after the media giant spun out its cable assets like CNBC and... View Source

New Hampshire’s executive council voted down a proposal to bring the first Bitcoin-backed bond to the municipal market... View Source

Alienware's latest 34-inch ultrawide gaming monitor is far brighter than before, and it can finally handle text without fringing... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) These four views were captured from a World War II-era aircraft in April 2026, when scientists used instruments aboard the plane to study Arctic sea ice. Their flights were timed to coincide with satellites passing overhead so the airborne and orbital data could be combined.NASA/JPL-Caltech This month, engineers at NASA... View Source

The Sense Pro is Schlage’s first Matter-over-Thread lock. It also supports hands-free unlocking via Apple Home Key, with Google and Samsung support coming soon through Aliro. The Schlage Sense Pro is a beautiful smart lock. Sleek, discreet, and simple to use, it's Schlage's smartest lock to date. Thanks to ultra-wideband (UWB), it unlocks as I walk up to my front door; I don't need to enter a code... View Source

For many years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sworn up and down that the use of radar and lidar sensors for autonomous driving is a waste of time. His counterargument has been that cameras and powerful AI-powered hardware are all you need for safe self-driving, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. That decision is now risking a major roadblocks for the company in New Jersey. As The Verge reports,... View Source

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said his company made “many changes” during its discussions with the Trump administration before moving ahead with releasing its newest artificial intelligence models to the general public... View Source

New York has banned smart glasses in all 1,240 state, county, city, town and village courts... View Source

Bottom Line from Theo Grok 4.5 is an outstanding value default coding model — fast, cheap, capable on real engineering work, and a huge step up for xAI. It’s not quite dethroning the absolute latest “orchestration kings,” but for most practical coding/agent use cases it punches way above its price. He’s excited about xAI’s momentum ... Read more... View Source

Is there life on Mars … in clay? Scientists think that the minerals in clay could be the key to finding signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. The European Space Agency is still working toward launching its ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars to search for signs of life. And, according to a statement from the space agency, the rover is now aiming to land at Oxia Planum, a depression on the M... View Source

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a "step-change" from the first generation, with improvements based on feedback from developers. The company says it's capable of more advanced coding, inclu... View Source

AI-focused tech firms are stepping up searches for office space, and New York and San Francisco won’t be the only cities to benefit from their fast expansion... View Source

The $140, 1,252-piece Hubble Telescope Lego set goes on sale on August 1... View Source

Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC backed exits since 2000... View Source

If you’re looking for a discount on a great pair of active noise-canceling headphones for your summer adventures (even if they’re indoors), you’re in luck. The Sonos Ace headphones in black are currently on sale for $279 (usually $399) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and directly from Sonos. Weirdly, the white version is discounted at all. The Ace are as comfortable... View Source

The United States is in the grips of one of the most drastic reversals of green energy infrastructure currently underway on our increasingly warm world. It probably comes as little surprise, then, that the Land of the Free was one of the key drivers of global emissions in 2025. According to a new statistical review by the Energy Institute, a London-based non-profit, energy supplies are skyrocketin... View Source

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said that among the drivers of inflation in the US, he’s most focused on demand driven by artificial intelligence. And if that demand persists, it could force the central bank to raise interest rates... View Source

Sony has finally unveiled the RX10 V superzoom with a 24-600mm zoom lens and 20.1-megapixel 1-inch sensor... View Source

Sandbars and waves of rippling sand dunes can be seen from space amongst the turquoise ocean in the Bahamas. (Image credit: NASA/Chris Williams)If you look at this picture for too long, you might start to hear the waves lapping up against the shore or feel a salty breeze in the air. You might not have a trip to the Bahamas planned, but you can always enjoy its beauty in this spectacular summertime... View Source

Personal digital assistants like the iconic Palm Pilot were one of many devices we thought went extinct with the arrival of the smartphone. But similar to Canon resurrecting a nearly decade-old digital camera to appeal to point-and-shoot fans, Talisman Design is crowdfunding a clamshell PDA called the PocketMage that combines a tactile keyboard with both e-paper and OLED displays in a pocketable d... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. is telling investors it intends to price its US listing at $149 per American depositary receipt, according to people familiar with the matter, despite recent volatility in the Korean memory chipmaker’s shares... View Source

