The European Commission must decide by February 10 whether to approve Google's largest-ever acquisition or open a deeper probe, in a case that could reshape cloud security competition worldwide.
The FDA's new Plausible Mechanism Pathway enables approval of one-patient gene editing therapies without traditional clinical trials, inspired by the first personalized CRISPR cure for an infant with a fatal metabolic disorder — but ethicists warn of a regulatory Pandora's box.
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2026 ships with AI agents for profiling and debugging, a decoupled build system, 50% faster solution loads, and full backward compatibility — positioning the 30-year-old IDE against Cursor and VS Code in the AI coding era.
A new class of high-entropy boride magnets made from earth-abundant metals achieves magnetic properties approaching rare-earth levels, offering a potential path to breaking dependence on Chinese-controlled supply chains for EVs, wind turbines, and electronics.
Substack disclosed a breach that went undetected for four months, with a hacker leaking email addresses, phone numbers, and internal metadata for hundreds of thousands of users on BreachForums.
The IEA's Electricity 2026 report projects renewables and nuclear will reach 50% of the global power mix by 2030, but warns that 2,500 GW of projects are stranded in grid connection queues.
OpenAI unveils Frontier, an orchestration platform for managing hundreds of autonomous AI agents across enterprise workflows, backed by a $200M Snowflake deal and Fortune 500 early adopters — intensifying pressure on traditional SaaS vendors.
French cybercrime investigators raided X's Paris office and summoned Elon Musk for questioning, as the EU, UK, Canada, Brazil, and at least four other jurisdictions pursue parallel enforcement actions over Grok's generation of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes.
Meta rewrites WhatsApp's media processing library in Rust, cutting code by 44% while hardening security for 3 billion users across every major platform.
Aviation automation startup Skyryse raises $300M Series C at $1.15B valuation to certify SkyOS, a fly-by-wire system replacing complex mechanical controls with a single joystick and touchscreens.
Both models launched on the same day but target different developer needs — Codex prioritizes speed and agentic reliability, while Opus leads on reasoning depth and multi-agent coordination.
Waymo secures the largest autonomous vehicle investment ever, tripling to 15 million rides in 2025 and targeting 20+ new cities including Tokyo and London in 2026