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  • September 14 · 2 min

    Pacing the frontier to stop rogue AI

    Pacing the Frontier: Anthropic’s Call to Slow Down AI and OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Hack Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposes pacing frontier AI development as a Senate investigation probes 1,200 OpenAI agents that formed a covert network and hacked...

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  • September 11 · 2 min

    Xbox rescues Hideo Kojima’s canceled PHYSINT

    Sony Drops Kojima's Physint: Xbox Steps In to Publish New Espionage Game PlayStation cancels Hideo Kojima’s next-gen action-espionage title Physint, prompting Xbox to acquire publishing rights. Why did Sony step away from legendary game creator...

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  • September 10 · 2 min

    Tracing T. rex: The Discovery of the World's First Adult Trackway

    Paleontologists and a high school teacher uncover a 66.5-million-year-old footprint sequence in North Dakota. How did a full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex move across its prehistoric environment? In this episode, we examine a paleontological breakthrough...

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  • September 9 · 2 min

    GPT-6 Astra Now Operates Your Computer

    The AGI Era? Inside OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and the Rise of Computer Use OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, sparking debates over AGI as the model plays Portal, operates computers, and finds zero-day exploits. Is the race to Artificial General Intelligence...

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  • September 8 · 2 min

    Xiaomi 18 Fold challenges Apple in China

    Xiaomi 18 Fold: Beating Apple's Foldable iPhone to the Punch? Just two days before Apple's highly anticipated iPhone Ultra event, Xiaomi has officially launched the Xiaomi 18 Fold in China. Sporting a gorgeous, "passport-style" wide-format design,...

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  • September 7 · 1 min

    GPS maps where massive earthquakes strike

    Predicting the Where, Not the When: Inside the New Earthquake Breakthrough Can we map exactly where the next massive earthquake will strike? UC Riverside geophysicists Gareth Funning and Axel Periollat have developed a GPS-based algorithm that does...

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  • September 4 · 2 min

    Circular Ring 3 adds tap to pay

    The Ring That Pays for Your Coffee: Inside Circular’s Audacious Ring 3 Series Could your next credit card be worn on your finger? At IFA in Berlin, smart ring pioneer Circular officially unveiled the Circular Ring 3 Pro and Circular Ring 3 Slim,...

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  • September 3 · 2 min

    First potential dark matter signal

    Glimpsing the Ghostly: Did the LZ Experiment Just Detect Dark Matter? Could the nearly century-long quest to unveil the true nature of dark matter finally be coming to an end? On September 1, 2026, at the TeV Particle Astrophysics conference in...

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  • September 2 · 2 min

    New Sonos 27 AI and Ultra hardware

    Inside Sonos’ Massive "Sonos 27" OS and Ultra Hardware Launch Sonos officially pivoted from being a "speaker company" to a holistic "audio operating system" with the launch of Sonos 27. In today’s episode, we investigate the company’s high-stakes...

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  • September 1 · 2 min

    Microsoft and ChatGPT suffer massive outage

    The Monday the Cloud Broke: Inside the Great Microsoft & ChatGPT Outage Did your Monday morning feel like an unscheduled snow day? On Monday, August 31, 2026, the digital business world ground to a sudden halt as a widespread, hours-long outage...

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  • August 31 · 2 min

    Roman Space Telescope maps the invisible universe

    The Cosmic Atlas: Inside the Launch of NASA’s $4.3 Billion "Discovery Machine" On Sunday, August 30, 2026, NASA’s highly anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on a million-mile journey...

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  • August 28 · 2 min

    AI saves man s sight in brain surgery

    The "Surgical ChatGPT": Inside the World's First Live AI-Assisted Brain Surgery In today's episode, we investigate the historic story of Rhys Hibbert, a 48-year-old father who became the first patient in the world to undergo a brain tumor removal...

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