Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we're in for a bumpy ride. The House renewed Section 702 with minor reforms on Wednesday evening. The bill didn't include the hotly debated warrant requirement, but it did feature a provision

Apple's iPhone revenue jumped 22 percent to $57 billion over the past few months, despite supply chain issues impacting the device's processor. During an interview with Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook said iPhone "demand was off the charts" but added that there's "a little less flexibility in the supply chain at the moment for getting more parts." Apple earned $111.2 billion in revenue during the second quarter of 2026, its "best March quarter ever," according to Cook. This latest earnings report co

One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. But large language models are often trained to blindly invoke tools, which causes latency bottlenecks, unnecessary API costs, and degraded reasoning caused by environmental noise.  To overcome this challenge, researchers at Alibaba introduced Hierarchical Decoupled Policy Optimization (HDPO), a reinforcement learning framework that trains agent

Linux is having a very busy year.