COSMIC 1.2 Arrives With AVIF Wallpapers, Wayland Fixes, and Smoother Intel GPU Support
System76's Rust-native desktop gets its second stable update, shipping AVIF wallpaper support, compositor flickering fixes, and better compatibility with newer Intel graphics hardware. »
Anthropic Just Built a Drug Discovery Lab — and Opened It to Researchers
Claude Science, launched June 30, integrates 60+ scientific databases into a single AI workbench, while Anthropic's own team pursues treatments for neglected diseases pharmaceutical companies ignore. »
China's GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth the Cost — and It's Fully Open
Z.ai's 753-billion-parameter open-weight model matches Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks while running entirely on Huawei silicon — a direct challenge to US AI dominance at a fraction of the price. »
Microsoft Goes All-In on Enterprise AI with $2.5B 'Frontier Company' and 6,000 Embedded Engineers
Microsoft's new Frontier Company bets that AI adoption failures stem not from bad software, but from a shortage of people who can actually make it work inside complex organizations. »
After 28 Years, ReactOS Can Now Run Half-Life 2 — A Milestone for Open Source Windows Compatibility
The volunteer-built Windows NT alternative hit a new milestone: booting Half-Life 2 in-game on real hardware, using a legacy NVIDIA driver — no emulation, no WINE, no VM. »