Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired’s Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: “Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology…
AI Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits Anthropic is partnering with SpaceX to ease capacity constraints that have stranded Claude customers, a gesture that may soothe developer discontent about service availability and cost. Ami Vora, chief product officer at Anthropic, announced the expanded rate limits during Code for Claude, a developer event livestreamed from…
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Security Money changing handsShutterstock 13% say they’ve sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests You can’t trust anyone these days! Get together with seven of your colleagues, and there’s a decent chance one of the eight will say they’ve either sold company login details in the past year or know someone who has, says UK…
AI Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff Cybersecurity vendor Arctic Wolf has laid off 250 workers in a restructuring that it says is designed to position the company to invest more in AI through its superintelligence platform and agentic Security Operations Center (SOC), a company spokesperson told…
systems Initial phases of SpaceX’s Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters Elon Musk’s SpaceX hopes to plow as much as $119 billion into the southeast Texas countryside to build a massive semiconductor fab to produce chips for orbital AI datacenters. We won’t hold our breath. The harebrained scheme is…
If you’re struggling to find a Mother’s Day gift under $30, location trackers are a good investment, helping mom keep tabs on keys, bags, luggage, and other valuables. The latest Tile Pro is one of the best on the market, and it’s on sale for $24.99 ($10 off) at Amazon and directly from Tile. While…
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial on Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI’s legal department determined a new AI model did not…
We’ve been reading your feedback on the new homepage. All of it. The kind and encouraging comments, the brutal ones, the “actually this rules,” the “please undo this immediately,” the bug reports, the feature ideas, and yes, the eternal request for dark mode. We appreciate it. A lot of you took the time to share…
Microsoft revealed last month that it’s planning to offer long-serving employees in the US the ability to voluntarily retire. While the terms of the buyout were supposed to be announced to employees tomorrow, sources at Microsoft tell me the company has posted them on its internal HR website a little earlier than expected. US employees…