Walmart has teamed up with OpenAI and will soon allow customers to shop their store using ChatGPT and its new instant checkout feature. Announced at the end of September, instant checkout is built with Stripe and leverages the agentic commerce protocol to help people make purchases with ChatGPT. Early partners......
Microsoft’s new image generator shows it’s ready to go its own way on AI
Microsoft is accelerating its push to develop proprietary artificial intelligence technology with the introduction of MAI-Image-1, its first internally developed text-to-image generator. The new model has quickly attracted attention within the AI research community, earning a spot among the top 10 performers on the popular benchmarking platform LMArena. Read Entire...
MetaGraph is like Google for DNA, just more compressed and jam-packed with genomic data
Mikhail Karasikov and his colleagues at ETH Zurich worked on MetaGraph, a search engine designed for genomic databases containing massive troves of DNA and RNA sequences. The project already provides access to millions of unique genetic sequences, and could one day open its doors to general users for custom genetic......
Windows 10 support ends today, but security updates are still available for one more year
Following the end of official support, users have three options to continue receiving security updates on their PCs. The simplest approach is upgrading to Windows 11, but Microsoft's strict hardware requirements mean that many perfectly capable Windows 10 devices cannot legally update to the latest OS. Read Entire Article
Microsoft’s October Windows 11 update adds AI shortcuts, tighter security, and a more unified Settings app
Microsoft began rolling out its October 2025 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 today, bringing a broad mix of new features and routine security fixes. The update applies to both the 24H2 and 25H2 releases, which share the same system architecture, and includes changes across security, system settings, and user......
New 2D memory chip could extend Moore’s Law into the atomic era
Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai have developed the world's first fully functional memory chip made entirely from two-dimensional materials. The achievement, published in Nature, demonstrates that atomically thin semiconductors can be successfully integrated with conventional silicon systems, a milestone once thought to be decades away. Read Entire Article
UK regulator fines 4chan $26,000 and counting under Online Safety Act
UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom writes that 4chan has not responded to a request for a copy of its illegal harms risk assessment or a second request for information about its qualifying worldwide revenue. Read Entire Article
The Netherlands invokes Cold War-era law to seize control of Chinese chipmaker Nexperia
The chip industry is beginning to resemble a battlefield, and governments around the world are taking preemptive action to avoid being caught off guard. Dutch officials have now announced that they will intervene in decisions made by Nexperia, a major producer of less advanced components such as diodes, bipolar transistors,......
OpenAI and Broadcom team up on $10 billion custom AI chip deal
OpenAI and Broadcom are moving forward to develop and roll out 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and computing systems over the next four years. This not only marks a significant stride in OpenAI's effort to expand its infrastructure but also signals its ambition to influence the design of specialized......
Obsidian for the privacy-minded: offline, secure notes
Obsidian offers a markdown approach to note-taking, stores your notes locally, and optionally syncs them with end-to-end encryption, keeping you in control. Obsidian supports graph views and backlinks, and caters to users who value privacy without sacrificing rich linking. Read Entire Article