The future leaves
signals in time.

Brazilian bank Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees through ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, operating in one of Brazil's most regulated sectors.

According to SammyGuru, Samsung's first smart glasses weigh about 41 grams with standard lenses and come in 26 frame and colour versions across the two eyewear brands building them. Samsung has published no weight, price or release date, so this remains an unconfirmed report rather than an official specification.

An NVIDIA Technical Blog post describes using RTX Spark to code, test, and deploy on a single machine. It notes that AI agents are changing how software is built, with developers shifting from writing every line of code by hand to directing agents that write most of the code; the provided context is truncated.

Six staff from METR, a non-profit that evaluates frontier AI models, now have Anthropic company hardware, office space and access to its internal tools and systems, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish about it. Anthropic says the access is "roughly on par with what our own risk assessment teams have access to".

Waymo's robotaxis are headed to Canada, with the company set to start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets.

Dan Taylor, director of engineering at optimisation and asset management provider Arenko, spoke to Energy-Storage.news about data in battery energy storage systems (BESS), covering standardisation, third-party choices and outcomes as part of building a BESS analytics strategy.

Allison Mjoen, NASA's operations manager for the Exploration Ground Systems Program, helped shape the systems and ground operations that will one day support human return missions. She and her family watched with awe and pride as supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage and NASA's SLS rocket roared to life.

Valve says it is starting a beta for Steam Achievement Sets, grouping a game's achievements into developer-made sets that each have their own progress bar and trophy, and letting developers archive achievements that can no longer be unlocked. Per the feed, base-game sets are shown in blue and DLC sets in purple.

An opinion piece argues that Europe needs electric freight corridors, not just electric ships. It notes that inland shipping looks particularly promising because many vessels travel repeatable routes between known terminals.

According to STAT, following a green light from the FDA, European regulators have now recommended approval of Revolution Medicines' (RevMed) pancreatic cancer drug Rasonque, moving the drug closer to European approval.

Following affirmative dumping and subsidy findings by the U.S. Commerce Department, the International Trade Commission's final vote found that solar imports from India, Indonesia and Laos are harming the domestic industry, securing the issuance of federal antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

In a WIRED review, the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is called "the first real AI PC" and a true MacBook Pro competitor for Windows, with Microsoft said to be closer than ever to dethroning Apple — though the review notes the device falls short on battery life.

University of Southern California (USC) scientists report a way to create a potentially renewable supply of genetically engineered immune cells that can attack cancer and strengthen the body's natural defenses. By growing and modifying immature immune cells rather than mature ones, the researchers developed a system that can continuously produce tumor-fighting cells inside the body.

A trio of large-scale 4-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in Germany—from Enertrag and Enlight, Vattenfall and Fluence, and Giga Storage—have progressed towards construction, with a combined total of 3.2GWh cited in the headline.

The Steam Frame kernel tree includes an OLED panel driver, panel-deckard-oled.c, on its own branch, and it is not the 3552x3840 panel read out this week for a mid-generation OLED Frame. The driver declares a single 1776x1920 mode at 90Hz, with a 120Hz variant commented out.

The newly independent Supernatural has revealed new features and plans to launch 'soon' on Quest in Early Access. The report says it will offer thousands of workouts at launch, with existing progress carrying over.

Innerspace's quirky espionage thriller Spymaster has left Early Access and is now fully released on PC VR and Quest. The full release adds four new missions that complete the story campaign.