The Claude Reflect dashboard is like a mix of Spotify Wrapped and the screen time tool on your phone... View Source

A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Streever had just landed on a return trip from Finland, where he'd vacationed with his daughter. Though Streever didn't know it yet, while he'd been away, agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had shown up to his home in Rochester and sp... View Source

The head start that the US companies enjoyed in the AI race is quickly vanishing. Chinese competitors are now nipping at their heels, and it’s causing a wave of anxiety in the American sector. Over a year ago, DeepSeek spurred an existential crisis — and a mass stock selloff — in the US tech industry when it released a competitive AI model created for a fraction of the cost of the leading Am... View Source

This week the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company, cracking into the lucrative US military launch market is both a sign of maturity, as well as an important source of revenue. The inclusion of Relativity Space, which is making credible progress toward the launch of i... View Source

Micron's stock surged following the company's announcement of a planned investment of up to $3 billion aimed at bolstering the U.S. semiconductor supply chain. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta has automatically opted all public accounts into its Muse Image AI... View Source

The United States government is looking into launching commercial rockets from sea-based launch sites, but some ocean advocacy experts say the move is part of a larger trend of allowing the spaceflight industry to use the ocean as a dumping ground.The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday (July 7) announced a Request for Information (RFI) to look into launching rockets and recov... View Source

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that feature cheaply produced, live-action shows starring human performers, c.a... View Source

Racquel Oden, HSBC’s head of wealth and private banking, discussed how she is guiding clients through rapidly shifting market narratives. She emphasized focusing on long-term fundamentals. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Crypto marketplace Coinbase is under fire after sending out an AI-generated breaking news alert that Norway’s national men’s soccer team had clinched a spot in the quarter finals of the ongoing FIFA World Cup by beating Brazil 3-2 — before the game even started. While Norway did eventually beat Brazil — with a final score of 2-1, contrary to what Coinbase’s AI claimed — the glari... View Source

Contractors like Sterling Infrastructure and Comfort Systems USA have more work than they have skilled labor for... View Source

Slate's barebones EV trucks lack whimsy, which is why the company has teamed up with Crayola... View Source

China has announced that it wants to develop a "space-ground" asteroid early-warning network, while providing few details on what it could look like. But recent papers and presentations to the United Nations provide clues as to what the country has in mind for planetary defense.The China National Space Administration (CNSA) made the announcement on June 30 — International Asteroid Day — stating pl... View Source

A startup that helps enterprises build AI agents proved the technology’s value in the most practical way possible: by deploying one during its own fundraising... View Source

SpaceXAI has rolled out Grok 4.5, the first model it trained with Cursor... View Source

Another 29 Starlink satellites were deployed last night. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX is currently ahead of last year's record-setting pace for Starlink satellite deployments. SpaceX launched 1,589 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit in the first half of 2026, according to launch data compiled by Jonathan McDowell's satellite tracker, compared to 1,489 satellites deployed at the same point in 2025... View Source

They find posting feels like a performance rather than real communication... View Source

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. reported quarterly earnings that met analysts’ estimates after a string of cost-cutting efforts and data center deals helped Asia’s largest outsourcer weather a slump in the sector... View Source

Starbucks Corp. is developing in-house tools with the help of artificial intelligence that could replace some software applications it now buys from companies such as Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp... View Source

The BBC wanted to launch a UK-wide streaming service with ITV and Channel 4 in 2007... and again in 2017... will the third time be the charm?... View Source

The success of NASA's future moon base depends in large part on mission design, which should allow astronauts to work together well in a way independent from psychological training, a new study asserts.The goal of the study was to identify "specific conditions" for mission success and to look for any "red flags" that may stand in the way, lead investigator Anamaria Berea, a computational social sc... View Source

