The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here

Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.

Revolut’s Nik Storonsky closes a $500m fund for his algorithm-run venture firm QuantumLight
Revolut’s Nik Storonsky closes a $500m fund for his algorithm-run venture firm QuantumLight

Nik Storonsky, the man behind Revolut, has closed a $500m second fund for QuantumLight, the algorithmic venture-capital firm he co-founded to let software, rather than partners, decide where the money goes. The fund is double the size of QuantumLight’s…

iOS 26.6.1 And iOS 18.7.10—Update Now Warning For All iPhone Users

Apple has issued iOS 26.6.1 and iOS 18.7.10, containing dozens of security fixes for iPhones. Here’s what you need to know.

AI Sandboxes That Intentionally Let AI Go Wild During Testing Can Badly Backfire

AI sandboxes are being allowed to let AI escape and see what happens. This is risky. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Today’s Wordle #1886: Hints And Answer, Tuesday August 18

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Wordle? Here are some expert hints, clues and commentary to help you solve today’s Wordle and sharpen your guessing game.

NYT ‘Pips’ Answers Explained For Tuesday, August 18

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Pips? We’ll walk you through today’s puzzle and help you match dominoes to tiles.

Oba Femi Vs. Bron Breakker Has A Date, Time And Stakes

Sunday Night’s Main Event runs Sept. 6 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Oba Femi vs. Bron Breakker and Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton are set. Start time and how to watch.

The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention
The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention

Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals …

Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data
Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data

Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on Monday. Every account of the deal rests on one word. The data is deidentified, so nobody need worry. The Spirit …

Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished
Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own…