OpenAI's long-rumored hardware project, designed with Jony Ive, is reportedly aimed squarely at the home — the clearest signal yet that the company wants a physical foothold beyond ChatGPT's app. Google keeps building out its own AI stack in parallel: Sheets now has a canvas mode for turning spreadsheet data into visuals, and the company quietly added a way to strip its visible AI watermark off generated images. DeepMind, meanwhile, is putting its sign language recognition work into an actual product for deaf users, a rare AI release aimed at accessibility rather than productivity.
On the road, autonomous driving keeps creeping into new places — Waymo just got the green light for rides in Sacramento and San Diego, while self-driving trucks are now testing on California highways for real freight runs. The Navy took a different angle on autonomy, 3D-printing combat-ready FPV drones and more than 1,000 spare parts aboard an aircraft carrier in 12-foot swells, proving out a floating drone factory mid-exercise.
Security news skewed toward power, not just data: a vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is being actively exploited, the White House has authorized private firms to run offensive 'hack-back' operations against foreign cybercrime groups, and investigators are still piecing together how Iranian actors got into US water utilities. Smaller but telling: Firefox is now the only major browser still backing uBlock Origin, as Chrome's Manifest V3 changes keep squeezing ad blockers out everywhere else.
