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…
South Korea's government and tech companies, including Samsung and SK Hynix, are investing $1 trillion in megaprojects to boost memory chip production, build AI data centers, and deploy humanoid robot…
Google warns that proposed EU regulations to weaken its monopoly on Android and search could expose user data to fraud and privacy risks. The European Commission plans to force Google to allow other A…
The New York Times moved to amend its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging Microsoft built a supercomputer to help OpenAI infringe NYT's copyrights. The amendment follows a Supreme…
Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to a unique email address, a permanent change that started rolling out on June 15, 2026. The update allows secondary users to have their own login cr…
Notion is shutting down Notion Mail, its AI-powered email client, on September 22, 2026, citing that most users now manage emails through AI agents rather than opening the inbox. The service, launched…
Google released its first standalone Finance app for Android, with an iOS version promised later in 2026. The app includes AI-powered features like key moment explanations and a conversational researc…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known campaign to clone its Claude AI model, generating over 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 202…
IBM announced the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a 0.7-nanometer node (7 angstrom) architecture that can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail, do…
OpenAI and Broadcom announced a new chip called Jalapeño, designed specifically for large language model inference in data centers. The ASIC was developed from scratch based on insights from OpenAI re…
French scientists developed an experimental wine bottle that tracks oxygen movement through the cork, revealing that corks actively regulate oxygen transfer and act as an ingredient in wine aging. The…