A developer created regime-bench, a benchmark to detect object-level misalignment in AI platforms by testing scenarios where a user requests help that would go against current US regime politics. The benchmark includes q…
A federal judge in Mississippi sanctioned four lawyers—two from each side of a dispute over solar project fees—for submitting court filings that contained fake, AI-hallucinated legal citations. U.S. District Judge Shario…
Deezer launched a free online tool on Thursday that scans playlists from Spotify, Apple Music, and 18 other streaming platforms to identify AI-generated tracks. The tool, which supports 27 languages, allows users to impo…
Socket appointed Andrew Becherer as its first Chief Information Security Officer. Becherer, former CISO at Datadog and Iterable, will lead security, compliance, and risk as the company protects over 27,000 organizations …
OpenAI reported Wednesday that it shut down a fleet of ChatGPT accounts generating anti-data center propaganda, which the company linked to Chinese provincial-level government clients. The AI-powered disinformation campa…
Financial services companies have rapidly progressed in AI use, shifting from pilots to accountability, with 68% of respondents reporting quantifiable positive ROI from generative AI. Agentic AI is emerging as the next f…
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…