Helen Jewell, BlackRock's fundamental equities international CIO, discusses investment in the artificial intelligence space, saying "the next few years are very clear from an AI perspective because of the amount of capital that you'll see being invested in that space." Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Jewell adds that while every capex cycle reaches the point when overspend starts to happen, that... View Source

As extreme heat becomes the norm on the continent, the AC culture wars may be solved by advances in environmentally friendly technology... View Source

We've gone through a number of a technological revolutions in investing whether it was the dawn of the high frequency trading era or the introduction of robotraders. When it comes to AI, the big question that remains in the investment context is whether or not the technology will be implemented like those past tech innovations — meaning it will be integrated into the flow of the business wit... View Source

An image of Portugal forward Pedro Neto’s cleats at the World Cup has reignited a practice among some soccer players: modifying their cleats to relieve heel discomfort... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s US offering is more than seven times oversubscribed, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring strong investor appetite despite recent volatility in the Korean memory chipmaker’s shares. Bloomberg's Neil Campling has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The NHTSA says it identified a 'pattern of driverless AVs' interfering with first responders. It's now demanding a solution from AV makers... View Source

It's too hot. There, we said it. Protect your health and keep your home cool with one of these top-rated air conditioners... View Source

India faces a critical question in artificial intelligence: should it invest in building frontier AI models despite gaps in chips, compute, and funding? This segment examines whether sovereignty, security, and long‑term competitiveness justify the push. As global AI power concentrates in a few countries, dependence on foreign systems raises risks for defense, data control, and economic resilience... View Source

Wall Street banks were largely absent from a $5.8 billion fundraising spree by Chinese artificial intelligence stars in Hong Kong this week... View Source

Bloomberg's Ryan Gould joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Chip startup SambaNova has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, underscoring investors’ conviction in rising demand for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

JioStar is betting that conversations with viewers powered by generative AI will become a powerful tool for the streaming TV company... View Source

A US judge signed off on Elon Musk paying $1.5 million to end a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that accused him of cheating Twitter Inc. investors when he missed a deadline in 2022 to disclose his growing stake in the company... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Nuveen Head of Fixed Income Strategy Tony Rodriguez, State Street Global Head of Gold Strategy Aakash Doshi, Coresight Research Founder & CEO Deborah Weinswig, Principal Venture Partners Founder & Managing Partner Song... View Source

Shares in Chinese artificial-intelligence model maker Zhipu surged as much as 22% in Hong Kong on Thursday after the company priced a $4 billion share sale at the low end of the marketed range... View Source

Wayfair is building on its success as an e-commerce furniture and home goods retailer with a move into large-format brick-and-mortar stores. On Bloomberg Chief Future Officer, CFO Kate Gulliver shows Carol Massar around Wayfair's new Atlanta store, and explains how this new initiative is helping the company create a seamless omnichannel "clicks to bricks" shopping experience. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

1 min read NASA Awards Contracts for Mars Advanced Surface Mobility Technology July 8, 2026 C.13 NASA Awards Contracts for Mars Advanced Surface Mobility Technology NASA has selected seven companies for contract awards under the Mars Exploration Program’s Science Transport and Robotic Innovation for Deployment and Exploration, or STRIDE, initiative to advance next-generation commercial robotic sur... View Source

Recruitment companies, facing the threat of artificial intelligence tools replacing human labor and customers embracing AI-assisted applicant screening, are adapting by honing in on niche, in-demand jobs in the AI economy... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Super Typhoon Bavi Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission:... View Source

Takeshi Hakamada, Founder and CEO at Ispace, discusses the company's plans to to create a lunar payload service to be launched aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Albert Park, Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank, discusses the bank’s latest APAC growth outlook. The forecast sees growth staying subdued despite a modest improvement, as disruptions from the Middle East conflict continue to weigh on supply chains and production costs. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Furniture and home goods retailer Wayfair has built a thriving e-commerce platform that's been incorporating advanced technologies throughout its 25-year history. On Bloomberg Chief Future Officer, CFO Kate Gulliver tells Carol Massar how the company is now using AI to improve the customer experience and enhance internal business processes. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Memory giant CXMT Corp. will open investor subscriptions for its public offering next week, kicking off the final stage in the year’s most highly anticipated listing of the year... View Source

