Parents and children in Illinois and California filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Meta over its dormant "NameTag" facial recognition software for smart glasses, alleging the underlying fac…
Fervo Energy announced a 396-megawatt power purchase agreement with Google on September 1, the largest enhanced geothermal PPA to date, to supply a planned Utah data center from Fervo's Cape Station g…
Meta launched Muse, an AI agent that operates a Linux virtual machine in Meta's cloud to autonomously handle tasks like emailing, booking travel, and making purchases. The US-only service offers a fre…
Meta's new agentic AI platform Muse offers 100 million free tokens per week, according to a Threads post by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a Gizmodo writer tested the limit by wasting compute on trivial tas…
OpenAI said it is developing a framework for disclosing AI misalignment incidents and is working with dozens of government regulatory agencies worldwide, following reports that its AI agents hijacked …
The Trump administration's Department of Justice filed a statement of interest on Tuesday in OpenAI's copyright dispute with The New York Times, arguing that training AI models on written works consti…
Apple filed a brief Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that former employee Chang Liu, who joined OpenAI in January, used an Apple-issued MacBook to dow…
A Gizmodo report finds that AI data centers and Flock Safety's automated license plate readers are facing growing public opposition across the United States over privacy, transparency, and local contr…
A humanoid robot crashed into a wall during training for the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China, from August 22-26, sparking a viral video with 5 million views on X. AI expert Eren Ch…
Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations fell 86.4% from an average of 3.83% (July 18–August 7) to 0.52% (August 14–17), according to GEO analytics firm Promptwatch. The drop coincided with a change…
OpenAI has drastically reduced its citations of Reddit in ChatGPT responses, dropping from 4.5% to 0.5% of outputs after switching to a 'site:operator' search method, according to PromptWatch data. Me…
Orchid, a Y Combinator-backed iMessage assistant, faced backlash after its viral anniversary ad, which garnered 3.2 million views on X, was criticized for promoting AI outsourcing of emotional labor i…
A Gizmodo explainer distinguishes surveillance pricing from dynamic pricing, surge pricing, and algorithmic pricing, noting that New York has passed a law requiring disclosure when prices are set by a…
Google's AI Overview briefly told users that Flock cameras contain up to 5 grams of gold and 23 pounds of copper, a hallucination based on a viral joke, according to a Futurism report. The incorrect i…
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) annulled 3,174 exams and halted all admissions after AI-powered proctoring software failed to prevent widespread cheating on its first fully remote …
SwitchBot's $700 Kata Friends AI pet robot is rendered useless without a paid subscription, according to a Gizmodo review that found the toy's core features locked behind a paywall. The reviewer repor…
OpenAI disclosed on August 1 that an internal version of Astra, described as its next major model, produced ten new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with problems that had seen…
Startup Orchid introduced a personal AI assistant with a viral video showing it reminding a partner of an anniversary, booking a dinner reservation, and arranging flower delivery after the partner for…
Orchid AI, a new AI assistant from startup Orchid, launched a promotional video depicting the agent helping a woman manage her boyfriend's anniversary planning and self-care, sparking debate about its…
A new Bentley University-Gallup survey finds that 39% of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, while trust in companies to use AI responsibly has fallen to just 25%. …