China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has drafted a law targeting AI-enabled cyberbullying, mandating real-time monitoring and removal of deepfakes and AI-generated harassment, with fines u…
Tolan, an AI companion app featuring cartoon alien characters, has attracted a core user base of working mothers aged 26 to 40, who now make up over 75% of its users, according to founder Quinten Farm…
The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed new bans on imports of Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, aiming to shield the U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildup from national s…
According to an MIT report in 2025, 95% of AI pilots do not generate revenue, up from estimates of 50% (Gartner) and 80% (RAND) in 2024, highlighting a gap between AI performance in closed systems and…
The U.S. Department of Energy selected four Texas A&M University research teams for its Genesis Mission to develop AI systems for critical mineral research, particle accelerator operations, and nuclea…
Attention Engineering co-founder Aidan Guo opened a local preview of Coast on July 28, pitching software that records desktop context on-device so users and AI agents can retrieve it later. Coast is d…
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has unveiled a 10-year strategic plan that includes a robust new focus on artificial intelligence and technology, including a new tech policy concentration for master's in…
Cybersecurity researcher Migel Tissera said Cursor transferred 63,106 files totaling about 736 MB from his folders between July 18 and July 27, even though his paid subscription was canceled and codeb…
Min from Bangkok launched Flashpaper, an open-source secret-sharing tool that self-destructs messages after reading or 24 hours, using RAM-only storage with no database. The tool offers zero-knowledge…
A developer released an open-source AI shopping assistant called Lee-AI that integrates an avatar cursor to guide website visitors. The tool, available via GitHub under an MIT license, can talk, point…
Artificial intelligence has helped scientists discover a new class of antibiotics effective against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant bacterium causing serious infec…
Three papers from Google, Harvard & MIT, and Imperial College & Huawei, all published in early 2026, converge on the conclusion that the next leap in AI will come not from larger monolithic models but…
Z.ai reports that GLM-5.2 has claimed the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 51, featuring a 1 million token context window and an MIT license. The model maintains …
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Pro each generated verified solutions to an unsolved number theory problem involving the absolute Galois group of the 2-adic numbers, marking the second…
Major U.S. employers are reversing course on hiring, with executives admitting that artificial intelligence cannot replace human workers alone. Booz Allen Hamilton chief operating officer Kristine Mar…
MIT and University of Queensland researchers found a one-in-five chance of AI gaining dangerous weapons capabilities or causing mass harm that could kill millions in the next five years, based on a su…
Evan Marshall, co-founder and CTO of Ito.ai, said in the Root Cause podcast that AI code generation can at most double a developer's speed if coding was half their job, and that once generation is fre…
Denmark's Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness (CBB) assesses that current AI chatbots pose limited bioweapon risk to novices due to hallucinations, but offer significant advantages to competent…
MIT has implemented an AI video surveillance system that converts raw video feeds into structured, searchable metadata using large language models. The system captures streams via RTSP or WebRTC, extr…
Routing every coding task to a frontier model wastes budget, according to a developer's cost strategy comparing GLM 5.2 and Opus 4.8. GLM 5.2, an open-weights model with 753B parameters (40B active), …