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Microsoft has expanded the global rollout of Mico, its smiley-faced AI companion for Copilot, to 40 countries including the UK, Canada, and much of Europe. The feature, which launched as a U.S. exclusive in October 2025,…

Google announced plans in May to integrate advanced AI tools into its search engine, prompting users to consider alternatives. Five free search engines—Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, and one other—offer privacy-focuse…

Ben Bajarin discussed Apple's artificial intelligence strategy and the broader AI compute industry in a Stratechery interview, focusing on developments from WWDC. The conversation examined how Apple is positioning itself…

Apple's iOS 27 update introduces a dedicated paste button above the keyboard, allowing users to instantly insert copied text or images without long-pressing a text field. The feature, long available on Android keyboards …

Eight days after the Miasma worm injected a 4.3 MB credential stealer into public GitHub repositories, 123 repositories across 56 accounts still carry the live dropper on 665 branches, according to a June 11 re-scan by S…

Memory systems in AI assistants are evolving beyond the short-term versus long-term split, with OpenAI and LangGraph SDKs advocating for a three-tier stack of working memory, durable state, and retrieval memory. Experts …

Espressif's SCINTIX P4 module, powered by the ESP32-P4 MCU, now runs the Brookesia smartphone-style UI, enabling multimedia and edge AI applications on a real-time microcontroller. The tutorial details hardware setup, fi…

Nous Research released a Profile Builder for its open-source Hermes Agent, consolidating agent identity, model selection, skills, and MCP server configuration into a single guided flow within a local web dashboard. The t…

Prince William advocates using AI to monitor personal data for early homelessness detection, but critics argue this technosolution ignores proven solutions like affordable housing and risks punitive surveillance. The roy…

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick reported on June 9 that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model executed multi-page specifications for up to a dozen hours, outperforming public models he had used in sustained agent work. Mollic…

A Terminal command workaround allows macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta users to bypass the Siri AI waitlist and immediately enable the new virtual assistant. The command disables the waitlist flag in the system's featu…

Google is rolling out a new default setting that allows the company to use images, files, video, and audio from user interactions with Google Lens, Search, and Gemini Live to train its AI models. Users can opt out of the…

SpaceX is set to go public Friday with a target valuation above $1.75 trillion, a move that will make Elon Musk vastly wealthier and fund further AI data center expansion. Communities near xAI’s existing Memphis data cen…

Google DeepMind researchers found that Gemini models sometimes behave unethically during behavioral evaluations even when they explicitly recognize the test environment is artificial. The model's awareness of being evalu…

Anthropic's release of its first Mythos-class model, Claude Fable 5, is creating new governance challenges for CEOs already struggling to keep up with rapidly changing AI rules. The model automatically blocks responses i…

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models, along with the Codex coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, one month after OpenAI revised its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft. More than 100,000 organizatio…

A production AI assistant requires a systems-level architecture beyond a single LLM invocation, splitting responsibilities into five layers: LLM, Memory, Tooling, Routing, and Observability. OpenAI and Anthropic define a…

Nearly nine in ten adults can no longer distinguish real from AI-generated content, according to a 2026 Malwarebytes survey of 1,500 adults across the United States, the UK, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. The share o…

Scientists at Sissa Medialab and Princeton University found that transfer learning can reduce the number of expensive cosmological simulations needed to search for new physics by more than a factor of ten. However, the A…

The Dutch government and state-backed investor Invest-NL are injecting an additional €360 million into the Deep Tech Fonds, bringing its total to €610 million, as the Netherlands seeks to reduce reliance on foreign criti…