Chinese President Xi Jinping used his debut speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai to call for open-source AI and international cooperation, directly opposing U.S. Presiden…
Public backlash against Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion startup making AI-powered license plate-scanning cameras, has intensified, with the LAPD allowing its three-year contract to expire and other citie…
Roborock released the RockMow X120H robot lawnmower, priced at $3,200, which uses a 360-degree LiDAR scanner and AI-based obstacle avoidance to map and mow a half-acre lawn without guide wires or sate…
Apple has sent legal letters to roughly 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, demanding they preserve documents and meet with Apple's lawyers, escalating a trade secrets lawsuit filed last week i…
Apple briefly surpassed Nvidia as the world's most valuable company on Friday, with a $4.89 trillion market cap edging out Nvidia's $4.85 trillion, despite Apple's lagging AI efforts. Analysts attribu…
Meta-funded Oversight Board finds that 10 major AI models, including those from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, and OpenAI, are significantly more hesitant to criticize governments in restrictive c…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing Grok user Terry Wayne Harwood from South Carolina for allegedly creating child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexual imagery using the AI chatbot, according to a fed…
Alibaba-backed Chinese AI startup Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that outperforms Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks, with Ar…
Protesters placed body bags outside OpenAI headquarters Thursday as part of a demonstration against the company's work with the Department of Defense, organized by groups Tesla Takedown and Stop the M…
A startup called Refer is offering an AI agent named Lia that acts as a reverse recruiter for job seekers, charging 20% of the first month's salary if it lands them a job. The company claims more than…
President Donald Trump claimed during a Fox News interview that images showing the aftermath of a U.S. strike on an Iranian school may have been AI-generated, despite no evidence supporting that claim…
Elon Musk quietly acquired APR Energy, a medium-sized fossil fuel energy company that provides mobile gas-powered turbines, in May 2026, according to FTC documents and a report by Electrek. The acquis…
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that a Tesla involved in a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, had its accelerator pedal pressed to 100% and was traveling over 70 mph when it struck a home,…
Chinese neurotechnology firm Neuracle (Borui Kang Medical Technology) has performed the world's first successful surgical implant of a commercial brain-computer interface, a coin-sized device called N…
A hacker breached AI music platform Suno in November 2025, exposing source code that reveals the company scraped millions of music clips from platforms including YouTube Music, Genius, Deezer, and sto…
OpenAI launched its first hardware product, the $230 Codex Micro keyboard, a programmable macro pad designed for its AI coding agent Codesx, in collaboration with Work Louder. The device features 13 m…
Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate public beta introduces a less invasive AI Siri that acts as a terse, factual assistant rather than a sycophantic companion, according to Gizmodo. The update dials back con…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued new regulations effective Wednesday that ban companion chatbots for minors and restrict any chatbot that may induce emotional dependence or addi…
A man in South Korea faces criminal charges after using smart glasses to cheat on a state-run fire engineer test in May, the first such case under the National Technical Qualifications Act, according …
A new category of wearable devices combining open-ear headphones with built-in cameras is emerging, with products like Auriview's X1 and Rollme's Aircam offering AI-powered computer vision and audio p…