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This year at CES 2026 everybody was pretty confused about the new “Micro RGB” and “RGB Mini LED” TVs that use similar technology but carry different names. Now, Sony has come up with another label for its own Mini LED TVs with RGB backlighting: True RGB. The idea is to emphasize that the individual red, green and blue LED backlights allow for “purer color, greater brightness, and the largest color volume ever achieved in Sony’s home TV history,” the company said.To be clear, this is not some new technology that Sony just came up with — it’s the same Micro…

Prior and Cropley discuss Lego Renault, real vs digital instruments and more In this week’s Autocar podcast Steve Cropley and Matt Prior discuss Audi’s plan to end five-cylinder engine production,  Plus, a Lego version of the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, real vs digital instruments and your correspondence. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts or via your preferred podcast platform. There’s a special magazine offer too, just for podcasts listeners if you click here. 

The UK’s beleaguered car industry is facing a new threat from changing EU rules that have been dubbed “pretty catastrophic” and “gravely concerning” if they go through as proposed.The Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) is the EU’s response to threats to key industries including automotive and battery making, mainly from China. 

McLaren will this summer finally preview its first new car since its bombshell merger with start-up Forseven – and the Woking firm plans to launch multiple models, all featuring combustion powertrains, by 2030. As first revealed by Autocar, the previously struggling British sports car firm was bought a year ago by CYVN Holdings, an Abu Dhabi state investment fund. It essentially merged McLaren with Forseven, which had been working in secret on developing a new line of vehicles, with the start-up’s CEO, Nick Collins, heading the combined operation. CYVN has invested around £1.5 billion in McLaren, which will allow the…

Elon Musk is still taking OpenAI to court over its transition to a for-profit company, but today he amended the complaint so that he won’t personally get any of the $150 billion in damages he’s pushing for. The Wall Street Journal reported that if Musk wins in his upcoming trial, he wants any damages should be awarded to the OpenAI nonprofit branch. He’s also seeking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s removal from the nonprofit’s board of directors if his suit succeeds.Musk launched a lawsuit against OpenAI in 2024, claiming that the business had become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft…

We see a lot of doom and gloom about the potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence, particularly centered on how it could create new problems in cybersecurity. Anthropic has announced a new initiative called Project Glasswing to help address those concerns by working “to secure the world’s most critical software” against AI-powered attacks. The endeavor includes Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks as partners.Participants will use Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased, general-purpose model from Anthropic, to enhance their own security projects. Anthropic claims that this model has found…

X is rolling out an update to its in-app photo editor that gives users the ability to edit photos with xAI’s Grok, blur faces and overlay text on images. The new editing features, in particular the addition of text-based edits via an AI assistant, bring it much closer in capabilities to dedicated photo apps like Google Photos.As part of the update, users are able to prompt Grok to make edits to a photo just by typing out what they want to see. The example video shared by Nikita Bier, X’s Head of Product, showed an image being edited so that…

Every week at The Neuron, we cover the AI tools, breakthroughs, and policy shifts shaping how 675,000+ professionals work. And every week, the same question keeps surfacing from the IT leaders, compliance officers, and CTOs in our audience: where do we even start with AI governance? I get it. The gap between “we should probably have an AI policy” and “we have a defensible governance framework” feels enormous. You’re drowning in vendor hype, regulatory checklists from four different jurisdictions, and a steady drip of headlines about what happens when organizations skip this step. In March 2026, an autonomous AI agent…

Image from: BoliviaInteligente (Unsplash) Infrared chips that can see through darkness, fog, and smoke are typically reserved for military systems and high-end research due to their cost. Now, a Chinese research team says it has found a way to make them far more affordable, potentially opening doors to wider use in everyday technologies. These sensors, which detect light invisible to the human eye, help machines “see” in low visibility. That means safer self-driving systems in bad weather, better factory inspection tools, and improved smartphone cameras in dim conditions. Xidian University said its new manufacturing approach could dramatically lower costs, with…

Image: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein The White House is reportedly considering expanding its ban on the import of Chinese equipment for critical infrastructure, including telecom networks, internet equipment, and data centers. It is the first time since 2022 that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has looked at refining the law, which had previously barred Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua from selling equipment in the country. These companies are listed on a “Covered List”, indicating they pose a national security threat. At the time, the ban was targeted at specific industries, whereas the agency is reportedly looking to expand it beyond…