Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a public map tracking data center development across the United States, documenting 33 operational sites, 44 under construction, and 27 proposed facilities. The map, which …
Anthropic reported that incorporating a tool allowing its AI model Claude to pause and recall its ethical commitments reduced misaligned behavior on internal evaluations, though researchers cannot determine whether the i…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion valuation from October 2025. The Redwood City-based AI inference startup, which processes 15 trillion to…
DuckDuckGo's U.S. app installs spiked 30% in the week following Google I/O, with iOS installs peaking at 69.9% in a single day, as users sought alternatives to Google's AI-integrated search. However, the app users instal…
President Trump appointed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to a White House artificial intelligence advisory panel, according to a report that could not be verified through public records or official announcemen…
Tamarillo AI released theta, a Rust command-line tool that functions as a package manager for agent configuration files across multiple AI coding assistants. The tool reads a `theta.toml` manifest and can resolve, lock, …
Qualcomm shares rose after the chipmaker reached a deal to supply TikTok parent ByteDance with custom AI chips for data centers, marking the company's first major customer win in its push beyond smartphone processors. By…
A Martinez mother lost approximately $5,400 after scammers used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter's voice during a fake kidnapping call in May. Deborah Del Mastro wired the money over five hours after hearing…
Agent memory libraries commonly use cognitive science terms like "episodic" and "semantic" but often fail to implement them as distinct systems, instead applying the same storage and retrieval methods to both. The librar…
Lago released an open-source SDK that wraps existing LLM clients to automatically extract token usage data and send it to Lago's billing platform without requiring middleware or API changes. The SDK supports AWS Bedrock …
An East Bay mother, Deborah Del Mastro of Martinez, was scammed out of approximately $5,400 after callers used AI-generated audio to mimic her 37-year-old daughter's voice and claimed she had been kidnapped. The scammers…
DigitalOcean Marketplace has published an OpenCode 1-Click App that deploys the open-source terminal coding agent onto a Droplet preconfigured to use DigitalOcean Gradient AI for inference. The listing supports Llama 3.3…
Peter Thiel has delivered a series of private, invitation-only lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing attendees from academia, technology, and religious circles, according to Reuters and CNN. R…
New research shows that post-training alignment makes large language models less human-like in their responses, raising questions about whether this drift is intentional or optimal. A study introducing the "Pinocchio dim…
Preventing malicious AI use faces jurisdictional gaps, as rogue states and lawless regions shield bad actors from existing laws. Open-source AI models complicate monitoring and denial efforts because they can run anywher…
After testing six memory providers for Hermes Agent over three weeks, a developer found that most failed silently or required external runtimes that fell out of sync with the gateway. The only provider that worked reliab…
NASA plans to drop tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon so astronauts can self-assemble a lunar base, adopting an IKEA-style approach to space construction. The agency aims to use these delivered materials to bu…
Commencement speakers at multiple universities have been loudly booed by audiences for expressing optimism about artificial intelligence, reflecting growing public backlash against the technology's impact on job prospect…
A developer used Google's Antigravity 2.0 and Gemini 3.5 to build and deploy a real estate investment advisor from a napkin sketch in under 40 minutes. The project, called the "Napkin Challenge," demonstrated that a codi…
Cursorfy launched a recursive, self-aware dashboard built on the Cursor SDK and FastAPI that reads, queries, and edits its own source code when users ask for changes. The tool scaffolds full data dashboards from any fold…