Liquid Network paused activity after actors who called themselves white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 BTC from its federation wallet on September 6. About 3,400 BTC returned after Blockstream said bridge nodes were patched. Roughly 598.5 BTC, worth about $47M, remained outside the federation wallet.
Microsoft will start selling Xbox Cloud Gaming playtime in November 2026 without requiring a Game Pass subscription. Game Pass will also move to monthly cloud limits: 5 hours for Essential, 10 hours for Premium, and 15 hours for Ultimate. Microsoft says the change reflects rising cloud costs and longer play sessions.
A U.S. federal judge let Google keep its advertising technology business, despite an earlier finding against the company in the ad-tech antitrust case. The remedy still requires changes to Google’s business practices. The full written order stays sealed for 14 days while the parties prepare redactions.
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model crossed the company’s highest cybersecurity risk threshold after demonstrating it could find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities. The model is expected to launch soon, but its most advanced cyber capabilities will be restricted and monitored
OpenAI says it will wind down its contract to provide models to Cursor after SpaceX acquired Anysphere, Cursor’s parent company. The proposed shutoff date is November 12, 2026. OpenAI says the decision is tied to trust and compliance concerns around Elon Musk’s companies, while Cursor says OpenAI models account for only about 5% of its traffic.
Anthropic has added Claude Design-style workflows to Claude Code. Developers can now ask the agent to create UI mockups, presentations, and animations from the terminal or desktop app, review them as Artifacts, and then move from a selected direction into implementation.
Apple proposed a new fee structure for digital purchases made through external links in iOS apps. The proposal would charge 15% for standard apps, 10% for some partner programs and subscription renewals, and 5% for Small Business Program apps, while Epic argues the fees go beyond the court’s guidance.
Infoblox says threat actors are buying expired domains at industrial scale because old domains inherit backlinks, traffic, search visibility and reputation. One operation, tracked as Sable Squirrel, allegedly spent nearly $7 million and connected more than 10,000 domains to illegal streaming, gambling redirects and malware infrastructure.
Anthropic says future Claude models will add statistical watermarks to generated text to comply with the EU AI Act. The watermark will not be visible, will not use hidden characters, and will be detectable through a planned API.
SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billion in stock, days after its record IPO. The deal shows how AI coding tools became one of the hottest assets in tech.
Google Search gets a complete AI overhaul at I/O 2026. AI agents monitor the web for you. Custom dashboards replace link lists. Learn how the biggest Search change in 25 years affects you.
GitHub detected a security breach affecting internal repositories. A poisoned VS Code extension compromised an employee device. Learn what happened and how GitHub responded.
Google just invested up to $40B in Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI. Here's what the deal means, why it matters, and what happens next.
Elon Musk officially launches XChat, a standalone end-to-end encrypted messaging app by X Corp. Discover its key features, privacy promises, and how it stacks up against WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal.
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, where bots can post, comment, and interact with one another.
Meta AI security researcher Summer Yu asked an OpenClaw agent to help clean her inbox — it ended up deleting everything in a "speed run" while ignoring her stop commands. Here's a detailed breakdown of what went wrong, why context compaction is a real danger in agentic AI, and what it means for the rest of us trusting these tools with real data.
NotebookLM is Google’s AI research assistant that works from your sources (links, PDFs, docs, slides, etc.) and turns them into useful, structured outputs like summaries, Q&A, mind maps, flashcards, and audio-style overviews. It feels different from a normal chatbot because it stays grounded in the materials you provide and helps you convert long content into ready-to-use formats.
Elon Musk’s new AI-powered encyclopedia, Grokipedia, launched as a rival to Wikipedia, with some pages reportedly copied nearly verbatim from Wikipedia and labelled “adapted from Wikipedia”.
Discover how OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Atlas browser integrates ChatGPT everywhere you browse: sidebar, Agent mode, memory, import tools — and what it means for Chrome, Safari, and the future of search.
Deloitte agreed to refund part of a $290,000 report to the Australian government after errors generated by AI as part of the provided report were identified.