Google will cut off Search for student accounts in K-12 districts that block its generative AI tools, a policy it announced on Tuesday. Starting in early 2027, Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Gemini in Classroom will be off by default for K-12 students, and administrators will have to opt in through a management console to turn them on.
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Refrigeration and freezer systems at supermarkets and other businesses across at least seven European countries were hit by suspected cyberattacks overnight, with units heated or shut off and food spoiled, according to reports on Monday. Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, Estonia, Finland and the Netherlands were all named.
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Meta Platforms settled with K.D.B., an 18-year-old from Mississippi, on Friday. The settlement ends her claims in a Los Angeles trial that had been scheduled to pit her against the company.
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The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system has been offline since Monday night, and the agency has not said when it will return. "At this time, the FEC's electronic filing system is currently offline and our IT staff are actively working to restore service," the commission said in a statement.
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Atomic-6 said on Sunday that its Space Armor composite tiles have reached orbit for the first time. They flew aboard Portal Space Systems' Starburst-1 spacecraft, which launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission.
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Apple released the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone, on October 23. Apple described demand as "extraordinary," and delivery estimates in the U.S. and U.K. have since moved to January 22-25, 2027.
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Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, is now with buyers who pre-ordered it on October 16, and one analyst expects it to sell 20 million units in Apple's 2027 fiscal year. Apple has warned of limited inventory and long online wait times.
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Modal Labs, a five-year-old AI infrastructure startup, has raised $750 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.7 billion, the company announced Wednesday. Accel led the round, joined by new investor Kleiner Perkins and existing backers Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux Capital, and Bain Capital Ventures.
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Anthropic warned this week that steady gains in small AI models could eventually let them spread across internet-connected devices like Android TV boxes and smart appliances, and that models distributed across many devices could prove harder to shut down than ones running in a data center. The company laid out the findings in a blog post published Thursday.
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ChangeNOW announced the launch of "NOW AI" on Thursday. The announcement came after the company fixed a website integration vulnerability that it said was discovered with the help of independent security researchers.
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Qualys has released TruRisk Eliminate 2.0, a cyber risk remediation product built around a new orchestration engine called TruConfidence, which the company says enables what it calls "Autonomous RemOps." Qualys says the engine draws on its own track record deploying half a billion patches with a rollback rate below 0.1%, 40% of them pushed out autonomously without human sign-off.
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Niobia, a San Francisco startup, deploys AI agents on manufacturing lines to catch defects in batteries and chips, aiming to cut troubleshooting time from days to minutes.
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MediaTek is pushing beyond smartphone chips into data centres, automotive technology, IoT and smart glasses, according to the company's India managing director. Anku Jain discussed the plan with the Economic Times at the India Mobile Congress on Wednesday.
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Industrial Next, a San Francisco startup founded in 2021 by former Tesla engineers Lukas Pankau and Allen Pan, presented its AI-driven robotic workstations at the Startup Battlefield stage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running this week at Moscone West.
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Six new flagship AI models arrived within hours of each other on September 22, from Xiaomi, Anthropic and OpenAI, the latest wave in a release cycle that analysts say is starting to blur together in users' minds.
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Abhishek Yadav, a Silicon Valley-based tech professional who identifies as a non-resident Indian, published a post on X on Monday describing a trend he said is spreading among software engineers in San Francisco and Bengaluru: leaving stable jobs to pursue independent research instead.
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A report published Monday lists seven technology career fields it describes as the strongest options for workers in 2026, tying the demand to the continued spread of artificial intelligence and digital transformation across industries. The fields are AI engineering, machine learning and AI research; software engineering roles spanning industries such as finance and healthcare; cybersecurity work focused on protecting online data; data science built on statistics and Python; cloud computing on platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud; UI/UX design aimed at making digital products usable; and product management, which guides products from concept through launch.
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HackerNoon published a collection of 61 blog posts about electronics on Sunday, ranking the entries by reading time and ordering them according to reader engagement data gathered on the platform.
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Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said leading AI companies are pushing the chipmaker to ensure future smartphones can run AI models with as many as 100 billion parameters by 2028, a shift he said would move a growing share of AI computing onto the devices themselves rather than the cloud.
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Atlassian executives used a Team Europe 26 conference appearance on Sunday to lay out how the company wants businesses to approach artificial intelligence, arguing that most customers have moved past doubting AI and are now struggling to get value out of it.
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