The Download: using AI to discover “zero day” vulnerabilities, and Apple’s ICE app removal

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
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Sony shrinks PS5 Slim storage in the US, too

Sony is now selling a revised model of the digital PS5 slim in the US that has less storage than ...
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Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong

OpenAI’s August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during the livestream, ...
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Sora 2 Is Generating Videos That Brutally Mock Sam Altman

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: AI Generated Video via Sora / Screenshots OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is getting ...
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Your Delivery Robot Is Here

Aarian Marshall: Hello. Michael Calore: Given today’s topic, I’m curious to know what is the most unexpected thing you’ve both ...
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Best early Amazon Prime Day laptop deals 2025: My 30 favorites sales ahead of October

Prime Big Deal Days is Amazon’s biggest sale event of the year, and it’s coming next week: October 7th through the ...
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The MVPs Of The Startup World Are Still Getting More Valuable

At $500 billion, OpenAI’s latest valuation is higher than the individual GDPs of more than three-fourths of all nations on ...
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Entanglement Breakthrough Linking Cores of Atoms Could Scale Up Quantum Computers

Quantum entanglement—once dismissed by Albert Einstein as “spooky action at a distance”—has long captured the public imagination and puzzled even ...
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Vast Reaches Heads For SteamVR Soon

Homeworld: Vast Reaches brings the real-time strategy game to SteamVR with upgraded visuals later this month. Developed by FarBridge, Homeworld: ...
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