For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was obsessed with Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building, and they weren’t waiting for permission from the Anthropics and OpenAIs of the world. Chinese open-weight models accounted for
Reflection AI, a US startup vying to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion computing deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, will provide Reflection with access to Nvidia’s latest chips. The deal comes just weeks after the startup signed a similar agreement to
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offices in Atlanta are seen in 2022. The agency is investigating a rise in cyclosporiasis cases. Ron Harris/AP hide title toggle title Ron Harris/AP According to federal health authorities, a large number of cases of intestinal diseases causing diarrhea, nausea and fatigue have been detected in 34 states,
The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in global telecommunications infrastructure to locate US military personnel in the run-up to the Iran war, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to the Financial Times. The Iranian government leveraged Signaling System 7, or SS7, a set of protocols for 2G and 3G networks
A health worker at the Evangelical Medical Center, in Bunia, eastern Congo, on Friday, July 3, 2026, where Ebola clinical trials are scheduled. Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne/AP hide title toggle title Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne/AP Eighty percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo arise from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, a
New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Governor Kathy Hochul today signed an executive order temporarily prohibiting the state from approving new permits for large projects. Hochul’s order applies to data centers of 50 megawatts or more, which could affect more than a dozen projects. The state Department of Environmental
