A senior AI reporter at Ars Technica was fired after publishing an article containing fabricated quotes generated by a language model, which the journalist failed to verify before publication. The inc…
S&P Dow Jones Indices declined to fast-track SpaceX into the S&P 500 and rejected a broader rule change that would have eased entry for newly public megacaps, including unprofitable AI firms such as O…
Google released Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter multimodal model designed to run on consumer laptops with 16GB of RAM or VRAM. The encoder-free model accepts text, images, and native audio, and it…
Google will allow website owners to opt out of having their content used in AI-generated search features while remaining eligible for traditional search results, following a UK Competition and Markets…
GitHub switched Copilot from request-based subscriptions to a token-usage billing model on June 1, 2026, with subscriptions now granting monthly AI Credits at a rate of 1 credit per $0.01 of usage. De…
Attackers used prompt-injection techniques against Meta's AI-powered support assistant to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts, including the Obama White House account, by tricking the bot into chan…
GitHub's new usage-based pricing for Copilot took effect today, replacing the previous request-based billing system. Many subscribers are reporting that their typical AI usage now consumes a month's w…
An international research team found that large language models integrated false statements into their outputs even when those claims were explicitly labeled as false in training data. The researchers…
A developer has created three free, ad-free Wikipedia-based search tools as alternatives to Google's AI-powered search results. The tools include MiniGladys for quick reference and official link searc…
A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-48710 and nicknamed "BadHost" was disclosed in the Starlette ASGI framework, affecting all versions prior to 1.0.1. The flaw allows attackers to manipulate…
A technical issue temporarily disrupted casting for first-generation Google Chromecast devices earlier this week, causing users to fear the devices had been permanently disabled. Google confirmed the …
Journalist and author Steven Rosenbaum, whose new book explores how AI distorts truth, acknowledged that a *New York Times* investigation found "improperly attributed or synthetic quotes" in his work,…
AcuRite is discontinuing its My AcuRite app as of May 30 due to "obsolete technology," forcing users to switch to the newer AcuRite NOW app. The company's VP of product development explained that the …
The International Space Station's Russian segment has resumed leaking atmosphere into space, with NASA confirming a loss of about one pound of air per day from the PrK transfer tunnel module. This ree…
Mozilla.ai launched cq exchange, a hosted knowledge store that allows AI agents to share experience-driven knowledge through private namespaces and a public commons. The release follows community feed…
"A Fact A Day," an autonomous daily educational podcast that summarizes scientific and technological breakthroughs in about 60 seconds. The entire production process, from researching sources like MIT…
Anthropic does not have a long-term road map for its Claude Code product, betting instead that rapid model improvements and developer feedback will guide its evolution, according to Cat Wu, the compan…