Technology News for Sunday 13th July 2025

1. AI startups believe Google's Chrome is vulnerable to a new wave of intelligent browsers

AI startups are breaking into the web browser business, posing a threat to one of Google's biggest businesses. Perplexity, which this week launched its own AI-enabled web browser, Comet, is leading the charge. Experts say Google's relative slowness on ...

2. Elon Musk's xAI apologizes for Grok chatbot's antisemitic responses

Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot feature issued an apology after it made several antisemitic posts on the social media site X this week. In a statement posted to X on July 12, xAI, the artificial intelligence company that makes the chatbot program, ...

3. Martian meteorite expected to sell for $2 million at auction in New York

Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning what's known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that also includes a juvenile Ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton that's more than 6 feet tall and nearly 11 feet long.

4. The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York

The juvenile Ceratosaurus nasicornis skeleton was found in 1996 near Laramie, Wyoming, at Bone Cabin Quarry, a gold mine for dinosaur bones. Specialists assembled nearly 140 fossil bones with some sculpted materials to recreate the skeleton and mounted it ...

5. Biggest piece of Mars on Earth going up for auction in New York

Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning what's known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that also includes a juvenile Ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton that's more than 2m tall and nearly 3m long.

6. Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 Coming to Android To Accelerate On-Device AI

To help developers take advantage of SME2, Arm provides a library called KleidiAI, which is integrated in Google's XNNPACK. XNNPACK powers several machine learning and AI frameworks, including Alibaba's MNN, Google's LiteRT, Microsoft's ONNX Runtime, and ...

7. The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York

NEW YORK -- For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning what's known as NWA 16788 on ...

8. How to keep your kid's Roblox or 'Fortnite' habit from wrecking your credit-card bill

By Genna Contino. It's too easy for young gamers to see digital payments as 'free money.' Here are some tips for talking to kids about finance. For one mother, the allure of "Fortnite" for her two sons quickly turned into a financial setback - without ...