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 ...

Binance’s $6.3B hack shows the risk of keeping crypto on exchanges. Hardware wallets like Ambire Ice put the keys back in users’ hands.

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

The courts have repeatedly rejected attempts by xAI and the DOJ”: the NAACP’s xAI lawsuit over gas turbines goes ahead.

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 ...

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 ...

Palantir was caught in Anthropic’s clash with the US Department of War, its chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, told Ben Thompson for Stratechery, in an interview published on Thursday. Thompson ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

Austria says it is “unacceptable for Brussels to block member states” as the EU freezes its under-14 social media ban for a year.