Anthropic pulled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models worldwide after the US government issued an export directive citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak method. The company disputed the claim, statin…
A ZDNET writer used ChatGPT to build a Python script that removes yellow backgrounds from scanned PDF sheet music, after finding manual editing too fiddly and AI-based PDF conversion non-deterministic. The script preserv…
Agentic AI workloads are shifting the compute ratio, making CPUs the critical coordination substrate rather than a support component for GPUs. This inversion is exposed by current Xeon supply tightness, which reveals tha…
Eric Vaughan, CEO of IgniteTech, laid off 80% of his workforce after employees refused to embrace AI despite a year of training, arguing that resistance—not skills gaps—is the main barrier to AI adoption. Deloitte vice c…
A developer outlines a practical approach to building a multi-model LLM fallback layer that allows applications to use multiple providers without spreading provider-specific logic throughout the codebase. The system defi…
Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire AI customer service agent company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, continuing its aggressive AI acquisition spree that already includes Informatica and Convergence.ai. The …
Z.ai shipped GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, with a 1-million-token context window and zero published benchmark numbers. The model, based on a 744-billion-parameter MoE architecture, introduces a dual thinking-effort system (H…
WordPress market share has declined for six months straight, but active sites remain stable, according to BuiltWith.com data. The dip is attributed to WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg's public conflict with WPEngine over…
A proposed Flatpak-NG package format threatens to break compatibility with non-systemd Linux distributions, potentially alienating users who avoid systemd. The new format would rely on systemd-specific features, making i…
Tencent-backed AI chip startup Enflame won approval for a 6 billion yuan ($888m) IPO on Shanghai's STAR board, becoming the last of China's 'four AI chip dragons' to go public. The company, which relies on Tencent for 84…
Kster.ai launches a structured product context platform that integrates with AI coding tools via MCP, giving AI agents a shared, always-current picture of product goals, decisions, and rationale. The tool aims to reduce …
Nvidia VP Bryan Catanzaro revealed that compute costs for his applied deep learning division have surpassed employee salaries, highlighting a growing cost imbalance in AI. A 2024 MIT study found AI automation is cost-eff…
Anthropic shut down access to its top AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US directive barred foreigners from using them, with the company disabling access globally due to inability to filter users in real time. The m…
Salesforce announced it will acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billion to enhance its AI agent capabilities. The deal brings Fin's proprietary AI model and customer agent platform to Salesforce, aiming to accelera…
OWASP released AISVS 1.0, a security checklist with 514 verifiable requirements for AI systems, at Global AppSec Vienna. The standard fills a gap by providing testable controls for prompt injection, MCP security, and sup…
Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust, explained how AI agents can run exhaustive benchmarks and perform deep technical work like database optimization, and argued that evals are essential for shipping better softwa…
An experiment testing LLM councils found that they suffer from groupthink, retaining only about a quarter of unique, high-quality ideas from individual models while favoring consensus ideas. The peer-review process smoot…
DoorDash and Uber are lobbying to prevent the spread of gig worker protection laws, aiming to block legislation that would classify their drivers as employees entitled to benefits and minimum wage.
AI-powered vulnerability discovery tools are driving a surge in disclosed software flaws, with the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) now projecting 66,000 CVEs in 2026, far exceeding initial estimates…
Radical Numerics, a startup founded by researchers who built AI models capable of generating DNA, emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital. The company develops multimodal AI that reads…