Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a "family of devices," not one console
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Project Helix, once billed as a single next-gen console, is now a "family of devices," per BBC News, but specs, count, and disc support remain unconfirmed.
Behind China's automaker robot rush: a five-year plan, a magnet monopoly, and vanishing car margins
China's 15th Five-Year Plan and rare-earth export leverage, not just Tesla envy, are driving BYD, XPeng and other automakers into humanoid robots as margins collapse.
Sprains, Pain, and Whiplash: Robotaxi Test Drivers Are Getting Hurt as Waymo and Zoox Scale
OSHA filings reviewed by TechCrunch show more than two dozen 2024-2025 injuries to Waymo and Zoox test drivers from hard braking, exposing a gap between polished robotaxi demos and the job of riding shotgun in one.
An AI Wrote Her Life Story. 96.7% of It Didn't Happen.
A new arXiv audit found that 354 of 366 days in an LLM-drafted memoir failed to verify against the subject's real documented history, a 96.7% confabulation rate.
Startup Pitches Old Macs as Paid Nodes for AI Inference Network
Darkbloom wants to turn idle Apple Macs into paid nodes for a distributed AI inference network, The Register reports — though key details on payouts and safeguards remain unverified.
Why Scoring AI's Human Simulations Like a Math Test Gets It Wrong
A Renmin University team says grading AI social-simulation models against one "correct" human answer is fundamentally flawed, proposing a subjectivity coefficient and soft-label training method instead.
Alibaba's Chip Independence Pitch Is Bigger on Slides Than on Servers
Alibaba's CEO says self-developed chips will push cloud margins even higher, but T-Head's 650 external customers versus AWS Graviton's 120,000+ show how early this substitution really is.
Cisco's Bug Severity Warning Reads Like Olympic Gymnastics Scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, 7.5
Cisco disclosed nine critical-to-high severity flaws across Secure Workload, Crosswork, and BroadWorks on August 19, 2026, none exploited yet — and credits its own AI-assisted testing for catching them first.
