Illinois could become the first U.S. state to make driving while wearing AI smart glasses a felony, after the General Assembly approved a bill updating distracted-driving law with no hands-free or sto…
Only 16% of Americans believe AI will benefit society over the next two decades, according to Pew Research Center, even as 21% of U.S. workers use AI chatbots in 2025. The public's top fears include j…
Apple is reportedly splitting the iPhone 18 generation across two launch windows, with premium models arriving in fall 2026 and standard models delayed to spring 2027, according to supplier comments f…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered remaining employees to participate in a three-day AI hackathon to rebuild 'hacker culture' weeks after laying off 8,000 workers. The move was met with employee backlas…
More than 200 civil-society organizations, led by Access Now and Amnesty International, are demanding an immediate ban on AI in military kill chains after reports revealed that Palantir's Maven Smart …
PONGBOT launched the Aura S, an AI-powered pickleball training robot with a large language model for voice control and a Spotter camera for real-time motion analysis, designed specifically for the spo…
More than 16,000 people, including SAG-AFTRA members and the general public, have signed an open letter demanding Congress pass the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill that would create a federal intellec…
PONGBOT launched the Aura, an AI-powered training robot for tennis, pickleball, and padel, on Kickstarter. The device uses match replication to analyze video clips of opponents and recreate their shot…
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook in June 2026, replacing traditional search with conversational answers synthesized from public posts, Groups, and Reels using its Llama 3 model. The feature lacks a s…
Derbyshire Police launched a criminal investigation into one of its officers for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases, potentially amounting to perverting the cour…
The Atlantic published four searchable catalogs proving that millions of copyrighted songs, including hits by Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, were used to train AI music generators like Suno and Udio. Maj…
South Korea's presidential chief of staff for policy, Kim Yong-beom, proposed a "national dividend" plan to redistribute excess tax revenues from AI infrastructure profits to citizens, causing the Kos…
The U.S. government forced Anthropic to disable its Fable and Mythos AI models globally on June 12 via an export control directive, sparking backlash from 76 cybersecurity veterans who argue the ban w…
The automotive industry has produced several over-engineered cars that prioritized complexity over practicality, including the 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner with its hide-away hardtop, the Rover P6 …
Fox Corporation acquired Roku for $22 billion, paying $160 per share in cash and stock, to gain control over the streaming platform used by 100 million households. The deal shifts Fox's strategy from …
Florida's facial recognition system FACESNXT has led to at least two documented wrongful arrests, with Jalil Richardson spending 93 days in jail and Robert Dillon losing his job after being falsely ma…
Google Research and UC San Diego have repurposed 2,000 retired Pixel phones into a data center that matches the performance of 50 traditional servers, achieving higher per-thread CPU scores than AMD E…
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a bipartisan budget that freezes new data center tax breaks for three years, pausing a program that costs the state $38 million annually. The moratorium aims to add…
Nothing CEO Carl Pei warned that RAM now accounts for over 50% of a new phone's hardware cost, with memory prices quadrupling due to AI data centers consuming DRAM supply. Phone prices are rising $100…
BYD has patented an AI system that detects living beings under parked vehicles before drivers move, using baseline imaging and change detection to address a dangerous blind spot. The system, described…