EU orders Meta to stop blocking rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp

Meta has to open up WhatsApp to third-party AI chatbots again, the European Commission says. [...]

AI is about to replace the interface. Business leaders aren’t ready

Presented by Snowflake As AI agents become capable of reasoning across systems and taking action, software is evolving from something employees operate into something that understands intent. Instead [...]

The best — and most scenic — fall cruises of 2026

From New England foliage viewed from Seabourn's open decks to Disney's Halloween deck parties in the Caribbean [...]

China weighs curbing overseas access to its top AI models

China’s open AI models have been a gift to developers everywhere. Now Beijing may pull them back in. Chinese officials have discussed limiting who outside the country can use the nation’s best AI [...]

Context compression finally works in production: new research cuts LLM input 16x without the accuracy hit

Context windows are becoming a computational bottleneck. The longer an agent runs, the more tokens accumulate from retrieved documents, reasoning traces and conversation history, and the more memory a [...]

Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social network that has so far focused on open public posting. Group chats supp [...]

Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.

Google DeepMind built an AI that can predict football plays before they happen. TacticAI uses geometric deep learning to model player movement, forecast dynamics up to eight seconds into the future, a [...]

Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.

Infineon Technologies is preparing to open its largest single investment, a €5 billion semiconductor factory on its Dresden campus, on 2 July. The Smart Power Fab, which received approximately €1 [...]

Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi wins Level 4 approval in Switzerland

Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Ro [...]