Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly affordable and high-powered open source AI large language models. The trend continued today with the release of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro, both available under the permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License, making... Read more

A New Jersey man has gone to court with a wide-ranging class action that takes aim at a major online gaming site and several well-known entertainers, accusing them of running what he describes as an illegal gambling operation with ties to music streaming manipulation. The case, filed in Monmouth... Read more

Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase since 2020, according to a report released Monday by the Federal Trade Commission.  Nearly 30% of Americans who reported being a victim of a scam last year said the scam originated on social media, with Facebook... Read more

A jury was selected on Monday during the first day of trial for Musk v. Altman in a federal court in Oakland, California. Some of the jurors that were ultimately selected voiced concerns over Musk himself, as well as the AI technology at the core of the case, but... Read more

Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two companies together for years and replacing them with a looser, time-limited arrangement that gives both sides far more freedom... Read more

The developers are urging all developers who installed version 0.23.3 to take the following steps immediately: 1. Check your installed version: pip show elementary-data | grep Version 2. If the version is 0.23.3, uninstall it and replace it with the safe version: pip uninstall elementary-data pip install elementary-data==0.23.4 In... Read more

Govee, a leading smart light maker, on Monday launched what could be the most interesting ceiling light we’ve seen. The Govee Ceiling Light Ultra turns your entire ceiling into a glowing array of light, complete with AI-generated scenes.  The 21-inch disk-shaped overhead light is filled with over 600 ultradense... Read more

In a time when almost everything is getting more expensive, this deal on the M5 MacBook Air has me hopeful about how laptop pricing will play out the rest of the year. The M5 MacBook Air has dropped back down to $949, which is $150 off its retail price.... Read more

Pros Excellent response time Comfortable layout Great haptics Controls match Steam Deck options Included wireless transmitter doubles as charge puck Guess what? Valve’s Steam Frame and Steam Machine still aren’t here yet, and there’s still no price known for them either. But another piece of Steam hardware is arriving... Read more

David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a kind of mastery that went far beyond mimicry. Silver has since founded his own company,... Read more