The weight of the world title can break even the strongest of players. For 19-year-old D. Gukesh, the pressure recently reached a visible breaking point.

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ChatGPT 5.4 Thinking adds KUA computer interaction; demos show token use dropping by up to two-thirds in some tasks, lowering run costs.

Gukesh Dommaraju’s emotional apology during the Prague Masters highlighted a broader dip in form among India’s top players, including Arjun Erigaisi and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa. Experts cite heavy ...

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A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

Open Computer Use is an open-source platform that gives AI agents real computer control. Unlike chatbots that only talk about tasks, agents here actually perform them — browsing the web, running ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

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The UK's entrant for this year's Eurovision Song Contest will be YouTuber and electronic artist Look Mum No Computer. Real name Sam Battle, the self-proclaimed "massive Eurovision fan" is a performer ...

The UK's act for Eurovision 2026 has been revealed, following claims the previous representative had been axed by bosses when the BBC discovered their past 'unacceptable comments and behaviour'.