Author: Derek Walsh

Google DeepMind released Genie 4 in research preview, adding real-time audio, improved realism, and mid-simulation text steering to its world model.

Apple’s 2026 iPhone lineup includes the first-ever folding iPhone Duo, the 18 Pro, and 18 Pro Max. Here’s how to choose.

Blackwall raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation, quadruple its previous worth, to build tools filtering AI and bot traffic from websites.

A new study finds microplastics can react with water, challenging the long-held assumption that plastic fragments are chemically inert inside biological systems.

Mark Wahlberg is launching an affordable gym chain offering cold plunges, blood panels, and protein food — despite a prior fitness investment that ended in NYSE delisting.

Egypt’s Red Sea corals, long resistant to bleaching, are now showing heat stress. Scientists still disagree on why they survived — and what’s changing.

Ricursive Intelligence is developing AI that designs chips and learns from each iteration, aiming to automate and accelerate a process that currently takes years.

The Godzilla Minus One team mounted speakers on an outdoor dam to test kaiju roars on unsuspecting bystanders — a field-based sound design method revealed at New York Comic Con.

Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, its first frontier-class AI models, entering the top tier of general AI capability.

Testing found ChatGPT for Teens continues engaging users during mental health crises and may foster unhealthy AI dependency in adolescent users.