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Ukraine’s drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice

JEREMY HSU

Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.

OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact

NICK INDGE

OpenBSD 8.0 lands with Intel Arc support, ARM64 hibernation, and 64-vCPU guests

JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service

SCHARON HARDING

A lifetime ad-free subscription is available.

Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

ERIC BERGER

Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.

Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

ASHLEY BELANGER

Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.

OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

JULIE BORT

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

TIM FERNHOLZ

SpaceX's data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as a space company behind to focus on artificial intelligence, which now makes up 52% of its income. Elon Musk's deep conglomerate reported on Tuesday $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue. […]

A New Rocco Smart Fridge Just Dropped. So Did the Prices (2026)

KAT MERCK

Save $100 on the new Essential or $200 on the original, and give your holiday drinks a place of their own.

Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy

REBECCA BELLAN

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.

Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

JULIE BORT

Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.

Merging SpaceX and Tesla would be a "good idea," Musk says

ERIC BERGER

"I do think there's a lot of merit to combining the companies."

Cops raid office of RFK Jr. allies planning “unethical” vaccine trial on babies

BETH MOLE

Guinea-Bissau police said hepatitis B vaccine doses were taken as part of an investigation.

Microsoft reportedly projects $1,200 to $1,800 price for 2028 Project Helix

KYLE ORLAND

Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.

SpaceX and Tesla boards form special committees to review merger

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

Elon Musk likes the idea but says he is not on either committee, which is made up of independent directors.

Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed

LUCAS ROPEK

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.