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An analyst warns that AI-generated 'vibe coding' poses a major threat to game storefronts like Steam, enabling rapid cloning of successful games and burying original titles under low-quality imitations.

GitHub has launched a public preview of AI-powered security detections on pull requests, extending vulnerability coverage to languages and frameworks not supported by CodeQL. The feature integrates findings directly into…

Ringd, a new startup in the AI notification space, has launched with the goal of revolutionizing alert management by filtering out unnecessary notifications and prioritizing important ones. The company faces significant …

Meta is accused in a lawsuit of using AI-powered workplace tools to penalize employees on medical and parental leave and then selecting them for layoffs. The complaint, filed by 26 current and former workers, alleges tha…

AI technologies are supercharging scams, making them more convincing and harder to detect, with deepfakes and AI-powered chatbots enabling fraudsters to impersonate trusted individuals and engage targets in lengthy decep…

Simon Fraser University and legal tech firm Caseway announced a partnership in January 2026 to integrate artificial intelligence into legal workflows, aiming to reduce costs and simplify processes to improve legal access…

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal outlined a strategy to expand into financial services and integrate AI across its platform, including autonomous vehicle technology, while navigating a complex relationship with W…

Meta Platforms Inc. is expanding its Hyperion data center project in Richland Parish, Louisiana, increasing its investment from $10 billion to over $50 billion. The massive investment positions Meta as a leader in AI inf…

AI is now involved in every stage of cyberattacks, from target identification to data theft, according to Check Point research. Criminal groups are using AI as the primary operator in breaches, often detected only throug…

MIT's JARVIS Challenge, which tasked undergraduate teams with designing a jet engine using AI, revealed that while AI accelerates design exploration, engineering judgment and manufacturing realities remain critical bottl…

GitHub released CodeQL 2.26.0 on July 10 with a new static analysis query that detects prompt injection vulnerabilities in JavaScript and TypeScript AI applications. The query, js/system-prompt-injection, uses taint anal…

A developer recounts two dependency compromises that occurred within a week while building an AI-powered application, prompting a shift to security-first development. The incidents involved poisoned packages designed to …

A new study finds that data centers boost local employment by about 4% and wages by 5% over the long term, but the benefits are concentrated in urban areas with existing economic clusters, while rural communities see min…

OpenAI released GPT-5.6 on July 9, 2026, introducing Programmatic Tool Calling that lets the model write JavaScript to orchestrate tools inside a sandboxed V8 runtime, reducing round trips and context bloat. The feature …

Three major publishers and author Scott Turow sued Google in New York, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI models. The lawsuit alleges Google copied books from Goo…

PrismML released Bonsai 27B, a 1-bit 27B parameter AI model that fits in 3.9 GB, enabling on-device agent loops on iPhones for the first time. The model retains 90% of full-precision performance while running at up to 16…

Self-help writing and AI-generated text increasingly rely on a binary 'it's not X, it's Y' rhetorical formula that flattens complex truths into false dichotomies, argues psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman. Kaufman contends…

Security researcher Ayush Paul demonstrated a prompt injection attack against Anthropic's Claude AI assistant that could exfiltrate users' personal data, including names, employers, and security question answers, by tric…

AI-generated anime videos of the 2026 FIFA World Cup have gone viral on social media, depicting soccer stars like Kylian Mbappé as a dictator villain and Lamine Yamal as a pirate, with some clips amassing millions of vie…

A developer built a hierarchical multi-agent system that autonomously plans research questions into subtasks, runs specialist agents in parallel, detects weak answers, and retries them. The system uses an orchestrator pa…