Apple gave Siri the ability to interact with apps and perform actions directly, shifting the focus from intelligence to what analyst Nate B. Jones calls the "trusted action surface." The move positions Apple to control t…
Anthropic's new model Fable stores customer data for 30+ days and restricts usage perceived as commercial threats, alienating users and potentially boosting rival Codex's market share. The launch highlights the need for …
Amazon has integrated advertising into its AI-powered shopping assistant Alexa for Shopping, allowing sponsored products and conversational ad formats to appear directly within customer shopping conversations. The compan…
Apple Wallet will gain several new features with the release of iOS 27 later this year, including the ability to split bills by scanning a receipt with the iPhone camera and to create digital passes from physical members…
Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closed a $12 billion funding round, valuing the company at $41 billion. The company, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in seed funding, is building AI models for physical tasks…
Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code at Anthropic, said he has not written a line of code by hand in eight months, relying entirely on the AI tool he helped build. Cherny made the remark during a fireside chat at the Fo…
A website administrator has deployed a proof-of-work system called Anubis to block AI companies from aggressively scraping content, which was causing server downtime. The system forces visitors to solve computational puz…
Deezer launched a free AI music detector tool that allows users on any major streaming platform to scan their playlists for AI-generated songs. The tool, available in 27 languages across 20 platforms, comes as Deezer rep…
Lazer Logistics has deployed an AI coaching tool named Uncle Phil AI, modeled after its COO Phil Newsome, to give site managers access to his 36 years of institutional knowledge across 750 yards. The tool, embedded in th…
A robot's intelligence faces an unavoidable trade-off between being smart, fast, and free, with only two of the three achievable on a single piece of compute. This "embodied trilemma" forces robotics teams to choose betw…
A developer in a crisp suit clicks through slides promising your town “21st-century opportunities” from a proposed AI data center. The renderings look sleek, the job promises sound appealing, and the tax revenue projecti…
OpenAI launched a new Ads Manager beta feature that lets retail advertisers upload product feeds and automatically generate ads from individual catalog items. The update enables brands to scale advertising campaigns with…
In a preview of the new Designed in California podcast, the story travels to the summer of 1976 as Apple attends a computer trade show in Atlantic City, the Apple II begins to take shape, and the partnership between Stev…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Binding Operational Directive 26-04, ordering federal civilian agencies to adopt a risk-based vulnerability management framework. The directive respon…
Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5 model achieved middling results on 200 real-world vulnerability-fixing tasks, scoring 59.8% FuncPass and 19.0% SecPass despite high launch expectations. The model set records for timeouts a…
DoorDash launched a new AI shopping assistant on iOS in select regions that allows users to snap photos of cookbook pages or grocery lists to automatically add items to their cart. The feature, which also understands nat…
OpenAI publicly stated it does not direct or fund the super PAC Leading the Future, but internal communications and the PAC's own operatives contradict that claim. OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife donated $25 …
A new benchmark called MTG Bench tests how well large language models can play Magic: The Gathering by allowing them to control game actions through an MCP server with primitive library operations. The benchmark reveals …
VRChat confirmed that a fake data breach notification was submitted to the Maine Attorney General's office, falsely claiming the social VR platform had suffered a security incident. The company stated the fraudulent fili…
GitHub launched Agentic Workflows in public preview, enabling users to automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates using coding agents within GitHub Actions. The featu…