China is not only the world’s largest EV market; it has also become the main global manufacturing hub for EVs and the batteries that power them. In 2024, the country accounted for more than 70% of global electric-car production and more than half of global EV sales, and firms like CATL and BYD together control…
For the past three years, the Tor Project has been working to improve the tools, resources, and protocols used to monitor the health of the Tor network. This work aims to strengthen the Tor network’s resilience and resist relay attacks. As part of this effort, in October 2025, 7aSecurity conducted a code audit of those…
Building natural voice conversations with AI agents requires complex infrastructure and lots of code from engineering teams. Text-based agent interactions follow a turn-based pattern: a user sends a complete request, waits for the agent to process it, and receives a full response before continuing. Bi-directional streaming removes this constraint by establishing a persistent connection that…
The Chinese-language artificial intelligence app Haotian is so effective that it’s made millions of dollars selling its face-swapping technology on Telegram. The service integrates easily with messaging platforms like WhatsApp and WeChat and claims that users can tweak up to 50 settings—including the ability to adjust things like cheekbone size and eye position—to help mimic…
The price of prescription drugs in the U.S. continues to be a concerning issue to the public, with KFF polling consistently showing the public supports various approaches to lowering prescription drug costs. Efforts to rein in drug costs have long been a priority for both federal and state policymakers. The Trump administration has recently taken…
This post is co-written with Ranjit Rajan, Abdullahi Olaoye, and Abhishek Sawarkar from NVIDIA. AI’s next frontier isn’t merely smarter chat-based assistants, it’s autonomous agents that reason, plan, and execute across entire systems. But to accomplish this, enterprise developers need to move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that scale securely. This challenge grows as…
Overview On December 17, 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) published an advisory for CVE-2025-37164, a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in HPE OneView. The vulnerability, which was reported to HPE by security researcher Nguyen Quoc Khanh, facilitates unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on versions of HPE OneView before 11.0. Defenders are advised to prioritize upgrading to version…
We’re expanding our content transparency tools to help you more easily identify AI-generated content. You can now check if a video was edited or created with Google AI directly in the Gemini app. Simply upload a video and ask something like, “Was this generated using Google AI?” Gemini will scan for the imperceptible SynthID watermark…
Director Adam Bhala Lough didn’t set out to make a documentary about a digital simulacrum of Sam Altman. But after about 100 days of texting and emailing the OpenAI CEO for an interview—with no response, he claims, and with financiers hounding him to make good on his original pitch—Lough was at his wit’s end. He’d…
Jim Reed,Health reporter, Wesley Stephenson,BBC Verifyand Nick Triggle,Health correspondent Getty Images The NHS remains on high alert over flu, health bosses say, but there are clear signs the surge in the virus has come to an end for now at least. Community spread appears to have stabilised, the UK Health Security Agency says. Meanwhile, the…
