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Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.

Hide the boiler? New uses for folding screens

The room dividers are taking on chic and playful roles

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Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs approach to bioresilience

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs approach to bioresilience, using AI models to support prevention, detection and response.

GPT-5.6 System Card

GPT-5.6 is a new family of three models: Sol, our new flagship model; Terra, a capable lower-cost option; and Luna, our fastest and most cost-efficient model. The safeguards we have built for this launch—our most robust yet—are built to deliver these models safely and at scale, around the world.

Exclusive: Google DeepMind expands biosecurity effort amid AI safety push

Google says the same frontier AI models that could create new biological risks can also help prevent them.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot to launch model challenging Anthropic’s lead

Kimi K3 expected to exceed performance of Claude Opus 4.8 in sign of narrowing gap between US and China on frontier AI

Behind the Curtain: AI godfathers converge on regulations

The CEOs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP.

The AI Burn Book: Decoding the Cat Fights Between Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic

The AI industry's burn book is growing as Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly rip each other on X, with Altman throwing shade at Anthropic.

Sovereign AI, independent of America and China, is a pipe dream

WHEN THE leaders of the biggest Western economies gathered last month in the French Alps for the G7 summit, it was not just presidents and prime ministers in attendance. The bosses of America’s leading artificial-intelligence firms—Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sir Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind and Dario Amodei of Anthropic—were seated alongside the political bigwigs. Even the stewards of the mightiest economies, it turns out, are buttering up the potentates of AI.

CVS Wants to Become the AI Front Door to Health Care

CVS Health is betting it can drive customer engagement with an AI assistant it developed with Google.

The AI boom tests the limits of growth

Electricity demand is becoming the clearest measure of the AI industry's extraordinary expansion — and a test of how long that pace can continue.