Hubble has one advantage over Swift. Astronauts fitted it with a soft-capture mechanism on the last shuttle visit in 2009, which should make docking easier. Astronomers expect no replacement for its ...

Google’s prototype data centre satellite has run an AI model in orbit and sent its answer back to Earth. The onboard Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku about being in space, Travis Beals, a senior director ...

The DeepSeek Super-Agent prototype is built to “take as little human attention as possible”. Its open-source code is now on GitHub.

Binance will absorb the financial impact,’ the exchange says, as the FBI blames the Binance hack on North Korea and withdrawals restart.

Anthropic has renamed its two Claude Max plans and dropped the five-hour usage limit on the more expensive one. It now calls the $100-a-month Max 5x plan Max, and the $200 Max 20x plan Ultra. Prices ...

VideoLAN says France’s gigabyte tax would cost it over €1m a year. Author Laurent Lhardit: “I fail to see how a tax can be passed on.” ...

We welcome the opportunity to explain our approach,’ Meta says, as the CMA opens an investigation into its terms for publishers’ content.

Meta humanoid prototype Max runs on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor, has five-fingered hands and a face screen. A second version is in the works.

Sands Capital is set to lead a $2bn round that would put Baseten’s valuation at up to $30bn, up from $13bn in June.

Instagram is paying some YouTubers to bring their long videos across. It has offered select creators $50,000 to $500,000 to post long-form work to Features, its new 90-minute format. Sydney Bradley ...

A blanket category rule against ‘games’”: developers say Claude Code now blocks commissioned game work, with no exemption.

Salesforce has agreed to buy Rune Technologies. The US startup’s AI software helps the military plan supplies near the front line. Salesforce announced the deal on Thursday. Rune will join ...