Theo’s Take Theo tested Grok 4.5 extensively the day before launch and called it “pretty damn good and REALLY well priced.” He said it’s good enough that he has to make a video on it. He also noted the crowded frontier (“GLM-5.2 is close to Opus, Grok 4.5 allegedly beats Opus and GPT-5.5… Feels like ... Read more... View Source

China’s consumer prices rose slower than expected and factory inflation showed signs of peaking, after a pullback in commodity costs with an easing of tensions over Iran last month... View Source

Wes Roth opens the video by announcing that Grok 4.5 has officially gone live to the public after strong internal beta testing at SpaceX and Tesla. He explains that the model is positioned as an Opus-class system but stands out for being significantly faster, more token-efficient, and cheaper to run. The introduction highlights how Grok ... Read more... View Source

South Korea’s growth outlook received the biggest upgrade among the world’s 30 major economies in the International Monetary Fund’s latest projections, adding to evidence that the country’s artificial intelligence-driven semiconductor boom is overpowering the economic hit from the Middle East conflict... View Source

Actual usage of SpaceXAI Grok 4.5. First person reports that there are programmers successfully replacing Opus and Sonnet in all of his systems today with Grok 4.5. Grok 4.5 worked great. Spending can drop 50-80%. $200-500 instead of $1000. Grok 4.5 is faster than Opus 4.8. Maybe 2 to 3 times faster. OpenAI GPT 5.6 ... Read more... View Source

Some parts of Australia remain without rail services Thursday, after a Telstra Group Ltd. network outage knocked out mobile and data services across the country the day before... View Source

Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. is set to begin trading in Hong Kong on Thursday after raising HK$24.3 billion ($3.1 billion) in the city’s biggest listing this year so far... View Source

Westpac Banking Corp. is intensifying efforts to monitor artificial intelligence costs, as the Australian lender closely tracks AI tokens across the firm and routes simpler tasks to cheaper models... View Source

Bain Capital has sold its entire stake in flash memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp., closing a chapter on a deal that’s transformed the Japanese tech and investment landscape... View Source

It's more of a baa-ter arrangement... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9), and you can watch the action live. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 GMT), carrying 29 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).You can watch it live via SpaceX beginning about 1... View Source

AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise about $750 million in financing during a round with two phases, part of a groundswell of companies looking to compete with Nvidia Corp... View Source

Meta might be the next company to make an always-on AI wearable. The company is working on prototype "super sensing" always-aware smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos "every few seconds," according to the Financial Times. The wearer could then ask Meta AI about the captured audio and images. However, the images and audio might not be directly available to the user. He... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s US listing is more than seven times oversubscribed, according to people familiar with the matter, as the South Korean memory chipmaker prepares to price its offering Thursday... View Source

The opinion says whether it's fair is 'for our citizenry to decide at the ballot box.'... View Source

ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX's Starship megarocket.The Tokyo-based company announced today (July 8) that it has booked 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) of cargo capacity on Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for a moon mission that could launch as soon as 2030. The deal is worth $50 million, according to Tokyo Brief."We are very pleased... View Source

In this segment, Songyee Yoon, Director on HP's Board and Founder of Principal Venture Partners, discusses the emerging divergence between the chip cycle and the hyperscaler cycle amid the AI build-out. She highlights the critical issue of whether hyperscalers will reduce their spending as the costs of AI infrastructure escalate, a factor that could significantly impact the broader AI investment l... View Source

The social platform wants its crowd-sourced corrections to be harder to ignore... View Source

Mark Douglas, CEO of the ad tech company MNTN, discussed Meta's reported ambitions to expand beyond advertising into cloud infrastructure. Douglas expressed skepticism about Meta's ability to compete with established cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud, citing high switching costs for customers and Meta's lack of excess AI infrastructure capacity to monetize. He speaks with Romaine Bostick... View Source

