Anthropic co-founder explains why there's a more than 60% chance that AI systems will autonomously build successor systems by the end of 2028.

AI

Colin Angle, the creator of Roomba and founder of iRobot, has unveiled 'Familiar,' an emotionally intelligent robot that responds to its owner's emotions like a dog.

Hardware

It has been pointed out that Novitex, a cryptocurrency exchange founded by Iran's elite 'Kharaj brothers,' is being used to transfer funds for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under US sanctions.

Note

The prediction market 'Polymarket' shows that only 0.1% of users capture 67% of the total profits, creating a situation where 'the most frequent traders are the most successful.'

Web Service

Headline news for May 7, 2026

Headline

A study showed that OpenAI o1 was able to make diagnoses far more accurate than both conventional models and human doctors, using only electronic medical records and a few sentences of information from nurses.

AI

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to lay off up to 14% of its employees as part of its 'AI-native' policy.

AI

Anthropic announces Claude Agent for the financial and insurance industries, providing support for document preparation, audit preparation, AML investigations, and more, aligned with business workflows.

AI

[Obituary] Kenji Ohba, actor who played Retsu Ichijoji in 'Space Sheriff Gavan', has passed away.

Note

Apple discontinues the 256GB storage model of the Mac mini, with the lowest price now set at 124,000 yen.

Hardware

The cost-effective AI model 'Grok 4.3' has been released, along with 'Custom Voices,' a speech synthesis function that can clone human voices in under two minutes.

AI

California introduces new enforcement system to determine who will be ticketed if an unmanned robotaxi commits a traffic violation.

AI

The Academy Awards have announced new rules that will exclude AI-generated acting and screenplays from their categories.

AI

It has been pointed out that Microsoft Edge stores passwords in plain text in memory.

Security

'GPT-5.5 Instant' is now available, becoming the new default model for ChatGPT.

AI

'Codex Pets' has been released, allowing you to add pets that report your work progress to the Codex.

AI

SubQ, an efficient AI model designed to outperform Claude Opus in processing long contexts, has emerged, capable of handling 12 million tokens and breaking the limits of Transformer.

AI

Google Chrome is being accused of secretly saving approximately 4GB of on-device AI models, and in some cases, they are re-downloaded even after being deleted.

Software

The technical overview of Bluetooth Core 6.3 has been announced, including 'improved range measurement performance' and 'reduced power consumption.'

Software

'CEO Sam Altman lied internally about the safety standards for AI models,' a former OpenAI executive testified.

AI

It has been discovered that malware was embedded in the long-established virtual drive software 'DAEMON Tools,' and that it was officially distributed for nearly a month without being noticed.

Security

Google quietly shuts down its browser AI agent, 'Project Mariner.'

AI

Claude's agent has a new feature called 'Dreaming' that allows for self-improvement.

AI

Anthropic announces partnership with SpaceX, raising restrictions on the use of Claude Code and APIs.

AI

Google has announced a technology called 'multi-token prediction' that uses small AIs to generate drafts, dramatically speeding up large AIs.

AI

The CAD files for the Steam Controller have been officially released under a Creative Commons license.

Hardware

'Neo Store' is an F-Droid client with fast repository synchronization times, a modern UI, and a wealth of additional features.

Review

A vulnerability has been discovered in which AI can insert formulas into spreadsheets without authorization and transmit confidential data externally.

Security

There is a possibility that strange climate cycles existed during the 'Snowball Earth' period, when the Earth was completely covered in ice.

Science

A super slow-motion video shows a golf ball being used to shatter a glass of beer.

Video