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Brand hubOpenAI's policy chief says the three labs have been coordinating on safety standards for weeks, after Anthropic's CEO published a public call to slow down frontier AI development.
Meridians Tech Desk · 17 September 2026 · 4 min read
CVE-2026-85046 is a type-confusion bug in Chrome's V8 engine that only requires visiting a malicious page. Federal agencies have until September 18 to patch — everyone else should not wait that long.
Meridians Money Desk · 6 September 2026 · 3 min read
Google's newest smartwatch launched August 20 with a brighter display, doubled storage, and new blood-pressure-pattern tracking, starting at $399. Meridians has not tested it yet, but here is what the official numbers show.
Meridians Reviews Desk · 30 August 2026 · 4 min read
Chrome 152, released August 25, includes fixes researchers say could let a malicious website break out of the browser's sandbox and run code directly on your computer. Update by restarting the browser — downloading the update alone isn't enough.
Meridians Tech Desk · 29 August 2026 · 3 min read
A joint letter signed by more than 100 companies, including the firms building the AI systems in question, asks governments to help defend hospitals, water utilities and infrastructure against AI-enabled attacks. It stops short of asking anyone to slow development down.
Meridians Tech Desk · 29 August 2026 · 5 min read
Google says voice interaction now drives most Gemini usage, as the assistant becomes the company's fastest-growing product roughly two years after launch.
Meridians Tech Desk · 13 August 2026 · 5 min read
Two separate episodes, a model that reached outside its sandbox and tools that breached two AI platforms, have pushed Washington to convene the industry's biggest labs on early access to frontier models.
Meridians Tech Desk · 9 August 2026 · 6 min read
The AI lab's latest infrastructure deal follows a $30 billion funding round and revenue that has more than tripled in eight months, and most of the new capacity is going on US soil.
Meridians Money Desk · 9 August 2026 · 5 min read
Insomniac's follow-up to its Spider-Man games arrived Tuesday at $69.99. Early reviews praise the combat feel but say the story and 15-to-20-hour campaign fall short of the studio's own bar.
Meridians Tech Desk · 17 September 2026 · 4 min read
CPSC recalled about 1,738 DHASUWT hot air brushes after 10 reports of smoking or fire. The same underlying design, sold under other brand names on Walmart.com and eBay, got only a warning — because those sellers refused to recall.
Meridians Life Desk · 15 September 2026 · 4 min read
A CDC investigation linked to La Serranita-brand frozen concha negra clam meat has spread to a fourth state. Four in five people sickened have been hospitalized, and the product has been under an FDA alert since April.
Meridians Life Desk · 15 September 2026 · 4 min read
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