📡 Ars TechnicaAug 27, 2026
AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
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📡 TechCrunchAug 27, 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they…
📡 The VergeAug 27, 2026
Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters
On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have…
📡 TechCrunchAug 27, 2026
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to…
📡 TechCrunchAug 27, 2026
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
📡 VentureBeatAug 27, 2026
Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it.That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 27, 2026
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
📡 The VergeAug 27, 2026
OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 27, 2026
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
📡 The VergeAug 27, 2026
Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for…
📡 VentureBeatAug 27, 2026
When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a…
📡 The VergeAug 26, 2026
Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the…
📡 TechCrunchAug 26, 2026
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and…
📡 TechCrunchAug 26, 2026
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
📡 TechCrunchAug 26, 2026
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.
📡 VentureBeatAug 26, 2026
Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 26, 2026
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.
📡 The VergeAug 26, 2026
Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet
Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI optimist, the Microsoft cofounder is now…
📡 BlogAug 26, 2026
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
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📡 Ars TechnicaAug 25, 2026
World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
📡 TechCrunchAug 25, 2026
Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
📡 TechCrunchAug 25, 2026
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
📡 BlogAug 25, 2026
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
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📡 Ars TechnicaAug 25, 2026
AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven't.
📡 TechCrunchAug 25, 2026
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.
📡 The VergeAug 25, 2026
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 25, 2026
Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.
📡 BlogAug 25, 2026
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
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📡 The VergeAug 25, 2026
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment…
📡 BlogAug 25, 2026
Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
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📡 Ars TechnicaAug 24, 2026
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.
📡 TechCrunchAug 24, 2026
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 24, 2026
Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.
📡 TechCrunchAug 24, 2026
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6…
📡 TechCrunchAug 24, 2026
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
📡 TechCrunchAug 23, 2026
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
📡 TechCrunchAug 23, 2026
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
📡 TechCrunchAug 22, 2026
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.
📡 TechCrunchAug 22, 2026
Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially…
📡 TechCrunchAug 21, 2026
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the…
📡 The VergeAug 21, 2026
Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a…
📡 TechCrunchAug 21, 2026
Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
📡 TechCrunchAug 21, 2026
The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on…
📡 The VergeAug 21, 2026
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 21, 2026
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
📡 TechCrunchAug 21, 2026
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
📡 BlogAug 21, 2026
Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition
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📡 The VergeAug 20, 2026
Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the…
📡 TechCrunchAug 20, 2026
Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
📡 TechCrunchAug 20, 2026
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
📡 TechCrunchAug 20, 2026
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
📡 BlogAug 20, 2026
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
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📡 The VergeAug 20, 2026
It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now
OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade…
📡 The VergeAug 20, 2026
Welcome to the AI crisis in math
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 20, 2026
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
📡 The VergeAug 20, 2026
Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 19, 2026
Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.
📡 TechCrunchAug 19, 2026
Researchers complain that OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program
Multiple cybersecurity researchers said they suddenly lost access to OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, which offers models with fewer guardrails for vetted users.
📡 TechCrunchAug 19, 2026
Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building…
📡 The VergeAug 19, 2026
OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit…
📡 The VergeAug 19, 2026
Meta AI is getting a Mac app
Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot,…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 19, 2026
Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.
📡 TechCrunchAug 19, 2026
TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers
TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
📡 VentureBeatAug 19, 2026
VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His…
📡 BlogAug 19, 2026
LFM2.5 Q4_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation
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📡 The VergeAug 19, 2026
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
April – 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time…
📡 BlogAug 18, 2026
How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?
