Meta and Roblox Agree to Child Safety Measures in the Philippines
The Philippine government announced on September 1 that Meta and Roblox have agreed to implement safety measures for minors on their platforms, including age verification, parental controls and upgraded content…
Samsung Unveils CUBE Memory Strategy With HBM5 Performance Targets
At SEMICON Taiwan on September 1, Samsung Electronics laid out its next generation of memory products under the banner CUBE, disclosing specific performance targets for the first time: HBM5, the…
Cook Bids Farewell as Apple’s CEO: ‘My Title Will Change, But My Love Never Will’
At 11:59 p.m. Beijing time on August 31, Tim Cook posted a message on Weibo, the Chinese social network, that ended with a promise: “Tomorrow my title will change, but…
EU Designates ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox for Stricter Oversight
The European Commission announced on August 31 that it has designated ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox under the Digital Services Act, the bloc’s sweeping law for online platforms. ChatGPT will be…
DeepMind’s Cyclone Model Beats Operational Forecasts by a Day
For a meteorologist, a day of extra warning is the difference between an orderly evacuation and a surprise. Google DeepMind published a model on Sunday that claims exactly that advantage:…
IBM Quantum Computer Finishes a 15-Minute Task Classical Machines Can’t
The calculation took 15 minutes. On a classical computer, the same problem would take effectively forever, a task the researchers describe as practically impossible. The result, published on August 30…
Xbox Lets Players Trade Discs for Digital Licenses
The Disc-to-Digital program turns a decade of industry debate into a button press: a player inserts a game disc, and the console converts it into a digital license, permanently attached…
Bill Gates Proposes Tax on Robots and Reserved Jobs for Humans
Bill Gates returned on Aug. 26 to an idea he first floated more than a decade ago, proposing that governments tax the robots that replace human workers and create a…
AWS Acquires DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
On Aug. 26, Amazon’s cloud unit announced it has acquired DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the open-source analytics database that has become one of the most popular tools in…
Anthropic Launches $35 Million Open-Source Fund and Expands Mythos 5 Access
The announcement on Aug. 24 paired a checkbook with a security update. Anthropic said it is launching a $35 million fund to support open-source AI development, and it expanded access…