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Lu Zhenhua, a repairman hiding his identity as the director of Daxia Tech Institute, watches his son Lu Feng compete in a cybersecurity final. Huo Qichen attacks with quantum AI and leaks Lu Feng's work to Schmidt. Lu Zhenhua reveals himself, repels Schmidt, and Lu Feng grows into a tech leader. Epi

Lu Zhenhua, a repairman hiding his identity as the director of Daxia Tech Institute, watches his son Lu Feng compete in a cybersecurity final. Huo Qichen attacks with quantum AI and leaks Lu Feng's work to Schmidt. Lu Zhenhua reveals himself, repels Schmidt, and Lu Feng grows into a tech leader. Epi

AI hardware stocks lost ground, even as a selective group of technology names moved higher. The mixed performance across semiconductors, enterprise software, computing infrastructure, and emerging technology points to a divided session rather than a broad tech rally. For informational and educationa

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Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the mai

The funding comes as Ramp's annualized revenue crosses $2B, and its customer count reaches 85,000.

Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.

President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector a

The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabil

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app

MI5 warns of rising threats to Britain as foreign plots and AI reshape security risks From foreign-backed attacks to terrorists exploiting artificial intelligence, the intelligence chief says the threat is changing fast. Discover what MI5 says is driving the risks and why the consequences matter for

The Nasdaq fell 1.9% and the S&P 500 lost 1.1% as inflation and AI financing concerns triggered a technology selloff. CoreWeave and semiconductor shares were hit especially hard.

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.

Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns t

Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.

The new Muse Spark Open AI model can work on M5 Ultra Mac Studios. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class"

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni S

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

SK Hynix’s Solidigm is reportedly seeking U.S. approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.