Anthropic is accused of lying, fearmongering, and spreading doomsday nonsense in a Techdirt podcast episode. The episode also covers UK and Canadian proposals to restrict social media for children, Ap…
Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote featured a child safety presentation followed by the announcement of a new AI photo editing tool capable of generating deepfakes, drawing criticism for hypocrisy. Critics arg…
Deezer launched a free online AI Music Detector that scans user playlists from 20 streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, to identify AI-generated tracks. The company reported that AI …
Microsoft is restricting employee access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 after Anthropic introduced mandatory data retention rules tied to its safety classifiers, according to The Verge. Fable 5 is abse…
Apple rebuilt its Siri assistant on Google's Gemini, using a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model and paying Google approximately $1 billion annually, according to independent reports. The new Siri AI,…
Arturia has released the MiniLab 37, a $149 portable MIDI controller with 37 keys that the reviewer calls the ideal size for balancing playability and portability. The controller adds an extra octave …
Apple announced at its annual developers conference that its AI-powered Siri is finally ready and will roll out to iPhone users this fall, following a delay after the company initially claimed in 2024…
Meta’s standalone Meta AI app now includes a “For You” feed that surfaces AI-generated clickbait article prompts, with topics, images, and full story text produced by artificial intelligence. The Verg…
Independent researcher Buchodi found that free apps on smart-TV platforms from Samsung, LG, and others are embedding a Bright Data SDK that turns home devices into residential proxy nodes for web scra…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) imposed a conduct requirement obligating Google to let publishers opt out of generative AI search features and prevent content from being used for model …
Meta launched an AI-generated "For You" feed within its standalone Meta AI app that populates clickbait-style stories with topics, images, and text created entirely by artificial intelligence. The fea…
AI startup Quilty claims its tool can predict a film's box-office success by analyzing an unproduced script and generating a 0-to-100 score for narrative quality, commercial viability, audience resona…
Amazon is reorganizing its gaming operations around its Luna cloud-streaming platform, new James Bond franchise content, and experimental AI-powered titles. The restructuring includes cloud-streamed p…
Amazon is relaunching its Luna cloud gaming service with a focus on party games, including an AI-powered title featuring Snoop Dogg as a judge, and shifting away from massively multiplayer online game…
At Microsoft Build 2026, CEO Satya Nadella opened the keynote by placing Windows at the center of the company's AI strategy, announcing new Surface hardware and positioning the OS as a local AI platfo…
YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok now automatically label AI-generated images, video, and music in feeds and descriptions, but do not offer users a simple filter to hide such content from their personal …
Nvidia confirmed at Computex 2026 in Taipei that it has at least two additional RTX Spark generations planned beyond the current release, publicly referred to as N2X and N3X. CEO Jensen Huang stated h…
Senior editor TC Sottek and colleagues at The Verge tested Google's new Gemini AI agent, Spark, and found it could infer personal details such as a tester's dog's name and a spouse's first name withou…
Microsoft unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer PC powered by Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark chips with 128GB of unified memory and a 100-watt thermal envelope. The device can run …
Microsoft announced a suite of new AI products at its Build conference on Tuesday, including its first reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, a cybersecurity tool, and AI agents, signaling its intent to comp…