If you’ve been patiently waiting for a discount on Apple’s latest earbuds or over-ear headphones, it’s finally here. For a limited time, both the AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Max 2 are on sale, knocking up to $100 off their regular prices. Whether you want pocketable earbuds for everyday... Read more

Anthropic is hailing the results of two cryptographic problems it threw at its Mythos AI security model that found weaknesses in the mathematical problems underpinning the robustness of two algorithms. At the moment, it’s hard to know how much of the company’s reporting is marketing hype, but the findings... Read more

The National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS) has formally backed keeping sports wagering and broader gambling policy under state control as prediction markets continue spreading across the United States. Its Executive Committee unanimously approved a resolution during the group’s July meeting in San Diego. The measure points... Read more

Workers who use Microsoft software seem to be having as many conversations with Copilot AI as with real humans in Outlook and Teams, Microsoft said Wednesday during its fiscal year 2026 fourth-quarter earnings call.  “The number of conversations per user nearly doubled year over year,” Microsoft CEO Satya... Read more

On Tuesday, the day after hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants effectively lost their temporary protected status that allowed them to live and work in the US, Republican pundit Steve Bannon wasted little time in demanding their instant removal. “I was under the assumption that when they pulled TPS... Read more

Nimble, a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI agents to improve accuracy and depth, is taking another step toward its vision of a world in which agents do most of the web searching instead... Read more

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed an executive order barring state employees from using confidential or nonpublic government information to participate in prediction markets, saying the measure is designed to strengthen ethics rules and preserve public confidence in state government. The action arrives as online prediction markets continue attracting... Read more

Gemini users on MacOS are getting new voice capabilities, Google announced Wednesday. The app was released earlier this year and the tech giant has consistently added new features since its launch. The latest release will give you new ways to interact with Gemini using just your voice and a... Read more

X has a new argument against sweeping underage social media bans that would limit usage of its platform: They interfere with international law. The social media platform, which sits within Elon Musk’s SpaceX, issued a submission to the Australian parliament published Tuesday that called for the government to drop... Read more

Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn’t a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That’s the kind of lesson Ryan Phillips, head... Read more