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How Google's Noto 3D Emoji came to life

Luckily, the brand has now dropped a post showing what it took to take our favorite, popular emoji that we've all gotten familiar with to another plane. It's not easy As you might expect, it's not an easy task to take…

Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option

This could be a boon for Chinese developers used to purchasing lesser weapons from everyone's favorite AI arms dealer. If that weren’t enough, the chip, codenamed the Ascend 960DT — the DT here apparently stands for…

Samsung unveils next-gen OLED tech that hits 10,000 nits of brightness — but the bit you should be excited about is the 30% efficiency improvement

The new 'M16' OLED display is capable of 10,000 nits in 1% of the window, although in full screen it puts out a less searingly bright (but massively impressive) 2,800 nits. These numbers put it in the region of micro-LED…

'Bringing the game to console for the first time' means that ArenaNet 'can reach a much wider group of players' as devs say they want to offer an 'invitation' for everybody to play Guild Wars 3 together by bringing it to PS5 and PC — but not Xbox

"With us bringing the game to console for the first time, [and] with us launching on Steam from day one on our own platform, we can reach a much wider group of players," said studio head Colin Johanson during a guided…

'View your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient' — OpenAI tries to build a persona that makes it our equal, and yes, now even I'm worried

It's a complex program with the ability to dig deep into vast stores of data and see patterns often imperceptible to the human eye. Or is AI a shifty programmer with delusions of grandeur? As ever, two things could be…

The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI

That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track. How do you track an agent swarm that large? The emerging answer from AI labs and…

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

OpenAI said it has addressed the specific behavior, but it gets to the heart of one of the biggest problems in AI safety and alignment research today. As models get more capable, they also get better at hiding their…

Advanced AI Society joins the Linux Foundation, launches open verification ecosystem as Congress moves on agent security

Hosted by LF Decentralized Trust as a lab, this new standard builds directly on the production-proven Verifiable AI technologies of the alliance’s member companies. Co-designed alongside a coalition of over 80 global…

Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families

If you’re deep in the Google ecosystem, Gemini models have a lot of context on you already. Google’s latest Google Labs experiment, known as CC , aims to expand that kind of customization to the whole family. CC is an…

26 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Know You Have (2026)

Here’s what you may be missing ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. Courtesy of Amazon There’s a good chance that you initially purchased your Amazon Prime membership to get free two-day shipping. But there are dozens of…