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US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Region inference, agents that run for up to 14 days on dedicated compute, expanded AWS GovCloud availability, and Strands Robots for physical deployment.
US agencies claim Chinese companies covertly extracted billions of tokens from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and SpaceX's Grok to reduce development costs.
Apple has just announced its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner screen, two back cameras, Touch ID for authentication, an IP68 rating, and all sorts of slick software tricks to make iOS feel more at home on the new device. Preorders start on October 16th ahead of availability on October 23rd, and it starts at $1,999 for 256GB of storage. It's a huge announcement for Apple, and we have many feelings about it. Here's our gut reacti
Apple's first foldable can be yours next month.
New study detects 3,200 references to Beatles song titles and lyrics in academic papers.
Four women sue Amazon, say company denied basic accommodations and fired them.
Security teams are starting to actively use AI for security work, including vulnerability triage, penetration testing, threat modeling, incident response, and code review. The promise is speed, but a security tool that moves fast and raises too many false alarms doesn’t save time. Engineers spend time on false alarms, on-call is noisier, and teams distrust […]
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