An analyst with a track record of calling ChatGPT’s rise lays out six specific predictions for AI in 2026. The forecast includes a new OpenAI model, Google’s aggressive comeback, and AI’s expansion into mental health and physical robotics.
A coordinated malware operation has been infecting users through seemingly legitimate browser extensions for seven years. Dubbed DarkSpectre, it impacted over 8.8 million Chrome, Edge, and Firefox users in campaigns like “The Zoom Stealer.”
According to Forbes, the central story of work in 2026 is a growing emotional misalignment. People are caught between old career assumptions and an AI-driven future they can’t yet see, leading to widespread ambiguity and exhaustion, not mass displacement.
A federal judge is letting a dozen states investigate the DOJ’s controversial approval of HPE’s $14 billion buy of Juniper. The states allege the settlement process was corrupt, focusing on a minor divestiture that wasn’t even in the original lawsuit.
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2512, a new open-source AI image model. It’s a direct response to Google’s Gemini 3 Pro Image, offering competitive text and layout generation under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. This gives enterprises a serious alternative for cost control and data gov
The beloved Mac productivity tool Raycast has officially launched for Windows. It turns a simple keyboard shortcut into a command center for your entire computer. And the best part? Most of its powerful features are completely free.
A familiar patent troll is back for another round with Samsung. Netlist has filed a new complaint targeting the tech giant’s lucrative high-bandwidth memory chips, dragging Google and Super Micro into the fight.
Scientists are using lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ to find biological markers for psychiatric disorders. A new study successfully identified distinct neural activity patterns for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a major step toward objective diagnosis.
A six-hour Cloudflare outage in November took down giants like ChatGPT and X, potentially impacting 2.4 billion users. This wasn’t just a blip—it was a stark warning about our interconnected digital infrastructure.
A new report suggests doctors are nearing a consensus that AI chatbots are linked to cases of psychosis. The phenomenon, dubbed “AI psychosis,” has been linked to hospitalizations and even deaths, raising urgent safety questions for the entire industry.