The company's streaming devices aren't quite keeping up with competitors in several important categories... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Students Connect NASA Science… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   3 min read Students Connect NASA Science With Indigenous Knowledge to Study Coastal Erosion Story by Keri Moskowitz, Gulf of Maine Research Institute Students return from fieldwork and sit together in the classroom, examining NASA sat... View Source

If the universe has one lesson for humanity, it is that everything ends. That includes stars, which too must die, albeit on timescales of billions of years. But new research suggests that when some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a particular class of cosmic explosion called an interacting supernova. When stars much more massive than the sun r... View Source

Two men in Southern China are alive thanks to a daring rescue involving a hulking quadcopter drone. Footage shared by Chinese state media Xinhua shows the moment a stranded flood victim is plucked from the top of an oil tanker by a drone in Guangxi, an autonomous region bordering Vietnam. After being strapped into a harness by a brave rescue worker, the man is whisked from the tanker, holding onto... View Source

A weekly, midday program that delivers high-impact, editorially driven coverage of the most important corporate transactions shaping the global market. Today's guests: Paul Weiss Global Co-head of M&A Krish Veeraraghavan and Alix Partners Partner & Managing Director Grace Lee. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The FTC sued the famed green tractor company last year... View Source

Sonos Inc. has pushed out some of its top design and product management executives as part of job cuts in recent weeks, raising questions about the company’s ability to develop breakthrough products beyond its short-term hardware road map of safe bets... View Source

The Fallout: New Vegas developer has not escaped Microsoft's Xbox layoffs unscathed... View Source

NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to design and manufacture the protective aeroshell that will shield the Skyfall spacecraft's descent stage during its plummet through the Martian atmosphere.Skyfall, slated to be NASA's first-ever nuclear powered interplanetary probe, is scheduled to launch in 2028 with three helicopters similar to the I... View Source

Even though they haven’t been officially announced yet, Samsung is giving you a chance to save some cash when you preorder what we’re expecting to be the brand’s updated Galaxy Z Fold phones. The next Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on July 22nd, 2026, and features the tagline “A new shape unfolds.” In addition to seeing updated versions of the existing Flip and Fold form factors, we anticip... View Source

Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX took a beating on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the company made its debut in the Nasdaq-100, a key stock market index made up of 100 of the exchange’s largest non-financial companies. The stock slid to a record low of just over $145 by late afternoon on Wednesday — below its IPO opening price of $150 — a disappointing outcome for investors, who were... View Source

Bloomberg's Liana Baker joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Bank of America handed a $520 million credit line to OpenAI in recent weeks after previously spurning the artificial intelligence giant’s request, according to people with knowledge of the matter. . (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Steam Machine isn't worth the price that Valve is asking... View Source

OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company's "smartest voice model" yet. It will automatically pass your qu... View Source

Chip startup SambaNova raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, underscoring investors’ conviction in rising demand for infrastructure tied to AI. SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

PC shipments are falling, but revenue for manufacturers is still rising... View Source

The next American flag to be planted on the moon has been placed in the hands of one of the last astronauts to walk on the lunar surface.Late into the night during the America 250 celebrations in Washington, D.C. on July 4, President Donald Trump delivered the keynote address from the National Mall, praising the country's history and accomplishments. The speech also acknowledged several American h... View Source

Twelve South’s AirFly Pro is just $5 more than the SE model. | Image: Twelve South If you’ve got a summer trip coming up, the last-gen Twelve South AirFly Pro is one of those gadgets that can make a long flight feel a little shorter. It lets you use your wireless headphones with in-flight entertainment systems, and right now it’s on sale for $39.99 ($15 off) at Amazon. That’s the best... View Source

Bank of America is changing its tune on OpenAI: after initially passing on lending to the AI company, it is now extending a $520 million credit line, according to sources. Bloomberg's Sridhar Natarajan joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The horror-comedy series Widow's Bay earned 19 Emmy nominations for its first season... View Source

SpaceXAI Grok 4.5 is built for real-world engineering. It excels in large codebases and handles long-running tasks that span multiple repositories, hundreds of skills, and a variety of tools. Grok 4.5 is efficient and fast. It uses half as many tokens per task, delivers higher tokens per second, and costs less than half as much ... Read more... View Source

