Taking Apple's AirPods Pro Hearing Test Was a Reality Check. This Is How We Protect Our Hearing NowHearing difficulties aren't just an issue for older adults. Roughly 48 million Americans have some kind of hearing issue in one or both ears, according to a CDC report. What's to be blamed? From listening to music at dangerously loud volumes to regular exposure to unhealthy ambient sound levels at...

Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in open letter Anthropic has reached a stalemate with the United States Department of War over the military’s request for unrestricted access to the AI company’s technology. But as the Pentagon’s Friday afternoon deadline for Anthropic’s compliance approaches, over 300 Google employees and over 60 OpenAI employees have signed an...

Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model2 hours agoFaisal IslamEconomics editorNurPhoto via Getty ImagesFinance ministers, central bankers and financiers have expressed serious concerns about a powerful new artificial intelligence (AI) model that could undermine the security of financial systems.The development of the Claude Mythos model by Anthropic has...

Elon Musk Unwraps $25 Billion Terafab Chip-Building ProjectElon Musk took the stage over the weekend to announce a new partnership between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI to build a $25 billion chip-making factory in Austin, Texas, called Terafab. Acknowledging Samsung, TSMC and other chipmakers, Musk said the Terafab project needs to get off the ground because existing semiconductor partners...

Best Windows Laptop for 2026Two laptops recently joined the ranks among my Windows favorites in the Dell XPS 14 and MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI Plus. Each features an Intel Panther Lake processor and offers a compelling mix of performance and battery life. Neither could top the HP OmniBook 5 14 and its Qualcomm Snapdragon X series chip, however, as the laptop with the best battery life we’ve...