2026-07-24

A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.

Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. The plea, first reported by Politico, came in letters from […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-24

A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. Politico first reported its text. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-24

The new Lola x Miffy digital camera is extremely cute and ships with a themed wrist charm

Let's be honest we mostly wrote about this because we think it's really cute. [...]

2026-07-24

Which of your old cables are actually worth keeping?

Clean out that cable junk drawer every so often and keep only the things you actually need. [...]

2026-07-24

This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about

"These are things that tend to be really hard." [...]

2026-07-24

Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck

Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida. [...]

2026-07-24

AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say

Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be. [...]

2026-07-24

GitHub restructures bug bounty program following flood of AI-generated reports

GitHub splits off open, public bug bounty programs from invite-only, VIP scheme which pays around 3-4x more. [...]

2026-07-24

The Razer Kiyo V2 is an excellent webcam, even though its fancy new AI features aren't really that exciting

Razer's second-generation Kiyo webcam delivers powerful performance with an excellent physical design, [...]