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Chrome’s Eighth Zero-Day Of 2026: Attackers Already Use An XML Bug. Here Is The Version You Need

Chrome’s Eighth Zero-Day Of 2026: Attackers Already Use An XML Bug. Here Is The Version You Need

Google patched high-severity Chrome bug CVE-2026-125350, which it says is being exploited. The fix is the browser’s eighth in-the-wild flaw of 2026.
Google’s Two New AI Chips Make Four In One Year. Why A Second Source To Nvidia Matters To You

Google’s Two New AI Chips Make Four In One Year. Why A Second Source To Nvidia Matters To You

Google announced TPU 8tx for confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for long inputs. Both are due in 2027; prices and independent tests are unavailable.
Citation Tracker For Brands Losing AI Search Traffic

Citation Tracker For Brands Losing AI Search Traffic

A proposed weekly citation-gap report would show B2B brands which pages AI search tools cite and help prioritize content rewrites.
China’s Trade Surplus Passes $1 Trillion Again. The AI Boom Is Doing The Heavy Lifting

China’s Trade Surplus Passes $1 Trillion Again. The AI Boom Is Doing The Heavy Lifting

China recorded a $1.04 trillion goods surplus in January–October 2026, as chip and computer exports rose sharply amid AI infrastructure demand.
France Says Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Hacked Its Supermarket Fridges. Here Is The Evidence It Showed

France Says Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Hacked Its Supermarket Fridges. Here Is The Evidence It Showed

France attributes an October attack on refrigeration controls at more than 700 retail sites to an IRGC cyber unit and says it will seek EU sanctions.
Instagram’s AI Now Decides Who Is A Teen, Worldwide. What Happens When It Gets It Wrong?

Instagram’s AI Now Decides Who Is A Teen, Worldwide. What Happens When It Gets It Wrong?

Meta says Instagram will use AI globally to place suspected 13-to-17-year-olds in Teen Account protections, including users with adult birthdays.
Apple Now Sells AI By The Pack: Intelligence Usage Packs, Explained

Apple Now Sells AI By The Pack: Intelligence Usage Packs, Explained

Apple has added one-time AI usage packs for Creator Studio, but has not said how much work the reported $49.99 pack covers.
Booker Prize 2026: M. John Harrison Wins With An Apocalypse Where AI Creeps In

Booker Prize 2026: M. John Harrison Wins With An Apocalypse Where AI Creeps In

M. John Harrison won the 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a near-future novel whose post-apocalyptic setting includes AI.
Meta’s Muse Ember Scores 36 For $0.14 A Task. The Catch: It Often Says “I Don’t Know”

Meta’s Muse Ember Scores 36 For $0.14 A Task. The Catch: It Often Says “I Don’t Know”

Meta’s Muse Ember matched Claude Haiku 5.5 on Artificial Analysis’s index at a lower task cost, but answered fewer factual questions.
Claude Fable 5.2 Is The New #1 AI Model. What Each Effort Level Costs You Per Task

Claude Fable 5.2 Is The New #1 AI Model. What Each Effort Level Costs You Per Task

Artificial Analysis ranks Claude Fable 5.2 first at Max effort, but its tested task cost ranges from $3.10 to $26.54 across effort levels.