As part of Microsoft's big Xbox "reset," which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to focus on "higher priority projects," Obsidian Entertainment is changing its plans. The studio, behind games like Grounded and The Outer Worlds, is starting work on a new Fallout title and has canceled "multiple projects," including a sequel to last year's Avowe... View Source

What does it take to keep a county of fewer than 400,000 people safe? For one North Carolina district, the answer to that question includes at least one humanoid robot. In an interview with local station WXII 12, Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough introduced his department’s newest toy: a Unitree G1. Introduced as part of a collaboration with the University of North Carolina’s Scho... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." President Trump threatens more strikes on Iran, oil jumps as tensions rise near the Strait of Hormuz, and the AI trade faces a fresh geopolitical test. Leslie Vinjamuri breaks down the risk of escalation, NATO’s Trump strategy, and the oil-market fallout. Plus, IMF’s Petya Koeva Brooks joins Open Interest on the... View Source

It allows you to reimagine videos stored in Google Photos using Gemini Omni... View Source

A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by adversary nations, according to a new study.In 2024, rumors began to swirl in military circles that Russia might be developing a space-borne nuclear weapon. At that time, two years into the war in Ukraine, Russia was well aware of how big a lifeline SpaceX's Starlink broadband... View Source

A little robotic switch-flipper has become my sidekick in combating cockroaches. Before I got the SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable, I'd tiptoe through the dark every morning, hoping I wouldn't step on one of those terrible bugs scurrying around as I made my way to the light switch across the room. Now I'm ready for battle before I even enter the room because I can switch it on from afar, thanks to the $... View Source

As worries about a growing super El Niño mount, new findings suggest a radical solution to mitigating its impacts... View Source

Trump Mobile. Trump Steaks. Trump Coin. Trump Vodka. By this point, you know the drill. The president’s latest personal venture doesn’t bear his name, but it does come with all the signature hallmarks of a Trump brand: it’s garish, incredibly shady, and likely to implode sooner rather than later. Called Freedom Fuel Network, the enterprise encompasses dozens of gas stations throu... View Source

The game maker is also canceling a planned sequel to last year’s ‘Avowed’... View Source

OpenAI's new voice mode for ChatGPT will acknowledge you as you speak, and slow down if you ask it to... View Source

When searching for an affordable electric vehicle these days, there are always tradeoffs. How much range are you willing to sacrifice, how much leg room and storage space, how many features, in the pursuit of that magic sticker price that won't break the bank? The Fiat Topolino is basically the ultimate embodiment of those tradeoffs. For the dirt cheap price of $13,995, you get a top speed of 19mp... View Source

Parents’ attachment to screens and smartphones can have negative, long-lasting developmental and psychological effects on their children, according to new research... View Source

Waymo will ditch human supervisors in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa and Denver... View Source

Between July 7 and July 17, Venus will put on two evening-sky shows: first passing close to Regulus, the brightest star in Leo the Lion, and then appearing near a waxing crescent moon.Both events are easy to see with the naked eye and offer excellent opportunities for casual skywatchers and photographers alike.Look low in the western sky after sunset for both events. Viewing times and positions ar... View Source

This week, Microsoft took a huge ax to its Xbox business. The company announced that it would be laying off 1,600 workers now, 1,600 more over the next fiscal year, and that it would be shedding four studios. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hasn't been shy about why she's making such dramatic cuts, saying in a memo that the business is "not healthy." Speaking to Fortune, she said that "we simply spread ourse... View Source

Oregon’s attorney general is seeking a court order for Paramount Skydance Corp. to hand over documents related to lobbying for its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and to delay closing the deal for 60 days while the state continues its antitrust probe... View Source

Amazon is working on a project codenamed 'Moonraker' that would enable the AI assistant to handle multi-step tasks more effectively... View Source

Morgan Stanley has an interesting 142 page report on SpaceX that has several material inconsistencies between its high-level assumptions about orbital compute scale, mass/payload, capex, and monetization and the known technical specifications for Starship launches, satellite power density, and real-world AI compute deals. However, we can set aside agreeing about the AI data centers in ... Read mor... View Source

