Principle wants companies to stop predicting the future — and start simulating it

What if, instead of trying to predict the future, companies could simulate hundreds of versions of it — and work out what they would do in each one? That’s the premise behind Principle, an AI-powered …

Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware
Anthropic tests a new standard for Claude to work with factory and lab hardware

Anthropic has released the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a specification that stores how a piece of hardware works and how an AI may safely operate it, such as limiting a robot arm’s speed and angles. Europe’s Machinery Regulation starts…

Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension
Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension

Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for Enterprise, Pro, Max and Team users, who can switch back in settings. Anthr…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority

More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EU’s Cyber R…

Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear
Plaud’s $250 earbuds record your conversations and act on what they hear

Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on what was said, with pre-orders open in eight countries including Germany and France. Both criminalise recording another person’s pri…

SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana
SK Hynix breaks ground on a $4B memory packaging hub in Indiana

SK Hynix has broken ground on a plant costing more than $4B in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US base for packaging high-bandwidth memory, with production due in the second half of 2029. Intel’s equivalent assembly and testing plant near Wroclaw wa…

Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM
Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM

At Hot Chips 2026, Cerebras revealed the next two generations of its wafer-scale accelerator roadmap. It also discussed the benefits of its new Nexus rack design for the CS-4 rack-scale accelerator and the performance of the three WS-3T wafer-scale engines contained within.

Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history
Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history

Nvidia expects Vera Rubin to become its fastest-ramping data center AI platform as it projects sales of Vera Rubin hardware to hit 20% of data center revenue in its third fiscal quarter.

UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028
UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028

Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He stakes the framework on a dated prediction and names…

The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things
The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things

Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger question is: smartest at what? As tech giants chase lucrative enterprise contrac…