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Tim Wright/Getty Images There are two organizations that test the safety of vehicles and assign them ratings — NHTSA and IIHS. NHTSA stands for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and IIHS is the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Both use crash test dummies, which have a horrifying […]

The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case “g” intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160 million. The company says it […]

Parents are dealing with an influx of AI-generated children’s books, and while many of them can tell the difference, grandparents seem to be struggling. Seniors are reportedly buying up AI slop books and gifting them to younger family members, leaving them with stories that don’t read well or feature uncanny images. Many AI children’s books […]

It’s a full Dolby Atmos mixing studio… in a shed Designed to deliver accurate Atmos audio with pin-sharp precision Artists are delighted with the mixes, which required no tweaks If like me you used to have, or still have, a backyard office or shed for working in, you’re going to be green with envy at […]

If you ask an AI coding agent to write a standalone Python script to parse a single JSON file, it will likely give you a perfect answer in seconds. But the same agent often breaks if you ask it to build a systematic data processing pipeline, like ingesting thousands of messy documents, chunking text, scoring […]

Chrome for Android has a new Appearance menu that lets you customize the New Tab page, incorporating more color or even a photo into the browsing experience. The menu is in the “Customize your new tab page” section under the three-dot menu. From there, you can pick Chrome Default, upload an image from your device, […]

ChatGPT just got a lot better at understanding what you’re actually looking at. OpenAI has rolled out updates to its Chrome extension and desktop app that let ChatGPT read your open tabs, react to highlighted text, and answer questions about YouTube videos. The update arrived shortly after OpenAI shelved its standalone Atlas browser to shift […]

Amazon’s internal use of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet for a routine coding task appears to have cost the company $1.8 million, bringing it 9.6 times over budget. The project was supposed to link author data with Amazon product listings. Not only is it unclear whether the project was ever completed, but its wildly out-of-control budget went […]

Apple TV’s YouTube channel has shared the full panels for Matchbox The Movie, Widow’s Bay, Dark Matter, Mayday, and Silo, from its first-ever Hall H takeover at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Watch them below. Watch all five panels below Last Saturday, July 25, Apple held its first-ever Hall H takeover at San Diego Comic-Con, featuring […]

Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to change, and Greg Ulrich, the company’s […]