Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI
Chinese hyperscalers have defined a distinct trajectory for agentic AI, combining language models with frameworks and infrastructure tailored for autonomous operation in commercial contexts. Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei aim to embed these systems into enterprise pipelines and consumer ecosystems, offering tools that can operate with a degree of autonomy. These offerings are accessible in the…
Fusion startup Helion hits blistering temps as it races toward 2028 deadline
Fusion energy startup Helion announced Friday that it has hit a key milestone in its quest for fusion power. Plasmas inside the company’s Polaris prototype reactor have reached 150 million degrees Celsius, three-quarters of the way toward what the company thinks it will need to operate a commercial fusion power plant. “We’re obviously really excited…
Highguard Dev Who Just Lost His Job Calls Out Toxic Online Reaction
Josh Sobel, who was formerly a tech artist and rigger on live-service shooter Highguard, posted a lengthy, eye-opening blog about his time working on the free-to-play FPS that has struggled since launching last month on consoles and PC. Sobel also talks about the response it got after its reveal and the harassment he suffered. On…
China-Linked Amaranth-Dragon Exploits WinRAR Flaw in Espionage Campaigns
Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. Check Point Research is tracking the previously undocumented activity cluster under the moniker Amaranth-Dragon, which it said shares links to the APT 41 ecosystem. Targeted countries include Cambodia,…
Moving experimental pilots to AI production
The second day of the co-located AI & Big Data Expo and Digital Transformation Week in London showed a market in a clear transition. Early excitement over generative models is fading. Enterprise leaders now face the friction of fitting these tools into current stacks. Day two sessions focused less on large language models and more…
xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing a full 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of the Tuesday night meeting were previously reported by The New York Times, which may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online. The full video reveals significant new details about Musk’s…
Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Man Series Is Unlike Anything In The MCU
Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Man Noir was one of the surprise fan favorites from the Spider-Verse movies. The actor used his Massive Talent and put on one of the more memorable performances in a movie full of them, even though he didn’t have as much screentime as Miles, Gwen, and Peter. The idea of a broody, monochromatic…
Docker Fixes Critical Ask Gordon AI Flaw Allowing Code Execution via Image Metadata
Ravie LakshmananFeb 03, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw impacting Ask Gordon, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant built into Docker Desktop and the Docker Command-Line Interface (CLI), that could be exploited to execute code and exfiltrate sensitive data. The critical vulnerability has been codenamed DockerDash by cybersecurity…
The hidden story behind AI’s sales race
As OpenAI races toward its ambitious US$100 billion revenue target by 2027, the ChatGPT maker is reportedly building an army of AI consultants to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and enterprise boardrooms—a move that signals a fundamental shift in how AI companies are approaching the notoriously difficult challenge of enterprise adoption. According to industry…
Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV
Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world’s most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve as the foundation of a grid-scale power plant the fusion startup intends to start construction on in 2030. Inertia Enterprises is building on technology developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)….
