Daily Archives: Aug 9, 2026

I compared Google’s pricier Pixel 11 series to Samsung’s Galaxy lineup – here’s the better value now

Comply with ZDNET: Add us as a most well-liked supply on Google.ZDNET's key takeawaysPixel 11 costs might rise by $100 or extra throughout the collection, difficult their popularity for worth.  Samsung typically wins on {hardware}, whereas Pixel leads on...

Anthropic Retunes Fable 5’s Biology Safeguards, Cutting Blocked Queries 85%

Anthropic on August 7, 2026 launched an replace to the biology safeguards on Claude Fable 5 that the corporate says lower biology-related “fallbacks” by about 85% in testing throughout its product surfaces — the automated handoffs that route a...

Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

Situational Consciousness might have needed to unload nearly all of its public portfolio final month, however the AI-focused hedge fund remains to be making some massive bets. This week, the fund invested $400 million into Supply Foundry, a startup based...

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

In her upcoming e book “The Rise and Fall of the Synthetic State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech firms are more and more changing the capabilities of democratic authorities. This shift, she stated, marks “a return to tyranny and...

Lemma Raises $2.3M Pre-Seed to Tackle Silent AI Agent Failures in Production

AI agent reliability startup Lemma has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding to construct monitoring infrastructure designed to catch a very tough class of drawback: AI brokers that seem to have accomplished a process efficiently whereas quietly producing the...

I read Microsoft’s Windows 11 ‘quality’ progress report – and the subtext says it all

Comply with ZDNET: Add us as a most well-liked supply on Google.ZDNET's key takeawaysMicrosoft says it is refocusing Home windows on efficiency and reliability.File Explorer, Search, and Begin are getting responsiveness fixes.The strain so as to add new AI-based...

Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs

Suno, the service that enables customers to create AI-generated songs, at the moment introduced new instruments to mark tracks made on its platform, restrict downloads, and replace neighborhood pointers to stop copycat songs. The adjustments come as Suno faces...

OpenAI Says Upcoming Astra Model May Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold

OpenAI stated on August 7, 2026 that inner evaluations of Astra, one in every of its upcoming fashions, present such robust agentic coding and cybersecurity efficiency that the corporate can not rule out the Important cybersecurity functionality degree outlined...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: The compact foldable I’ve wanted all along

Seven years of folding telephone innovation have led Samsung to lastly embrace a wide-format design with its new Galaxy Z Fold 8. The compact, BlackBerry-esque telephone unfolds right into a mini pill, with side ratios that really feel extra...

OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

OpenAI’s movement to dismiss Apple’s commerce secrets and techniques lawsuit, together with newly filed displays, reveals the corporate’s authorized protection technique. Moderately than specializing in whether or not former Apple staff working at OpenAI had accessed sure info, the...

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Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

You in all probability know by now that the AI fashions powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and different chatbots are...