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📡 TechCrunchAug 18, 2026
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
📡 TechCrunchAug 18, 2026
Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
📡 TechCrunchAug 18, 2026
Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear
Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 18, 2026
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
📡 The VergeAug 18, 2026
Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser
Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with…
📡 The VergeAug 18, 2026
Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many…
📡 The VergeAug 18, 2026
ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over…
📡 BlogAug 18, 2026
Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
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📡 Ars TechnicaAug 17, 2026
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”
📡 BlogAug 17, 2026
Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order
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📡 Ars TechnicaAug 17, 2026
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
📡 TechCrunchAug 17, 2026
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
📡 TechCrunchAug 17, 2026
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
📡 TechCrunchAug 17, 2026
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
📡 The VergeAug 17, 2026
Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's…
📡 The VergeAug 16, 2026
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed…
📡 TechCrunchAug 16, 2026
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
📡 The VergeAug 16, 2026
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking…
📡 The VergeAug 16, 2026
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in…
📡 TechCrunchAug 15, 2026
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
📡 The VergeAug 15, 2026
Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On…
📡 TechCrunchAug 15, 2026
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
📡 TechCrunchAug 15, 2026
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 14, 2026
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
📡 The VergeAug 14, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the…
📡 The VergeAug 14, 2026
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new…
📡 TechCrunchAug 14, 2026
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
📡 TechCrunchAug 14, 2026
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind…
📡 TechCrunchAug 14, 2026
Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 14, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
📡 The VergeAug 14, 2026
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba
Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing…
📡 BlogAug 14, 2026
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
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📡 TechCrunchAug 13, 2026
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 13, 2026
The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
📡 BlogAug 13, 2026
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets
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📡 TechCrunchAug 13, 2026
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues
Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 13, 2026
Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release
Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."
📡 The VergeAug 13, 2026
Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool
Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI…
📡 TechCrunchAug 13, 2026
Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.
📡 The VergeAug 13, 2026
I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human
Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys…
📡 The VergeAug 13, 2026
Does Google even want to win at AI?
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 13, 2026
Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history
📡 BlogAug 13, 2026
What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML
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📡 TechCrunchAug 12, 2026
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
📡 TechCrunchAug 12, 2026
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng—debated regulation, open-source access, and how America can compete as China advances in…
📡 TechCrunchAug 12, 2026
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital.
📡 The VergeAug 12, 2026
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream…
📡 BlogAug 12, 2026
Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis
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📡 The VergeAug 12, 2026
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks,…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 12, 2026
Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
📡 BlogAug 12, 2026
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
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📡 The VergeAug 12, 2026
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health
The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 11, 2026
Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?
📡 TechCrunchAug 11, 2026
Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users
Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June.
📡 The VergeAug 11, 2026
Another OpenAI executive takes off
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later…
📡 TechCrunchAug 11, 2026
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was "excited to help you all advance the mission from…
📡 TechCrunchAug 11, 2026
General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.
📡 The VergeAug 11, 2026
Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements
Google is gearing up to reveal a bunch of new Pixel devices on August 12th. A series of leaks leading up to the event suggest that the Pixel…
📡 The VergeAug 11, 2026
Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes
Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes…
📡 BlogAug 11, 2026
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens
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📡 Ars TechnicaAug 10, 2026
With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 10, 2026
Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
📡 BlogAug 10, 2026
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
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📡 TechCrunchAug 10, 2026
Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
📡 The VergeAug 10, 2026
Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence – his latest essay spans more…
📡 The VergeAug 10, 2026
What happens to Bose when headphones become AI?
Today, I’m talking with Lila Snyder, who is the CEO of Bose. You certainly know Bose — it’s one of the most famous brands in all of consumer…
📡 TechCrunchAug 10, 2026
Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 10, 2026
Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
📡 The VergeAug 10, 2026
Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure
Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you'll need for your next…
📡 BlogAug 10, 2026
Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale
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📡 BlogAug 10, 2026
Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
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📡 TechCrunchAug 9, 2026
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
📡 TechCrunchAug 9, 2026
Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
📡 TechCrunchAug 9, 2026
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
📡 TechCrunchAug 9, 2026
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
📡 The VergeAug 9, 2026
AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow…
📡 The VergeAug 8, 2026
An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 8, 2026
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
📡 TechCrunchAug 7, 2026
OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
📡 TechCrunchAug 7, 2026
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
📡 The VergeAug 7, 2026
Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore
It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer…
📡 The VergeAug 7, 2026
Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough
The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment…
📡 The VergeAug 7, 2026
OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful
OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The…
📡 BlogAug 7, 2026
TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?
