‘A very, very unpleasant surprise’: Meta forced to halt data center water discharges after polluting city's water reclamation system with resistant bacterium — shutdown and cleaning of two water reclamation plants expected lasted months

Meta has been named as the source of contamination for a rare metal and drug resistant bacterium that shut down two water reclamation plants. [...]

The most beautiful beaches in Africa

From Seychelles' polished granite boulders at Anse Source D'Argent to Gabon's Loango Park where elephants surf the Atlantic waves [...]

xLight’s $350m bet to break ASML’s chip monopoly

xLight, a US-backed startup chaired by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, is raising $350m to build an xLight EUV light source that could loosen ASML’s grip on chipmaking. Days earlier, a Dutch rival [...]

OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent  — and it's already in the API

OpenAI has made a significant update to its most widely used language model, GPT-5.5 Instant, which is the default in the free version of ChatGPT. The company announced the upgraded version of GPT-5.5 [...]

The Strawberry Moon Appears Tonight, but This Full Moon Isn't Pink at All

The first full moon of the summer gets its name from a Native American source. [...]

US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line

Republican and Democratic campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, from vetting opponents to micro-targeting voters, according to a New York Times report. But the technology is still a political [...]

Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping." [...]

Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says

The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba will bar it [...]

Anthropic and the Trump administration deny discussing a government stake

The Trump administration and Anthropic have not discussed the government taking an equity stake in the AI company, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The denial follows a Fina [...]