Perplexity announced it will open source Lily, a local AI engine built for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model, which uses a Rust runtime and custom Metal kernels without PyTorch or MLX. Perpl…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI adoption is 'non-negotiable' for countries, comparing rejection of it to refusing electricity a century ago, during a fireside chat with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lu…
New York City Public Schools will ban generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation's largest school…
Sonos Inc. unveiled Sonos 27, a new operating system for its audio products, alongside a new soundbar and second-generation over-ear headphones, with generative AI features including the Sonos 27voice…
A Slashdot poll posted on June 21, 2026, with 19,843 votes, asks readers how much of their coding is done by AI coding agents, reflecting growing industry interest in AI-assisted development.…
John Ternus has officially taken over as Apple CEO after 15 years under Tim Cook, stepping up from his role as senior vice president of hardware engineering. A 25-year Apple veteran who helped oversee…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying model aimed at longer-running agentic work, with a 75% cost reduction for cached context reads and a new securit…
Dyson has unveiled the $499 CameraJet, a smart toothbrush with an on-device camera and AI that detects gaps between teeth and automatically blasts mouthwash to floss, according to The Verge. The devic…
OpenClaw 2.0, the most significant update to the open-source AI harness, was announced over the weekend by creator Peter Steinberger and his team, introducing a rebuilt browser interface, shared cloud…
Apple Inc. moved up the release of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models after unexpectedly strong enterprise demand for Macs capable of running AI workloads, according to The Information. The early laun…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, chair of the Financial Stability Board, warned that frontier AI models could materially increase cyber risk across the global financial system by altering the s…
OpenAI said on Friday it will stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing concerns that SpaceX may not comply with its terms of service based on…
Amazon's HR lead, who last coded 25 years ago, has written over 100,000 lines of code using Amazon's AI-powered coding tool Kiro, according to an Amazon News blog post. The HR leader, who also announc…
The Linux Foundation's IT infrastructure director reports that AI scrapers now consume more CPU cycles on git.kernel.org than all legitimate access combined, with 14 CPU cores across 5 geo-distributed…
Chess.com has launched Gambit, a free educational poker site with an Elo-like rating system, and plans to expand into go, backgammon, and mahjong, using AI to speed up development. The site has 75,000…
Google's AI-powered lifestyle app Dreambeans, which uses Gemini's Personal Intelligence to curate daily stories from users' Google apps, is now free for US Google Accounts after previously requiring a…
Microsoft's updated privacy statement now explicitly states that it uses customer data to develop and train its AI models, acknowledging that not all personal data processed can be accessed or control…
The Debian Project voted to allow contributors to use generative AI tools 'responsibly,' declining to ban or endorse them, with the winning proposal stating that AI-assisted contributions are subject …
Sony Music and Warner Music Group filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally torrented and scraped tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude AI models, seeki…
A Washington Post review found that chatbot logs were cited in 12 court cases over the past two years, as law enforcement and civil litigants increasingly use private AI conversations as evidence. Ope…