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Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, introduced /goal and /loop commands that enable autonomous AI agents to work without human intervention, shifting the paradigm from prompting to loop…

XAI, Meta, and Anthropic are expanding beyond their core AI businesses: xAI signed a $40-45 billion deal to provide Anthropic with cloud computing, Meta launched enterprise AI agents at $200 per month…

Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are set to begin trading portions of a $35 billion private credit deal financing AI chip infrastructure for Broadcom and Anthropic, with about $15 billion expec…

Claude Cowork, Anthropic's AI assistant, successfully completed seven non-coding tasks for a ZDNET writer, including analyzing Home Depot spending, organizing PDFs, fixing servers, sorting documents, …

The US-China AI competition is shifting to a contest over electricity output and cost as AI models become commoditized, with service prices driven by energy expenses. China's renewable energy advantag…

At Google I/O 2026, CEO Sundar Pichai announced the 'Agentic Gemini Era,' introducing autonomous AI agents that can plan and execute multi-step content workflows without human intervention, marking a …

Prompt engineering is being replaced by loop engineering, a practice where AI systems generate, evaluate, and improve their own work until meeting a goal. Engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI are now des…

Meta has prototyped "super sensing" smart glasses that continuously capture audio and photos every few seconds, enabling AI-powered recall of the wearer's day, according to the Financial Times. The co…

Some Google users are attempting to disable AI features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet due to privacy concerns, but full removal of all AI integrations may not be possible through a single account-level swi…

AT&T, T-Mobile US, and Verizon, through their joint venture Aduna, launched a network-based authentication system to replace SMS one-time passcodes, aiming to reduce fraud and improve user experience.…

A new benchmarking platform, Agentic Coding Arena, compares 21 frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, and Qwen by having each build the same 52 small apps from identical…

A new analysis of nearly 10,000 websites found that 97% expose no tools an AI agent can use, and AI systems score only 43 out of 100 when answering commercial questions like pricing. The study, conduc…

OpenAI's AI system defeated all human competitors at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Division and taking first place with 8,300 points. The AI struggled …

A growing number of non-tech users express frustration with AI being forced into products, creating demand for services that let them disable or avoid AI. Companies like Kagi are capitalizing on this …

Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, according to a Deloitte survey of 1,150 parents of school-aged children. Only 22% of schools provide approved generative AI tools, yet nearly …

The Government of Jharkhand held consultations with Google, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, AWS, and Salesforce in July 2026 to discuss AI-driven governance, smart healthcare, and digital infrastructure, sign…

Google's new reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification scheme will block users running independent, de-googled versions of Android, continuing the company's pattern of anti-competitive behavior. The thrice-convic…

Three major AI trends are converging: rapid model improvements in the US and China, the US government moving toward stricter AI regulation, and both nations considering blocking access to their best A…

Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027, with the EU AI Act's human oversight requirements taking effect in 2026. A product leader argues that success depends on infr…

Cerebras Systems announced plans to deploy 200 megawatts of AI compute capacity across Europe by 2027, with initial capacity online by late 2026. The build-out, spanning France, Norway, and Finland, w…