The Trump administration's ban of Anthropic's models has been criticized by cybersecurity experts and Anthropic employees as unfair. More than 150 cybersecurity experts have signed an open letter calling for the administration to lift the restrictions. Employees say that the well-known multiple protections built into the Fable model to prevent its use for cyber offensive uses is evidence that Anthropic is being unfairly targeted.

The second-generation iPhone Air is now in advanced testing. Apple plans to launch the device in Spring 2027. The device will retain its current look, but with a second rear camera for ultrawide-angle photography and an improved battery life. It will be powered by a version of the A20 Pro processor, the same chip coming to this Fall's iPhones.

AI will make some parts of biopharma faster and cheaper, but other facets of the industry are restricted by the physical world. Recruiting patients, dosing them, and waiting for results will still take time. Drug discovery will accelerate, but clinical development will remain a bottleneck. The durable position is built around the bottleneck, not in the path of advancing discovery models.

Mobileye is launching a robotaxi service in the US in 2027. The vertically integrated service will use the company's Moovit mobility platform to interact with customers booking rides and coordinate drivers. It will begin service with about 100 robotaxis in a yet unnamed city. The company plans to scale up to around 17,000 robotaxis within the next five years if the initial pilot goes well.

Thermal throttling in air-cooled systems doesn't just affect GPUs, it creates fabric congestion that impacts the entire cluster. WhiteFiber breaks down why liquid cooling is a workload performance decision that might change your ROI calculations.Read the analysis →

Lore is a version control system optimized for projects that combine code with large binary assets. It is designed for scalability and caters to both the needs of developers and artists. Lore features a verifiable, tamper-evident source of truth, an intuitive interface, and a full-surface API. It is fully open source under an MIT license.

Anthropic has shipped an overhauled version of Claude Design that attempts to fix its token consumption issue. With the update, Claude Design has transformed from a prototype toy to an enterprise platform. Users can now bring design systems into Claude Design from a GitHub repository, design files, or raw uploads. It can output consistent branding at speed and scale.

Many of Elon Musk's fans and investors expect him to merge SpaceX with Tesla. The two companies have long shared executives and other resources and are jointly developing multibillion-dollar projects. Musk controls SpaceX and is Tesla's largest shareholder, so it could raise legal issues and prompt lawsuits if he made the deal. However, this is unlikely to stop Musk, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Republican candidates, including President Donald Trump.

The surging costs of memory and storage chips are prompting Apple to raise its prices on its products. Apple's next major product launch is likely to be in September, but price increases could come sooner. The AI infrastructure buildout is eating up supplies for memory and storage chips. Prices have quadrupled since last year, and they're expected to continue increasing into 2027.

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The Nvidia GEAR lab will open-source the ENPIRE harness so that anyone can host their own self-running robot lab at home.

AI is enabling people to work faster by passing the actual work to the next person.

Local Qwen is able to provide real value for businesses in certain tasks and workflows.

Mark Zuckerberg attempted to lift employee spirits by promising to host a companywide AI hackathon in July, but workers told him that they were in no mood for such a thing.

Loops allow agents to prompt themselves and improve products without input.

AI makes putting together a design system less expensive than before, making the cost of building without a design foundation exponentially higher.