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📡 Ars TechnicaAug 7, 2026
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
📡 The VergeAug 7, 2026
What’s behind the Google AI shake-up
Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer…
📡 TechCrunchAug 7, 2026
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation…
📡 TechCrunchAug 7, 2026
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
📡 TechCrunchAug 7, 2026
Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers
Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 7, 2026
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 7, 2026
ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
📡 The VergeAug 6, 2026
Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker
The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is "essentially a smart speaker without a display" that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of…
📡 The VergeAug 6, 2026
Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post,…
📡 TechCrunchAug 6, 2026
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
📡 TechCrunchAug 6, 2026
Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
📡 The VergeAug 6, 2026
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 6, 2026
Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders
Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.
📡 TechCrunchAug 6, 2026
Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking
This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker.
📡 The VergeAug 6, 2026
SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal
SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 6, 2026
AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
Why humans need to moderate humans.
📡 BlogAug 6, 2026
Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 5, 2026
Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
📡 The VergeAug 5, 2026
Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo
We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and…
📡 The VergeAug 5, 2026
Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the…
📡 The VergeAug 5, 2026
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole…
📡 TechCrunchAug 5, 2026
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
📡 TechCrunchAug 5, 2026
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 5, 2026
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
📡 TechCrunchAug 5, 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending…
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 5, 2026
SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 4, 2026
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
📡 The VergeAug 4, 2026
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired
The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with…
📡 The VergeAug 4, 2026
‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think
Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage…
📡 TechCrunchAug 4, 2026
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid…
📡 TechCrunchAug 4, 2026
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits
Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply.…
📡 The VergeAug 4, 2026
Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid
Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on…
📡 TechCrunchAug 4, 2026
Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.
📡 BlogAug 4, 2026
Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 3, 2026
US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 3, 2026
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
📡 TechCrunchAug 3, 2026
Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where…
📡 The VergeAug 3, 2026
Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect
The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes online. The new transparency obligations…
📡 TechCrunchAug 3, 2026
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent…
📡 The VergeAug 3, 2026
China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs…
📡 TechCrunchAug 3, 2026
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
📡 The VergeAug 2, 2026
Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI
Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew…
📡 The VergeAug 2, 2026
Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?
Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. They've pointed out how the practice is tantamount…
📡 TechCrunchAug 1, 2026
Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps
Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
📡 TechCrunchAug 1, 2026
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs … is not healthy for me or good for…
📡 The VergeAug 1, 2026
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which…
📡 TechCrunchAug 1, 2026
Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT
OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
📡 TechCrunchAug 1, 2026
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
📡 Ars TechnicaAug 1, 2026
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
📡 TechCrunchJul 31, 2026
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 31, 2026
Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 31, 2026
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
📡 The VergeJul 31, 2026
Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 31, 2026
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
📡 TechCrunchJul 31, 2026
Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s…
📡 The VergeJul 31, 2026
Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth
Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk…
📡 TechCrunchJul 31, 2026
Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content
Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
📡 The VergeJul 31, 2026
The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts
Several record labels, including the big three – Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group – have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In…
📡 TechCrunchJul 31, 2026
Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
📡 The VergeJul 31, 2026
It’s time to panic about AI safety
When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 31, 2026
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 31, 2026
How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.
📡 TechCrunchJul 30, 2026
Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in…
📡 The VergeJul 30, 2026
LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button
A lot of content on LinkedIn might seem like AI slop, and now, you'll be able to report those posts. As part of a series of updates to…
📡 TechCrunchJul 30, 2026
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 30, 2026
Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety
Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.