Waymo’s fleet of autonomous taxis has garnered a reputation for causing mayhem on public streets, from trapping drivers in hours of hopeless gridlock to driving into oncoming traffic. The fact that there isn’t any adult supervision in the form of a driver has led to plenty of debaucherous behavior, from incessant smoking and adult activities to posses of teens hanging out of the window... View Source

The global market for frontier artificial intelligence is evolving... View Source

Renders of multiple new Samsung devices have arrived a few weeks before the company's next Unpacked event... View Source

The American Earth-observation company Vantor maps Earth from space in 3D. The images are available in near-real time, revealing immediate effects of natural disasters and armed conflict. What is more, the images are also absolutely stunning.Vantor, which operates a fleet of 10 satellites that image the surface of the planet with a resolution of 12 inches (30 centimetres), released the first set o... View Source

China will allow top artificial intelligence companies to buy a limited amount of H200 chips from Nvidia Corp., a sign the country is easing restrictions on the coveted US technology, according to the Information... View Source

It’s not a great time to shop for a gaming laptop. The unprecedented rise in cost for RAM (and storage to a slightly lesser extent) has made laptops with low-to-midrange specs cost much more than they should. Recent deals on gaming laptops worth your attention have been uninspiring, but one recently caught my eye: MSI’s Katana laptop with a 15.6-inch 1440p display, Nvidia’s RTX 5060 GPU, a fast In... View Source

A gut-busting parasite that’s known to cause “weeks of debilitating diarrhea” is spreading across the United States — and investigators are racing to understand what’s behind recent outbreaks. The intestinal infection, called cyclosporiasis, is caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, and is known to cause frequent — and often explosive — watery diarrhea... View Source

Fatima Boolani, Co-Head of US Software Equity Research at Citi, discusses the tech selloff and why infrastructure software is so important amid the AI trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Mondo Robotics Beni. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge What if you had a drone that wasn't a buzzy, annoying fly people wanted to swat - but rather a cute dog that runs and jumps? What if it could do tricks on command, and film your tricks as well? What if it could get right back up after a nasty-looking crash, dozens of times in a row? The first time I saw Beni on Instagram, I immediately... View Source

Julia Hermann, Global Market Strategist at New York Life Investment Management, says financials have been "less loved" by the market, but she says the sector is not strapped for cash and is a high quality area of the market. She speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company doesn't plan to release an offline version... View Source

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 3, a densely packed cluster of stars whose origins may be a merger between globular clusters in the early universe.NASA, ESA, and A. Sarajedini (Florida Atlantic University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of th... View Source

SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public today. Elon says it is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost. Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow. It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient ... Read more... View Source

The Google Pixel 10 lineup. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Google's upcoming Pixel lineup might cost more than last year's. A report from Dealabs spotted by 9to5Google suggests that Google could raise the starting price of its 41mm Pixel Watch 5 to $399, while adding LTE could bump the price to $499. That's a $50 jump from the base Pixel Watch 4, which starts at $349 for Wi-Fi and $449 for L... View Source

Police in British Columbia are investigating after a viral video shows a woman fast asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla traveling at highway speeds. As the CBC reports, motorist Carleigh King spotted the woman with her head slumped to her side while wearing large, wraparound sunglasses. Her eyes are shut, indicating she’s fast asleep. While officials have yet to confirm whether the driver had... View Source

Paradigm, the venture firm founded to invest in cryptocurrency companies, has raised a new $1.2 billion fund to make more bets outside of the sector, including artificial intelligence and robotics... View Source

If you indulge in late-night binge-watching on your Roku, Fire Stick or Google TV, you're going to want to enable this feature... View Source

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the clean room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 26, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz))NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is hanging out in the clean room at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, preparing for its epic journey to space. What is it?Roman is NASA's next big flagship mission, designed to explore the unive... View Source

Luxury real estate brokerage Douglas Elliman Inc. is betting artificial intelligence can expand its business beyond buying and selling homes... View Source

