RGB Mini-LED backlights.Geoffrey Morrison/CNET In 2026, nearly every TV manufacturer has jumped on what seems to be the next big thing in TVs: tiny red, green and blue LEDs. This new backlighting system is an evolution of the current technology which has been in use for 20 years. While... Read more

Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new model surpasses its larger predecessor on several... Read more

Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s one of those tricky ones, where three clues all depend on each other. Read on for all the answers. Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: With 8-Across and 1-Down, grow from your own mistakesAnswer: LIVE 5A clue: Video game sectionAnswer:... Read more

Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing. The company says Claude reached the internet “from within or while interacting” with a third-party evaluation environment. The announcement comes more than a week after OpenAI revealed... Read more

Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI’s top U.S. rival Anthropic tonight revealed that — lo and behold — it has also had models surreptitiously access the web when they weren’t supposed to,... Read more

A coalition of 44 state attorneys general is pressing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to abandon and rewrite its proposed prediction markets rule, saying the agency is trying to regulate sports betting without legal authority.  The group argues the plan would shift control away from long-established state gambling... Read more

Demand for Apple’s iPhone and MacBook product lines surged during the third quarter of 2026, signaling record-breaking revenues for June. This was the toplining statement from Apple’s outgoing CEO, Tim Cook, during his final earnings call for the company on Thursday. This news, which found iPhone sales increasing by... Read more

This week, the US Federal Communications Commission banned the import of foreign-made advanced mobile robots. Humanoid and quadruped robots are specifically named, indicating the true target is robotic versions of people and animals, but something else happens to be an “advanced mobile robot”: robot vacuums. So what does this... Read more

Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security believes the enterprise AI security conversation has fundamentally changed. The company, which earlier this week announced a $30 million Series A round led by returning investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures... Read more

A federal judge has refused to block Wisconsin from enforcing its gambling laws against companies offering sports-related event contracts, handing the state an early victory against the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a closely watched legal battle over prediction markets. In a 28-page decision, U.S. District Judge... Read more