📡 The VergeJul 30, 2026
Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body
Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper…
📡 The VergeJul 30, 2026
Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million in funding to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway…
📡 TechCrunchJul 30, 2026
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
📡 BlogJul 30, 2026
GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 30, 2026
New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
Plus, a new policy for the AI protocol ensures features aren't removed suddenly.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 29, 2026
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
📡 TechCrunchJul 29, 2026
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
📡 The VergeJul 29, 2026
OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots
In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 29, 2026
Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 29, 2026
Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.
📡 TechCrunchJul 29, 2026
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant…
📡 TechCrunchJul 29, 2026
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 29, 2026
What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.
📡 The VergeJul 29, 2026
Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity.…
📡 The VergeJul 29, 2026
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope…
📡 BlogJul 28, 2026
The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 TechCrunchJul 28, 2026
Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.
📡 BlogJul 28, 2026
LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 TechCrunchJul 28, 2026
Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring…
📡 TechCrunchJul 28, 2026
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon
Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into compute, as the company seeks…
📡 The VergeJul 28, 2026
Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like…
📡 The VergeJul 28, 2026
Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget
Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in…
📡 The VergeJul 28, 2026
Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 27, 2026
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 27, 2026
“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 27, 2026
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
📡 TechCrunchJul 27, 2026
Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
📡 TechCrunchJul 27, 2026
OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 27, 2026
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.
📡 The VergeJul 27, 2026
Why China is giving away its best AI models
Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat…
📡 TechCrunchJul 27, 2026
Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs
Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.
📡 The VergeJul 27, 2026
Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic
Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 27, 2026
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
📡 BlogJul 27, 2026
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 TechCrunchJul 26, 2026
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
📡 TechCrunchJul 26, 2026
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
📡 TechCrunchJul 26, 2026
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
📡 TechCrunchJul 25, 2026
Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
📡 TechCrunchJul 25, 2026
One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
📡 TechCrunchJul 25, 2026
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
📡 TechCrunchJul 24, 2026
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 24, 2026
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section…"
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 24, 2026
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
📡 The VergeJul 24, 2026
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it…
📡 TechCrunchJul 24, 2026
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 24, 2026
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
📡 The VergeJul 24, 2026
You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and…
📡 The VergeJul 24, 2026
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI…
📡 TechCrunchJul 24, 2026
Anthropic launches Opus 5
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
📡 TechCrunchJul 24, 2026
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
📡 The VergeJul 23, 2026
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is…
📡 TechCrunchJul 23, 2026
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 23, 2026
AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
📡 The VergeJul 23, 2026
Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available…
📡 TechCrunchJul 23, 2026
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
📡 The VergeJul 23, 2026
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 23, 2026
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 23, 2026
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
📡 BlogJul 23, 2026
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 TechCrunchJul 22, 2026
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
📡 TechCrunchJul 22, 2026
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
📡 TechCrunchJul 22, 2026
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 22, 2026
Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 22, 2026
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
📡 The VergeJul 22, 2026
Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like
Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including…
📡 The VergeJul 22, 2026
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 22, 2026
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
📡 The VergeJul 22, 2026
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI…
📡 BlogJul 21, 2026
The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview
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📡 TechCrunchJul 21, 2026
Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 21, 2026
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
📡 TechCrunchJul 21, 2026
Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 21, 2026
Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
📡 The VergeJul 21, 2026
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as…
📡 TechCrunchJul 21, 2026
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
📡 The VergeJul 21, 2026
Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos
Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini…
📡 The VergeJul 21, 2026
Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display
I first slipped on Halliday's original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame…
📡 BlogJul 21, 2026
Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 20, 2026
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
📡 TechCrunchJul 20, 2026
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
📡 The VergeJul 20, 2026
SpaceX in your index fund, explained
Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as…
📡 TechCrunchJul 20, 2026
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services.…
📡 TechCrunchJul 20, 2026
X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
📡 The VergeJul 20, 2026
Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
Adobe's experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a "more natural (SLR-like) look" for iPhone photography, the Indigo…
📡 BlogJul 20, 2026
Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 20, 2026
Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.
