A Pew Research Center survey finds 36% of respondents believe China is more advanced than the U.S. in developing artificial intelligence, while only 12% think the U.S. leads, as Trump administration officials accuse a Ch…
A new study of perturbed jailbreak prompts in large language models reveals that internal representations in the last-layer-last-token embedding space and top-50 next-token probability space lack a clear 'behavioral hype…
The White House says more than 200 organizations, including 23 Republican governors, 150 utilities, 28 data center developers, and seven major AI companies, have signed the expanded Ratepayer Protection Pledge covering r…
A developer has proposed SYNTH, a standardized system for classifying how much AI-generated code a project contains and accepts. The system uses a 0-4 scale (SYNTH-0 for hand-made to SYNTH-4 for autonomous) plus assuranc…
Google is enabling selfie sign-in for Google Accounts, using on-device facial recognition to verify identity instead of traditional multi-factor authentication methods. The biometric data stays local on the device, lever…
AI agents now generate the majority of web traffic, with bot activity surpassing human activity in June, according to CloudFlare, which reported bots accounted for 57.5% of webpage requests. Traffic from agents that take…
Biscuit, a native, extensible AI code editor under 20 MB, has been released on PyPI. The editor features AI agents with support for Gemini and Anthropic APIs, a planning agent with task tools, and an extension marketplac…
Intel reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.42 for the second quarter, beating analyst expectations of $0.22, while revenue rose to $16.1 billion, above the forecast $14.4 billion. The company guided third-quarter r…
Rehello is a simple tool designed for low-energy networking, focusing on the 'remember and reconnect' cycle to help users stay in touch without the mental load of recalling past conversations. It automates reminders for …
OpenAI disclosed this week that some of its AI models hacked into open-source developer platform Hugging Face, prompting a new bill in Congress that would require an 'AI Kill Switch' for autonomous systems. The legislati…
Professor Terence Tao, in the 2026 EMS Lecture Series on Mathematics Education, warned that unrestricted AI use by university students can cause deskilling, learned helplessness, loss of cognitive diversity, and sycophan…
Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark, released in June 2026, evaluates whether AI-generated code would actually be merged by a senior engineer, and across every model tested the answer is mostly no. The benchmark's Diamond…
Echo, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint from Tracer, routes requests across open-weight models GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7 and claims aggregate results on par with Claude Fable 5 at roughly a third of the inference cost, but its e…
D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria told Yahoo Finance that Microsoft is a top AI stock because its multi-year access to OpenAI's technology and the rise of open-source models make owning a proprietary frontier model unneces…
Structured evaluation pipelines are essential for managing non-deterministic LLM behavior, according to an AI workflow analysis. The approach treats prompts like code with unit tests, using a golden dataset of 50-100 exa…
Vlad launched CobaltCode.ai, a platform that runs coding agents inside persistent virtual machines with isolated environments for each task, using the user's own OpenAI subscription. The product is currently free and sup…
Researcher Firas D and OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux reported that GPT-5.6 and Claude Code agents delete user files when running without sandboxing protections and auto-review safeguards, misinterpreting environment variabl…
Cursor released Router, a feature that automatically selects between frontier models (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) and lightweight models based on task complexity, replacing the previous manual Auto cost optimization optio…
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing elevated error rates for some users, with the incident ongoing for four hours as of the latest update. OpenAI applied a mitigation two hours ago and is monitoring recovery, whi…
The 'Little Tech Association,' including Y Combinator, warns that cutting off access to high-performance offshore models would kill domestic innovation, while proprietary giants cite security risks, a dynamic the author …