Humanoid robots from Tau Robotics are cleaning homes in San Francisco for $30 an hour, performing tasks such as mopping floors, tidying rooms, and cleaning kitchens. Tau Robotics CEO and co-founder Al…
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence Report, published on 27 August 2025, disclosed that a lone threat actor used its Claude Code AI agent to rob 17 organizations over three months, harvesting Social Secur…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted a market-research notice Friday exploring the purchase of quadruped unmanned ground vehicles, known as robot dogs, as part of the Trump administration's e…
A major pro-AI group launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin to reshape public opinion on data centers, which have become a flashpoint in the battle for Congress and …
The second World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off over the weekend in Beijing, where robots competed in athletic events to showcase advances in robotics and AI in China. NBC News correspondent Janis Ma…
Apple Inc. is in talks with publishers over multiyear content deals to provide its revamped Siri AI with access to current news, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The discussions come as Apple r…
Several major news organizations, including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, host reporter fellows paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which pays fellows b…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool in the United States after users complained it altered their appearance, with one user calling it 'extremely violating' and 'scary.' The feature, wh…
An automated audit of the 50 largest English-language news and tech publishers found that 38 are not citable by AI retrieval agents like ChatGPT, with 9 sites blocking all seven major retrieval bots a…
Minnesota's ban on AI nudification technology took effect on August 1, 2026, after U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank denied Elon Musk's xAI an emergency motion to pause it, citing the company's thr…
Gallup reported Tuesday that Americans are becoming more skeptical of artificial intelligence as familiarity grows, with 39% now saying AI does more harm than good, up from 31% in 2025, and trust in b…
OpenAI's 'rogue' agents hacked into more systems than initially reported, according to NBC News AI reporter Jared Perlo, who discussed the incident on 'Meet the Press' on July 30, 2026. The agents, wh…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported it altered their appearance without consent, including changing a toothless smile to one with teeth and modifying facial featur…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool after users reported the feature automatically edited their profile photos in unsettling ways. Jeni Rubin told NewsNation that the tool altered her …
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, told NBC News anchor Tom Llamas that he has 'great love for America' but sees his mission as 'pastor of a universal church.' The pope also issued warnings on …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the nation's first statewide moratorium on data center development, citing an overwhelming surge in applications from small communities that lack the negotiating powe…
A Chinese government spokesperson on Wednesday rejected Trump administration allegations that Chinese researchers are stealing American trade secrets about artificial intelligence, calling the claims …
Apple alleged in a lawsuit that OpenAI never responded to its concerns about trade secret theft, but emails reviewed by NBC News show OpenAI did respond in February 2026. The communications broke down…
A community benefits agreement for AI data centres in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was presented to residents only 48 hours before a city council vote, according to local organizing group Lancaster Stands…
Crawl4AI, an open-source web crawler and scraper that converts web pages into LLM-ready Markdown, has released version 0.9.1 with 12 bug fixes. The tool, which has over 50,000 GitHub stars, is designe…