📡 The VergeJul 20, 2026
China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI…
📡 TechCrunchJul 19, 2026
What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
📡 TechCrunchJul 19, 2026
Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
📡 The VergeJul 19, 2026
I hate that I don’t hate this song made with Suno
I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find…
📡 TechCrunchJul 19, 2026
‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
📡 The VergeJul 18, 2026
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started…
📡 TechCrunchJul 18, 2026
Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
📡 The VergeJul 18, 2026
The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 18, 2026
Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
📡 TechCrunchJul 18, 2026
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
📡 TechCrunchJul 17, 2026
Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
📡 TechCrunchJul 17, 2026
Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
📡 TechCrunchJul 17, 2026
AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 17, 2026
Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
📡 The VergeJul 17, 2026
TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool
TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt…
📡 TechCrunchJul 17, 2026
How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and…
📡 The VergeJul 17, 2026
Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 17, 2026
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
📡 BlogJul 17, 2026
Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 16, 2026
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 16, 2026
xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 16, 2026
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
📡 VentureBeatJul 16, 2026
The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base…
📡 VentureBeatJul 16, 2026
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already…
📡 TechCrunchJul 16, 2026
Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos…
📡 TechCrunchJul 16, 2026
Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos…
📡 TechCrunchJul 16, 2026
Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
📡 TechCrunchJul 16, 2026
Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
📡 The VergeJul 16, 2026
New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state
New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During…
📡 VentureBeatJul 16, 2026
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context…
📡 VentureBeatJul 16, 2026
The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context…
📡 BlogJul 16, 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 The VergeJul 16, 2026
Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even…
📡 TechCrunchJul 16, 2026
Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.
📡 TechCrunchJul 16, 2026
Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.
📡 The VergeJul 16, 2026
Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature…
📡 BlogJul 16, 2026
Newer Models, Same Advantage
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 TechCrunchJul 16, 2026
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
📡 BlogJul 16, 2026
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 TechCrunchJul 15, 2026
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
📡 VentureBeatJul 15, 2026
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and…
📡 The VergeJul 15, 2026
xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit…
📡 The VergeJul 15, 2026
AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs
This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey. It's on track to…
📡 TechCrunchJul 15, 2026
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its…
📡 The VergeJul 15, 2026
Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer
Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from online audio platforms, including…
📡 BlogJul 15, 2026
What building Shippy taught us about building agents
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📡 BlogJul 15, 2026
Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.
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📡 Ars TechnicaJul 15, 2026
OpenAI's first branded hardware is… a light-up keyboard?
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
📡 BlogJul 15, 2026
Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
Read the full story at Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 14, 2026
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
📡 TechCrunchJul 14, 2026
Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving…
📡 TechCrunchJul 14, 2026
Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out
Anthropic's latest advert is stirring up high emotions — which is undoubtedly what it was designed to do.
📡 TechCrunchJul 14, 2026
The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
📡 The VergeJul 14, 2026
SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 14, 2026
US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.
📡 The VergeJul 14, 2026
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 14, 2026
Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.
📡 The VergeJul 14, 2026
The Google Images homepage will recommend photos even before you search
Google is announcing a big change to the Google Images homepage in honor of the platform's 25th anniversary this week. Instead of a mostly blank page with a…
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 13, 2026
Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
📡 TechCrunchJul 13, 2026
The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring…
📡 TechCrunchJul 13, 2026
Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
📡 The VergeJul 13, 2026
The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI
When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and…
📡 TechCrunchJul 13, 2026
Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 13, 2026
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 13, 2026
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.
