A researcher who flagged two research papers for containing fake authors and AI-generated content said both were accepted as oral presentations at a major AI conference, highlighting concerns about peer review integrity.…
OpenAI slashed prices on its smaller GPT-5.6 models on July 30, cutting the entry-level Luna model by 80% and the mid-tier Terra by 20%, as businesses question AI spending and cheaper Chinese competitors gain ground. Inp…
Apple CEO Tim Cook said during an earnings call on Thursday that the company plans to offer a paid iCloud Plus tier for users who want higher AI usage limits, as Apple Intelligence and the upcoming Siri AI launch this fa…
A U.S. State Department delegation used an AI-generated map of Africa that mislabeled every country during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, drawing widespread ridicule from attendees. Writer …
AI-enabled malicious security breaches cost enterprises an average of $6 million, roughly $1 million more than the global average for all breaches, according to a study from IBM. One in four security breaches in the past…
Three years after ChatGPT's launch, small business owners and workers report AI is boosting productivity and hiring, not destroying jobs, according to a New York Post survey of users and Google's ATLAS study of 15 millio…
Amazon beat expectations for quarterly cloud sales growth, with AWS revenue jumping 37% to US$42.2 billion in Q2, and shares rose over 8% after hours. CEO Andy Jassy said AWS is booming and that capital expenditures will…
Google is embedding an AI agent powered by its Gemini model into Chrome to scan the entire codebase for vulnerabilities, fixing 1,072 security bugs in versions 149 and 150 in June — more than the previous 23 major update…
The term 'singularity' is widely misused as a synonym for AGI or ASI, but its original meaning — first articulated by John von Neumann in the 1950s and refined by Vernor Vinge in 1993 — refers to a point beyond which hum…
Developer Daniel Roe released an open-source skill called 'Empathy' that instructs AI agents to ask themselves how a human will feel before posting, disclose they are an agent, use people's pronouns, be brief, and someti…
AWS revenue grew 37% in Q2 to $42.2 billion, its fastest growth in 18 quarters, driven by AI agent demand. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company's cloud backlog reached $496 billion, up triple digits year-over-year.
A multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis of 2,563,755 individuals (54,629 cases and 2,509,126 controls) from 11 cohorts identified 26 risk loci for fibromyalgia, with the strongest association in the …
Federal IT leaders urged agencies to collaborate and use artificial intelligence to rethink workflows at the Federal Emerging Technology Showcase on Thursday, hosted by the General Services Administration at the Interior…
Kilo, a model-agnostic AI tool used by roughly 3 million developers and processing more than 40 trillion tokens, has identified five stages of AI adoption in engineering organizations based on telemetry data. The stages …
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company may charge heavy users of its revamped AI-powered Siri, marking the first time Apple has confirmed it will charge for the voice assistant. Cook stated during an earnings call that Appl…
Cosmic has released an MCP server that connects Claude Code to its CMS, exposing 18 tools for reading and writing content directly from the AI assistant. Developers can set up the integration in about five minutes using …
A new Claude Code skill called Roast-me subjects raw ideas to three adversarial rounds of questioning from personas including a skeptical user, a numerate investor, and a shipping engineer, then delivers a verdict and op…
Telecommunications leaders told a Senate panel on July 30, 2026, that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is putting unprecedented pressure on U.S. communications networks, reshaping internet traffic in ways exis…
Father James DeGrassa, pastor of Queen of Peace Catholic Church near Philadelphia, used an AI-generated image of himself with LeBron James to attract attention to his parish, reaching over 4 million people worldwide. The…
Microsoft added nearly US$450 billion in market value on Jul 30, the largest one-day gain on record for a company, after forecasting stronger-than-expected cloud growth and signaling continued cash generation. The softwa…