Meta's Quest Sales Are Falling — and the Company Says Only "Major Breakthroughs" Will Justify New VR Hardware
Meta's Q3 2026 earnings show Quest headset sales declining as Reality Labs posts $4.13B in losses. Zuckerberg says future VR devices will ship only when they deliver major breakthroughs. »
Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Pro Arrives with OLED Display
Apple has unveiled its first-ever touchscreen MacBook Pro, featuring an OLED display and M5 Pro/Max chips — a landmark redesign for the Mac lineup. »
Britain Bets £100 Million on an AI Lab to Fight Bioterrorism, with OpenAI and Anthropic Onboard
The UK government announced a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab this week, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind as partners — the first government-led effort to use frontier AI explicitly for biodefense. »
Carbon-X: Hugging Face's 14B Model That Speaks Both English and DNA
Hugging Face released Carbon-X this week, an open-weight 14.8B model that lets you ask plain-English questions about DNA sequences and get plain-English answers back. »
systemd Welcomes Rust: Linux's Init System Gets a Memory Safety Upgrade
After years of debate, systemd merged optional Rust support for new components on October 24th — a milestone for Linux security. »