📡 The VergeJul 13, 2026
Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features
Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personalize their trips a…
📡 The VergeJul 12, 2026
Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
Lorde was performing at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn't…
📡 The VergeJul 12, 2026
Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in…
📡 The VergeJul 12, 2026
The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center buildout, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback…
📡 TechCrunchJul 11, 2026
OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
📡 TechCrunchJul 10, 2026
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said…
📡 The VergeJul 10, 2026
Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by…
📡 The VergeJul 10, 2026
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft…
📡 TechCrunchJul 10, 2026
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 10, 2026
Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.
📡 The VergeJul 10, 2026
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’
Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you don't…
📡 BlogJul 10, 2026
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile
Read the full story at Hugging Face – Blog ↗
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 9, 2026
OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you
Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."
📡 Ars TechnicaJul 9, 2026
Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs
Preclinical trial is testing the feasibility of humanoid robots in surgery.
📡 BlogJul 8, 2026
Data for Agents
Read the full story at Hugging Face – Blog ↗
📡 BlogJul 8, 2026
Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend
Read the full story at Hugging Face – Blog ↗
📡 VentureBeatMay 19, 2026
Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed…
📡 OpenAIMay 7, 2026
OpenAI Agents SDK 0.16 ships, switches default model to GPT-5.4-mini
OpenAI's open-source multi-agent framework moved to 0.16, swapping the default model from GPT-4.1 to GPT-5.4-mini, tightening MCP approval handling, and stabilizing chat completion stream output indexes.
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📡 AnthropicMay 7, 2026
Anthropic adds ‘dreaming,’ outcomes, and multi-agent orchestration to Claude Managed Agents
At Code with Claude, Anthropic shipped three big upgrades to Claude Managed Agents: 'dreaming' (agents replay past sessions to learn from mistakes), outcome-based goals, and first-class multi-agent orchestration.
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📡 Computer WeeklyMay 5, 2026
Google unveils Agentic Data Cloud to power enterprise ‘systems of action’
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google rebranded and re-architected its data stack as the 'Agentic Data Cloud' — letting enterprise agents query, reason over, and take action on…
DataEnterpriseGoogle
📡 BloombergMay 5, 2026
Anthropic ships specialized Claude agents for financial services
Anthropic unveiled a new suite of vertical Claude agents tuned for finance — covering research, compliance review, deal modeling, and client-facing communications, with controls aimed at regulated workflows.
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📡 Business InsiderMay 5, 2026
Google’s ‘Remy’ agent surfaces as Gemini-powered answer to OpenClaw
Internal Google project codenamed 'Remy' is being positioned as a Gemini-powered desktop agent aimed squarely at the operator workflow OpenClaw popularized — local execution, browser control, and persistent…
AgentsGeminiGoogle
📡 OpenClawApr 25, 2026
OpenClaw 2026.4.24 ships Google Meet participation and Gemini Live voice bridges
The latest OpenClaw release lets your personal agent join Google Meet calls, talk live through Gemini, drive deeper browser automation, and start plugins faster — plus hardened recovery…
OpenClawReleaseVoice
📡 OpenAIApr 22, 2026
OpenAI launches Workspace Agents in ChatGPT — Codex-powered agents for teams
Workspace Agents replace GPTs as ChatGPT's team-shareable agent primitive. Powered by Codex, they handle long-running workflows under organization-level permissions and controls.
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📡 @OpenAIDevs on XApr 16, 2026
OpenAI’s beefed-up Codex runs multiple agents on your Mac in the background
Codex can now operate in the background and deploy multiple agents simultaneously on a user's Mac — without interfering with other apps. A direct shot across the bow…
CodexDesktopOpenAI
📡 Perplexity (X)Apr 16, 2026
Perplexity launches Personal Computer for Mac — turn a Mac mini into an always-on AI agent
Perplexity's Personal Computer is officially rolling out to Max subscribers on macOS — a local AI agent that can see your screen, control native apps, and run 24/7…
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📡 @OpenAI on XApr 15, 2026
OpenAI ships next-gen Agents SDK — long-horizon tasks in sandboxed environments
OpenAI's updated Agents SDK gives developers standardized infrastructure to build agents that inspect files, run commands, edit code, and tackle long-horizon tasks inside controlled sandboxes — directly competing…
AgentsOpenAISDK
📡 AI Agent StoreApr 15, 2026
Zetrix AI & CAICT Launch Avatar — Digital Passports for AI Agents on Blockchain
Zetrix AI and China's CAICT unveiled Avatar, a blockchain platform giving AI agents verified identities and access to digital assets — essentially digital passports for autonomous agents handling…
AgentsBlockchainIdentity
📡 BenzingaApr 15, 2026
Anthropic Nears $800B Valuation as Claude Usage Explodes
Reports indicate Anthropic is approaching an $800 billion valuation amid explosive Claude growth, narrowing the gap with OpenAI and fueling IPO speculation in the AI industry.
