OpenAI is developing a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion for the home, according to Bloomberg. The device will control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, and tap into ChatGPT…
Johnson & Johnson raised its 2026 sales forecast, but its stock traded lower. Defiance ETFs CIO Sylvia Jablonski highlighted the company's use of AI as a key driver for its long-term growth in pharmaceuticals and biotech…
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday update fixes a record 570 Windows flaws, nearly four times the number from July 2025, driven by increased use of AI-powered bug-hunting tools like MDASH. The patch addresses critical v…
Researchers trained a neural network that performs computation in superposition (CiS), implementing more nonlinear functions than it has neurons, by using L⁴ loss instead of standard loss. The model encodes each of 100 s…
NVIDIA released OpenShell, an open-source secure runtime for AI agents that enforces controls at the environment layer rather than the model or application layer, preventing agents from overriding security policies. The …
Lovable and Hostinger Horizons offer AI-assisted website building through prompts, with Lovable providing a free plan but higher costs, while Hostinger Horizons is cheaper and includes web hosting options. An expert test…
A developer trained an AI agent to autonomously train other models using reinforcement learning for approximately $1,300, potentially reducing the cost and time required for model training and hyperparameter tuning in pr…
Samsung clarified that opting out of AI training in Samsung Health will only delete data collected for AI development, not all user health data, after earlier warnings suggested otherwise. The company's new consent notic…
OpenAI lost its trademark dispute at the European Union's General Court, which ruled that "OPENAI" is purely descriptive for certain software and IT services and lacks distinctiveness. The court upheld the EU Intellectua…
Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs launched a new AI enterprise services firm with a $1.5 billion investment, aiming to integrate Anthropic's AI technology into mid-sized business operations. Ma…
Reflection AI signed a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius through 2029, securing access to Nvidia's GB300 chips. The startup, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has now locked in its second major capacity deal …
A critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-59208, was discovered in n8n, a workflow automation platform, allowing cross-issuer account takeover. The flaw could enable attackers to hijack user accounts by exploiting improper vali…
Hillnote, a local-first Markdown workspace with integrated AI capabilities via CLI, Ollama, and MCP, has been launched on Hacker News. The tool allows users to create notes, drawings, databases, and plans with AI that ru…
UK Energy Minister Michael Shanks warned that AI data centres must help lower household bills or risk losing public support for their expansion, as the government's own estimates show they could produce up to 123 million…
ZDNET tested ChatGPT Work against Claude Cowork by tasking both AI agents with organizing a folder of PDFs. ChatGPT Work identified duplicates and analyzed file content, but missing permission prompts and concerns about …
A developer is seeking advice on building a local AI assistant that becomes an expert on a complex software platform, using small models under 3B parameters without GPU inference. The assistant should answer questions, e…
ASML, a key supplier to AI chipmakers, raised its annual sales forecast due to surging demand, which Defiance ETFs CIO Sylvia Jablonski called a 'real vote of confidence' for the AI trade. The upgrade signals sustained i…
Reqable, a developer tool for API debugging, introduced MCP support in version 3.2, enabling AI agents like GitHub Copilot to control traffic capture, request analysis, and API testing. The integration allows developers …
Hacked source code from AI music startup Suno reveals the company scraped millions of audio clips from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and other platforms to train its music-generation models, according to a 404 Media rep…
Stripe released a benchmark suite evaluating AI agents' ability to build real Stripe integrations, finding that agents perform well on backend tasks but struggle with validation and browser-based workflows. The benchmark…