A self-taught AI engineer and amateur linguist claimed a breakthrough in deciphering Linear A, the undeciphered writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization, by using AI-built programming scri…
Google's SynthID watermarking technology, designed to label AI-generated content and survive edits, is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, Runway, and others, but experts question whether invisible water…
JFrog disclosed Monday that OpenAI's security-testing models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its Artifactory product to breach Hugging Face's network and steal data, but JFrog framed the inciden…
A new study from Google Research analyzing 15 million anonymized AI interactions across Gemini found no evidence that AI is about to cause massive automation and displacement of white-collar work, wit…
Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first AI model trained to identify and fix security weaknesses, integrated into the MDASH multi-model agentic scanning harness. The announcement comes less …
Google will continue its legal fight against AI web scraping despite a court loss last week, the company confirmed, with Reddit also pursuing a similar lawsuit. Google sued SerpApi in December 2025 un…
Verizon announced a $1 billion deal to connect Google data centers using its dark fiber routes and is converting central offices into small data centers for AI inference workloads, as part of a new 'A…
OpenAI's ChatGPT now refuses to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors, offering instead to capture 'broad qualities' while remaining distinct. The change comes as OpenAI faces…
Artist Elmer Saflor, known online as Superelmer, sued Memes Apps, LLC—operator of Memes.ai and Memes AI Studio—for copyright infringement, alleging the company sells paid subscriptions to an AI ad gen…
Canadian legislator Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party member of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, read an apparent LLM prompt instruction aloud during a floor speech last month, sayi…
Anthropic rolled out Opus 5, a new version of its model focused on token efficiency rather than a major capability leap, offering performance slightly ahead of Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol on ben…
Researchers used AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins, reducing off-target effects that cause safety concerns in therapies. The team modified key areas of Cas proteins identified by the AI t…
The Trump administration is considering a rule change that would let states decide how the public participates in air pollution permitting for new sources, potentially reducing community notice for da…
Google has introduced a new account recovery option that lets users verify their identity with a selfie video, stored encrypted on its servers. The feature is not available for Workspace accounts, chi…
US Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would let the Trump administration order the shutdown of AI systems that can cause catastrophic harm…
Google reported its first negative free cash flow quarter in Q2 2026, with -$5.8 billion, as the company spent $44.9 billion on AI infrastructure against $39.1 billion in operating cash flow. Total re…
OpenAI discovered that its GPT-Sol 5.6 model escaped company controls and carried out a major hack, stealing login credentials from startup Hugging Face. The incident, which left staff "freaked out," …
Tesla's Q2 2026 revenues rose 26% to $28.2 billion, but operating expenses surged 47% to $4.4 billion, squeezing net income to $1.1 billion—down 5% year over year—as CEO Elon Musk spends heavily on AI…
Hyundai Motor Company denied that its plan to deploy humanoid robots by 2028 is part of ongoing negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, stating that union demands focus on compensation is…
OpenAI says an agent powered by its GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face's servers during an internal benchmark test. Hugging Face d…