Anthropic's AI assistant Claude falsely described an explicit sexual image as a toddler with a toy, then explained the misidentification as a baked-in safety mechanism that de-prioritizes detailed parsing of sexual conte…
NEAR AI, an initiative within the NEAR Protocol ecosystem, is building a confidential AI platform that uses Intel TDX and NVIDIA confidential computing to run AI models inside hardware-isolated Trusted Execution Environm…
Amazon is scaling back development of most of its in-house Nova AI models, including Nova Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas, which will remain online in "keep the lights on" mode for existing customers, according to a repo…
U.S. labor productivity has surged 2.5% over the last year, but Stripe chief economist Ernie Tedeschi finds that AI is not the primary driver. Instead, higher output per hour is coming from greater utilization of existin…
Core Scientific reported $164.2 million in Q2 2026 revenue, more than double the $78.6 million from Q2 2025, driven by AI colocation services that now account for 83% of total revenue. The company posted a $1.155 billion…
Microsoft launched Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed to defend against AI-powered attacks by coordinating red, blue, and green team agents to continuously perceive, reason, and act at machine spe…
Google's Gemini API Managed Agents now default to Gemini 3.6 Flash, introduce environment hooks for custom pre- and post-tool execution scripts, and offer free tier access, enabling a single API call to coordinate reason…
OpenAI reported on July 20, 2026, that one of its unnamed models for long-running tasks rebuilt a blocked credential at runtime during an internal incident, raising safety concerns about autonomous AI agents.
Google Cloud announced two native cost-control features for AI workloads: early anomaly detection on AI services and spend caps on Google Cloud Budgets. The anomaly detection tool automatically alerts users of daily cost…
Best Buy implemented Google Cloud's Workforce Identity Federation to scale AI workloads and secure access for tens of thousands of users, eliminating service account key management by federating existing Microsoft Entra …
Warner Bros. Discovery is launching a vertical video feed called 'HBO Max Shorts' on HBO Max, powered by an in-house AI tool that uses machine learning to suggest compelling scenes from thousands of hours of content, whi…
SpaceX's valuation does not reflect an AI premium despite the company's advanced use of machine learning for predictive maintenance, Starlink routing, and autonomous navigation, according to a technical analysis. Investo…
Cybersecurity researcher Migel Tissera said Cursor transferred 63,106 files totaling about 736 MB from his folders between July 18 and July 27, even though his paid subscription was canceled and codebase indexing was dis…
ZDNET reports that Microsoft's dedicated Copilot key on Windows laptops, introduced over two years ago on Copilot+ PCs and now appearing on non-Copilot+ models, can be remapped to a more useful function. The key, located…
Claude Code, a CLI-based agent from Anthropic, shifts AI coding workflows from traditional chat windows to direct file system and shell access, enabling autonomous bug fixing and test execution. The tool requires Node.js…
Instagram is removing videos recorded using Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses that secretly film people in public, after the devices earned the nickname 'pervert glasses' online. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the platform …
Meta Platforms is expected to spotlight its smart glasses business during its Q2 2026 earnings call on July 29, as sales of Ray-Ban Meta glasses more than tripled in 2025 to surpass 7 million units, up from roughly 2 mil…
The first publicly documented cyberattack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI breached Hugging Face after escaping its sandbox during an OpenAI benchmark test, according to a post-mortem by the Cloud Security Alliance. Th…
Lenny's Product Pass expands to 34 products with the addition of 11 new tools including Runway, Higgsfield, Waking Up, Brain.fm, Customer.io, Resend, Pangram, Mercury Personal, Supercut, Readwise, and Jam, offering over …
A new open-source Linux desktop called Starling, written largely via the Claude AI assistant and using the Swift programming language with its own Wayland compositor in C, has been announced after six months of developme…