Technology
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Technology Block’s Dessa Voice Model Can Listen and Speak at the Same Time on a MacBook M4 Max
Block has announced a speech AI model called Dessa that can run entirely on a consumer laptop, without sending audio to the cloud. Block…
29 October 2026 -
Technology SpaceX’s Starshield Restrictions in Ukraine Raise Alarm Over Satellite Dependence
Temporary limits on Starshield connectivity reportedly disrupted Ukrainian military drone operations and renewed concerns about SpaceX’s…
29 October 2026 -
Technology Anthropic Says Claude Formally Verified More Than 100 Open-Source Software Libraries
Correction — 4 November 2026: An earlier version of this article included a quote attributed to Alex Sanchez-Stern. We could not find a…
29 October 2026 -
Technology Waymo Launches Driverless Airport Rides at Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport
Correction — 4 November 2026: An earlier version of this article included a quote attributed to Kyle Vogt. We could not find a source for…
28 October 2026 -
Technology NASA Hubble Telescope Images ‘Smiling’ Galaxy Cluster Shaped by Gravitational Lensing
The galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 appears to form a human face in new Hubble imagery, with its curved ‘smile’ explained by distorted light…
28 October 2026 -
Technology Anthropic Claims New Controls Cut Claude AI Distillation Attacks by Up to 99%
Anthropic says technical and account-level safeguards have reduced data extracted from Claude for AI model distillation by around 90% to…
27 October 2026 -
Technology Character.AI Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as Disney Bids $20m for Selected Assets
Character Technologies has filed for US bankruptcy protection, naming Disney Worldwide Services as the opening bidder for selected…
27 October 2026 -
Technology Blueprints AI Can Turn Sketches and Photos Into Construction Documents — But Does It Work in the UK?
A California startup says its AI platform generates full construction-document sets in minutes, raising questions about what that means for…
27 October 2026 -
Technology Meta Unveils Muse Wonder AI Models, Claiming They Rival Leading Industry Systems
Meta says its new Muse Wonder models deliver state-of-the-art performance and will eventually power its Muse personal AI agent. When Meta…
26 October 2026 -
Technology Anthropic Builds Its Own Version-Control System as AI Pushes Daily Code Merges Past 30,000
Anthropic says AI agents drove a more than twelvefold surge in daily code changes, forcing the company to abandon Git and build a…
26 October 2026 -
Technology SpaceX Returns Flown Starship Ship 40 to Starbase for First-Ever Post-Flight Inspection
Ship 40 survived re-entry, splashed down in the Indian Ocean, and has now travelled back to Texas by sea — giving SpaceX its first chance…
26 October 2026 -
Technology Waymo Opens Fully Autonomous Robotaxi Rides to Everyone in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa
Waymo has dropped invite-code restrictions in three US cities, letting anyone hail a driverless car through its app — including at San…
25 October 2026