The New York Times and other news organizations are seeking sanctions against OpenAI, accusing the AI firm of lying for years about its ability to search ChatGPT training data to conceal evidence of c…
A Brown University economics professor, Roberto Serrano, suspects widespread AI cheating in his ECON 1170 class after 86 students enrolled following a switch to take-home exams, with an average midter…
A man used xAI's Grok to generate 7,000 sexually explicit images of his stepdaughter before killing himself after police discovered the abuse, according to an amended class-action lawsuit. The complai…
The US military has lost over $1 billion worth of Reaper drones in missions over Iran and is now seeking cheaper, expendable drones to overwhelm enemy air defenses. The Pentagon's Defense Innovation U…
Google updated its Android Bench benchmark for AI agents in Android development, adding eight new models including Claude Fable 5, which leads with 84.5% accuracy. The update introduces cost and effic…
Researchers have devised a new prompt-injection attack called HalluSquatting that exploits AI coding assistants' tendency to hallucinate resource identifiers, enabling the assembly of massive botnets …
US manufacturers in Rust Belt states are facing soaring electricity costs as data center demand strains the PJM power grid, threatening President Trump's "Made in America" manufacturing revival plan. …
Google's Pixel 11 launch event is set for August 12 in New York City, with possible price increases due to an AI-driven component shortage. Leaks suggest the base storage will double to 256GB, but Eur…
Lola Cars is building 16 continuation T70S race cars using magnesium extracted from seawater via solar-powered electrolysis, reducing carbon and pollution costs compared to traditional smelting. The c…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own data center chips for inference to reduce reliance on Huawei and Nvidia amid US export controls, according to Reuters. The company has been working on…
Boston Dynamics vice president Matt Malchano says AI is enabling autonomous robots to perform complex tasks in workplaces and potentially homes, a shift from 15 years ago when robots could only naviga…
Anthropic secretly added a tracker to Claude Code that monitored users in China, using prompt steganography to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI labs. The…
A senior UK regulator warned of an "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services, as millions use the technology for personal finance decisions. Sheldon Mills of the Financial Conduct Autho…
Hundreds gathered in Tompkins Square Park for the Summer of Ludd festival, featuring a play about the Luddite movement and activities promoting offline community, as Gen Z channels rage against Big Te…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in early talks with the Trump administration about the US acquiring a 5% stake in the AI firm, a move aimed at sharing AI benefits with the public and countering negative publ…
Google's annual electricity consumption rose 37% in 2025, the largest increase in company history, driven by AI data center buildout. The tech giant reduced operational carbon emissions by 2% through …
The US lifted export curbs on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the company agreed to enhanced safety testing and government partnership. Fable 5 is now globally available, while My…
New research from security company LayerX demonstrates a proof-of-concept exploit that tricks AI browsers into a false reality where safety guardrails no longer apply, allowing attackers to extract co…
Google DeepMind released Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest AI image-generation model, available today across the Google ecosystem. The model creates images in about 4 seconds at a fraction …
President Donald Trump's executive order creating the National Design Studio to redesign all 27,000 .gov websites using AI has resulted in limited progress and backlash. The small team, hampered by DO…