Context windows have officially entered their "who can remember the most" arms race, and Google just showed up with an elephant. Gemini 3.5 Pro is now generally available, and it can hold two million tokens in its head at once — enough to s…

Two years ago, Apple and OpenAI were doing a very public victory lap together, ChatGPT baked right into Siri like a couple who'd just moved in together. Now Apple's lawyers are in federal court accusing OpenAI of raiding the medicine cabine…

Apple announced Apple Intelligence back in 2024. In China, it has spent the two years since then stuck in regulatory purgatory — the tech equivalent of waiting for a table at a restaurant that keeps saying "just five more minutes." Th…

Patch Tuesday is the one monthly ritual where "personal best" is bad news. This month Microsoft didn't just clear the bar, it pole-vaulted over it wearing a cape. 570 Flaws, Three of Them Already Loose Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday f…

Elon Musk's rocket company just IPO'd, and instead of buying, say, a bigger rocket, it went out and bought an AI coding tool for more money than most countries' GDP. Priorities. The Biggest Startup Buyout Ever, Paid in Rocket Stock SpaceX …

Every industry is bracing for AI to automate the boring parts of the job. Turns out ransomware crews got there first — except the boring parts of their job were also the entire job, and the robot they hired forgot to keep a copy of th…

Three frontier AI models dropped within nine days of each other this month, which is either the healthiest competition tech has seen in years or a sign everyone's compute bill is due at the same time. Google's entry showed up fashionably la…

Big Blue just had its worst day on the stock market in company history, and the culprit isn't a hacked mainframe or a botched product launch. It's AI — just not in the way IBM would have liked to be part of the story. The Number That Spook…

Jensen Huang flew to Japan this week and, in true Jensen fashion, skipped the omiyage box of snacks. He brought 27,500 GPUs instead. Sovereign AI, Now With Extra Vera Rubin On July 16, Japan's government, local industrial partners, and Nvi…

Somewhere in the South China Sea, a ship's crew reeled in the catch of the century. It weighed several tons, was on fire moments earlier, and used to be the first stage of a rocket. The World's Most Extreme Game of Catch On July 10, a Long…