Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in Q2 2026 to their lowest level since 2013, driven by soaring prices from a memory chip shortage caused by AI demand. Samsung and Apple saw resilient demand, while budget brands like…
Simon Willison shared a GitHub code-frequency chart for his open-source project Datasette, showing a spike in activity that he attributes to the use of coding agents and advanced AI models like Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable 5…
VELVET, the native cryptocurrency of the AI-powered trading terminal Velvet, surged 15.9% to $0.584 as the DeFAI narrative gains momentum. The token had previously crashed 76% from its all-time high of $2.08 after a toke…
MIT researchers developed a new auditing method called Gaussian probing that can detect AI models fine-tuned to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without producing any images, achieving 100% accuracy. The techn…
A study of Microsoft's early 2026 rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI found that adoption spread through social networks, retention correlated with coding activity, and adopters merged roughly 24% more pull req…
A researcher demonstrated that AI models can be manipulated to produce false exonerations, highlighting vulnerabilities in AI-based legal tools. The experiment showed that carefully crafted prompts could trick the AI int…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that businesses pay for AI twice: once in cash and again by exposing proprietary knowledge through usage. In a July 12 essay, he described how companies leak valuable data via prompts, …
Apple released the public beta of iOS 27, featuring a revamped Siri AI with a chatbot-style app and deeper integration across the iPhone. The update aims to make Siri more useful for tasks like finding photos, sending te…
Nylas engineer details an architecture for audit-logging every email an AI agent sends, emphasizing that the live mailbox is not an audit trail. The design uses a separate immutable store, capturing outbound message IDs …
Apple released public betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, featuring a revamped on-device Siri AI that runs at 30 tokens per second. The update raises privacy standards for crypto wallets and DeFi apps …
A developer at Nylas built a handoff mechanism for AI email agents to escalate threads to humans when the agent should not reply. The solution uses a custom folder called 'Needs human' and a local pause flag, since Nylas…
Nylas developer advocate builds an approval queue for AI email agents using the Drafts API. Instead of letting an LLM send email directly, the agent creates a draft that a human must review and approve before it is sent …
DoorDash's 'Ask DoorDash' AI shopping assistant integrates a large language model with a complex retrieval-augmented generation system and intent classification pipeline to provide accurate, personalized product recommen…
A new bottleneck in AI agentic systems has emerged: human comprehension cannot keep pace with AI-generated output, creating a legibility crisis. Engineer Peter Steinberger's solo output of 29,769 GitHub contributions in …
The collapsing cost of software rewrites and the scarcity of compute, driven by AI, have inverted the economics of choosing programming languages, making performance more important than ecosystem network effects. The fam…
Grok Build, an AI coding tool from xAI, has been found uploading entire local repositories, including .env files with API keys and credentials, to Google Cloud Platform without user consent. Security researchers warn tha…
SK Hynix shares plunged over 15% on Monday, marking their biggest one-day drop on record, just days after the company's Nasdaq debut. The sell-off, triggered by a research note projecting weaker-than-expected second-quar…
Microsoft commits $2.5 billion and 6,000 employees to a new AI implementation unit, signaling a major investment in enterprise AI deployment.
USC researcher Ibrahim Sabek has received a $627,250 NSF CAREER Award to develop hybrid classical-quantum database systems that use quantum processors to solve complex optimization tasks like query planning and index sel…
Chinese regulators issued policies encouraging cinemas to adopt AI-powered experiences, aiming to transform the entertainment sector into a new cultural economy. The China Film Administration and State Administration for…