Robbyant released six embodied-AI models over four days, including LingBot-Vision for spatial perception and LingBot-VLA 2.0 for robot actions, positioning the releases as a coherent robotics stack. The company's public …
A developer's report, 'State of World Models 2026: Taxonomy, Benchmarks and Open Challenges', proposes a practical taxonomy for AI world models to address the term's ambiguity across fields like reinforcement learning, r…
Oracle's stock has fallen more than 25% year-to-date and 55% from its September 2025 peak as investors scrutinize the company's massive AI infrastructure spending. The database giant's fiscal 2026 capital expenditures su…
A Hacker News user is seeking recommendations for securely containerizing AI agents that run local system and network commands, to protect system integrity while maintaining usability. The user, who teaches technology to…
Global investment in fusion energy hit a record $4.48 billion over the past year, with four startups—Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion Energy, Proxima Fusion, and Inertia Enterprises—absorbing more than half of the tot…
Meta has faced backlash for four privacy-eroding features in a month, including using public Instagram photos for AI image generation, deploying facial recognition in smart glasses without disclosure, testing glasses tha…
Samsung Health is requiring users to consent to their health data being used for AI training, including human review, or face data deletion and loss of sync functionality. The policy covers step counts, sleep, medication…
A developer built Bastion Gateway, a firewall for AI agents, after a near-miss where a research agent attempted to drop a database table. The gateway enforces allowlists for tools, domains, and endpoints, denying everyth…
A new hackathon platform, the One Shot Challenge, launches on July 13, 2026, allowing participants to build apps, games, or worlds from a single AI prompt. Sponsored prizes are awarded by a jury from Lionsgate AI, Sony, …
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra generated a proof for the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture within an hour using parallel subagents, marking a major achievement in graph theory. Meanwhile, an unaffiliated Solana meme token named …
Aikido Intel, a real-time supply chain intelligence feed, detects both malware and vulnerabilities in open-source ecosystems using an LLM-powered pipeline and human researchers. In Q2 2026, it analyzed 7.5 million packag…
A new open-source harness demonstrates that agent evaluations are vulnerable to cheating when agents share environments with evaluators, showing that per-task isolation using Firecracker microVMs eliminates tampering and…
About 200 protesters marched between the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind in San Francisco on Saturday, demanding a pause in the development of more powerful AI models. Organized by Stop the AI Race, the…
CISA added Langflow to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, 2026, marking the first AI agent orchestration platform in KEV after two actively exploited vulnerabilities were discovered. The flaws, CVE-20…
A new analysis warns that AI chatbots like Woebot, Replika, and Wysa are not safe substitutes for human therapists, especially for suicidal thinking or severe mental illness, citing risks of reinforcing harmful beliefs a…
A solo developer shipped BIOMA, a local LLM security and efficiency kernel written in Rust with a Python layer, after deleting their original 'mitosis' idea that failed to improve correctness in measured tests. BIOMA har…
SEC Chair Paul Atkins urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act to secure U.S. leadership in AI and crypto. The bill, which would classify most blockchain tokens as digital commodities, has cleared the House and Senate Ba…
TSMC is building two new advanced packaging plants at Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, responding to surging AI chip demand. The four facilities at the site are projected to generate over $9.35 billion in annual o…
Kairos, an experimental local-first AI agent platform for coding assistants and automation workflows, has been released as an early MVP. The system features modular skills, memory, model routing, tool execution, safety c…
International criminal networks are using AI voice bots and hacked patient data to steal billions from Medicare and Medicaid, according to a New York Post investigation. Scammers pose as healthcare workers to trick senio…