An industry campaign against broad restrictions on downloadable AI models has doubled to 50 signatories, adding Google and OpenAI to a coalition hosted by Nvidia that includes Microsoft, Meta, IBM, AMD, Cisco and Cloudfl…
By 2026, AI has become a core pillar of software development, moving beyond autocomplete to architect entire systems, auto-generate tests, and self-heal test automations. Developers can describe features in plain English…
The Trump administration is leaning toward case-by-case restrictions on selected Chinese AI models or developers rather than a blanket prohibition on foreign open-weight systems, The New York Times reported Saturday, cit…
Researchers at Peking University and East China Normal University used AlphaFold3 to redesign CRISPR base editors, reducing off-target activity from 28% to 5% in one comparison while preserving on-target activity. The st…
Instagram has started banning accounts and removing videos that use Meta's camera-equipped glasses to secretly film and harass strangers, including pickup-line and prank content, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri.…
Meta paused a test that would have limited free use of Conversation Focus on its smart glasses to three hours per month after customer backlash, keeping the feature free for eligible early-access users in the US and Cana…
A conservative organization chaired by Tea Party figure Amy Kremer coordinated 142 data center protests across 42 states on July 18, turning local disputes into a national political campaign that is constraining Presiden…
One in five Americans aged 18 to 29 have used AI chatbots for emotional support, according to a Pew Research Center survey, and a Stanford study in Science found that AI systems are 49 percent more sycophantic than human…
A developer built an observable AI market research agent using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and instrumented it with OpenTelemetry to export telemetry data to SigNoz. The agent tracks distributed tracing, token u…
PenEcho, an open-source project, enables users to sketch, write equations, or draw diagrams on a canvas as primary input for large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet, offering a more intuitive altern…
Aidbase's MCP server implementation enables a self-healing support loop by allowing large language models to write to knowledge bases, not just read from them. The server includes tools like `add_aidbase_faq_item` and `a…
A 14-year analysis of a source-code sharing platform shows new registrations plummeting from 87,000 in 2018 to 2,000 in 2025, with cash top-ups falling from 8.3k to 130 users, as AI tools commoditize low-value code snipp…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly quadrupling the previous record of 7.8 percent set by GPT-5.6 Sol. The benchmark's developers reported that Opus 5 independently formulated…
The U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, a major initiative integrating AI, quantum computing, and high-performance supercomputing into scientific research, was presented to the U.S. ATLAS Institutional Board on …
DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after leaked comments from founder Liang Wenfeng about China's dependence on Nvidia chips and the country's AI gap with the United States went viral on Chinese social m…
Termic, an open-source desktop app for running CLI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, has been launched on GitHub under AGPL. Developer Simion created Termic to bypass Anthropic's pricing changes for programmat…
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing (IVCM) filed a June 5 lawsuit against the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) seeking about 260 million gallons of Colorado River water per year for its proposed AI data center in Ca…
Job seekers should expect to discuss AI in interviews as employer adoption rises, with Gallup data showing US employees using AI at work increased from 21% in Q2 2023 to 50% in Q1 2026, according to Business Insider. Hir…
Pakistan's finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on July 25 that the Federal Board of Revenue's AI risk engine flagged 840 high-risk audit cases with an estimated Rs34 billion ($122 million) in additional revenue pote…
Microchip Technology signed a definitive agreement on July 24 to acquire edge AI chipmaker Hailo, though the transaction has not yet closed and financial terms were not disclosed. Microchip expects completion near the en…