Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze

Google is shaking up the team behind Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate the Chrome browser and complete tasks on a user’s behalf, WIRED has learned. In recent months, some Google Labs staffers who worked on the research prototype have moved on to higher-priority projects, according to two people familiar with the matter. … Read more

MLS Will Play Three-Month ‘Sprint Season’ in 2027 Before European Calendar Switch

Get ready for the MLS 2027 “Sprint Season.” Major League Soccer will play a condensed three-month season before re-aligning its calendar to mirror European circuits such as England’s Premier League, Spain’s LaLiga, and Italy’s Serie A. The coming move to summer-to-spring schedule, which was approved last year, will require MLS — which has played winter … Read more

Lockie Ferguson to miss IPL 2026 start, puts family first: ‘Help my wife out’ | Cricket News

Lockie Ferguson (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak) NEW DELHI: Lockie Ferguson will miss the early part of IPL 2026 as he chooses to spend time with his family after recently becoming a father. The fast bowler, who plays for Punjab Kings, is expected to join the squad later in the tournament after taking a short break from … Read more

ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance

Julie Carpenter doesn’t blame human users at all for anthropomorphizing chatbots. The longtime human-AI interaction expert and author of The Naked Android sees generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, as intentionally designed to elicit these reactions from users through highly personalized memories and interactions that replicate social experiences. These one-sided connections may become even more complicated, … Read more

‘Strength behind my Man’s success’: Shaski pens heartfelt post for MS Dhoni’s father | Cricket News

MS Dhoni with wife Sakshi (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Chennai Super Kings wicket-keeper batter and former India captain MS Dhoni’s wife Sakshi Dhoni recently shared an emotional birthday message for her father-in-law Pan Singh Dhoni, highlighting his role in Dhoni’s journey. She posted a picture and praised his life story, calling it inspiring and crediting … Read more

Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI

Moxie Marlinspike, the privacy advocate who created the secure communications app Signal and its widely used open source encryption protocol, said this week that his privacy-focused AI platform, conferwill start incorporating its technology into Meta’s AI systems. Every day, billions of chat messages sent through Signal, Meta’s WhatsApp, and Apple’s Messages are protected by end-to-end … Read more