Librarians Charlie Bailey in Philadelphia and Hannah Cyrus in Maine are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops that teach people how to disable AI features like Apple Intelligence and Gemini on their d…
OpenAI launched Micro, a $230 customizable keypad built to pair with ChatGPT, developed with keyboard designer Work Louder. The device features six agent keys and six command keys for controlling Chat…
Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus, and Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the discussion…
Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to sources. The startup, which launched in April, focu…
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired The Interaction Company of California, the maker of the AI assistant Poke, in a deal valued in the low nine figures. The acquisition will bring Poke's conversa…
Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, a new version of its heavyweight model that outperforms Fable 5 on several benchmarks while being cheaper and less restrictive. Opus 5 is free from the 30-day data…
AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia signed an open letter urging U.S. policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington weighs a…
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie is expanding into an open-ended social research tool with a new feature called Quests, allowing users to ask open-ended questions about information and news across the Blu…
Midjourney, an AI lab known for its image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, which has about 4.3 million monthly active users. The deal terms were not disclosed, and …
Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open model Kimi K3 went viral this week, sparking a fresh round of AI panic in the U.S. industry over open-weight models. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outsi…
OpenAI on Thursday updated its ChatGPT desktop app to support ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer using voice commands. The feature taps OpenAI's new…
AI guardrails designed to prevent malicious use are hindering offensive cybersecurity researchers, who say the restrictions block legitimate work like finding and confirming software vulnerabilities. …
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveiled the Helios rack-scale system at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, positioning it as the industry's highest-performance AI rack to compete with Nvid…
Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode to let users choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models, enabling longer conversations and integration with apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and…
AegisAI, a startup founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, has raised $36 million in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures to combat AI-driven spear phishing. The com…
Runway launched Runway Media Router, a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model based on a developer's priorities for quality, speed, or cost, marking the first…
OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users over 18 across all plans, following a lawsuit from a Florida pastor who alleged the feature gave a near-fatal suggestion not to consult a doc…
Meta launched a new advertisement promoting AI optimism set to David Bowie's song "Five Years," which is about a mass extinction event. The ad, shared by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, features upbeat visuals o…
AI chip startup Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, doubling its valuation in seven months, co-founder and…
Google announced during its Q2 2026 earnings call that its AI assistant Gemini now has over 950 million monthly active users, tripling from last year and approaching the 1 billion milestone. Alphabet …