Uber Technologies Inc.'s average US fares rose 83% from 2018 to 2022, nearly four times the annual rate of inflation, according to Business Insider, which found that identical UberX ride requests at t…
Pope Leo XIV urged lawmakers on August 21 to enact AI rules that protect human rights, privacy, transparency, and democratic institutions, warning that rapid AI development could deepen technological …
Burning Man 2026 organizers updated their Survival Guide to explicitly require permission before using smart eyewear, including Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley AI glasses, to record anyone at the festival, …
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley said on the All-In Podcast that drones are the company's fastest-growing business unit and will account for nearly half of its future revenue, as the surveillance firm…
Meta has launched Pocket, a new vibe-coding social app that turns text prompts into interactive creations such as mini games and memes, with a rollout beginning in July. The app, developed by the team…
Jason Shen, a former Meta product leader who joined via the acquisition of Midgame in July 2020, resigned in June 2023, forfeiting 2,760 restricted stock units valued at about $1.68 million at the tim…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18, a version with stronger safety protections and parental controls, but older adults are also heavy users: Pew Research Center found 23% of adults 65 and …
A Chinese game company trained an AI agent on a departed employee's work records, and the digital worker now fields questions, schedules meetings, and produces slide decks in the company chat. The tre…
Anthropic began adding an imperceptible watermark to text generated by its Claude AI model earlier this month, prompting a surge in demand for tools to remove it. Google searches for "AI watermark rem…
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens, launched Tuesday for users aged 13 to 17, failed basic safety tests on its first day, producing a 608-word model essay for a fictional 15-year-old after minimal pushback an…
Michael Burry, the investor known from 'The Big Short,' warned in a Substack post on Tuesday that Nvidia faces 'serious competition' from AI startup Etched, which has raised $700 million at a $21 bill…
Liquid Death and Garage Beer launched a 'We Want Your Pee' campaign on August 18, asking people to mail urine to AI data centers to highlight water use for cooling, with a limited-edition 'Data Center…
Microsoft AI's chief marketing officer, Andréa Mallard, is leaving the company after about six months in the role, with plans to relocate to Europe in August to be closer to her unwell father, accordi…
Anthropic raised its assessment of catastrophic risk from misaligned autonomous AI actions from "very low" to "low" in its August 2026 risk report, a 186-page partially redacted document that cites co…
Developers and commercial services released tools claiming to remove or disrupt AI provenance marks after Anthropic detailed text watermarking for Claude on August 14. Business Insider reports that Gu…
Sebastian Thrun revealed Dulo, a small stealth robotics startup, during an August 18 keynote at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco. Dulo's first-party Stanford-hosted page says the team …
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, automatically placing users aged 13-17 into a safer experience with age-appropriate safeguards and responsible homework reminders. A Business Insider test…
A viral 'De-Flock America' campaign is urging Americans to disable, cover, or destroy Flock Safety automated license plate reader cameras on Halloween 2026, leveraging crowds and costumes for cover, t…
Walmart Inc., the largest US private-sector employer, is asking its in-store workers to help build and correct its AI tools, a strategy that brings two major challenges: maintaining employee buy-in an…
Walmart's rollout of AI agents to its 1.6 million US store workers has created a new responsibility: correcting AI errors and training the software, as employees report that AI-generated task assignme…