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Breaking technology news for readers in the United States, filed the day it happens. We cover Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia alongside the security breaches, privacy rulings and antitrust cases that decide what your devices are allowed to do, and every story is checked against primary sources before it runs. Model releases and app news sit in AI & Software, handsets in Mobile.
Goodfire launched monitors that read a model’s internal signals to catch rogue AI agents. In its tests on Kimi K3 they cost a fraction of the usual approach.
Google has turned Gemini into an agent that plans work, delegates to subagents and has its own Workspace account. Here is what it does, who gets it first and what to watch.
Jean Philanthrope appeared on September 17, went viral shadowboxing around Paris, and has since acquired a sister, a mother, a wife and a son. He is also attached to a Solana meme coin, which is the detail that explains the family. Here is what the bot traffic numbers actually say, and what they do not.
GameStop repriced its pre-owned PS5 Pro stock to $1,399.99 against a $899.99 new list price, and an internal memo doing the rounds calls the markup deliberate. With GTA 6 six weeks out and new consoles out of stock everywhere, here is what is actually driving the number and what you should do instead of paying it.
Utah has signed a 12-month agreement letting Nolla Health’s AI issue first-time acne prescriptions, a US first. The headlines say an AI is prescribing without a doctor. The actual terms describe three oversight stages, a 24-hour reporting duty and malpractice cover for AI decisions. Here is what the rules really allow.
Apple renamed Wi-Fi Assist to Connectivity Assist in iOS 27 and moved it to the bottom of the Wi-Fi menu, where it is on by default. iPhone owners report screen-on time jumping from 3 hours to 7 after switching it off. Here is what the feature does, why it costs power, and how to turn it off in both places it hides.
Microsoft revealed prices for the Nvidia RTX Spark Surface Laptop Ultra and a $6,000 dev box, plus a Windows 11 feature meant to sandbox AI agents.
Manus, the AI agent startup Meta tried to buy for $2 billion, has raised more than $500 million from Boyu Capital, IDG Capital and existing backers.
Amazon’s About You page lists the conclusions its personalization model has drawn from your purchases, searches and Alexa conversations, and people are finding entries about their family, their diet and their body. It went live in May. Here is exactly where to find yours, what feeds it, what you can delete, and the one thing you cannot switch off.
A Telegraph report says YouTubers are being paid thousands to warn their audiences about AI. The organization doing the paying published its entire playbook a month earlier: nine sponsored videos, 6.3 million views, disclosure in every description. Here is what is actually hidden, what is not, and why both sides of the AI argument are now buying airtime in other people’s videos.