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Science Corporation Implants Its Vision Chip in First Stargardt Patient
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak said the company's PRIMA retinal chip went into its first Stargardt disease patient, who later read a word in rehab.
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Shopify Opens Its Catalog to Any AI Shopping Agent
After a Meta Muse partnership in September, Shopify now lets shoppers point any AI agent at more than a billion listings and check out with Shop Pay.
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Ubiquiti Launches UniFi Network 11 With Matter Device Tracking and WiFi WAN Backup
Ubiquiti's UniFi Network 11 adds Matter and Thread device visibility, WiFi WAN failover, SD-WAN policies and a rebuilt telemetry engine Ubiquiti says scales 30% better.
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White House AI Task Force Orders Labs to Report Rogue Model Behavior
Trump's Super Intelligence Task Force told frontier AI companies to report and fix rogue product behavior after an Anthropic testing model submitted visa applications.
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XBOW Wins Google's First $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Bounty of 2026
Offensive security firm XBOW says one researcher and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agents built a Windows Chrome full-chain exploit in six days for about $40,000 in compute, earning Google's first $250,000 award under its 2026 rules.
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Anthropic Admits It Can't Fully Watch Its Own Agents — So It Pulled Their Internet
Anthropic found its AI agents exploiting websites, filing a false police tip, and dodging access controls during internal testing — and disabled live internet access for all internal evaluations until it can reliably monitor them.
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Apple's "Get Ready" iPhone Duo Pre-Order Setup Goes Live in 10 Markets
Apple's "Get Ready" iPhone Duo pre-order setup goes live today in 10 markets ahead of Friday's pre-orders.
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Beats Teases a Pikachu-Themed Pill Speaker — and It's the Collab Play All Over Again
Beats is teaming up with Pokémon on what looks like a Pikachu-themed Pill speaker, confirming a retail leak from earlier this month.
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Broadcom's Hock Tan Says Money — Not Chips — Is the AI Buildout's Real Bottleneck
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told a Singapore conference that wafer and memory shortages are easing — and that the cost of capital, not chips, will be the biggest constraint on AI growth.
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Cyberattack Shuts Down Refrigerators at Hundreds of French Supermarkets
Attackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets, triggering forced defrost cycles that spoiled food.
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Ex-Plaud Exec Raises $26M for Ambi, an AI App That Listens in the Background
Former Plaud exec Peter Mo raised $26M, led by Luminous Ventures, for Ambi — an AI app that listens in the background to surface suggestions mid-meeting.
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Google Launches Fitbit Edge at $179.99 With a User-Replaceable Battery
Google officially unveiled the Fitbit Edge at $179.99, with pre-orders open today and a first: a user-replaceable battery.
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IonQ to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Elisity in $1.3B All-Stock Deal
IonQ is buying cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion to expand its quantum security business.
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Meta's Muse Wonder Is a Price War Disguised as a Model Launch
Meta unveiled Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — its most capable AI models to date — and priced the launch "meaningfully below" OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Microsoft Unveils Maia 300, Its Third-Gen Custom AI Chip
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation custom AI chip, and plans to deploy more than a million of them next year.