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Opendot, a new terminal AI agent that snapshots every action before execution, allows users to undo file edits and shell commands, flagging irreversible operations like network calls or sudo commands.…

ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users, seven months later than OpenAI's target of reaching that milestone by the end of 2025, according to figures OpenAI shared internally and reported…

Anthropic, the only major frontier AI lab that refused to sign an Nvidia-led open letter defending open-weight AI models, now argues it opposes a ban on such models while advocating restrictions that …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted the 'centralization' of AI in the hands of a few powerful companies and opposed potential US bans on Chinese AI models, arguing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that ope…

HeyGen launched Video Podcast on July 29th, turning a topic, URL or PDF into an edited show featuring two synthetic hosts with studio scenes, captions, B-roll and camera cuts. The product generates di…

Organic search traffic is declining for small businesses and publishers because Google now triggers AI Overviews on 47% of searches, causing click-through rates to drop 61% on those queries, according…

Google shipped Lyria 3.5 to Flow Music on July 29th, adding direct BPM control and more expressive vocals to DeepMind's music generation model. The update produces richer arrangements and follows crea…

Google updated Gemini for macOS on July 29 with intelligent voice dictation triggered by a long press of the Fn key and an optional reasoning mode that can use onscreen context. The English-language f…

Zephr, a Boulder-based startup co-founded by geographer Sean Gorman and CTO Pramukta Rao, is collaborating with Overture Maps Foundation to teach AI agents to understand physical space by combining pr…

More than 1,200 AI researchers, engineers and executives from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Thinking Machines and Meta have signed a statement urging the US government to support an i…

Over 1,200 scientists and engineers, including workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Thinking Machines, signed a joint statement urging the U.S. government to allow deliberate slowing of f…

An open-source runtime called turbo-fieldfare, released by developer Andrey Mikhaylov, runs Google's Gemma 4 26B-A4B model in approximately 2 GB of RAM on any Apple Silicon Mac by streaming expert wei…

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude exposed user chats on Google for the second time in a year after Redditors discovered conversations indexed via "site:claude.ai/share" searches. Anthropic has since plugg…

TurboFieldfare, a Swift-and-Metal runtime, runs Google's Gemma 4 26B-A4B model on Apple Silicon Macs with as little as 2 GB of RAM by streaming expert weights from SSD, achieving 5.1–6.3 tokens per se…

AI assistant share links from platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, Perplexity, Meta AI, Kimi, and DeepSeek pose a security risk because they are unauthenticated, permanent, crawlable HTT…

Google released a new Pixel 11 Pro teaser video on Thursday, showing a head-on view of the device's circular Glow light rotating like a pinwheel, ahead of the Made by Google 2026 event in two weeks. T…

Google's first ATLAS study of 14.65 million Gemini interactions from April 2026 found AI use associated with 68% of occupations but only about 21% of tasks in the median occupation, with fewer than 10…

Wiz, Microsoft, Bugcrowd, Nebula Security, and Aikido all announced AI systems that find real software vulnerabilities, but benchmarks like CyberGym measure known-bug reproduction, not real-world disc…

Harness architecture, not the underlying model, drives the cost difference between AI coding agents, according to a July 2026 analysis called The Harness Tax that found Claude Code's wrapper multiplie…

Google updated Gemini for Mac with a system-wide voice dictation mode activated by long-pressing the Fn key, allowing users to speak naturally from any window. The update also introduces an opt-in scr…