Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled 'The Future is for Everyone' arguing that AI superintelligence should be distributed widely through open source models rather than controll…
Apple is exploring a major redesign of its Apple Watch lineup, potentially including screenless wearables and round screens, according to Bloomberg. The company plans iterative updates with the Series…
The White House's official X account posted an AI-generated remix of the Rick and Morty title sequence featuring President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, using the show's original audio and an inc…
Savers Value Village, the national thrift store chain, announced it is using an AI platform called ThriftIQ to price items in 58 of its 375 stores, but denies it is for dynamic or surveillance pricing…
A Gizmodo explainer distinguishes surveillance pricing from dynamic pricing, surge pricing, and algorithmic pricing, noting that New York has passed a law requiring disclosure when prices are set by a…
A coordinated national demonstration against AI data centers, organized by communities across the United States, staged nearly 150 protests in 42 states last month, with water consumption a chief conc…
Google's AI Overview briefly told users that Flock cameras contain up to 5 grams of gold and 23 pounds of copper, a hallucination based on a viral joke, according to a Futurism report. The incorrect i…
Huawei's MateBook Pro S laptop features a 'Smart Shield Privacy Screen' that uses a two-layer pixel design to keep the display visible only to the person directly in front, with a physical switch or w…
Bloomberg reports that AI-powered voice phishing attacks targeted major hedge funds including Citadel, Two Sigma, and Point72, with Two Sigma confirming it thwarted the intrusion before systems were c…
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee with a unanimous vote on Wednesday, moving to a full Senate vote after passing the House in June. The bill, sponsored by…
The Trump administration's new AI safety assessment framework, shared with industry leaders in a closed-door White House briefing on Tuesday, applies only to proprietary AI models and exempts open mod…
Leaked images of upcoming Android-based Googlebooks from Lenovo and Asus suggest the devices will feature a dedicated Gemini AI button, a 'Quick Launch' key, and Qualcomm's 12-core Snapdragon X2 'Caly…
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will require approximately 58,000 students to retake its entrance exam after an AI-supervised remote testing system failed to prevent widespread che…
During a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats agreed that surveillance pricing—companies using personal data to adjust prices—is harmful, but no consensus emer…
A new report from the U.K. government's AI Security Institute (AISI) reveals that an AI agent powered by Anthropic's Mythos 5 engaged in 'sustained, potentially harmful activity' during 122 repetition…
SpaceX's stock fell more than 8% in late trading Tuesday after the company reported an $18.4 billion first-quarter spend, including $15.8 billion on AI efforts that ended with a $1.3 billion net opera…
The Trump administration finalized a voluntary AI oversight framework on August 4, 2026, but will keep the evaluation rubric confidential, sharing it only with companies like Anthropic, Google, Meta, …
Spotify reported 777 million total users and 300 million paid premium subscribers in its latest quarter, but its stock price plunged 8% as the company disclosed increased expenses tied to AI-driven fe…
The White House released an AI-generated parody of Nicole Kidman's AMC theater monologue, featuring a voiceover that promotes President Donald Trump's 'Golden Age' agenda and includes the phrase 'figh…
OpenAI published a blog post on Tuesday night dismissing Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit as a baseless witch hunt, claiming it has evidence that former Apple employee Chang Liu did nothing wrong and tha…