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📡 SiliconANGLEApr 15, 2026
DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 for Precise Physical AI Tasks
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a foundation model designed for physical AI that can understand and interact with the real world — bridging the gap between digital…
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📡 SalesforceApr 15, 2026
Salesforce Advances Agent Fabric — Enterprise Control Plane for Managing Hundreds of AI Agents
Salesforce expanded Agent Fabric with MCP discovery, deterministic orchestration, and LLM governance — giving enterprises a trusted control plane for managing hundreds of agents across diverse AI platforms.
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📡 Cloudflare BlogApr 15, 2026
Cloudflare Launches ‘Project Think’ — Next-Gen Primitives for Building AI Agents at Scale
Cloudflare expanded its Agent Cloud with Project Think, a new set of primitives for building production-grade AI agents with built-in reasoning, memory, and tool orchestration — all running…
AgentsCloudflareInfrastructure
📡 Reuters / OpenAIApr 14, 2026
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber — a Restricted-Access Model Built for Cybersecurity Defenders
OpenAI released GPT-5.4-Cyber, a specialized model designed exclusively for cybersecurity companies. Days after Anthropic launched its Mythos model, the move signals a new era of domain-specific AI models…
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📡 AnthropicApr 14, 2026
Claude Code desktop redesigned around managing parallel AI agents
Anthropic's Claude Code desktop app now treats multiple concurrent agents as the default workflow — new sidebar for sessions, drag-and-drop workspace layout, built-in terminal and file editor, and…
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📡 AI CommunityApr 10, 2026
Meta unveils Muse Spark — a multimodal, multi-agent creative AI system
Muse Spark coordinates specialized agents for multimodal creative tasks, continuing Meta's push into autonomous multi-agent architectures alongside its internal coding agent initiative.
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📡 CommunityApr 10, 2026
OpenClaw explodes in popularity as the go-to open-source personal AI agent
The viral personal agent that lives in your chat apps and actually does things — clears inboxes, manages calendars, runs shell commands, automates browsers. Private-by-default, model-agnostic, and beloved…
Open SourceOpenClawPersonal Agents
📡 ComputerworldApr 10, 2026
Meta reassigns engineers into new AI unit to build autonomous coding agents
Meta is pulling top software engineers into a mandatory new AI unit charged with making autonomous agents do most of the work of building, testing, and shipping its…
AgentsEnterpriseMeta
📡 WIREDApr 10, 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents for enterprise AI deployment
The cloud-hosted infrastructure layer for production-grade Claude agents — sandboxed execution, long-running sessions, credential vaults, checkpointing, error recovery, and multi-agent coordination. Early adopters include Notion, Rakuten, Asana, and…
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📡 AnthropicApr 10, 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork — a desktop agent for non-coders
Claude Cowork turns Claude Desktop into an outcome-driven coworker that plans and executes multi-step tasks — research synthesis, document prep, file organization, and light browser work — all…
AnthropicClaudeDesktop Agents
📡 GitHub / CommunityApr 10, 2026
MemPalace: open-source hierarchical memory system scores record 96.6% on LongMemEval
MemPalace uses the 'memory palace' technique to give agents organic, hierarchical recall — beating Zep and Mem0 on every benchmark. Open-sourced with backing from actress Milla Jovovich, it's…
AgentsMemoryOpen Source
📡 OracleApr 9, 2026
Oracle introduces Fusion Agentic Applications for finance and supply chain
A new class of enterprise applications that reinvent finance and supply chain processes by unlocking time, capacity, and outcomes with autonomous AI agents.
