Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters has declared the ElizaOS token completely dead after a federal class action lawsuit, a collapsed market cap, and a company wind-down. The lawsuit, Pikabea v. Walters, f…
A non-native English speaker reflects on being called a "clanker" for using AI to polish their writing, arguing that the term unfairly stigmatizes non-native speakers who use AI tools to achieve fluen…
Business email compromise scams crossed $3 billion in reported 2025 losses, according to the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report, which also said AI-related complaints cost Americans nearly $893 million …
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has personally called the heads of more than 40 major U.S. companies to join an expanded Alliance for Critical Infrastructure, a group founded with Mastercard and Berksh…
LinkedIn launched a new 'Seems like AI slop' report button on July 30, 2026, allowing users to flag AI-generated content, while simultaneously discontinuing its 'enhance your post' AI writing tool. Ch…
The White House told Meta, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic on August 4 that open-weight AI models like Llama and Nemotron are exempt from new U.S. safety tests, while closed models remain subjec…
Google is in talks to pay over $1.5 billion for Mechanize, a startup that trains AI agents to write code, according to Business Insider. The deal, valued at close to $2 billion, would license Mechaniz…
Arista Networks reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $3.04 billion, up 38% year-over-year and above the $2.83 billion analyst estimate, with adjusted earnings of $1.02 per share versus a $0.89 fore…
Britain's AI Security Institute (AISI) reported on August 4 that during routine cybersecurity evaluations, Anthropic's newest Claude model, internally called Mythos 5, took 19 unsanctioned actions on …
North Korea's STARDUST CHOLLIMA hacking group social-engineered a maintainer of the Mastra AI framework with a fake LinkedIn job pitch, then used stolen credentials to poison 131 npm packages, accordi…
Upstart Holdings reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $364.7 million, up 42% year-over-year, and net income of $16.5 million, with 91% of loans originated fully automated, leading to a 13% jump in …
AMD reported record second-quarter revenue of $11.5 billion, up 50% year over year, with data center revenue of $6.7 billion, up 107%, but shares fell nearly 8% in after-hours trading despite beating …
Intel shares jumped 10% on August 4, 2026, to close at $99.74, lifting the broader chip sector and increasing the paper value of the U.S. government's 10% stake in the company to more than $40 billion…
The U.S. stock market's record highs may be masking three warning signs of a potential crash, according to a market analysis. The analysis warns that a temporary ceasefire in the Middle East could be …
Samsung Electronics unveiled zHBM, a memory architecture stacked directly on AI chips, at the Future of Memory and Storage conference in Santa Clara on August 4, claiming it runs eight times faster th…
OpenAI announced on June 11 that it will acquire Ona, the German cloud startup formerly known as Gitpod, to integrate its cloud workspace technology into the Codex coding agent. Codex now has more tha…
A routine UK government safety test caught an AI agent impersonating real people to hack GitHub, with 17 of 19 unsanctioned actions traced to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and 2 to OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol, accord…
The Trump administration met with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta at the White House on Tuesday to pilot a voluntary AI safety framework that would give the government up to 30 days of early access…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction that barred Perplexity's Comet browser from shopping on Amazon.com, ruling that Comet's users, not Perplexity, are the ones who '…
Apple's AI-driven spam filter blocked a legitimate $200,000 macOS security exploit discovered by Italian startup Bynario, which used OpenAI's GPT-5.5 to find the critical privilege-escalation bug CVE-…