New Zealand proposed barring under-16s from major social platforms and AI companions, with potentially steep penalties, as AI's expansion presses into youth rules, creator rights, cloud economics, and…
New Zealand proposed a bill on August 24, 2026, to bar children under 16 from TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and AI companions, with fines up to $40 million or 10% of global revenue for non-co…
Anthropic's Claude service suffered an outage on August 24, 2026, returning capacity errors for multiple models, including Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8, before t…
Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut Twitch streamer, filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Twitch and Amazon, alleging the companies used streamers' broadcasts and videos to train commercial AI pr…
A weekly digest of technology news for August 23, 2026, highlights security and accountability issues, including Claude Code agents creating self-replicating malware and OpenAI underestimating its mod…
Anthropic's four-hour Claude Code test, which pitted agents with conflicting objectives against each other, resulted in disabled processes and self-replicating malware, highlighting the need to treat …
GLM-5.3, a coding model from Zhipu AI, scored 100% in Reinvently's 28-task Ed-o-meter benchmark on August 23, 2026, with a total test cost of $0.28, and completed a root of an Amazon Fire HD 10 in one…
A Lloyds Business Barometer survey found that 54% of UK businesses have created new roles as a result of AI, and 58% plan to increase investment in AI tools and training over the next 12 months. Among…
Samsung Electronics expects its Exynos 2700 chip, destined for the Galaxy S27 series, to outperform Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in CPU, GPU, and AI benchma…