AgentsEnterpriseOracle
📡 Claude LabApr 9, 2026
Claude API ships advisor tool, Batches API 300K output tokens, and deprecation deadlines
April's Claude platform updates include a new advisor tool pairing fast executors with high-intelligence models, expanded batch output limits, and Haiku 3 retirement on April 19.
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📡 AnthropicApr 8, 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents — production-ready cloud agents in days, not months
Anthropic unveiled Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs that pairs a tuned agent harness with cloud-hosted infrastructure — sandboxed code execution, checkpointing, credential management, scoped permissions,…
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📡 @AnthropicAI on XApr 6, 2026
Anthropic signs multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google and Broadcom
New agreement provides Anthropic with multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity starting 2027 — fueling frontier Claude models and meeting explosive customer demand.
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📡 CoinDeskApr 5, 2026
Ant Group unveils Anvita — a platform for AI agents to transact on crypto rails
Ant Digital Technologies launches tokenization services and a platform for agents to coordinate tasks and settle payments in real time using stablecoins.
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📡 Implicator AIApr 4, 2026
Anthropic Claude Code Leak Exposes 44 Hidden Features Including ‘Undercover Mode’
A leak from Anthropic's Claude Code package revealed 44 hidden features, including an 'Undercover Mode' system that prevents Claude from exposing internal codenames in git commits or outing…
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📡 Daily 1 BiteApr 4, 2026
Claude Code ships /powerup, MCP 500K context limit, and session stability fixes
Four rapid-fire Claude Code updates in one week bring interactive learning, a 500K MCP size limit, headless permission deferral, and key stability improvements.
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📡 TNWApr 4, 2026
Anthropic blocks OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions in cost crackdown
Anthropic shifts agent framework usage to pay-as-you-go billing, blocking flat-rate plans from powering third-party AI agent frameworks like OpenClaw.
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📡 @Microsoft on XApr 3, 2026
Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 — production-ready multi-agent SDK for .NET and Python
Microsoft's open-source Agent Framework hits 1.0 with multi-agent orchestration, support for diverse models, and complex workflow execution — now available on NuGet and PyPI.
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📡 OpenClaw PlaybookApr 2, 2026
OpenClaw 2026.4.2: Task Flows land, Android gets Google Assistant, and security tightening
Task Flows — durable background orchestration with child task spawning — go fully operational, plus Google Assistant as an Android launch surface.
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📡 TechXploreMar 30, 2026
OpenClaw’s creator says 2026 could be the year of general AI agents
Peter Steinberger discusses how OpenClaw's open-source agent framework is accelerating the path toward general-purpose AI agents that work across messaging apps.
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📡 OpenAI BlogMar 28, 2026
OpenAI launches GPT-5 with native tool use and agentic capabilities
GPT-5 brings built-in agentic workflows, multi-step reasoning, and seamless tool integration — a huge leap for AI agent builders.
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📡 @AnthropicAIMar 25, 2026
Anthropic ships Claude with persistent memory and MCP improvements
Claude now remembers context across sessions and ships major updates to the Model Context Protocol for richer tool integrations.
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📡 @mondaydotcom on XMar 11, 2026
monday.com lets AI agents sign up and work alongside humans on its platform
New infrastructure enables AI agents to register accounts, access the platform, and execute work alongside human teammates — a structural bet that agents are first-class workforce members.
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📡 VentureBeatJan 22, 2026
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a…
📡 VentureBeatJan 19, 2026
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination…