OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 to everyone after the US government signed off
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 to everyone after the US government signed off

OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 publicly available after receiving approval from the Trump administration. The release ends weeks in which the model was restricted to a small group of government-vetted partners, CNBC reports. The model family comes in three ti…

Xiaomi unveils Sky Nomad, a boxy SUV series to chase China’s family-car money
Xiaomi unveils Sky Nomad, a boxy SUV series to chase China’s family-car money

Xiaomi has opened a second front in its rapid march into carmaking, confirming on Thursday a new SUV series called Sky Nomad and offering the first proper look at the boxy family hauler that will lead it. The move pushes the smartphone maker squarely i…

Fi’s new collar taps Starlink’s direct-to-cell to track dogs off the grid
Fi’s new collar taps Starlink’s direct-to-cell to track dogs off the grid

Smart-collar maker Fi is putting Starlink in a dog collar. Its new Fi Ultra taps SpaceX’s direct-to-cell satellites. A bolting dog stays trackable even where phone towers cannot reach. The next device to run on satellites is not a phone. It is a dog co…

Entire launches a distributed Git network built for AI coding agents
Entire launches a distributed Git network built for AI coding agents

Entire, the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke, has launched a preview of a distributed Git network built for the age of AI coding agents. The pitch is to spread code hosting across regions rather than lea…

OpenAI wins US clearance for a broad GPT-5.6 rollout after weeks of government testing
OpenAI wins US clearance for a broad GPT-5.6 rollout after weeks of government testing

OpenAI has been cleared to release its most advanced model widely, after the US government signed off on a broader rollout of GPT-5.6 that had been held back for weeks under Washington’s new oversight regime for frontier AI. Until now the model had bee…

Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle
Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle

Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run by an independent company named Open Standard, is a …

IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology
IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology

IBM announced that it has built the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology, a transistor architecture at what it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, node. It is the kind of milestone the semiconductor industry has been straining toward for years, and the ki…

Meta’s $399 Kylie Jenner glasses will talk back in her voice
Meta’s $399 Kylie Jenner glasses will talk back in her voice

The most expensive pair in Meta’s newly launched line of smart glasses is the one with a small gem on the lens and a celebrity attached. Meta revealed three frames built under its own name, and the priciest of them, a slim oval design called the Starfi…

Prosus launches ToqanClaw, an OpenClaw-style tool builder for its 5m merchants
Prosus launches ToqanClaw, an OpenClaw-style tool builder for its 5m merchants

The Amsterdam-listed group is putting conversational app-building in front of restaurants and shopkeepers, the users it says AI has so far left behind. Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a platform that lets people build apps, dashboards, and automations b…

Adobe just made its biggest AI push yet, and it stretches from Photoshop to Disney World
Adobe just made its biggest AI push yet, and it stretches from Photoshop to Disney World

Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of the…