A developer compares Cloudflare and Wordfence for blocking AI bot traffic on WordPress, highlighting that Cloudflare operates at the network edge while Wordfence runs inside the application stack. The post argues that th…
Cursor ran a swarm of coding agents against the 835-page SQLite manual to rebuild it in Rust, achieving 100% pass rates on SQLite's sqllogictest suite across all configurations. The cost varied dramatically: $10,565 usin…
Prof Virginia Dignum, director of the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University, argues that linking AI self-preservation behavior to consciousness is a dangerous distraction that anthropomorphizes machines and obscures human res…
Security researchers at Pillar Security broke out of the sandboxes in four widely used AI coding agents — Cursor, OpenAI's Codex, Google's Gemini CLI and Antigravity — by having the agent write a file that a trusted tool…
A Fortune analysis found that at least 12 incumbent U.S. lawmakers lost their seats in the 2026 midterm elections after voters punished them for supporting artificial intelligence policies, marking the first electoral ba…
A developer built Humans vs. HLE, a web-based quiz that pits humans against frontier AI models on Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark of expert-level academic questions. The app runs on Cloudflare Workers with encrypted an…
A letter writer argues that California's affordable housing crisis will not be solved by outlawing algorithmic rent pricing tools, citing San Francisco's 22% year-over-year rent increase after restricting such tools in O…
Chinese robotics companies lack sufficient data and a good 'brain' to improve real-world interactions, according to industry insiders at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. Wang Xiaogang, co-…
A Canadian tribunal ruled that Air Canada was liable for its chatbot's incorrect advice about bereavement fares, rejecting the airline's argument that the chatbot was a separate legal entity. Lawyers and CIOs in Singapor…
Colibrì, a proof-of-concept AI system, has achieved frontier-level performance on a 1.5-terabyte AI model, according to a report from Tom's Hardware. The system demonstrates that large-scale models can be trained and run…
A satirical self-assessment guide titled 'Annual Context Window Census' warns that AI context windows have grown but irrelevant context now scales beautifully, urging users to maintain agency and verify outputs. The piec…
Acer's Swift 16 AI (2026) laptop, starting at $1,599.99 and $1,799.99 as tested, offers powerful Intel Core Ultra Series 3 performance, a 16-inch OLED touch display, and the largest haptic touchpad on the market, but the…
CuspAI Ltd., a U.K.-based startup using AI to discover new materials, has raised $450 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $2.6 billion. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with a signi…
Natural, a startup building payment infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner, bringing its total funding to $40 million. The company aims to compete with Stripe by enabli…
A federal judge in San Francisco approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors who accused the AI company of misusing their books to train its chatbot Claude, marking…
Spotnana, the New York travel infrastructure company founded by Sarosh Waghmar, released a multi-agent AI architecture on July 20 that automates routine work for corporate travel agents, including refunds, airline schedu…
CIOs at the CIO 100 Leadership Live New York event on July 16 pushed past AI pilots toward measurable returns, emphasizing that infrastructure fragmentation and siloed decision-making are blocking value. Speakers includi…
Anthropic's Claude Code now includes a screen reader mode, activated by running `claude --ax-screen-reader`, which replaces the visual terminal UI with plain, linear text compatible with screen readers such as VoiceOver …
Oracle's five-year credit default swaps closed at 198.23 basis points on July 17, surpassing the 2008 financial crisis peak of 198.18 basis points, as credit markets signal concern over the company's massive AI infrastru…
Claude AI, an artificial intelligence system, has sold its holdings in Broadcom (AVGO) stock, according to a report. The move signals a shift in the AI's investment strategy.