Today's Top Technology Stories

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.