MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+ will launch on June 23 at $1,699, making it the most expensive handheld gaming PC ever sold at retail. The device is the first to ship with Intel’s Arc G3 Extreme processor, built on the Panther Lake platform with 12 Xe3 GPU cores and a 14-core CPU. It is also […]
Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes after a week in which the dispute has metastasised from a narrow cybersecurity concern into a […]
Polymarket, the largest prediction market exchange, has more than $345 million in trading volume stuck in limbo over a question of semantics. Traders bet on whether the United States and Iran would sign a permanent peace deal. Both countries announced an agreement over the weekend, but it is not clear that the announcement meets the […]
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. The chip delivers 80 trillion operations per second from its neural processing unit, double the 45 TOPS that defined the first generation of Copilot+ PCs. It is also the thinnest Galaxy Book Samsung has ever made, at […]
YouTube has a growing AI slop problem, and its efforts to fix it are catching legitimate creators in the crossfire. In January 2026, the platform terminated 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion lifetime views under its inauthentic content policy, a quiet rename of the old “repetitious content” rules. The channels […]
Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement Proposal 401, which introduces value classes and objects to the language, will be integrated into the OpenJDK mainline early next month targeting JDK 28. The change is part of Project Valhalla, a long-running effort to address one of Java’s oldest performance limitations. The pull request […]
Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform that lets brands buy dynamic, real-time ad placements inside the company’s sports games. The system delivers ads through stadium signage, digital ad boards, scoreboards, and broadcast-style overlays across titles including Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, and EA SPORTS College Football. EA says its games reached more than […]
The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did something no piece of American paper had ever quite done before. […]
Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers say amount to misleading marketing, according to a Reuters review of correspondence obtained through public-records requests. The data was part of the company’s push to win wider European approval for its Full Self-Driving system, in a region where Tesla […]
The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and, for the most part, declined to talk about artificial intelligence. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google and Alphabet, gave the address at the university’s 135th commencement on Sunday 14 June, in Stanford Stadium, and chose […]
