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Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores,…

UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were…

Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research

One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with…

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

"Immersive Linear Algebra" is an interactive online textbook by Ström, Åström, and Akenine-Möller that claims to be the…

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week.

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research…

Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service

The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

NTSB findings back Elon Musk's claim that driver manually overrode FSD.

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI…

OpenAI Builds a Red Team AI That Hacks Its Own Models to Make Them Bulletproof

OpenAI presented on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, an automated red-teaming tool named GPT-Red, tasked with strengthening…

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.

Stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears

A drone that spins 25 times a second can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the…

Autonomous AI agent economy faces infrastructure gaps: Visa, Artemis

Visa and Artemis found that infrastructure bottlenecks are preventing broader commercial adoption of the autonomous AI…

Chip giant TSMC pledges another $100bn to expand US production

The company says it will create "high-tech, high-paying jobs", and raises its total commitment to the US to $265bn.

Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.

Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines

The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.

OpenAI Uses AI Red Team to Strengthen GPT-5.6 Against Prompt Injection Attacks

OpenAI said its new automated red-teaming model, GPT-Red, uncovered vulnerabilities that were used to make GPT-5.6 more…

Meet Bonsai: The First 27B AI Model That Fits on Your Phone

PrismML's Bonsai 27B runs full reasoning AI on an iPhone for free. We tested it, and it's as impressive as it sounds.

Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory

An old Oscar Meyer factory in Wisconsin will become America's latest fusion power research and development hub.

Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.

Coinbase Says AI Now Writes 95–100% of Its Code: The Math Behind ‘1,200 Digital Workers’

Coinbase Head of Platform Rob Witoff says 95% to 100% of the exchange’s code is now written by or with artificial…

Predictive Markets: OpenAI Partners with Kalshi for the World Cup

Predictive markets are gradually gaining their place in digital tools designed for the general public.

Weathergotchi – an open-source climate Tamagotchi

Weathergotchi is an open-source, battery-powered climate data logger featuring a 1.54-inch e-paper display that records…

Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."

Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse

Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60…

A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era

Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.

Stripe and Advent Offer $53 Billion for Paypal: Here’s What It Means for Crypto Payments

Payments processor Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have offered to buy Paypal for more than $53…