Apple's program to invest in US manufacturing sees it spend $30 billion on Broadcom chips... View Source

By now, it’s clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is if it replaces vast swaths of the human workforce with machines that run 24/7. The bad news is that this situation has created a world-historic financial market that, by some metrics, is looking worse than the run-up to the Great Depression. The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking incr... View Source

The International Monetary Fund left its global growth forecast largely unchanged for this year, saying that the boom in artificial intelligence helped offset the fallout from the conflict in the Middle East... View Source

Fi's latest dog tracker uses Starlink satellites for rural areas... View Source

The U.S. Space Force has acquired one of its first publicly acknowledged offensive weapons, one that can blast adversary satellites with beams of electromagnetic radiation to disrupt their signals without physically damaging them.The system, known as Meadowlands, was developed by L3 Harris. It is an electromagnetic warfare system, meaning it is designed to disrupt, deny or degrade an adversary's u... View Source

The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, is raising private capital, the DealBook newsletter reported early Wednesday. According to the publication, the company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130 billion. Coatue Management, a big asset manager, is expected to lead with a $4 billion commitment. Another $4 billion is expected to come from large institutional investo... View Source

Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, says the flare-up of fighting with Iran rekindles market concern that rising oil prices will stoke inflation -- and force the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's ``Surveillance.'' (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

US companies are increasingly turning to Chinese-made AI models to cut costs, something the government isn't happy about... View Source

Melbourne, Florida, United States, 8th July 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

Gus, the wirehaired pointing griffon, models the Fi Ultra while overlooking Charleston Harbor. Fi Ultra is the first Starlink-enabled pet tracker you can buy. It expands on GPS and LTE trackers, adding automatic failover to T-Mobile's T-Satellite-branded direct-to-cell service when venturing into cellular dead zones. That lets owners tap into SpaceX's constellation of low Earth orbit Starlink sate... View Source

AI’s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your “second brain,” to invent “new physics,” or to become the genius autodidact you always dreamed of being. Or you can drop these pretensions and just use it to crank out unimaginable amounts of fetish slop, as a group of researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado B... View Source

Jason Brenek plans to release more faith-based movies and independent films... View Source

DuckDuckGo will now block video ads by default in its browser... View Source

Houston-based company Venus Aerospace announced today (June 8) the closing of its "Series B" financing round, which raised $91 million to evolve its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) from functioning prototype to a scalable propulsion system with multiple applications. Venus completed a demonstration launch with its test vehicle in May 2025, accomplishing the first such flight from U.S. soi... View Source

For the last couple weeks, I've been in an extremely lucky position: I've been spending a lot of time playing games on Valve's Steam Machine. We gave the Steam Machine a 6, and I don't disagree with my colleague Sean Hollister's review. But even though I already own a PS5 and an Xbox Series X, and even though I've experienced the Steam Machine's drawbacks for myself, I would spend the $1,049 to bu... View Source

One analyst thinks the company will reach $10 trillion... View Source

Apple is testing devices with Chinese-made DRAM made by CXMT, which reportedly has ties to the People's Liberation Army... View Source

NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year in hibernation.Traveling such vast distances between our solar system's most remote objects means New Horizons often cruises for months at a time with little to do other than passively collect data. During these periods, the probe goes into a hibernation mode in which its ins... View Source

The company’s strong earnings fell short of an ever-rising bar for chipmakers... View Source

Apple has lost its court challenge against EU rules forcing it to open up its platforms to third parties... View Source

For more than a decade, one question has loomed over the race to build autonomous vehicles: Are cameras alone enough to safely replace human drivers, or do truly driverless cars need additional, overlapping sensors like lidar and radar to navigate the world reliably? Tesla has bet billions of dollars that artificial intelligence and cameras are sufficient. Nearly every other major autonomous vehic... View Source

The wave of AI-fueled earnings surprises that powered stocks in the last earning season will be tough to repeat, making it unlikely the results alone will spark a major rally, according to Christian Mueller-Glissmann... View Source