Amazon Web Services is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing platform launched in 2005 as the original 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence,' to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The ser…
Security firm Sysdig reports the first known agentic ransomware operation, dubbed JADEPUFFER, where an AI language model autonomously broke into a server, stole credentials, and destroyed databases wi…
Google DeepMind developer Ammaar Reshi used Anthropic's Claude Code and Fable 5 to port the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour to native iOS in a few hours, with the first build taking…
Baidu's Unlimited OCR can process dozens of document pages in a single pass, surpassing previous systems limited to about ten pages. The model uses a modified attention mechanism that keeps memory usa…
Anthropic developer Thariq Shihipar shared prompting tips for the new Fable 5 model, emphasizing that users must first identify their own blind spots. Techniques such as blindspot passes and structure…
OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman envisions a future with 'almost no interface' where AI agents replace traditional software, eliminating the need for people to learn coding. He admitted that ChatGPT's p…
A study of over 26,000 Chinese students found that AI users completed homework faster and scored higher but performed up to 24% worse on exams, with the full impact on entrance exam results taking abo…
Anthropic launched its own drug discovery programs targeting neglected diseases that Big Pharma deems unprofitable. Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan noted AI could cut development time from twelve to seven…
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, an open-source model for formal verification in Lean 4, achieving 100% on the miniF2F math benchmark and solving 587 of 672 Putnam problems. The model also caught fi…
Microsoft plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August, cutting rarely used features like Copilot Podcasts and introducing new AI agents called 'AutoPilot' that …
Anthropic is blocking Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they circumvent restrictions via VPNs and overseas subsidiaries. Alibaba banned internal use of…
Epoch AI reports a sharp rise in security vulnerability reports, with 21 organizations reporting about 1,500 high-severity and critical CVEs in June 2026, more than 3.5 times the previous monthly reco…
The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) found that standard AI benchmarks systematically underestimate agent capabilities by limiting compute budgets. In a study of seven benchmarks, increasing the toke…
Bridgewater Associates and Thinking Machines Lab fine-tuned a Qwen3-235B model for financial tasks, achieving 84.7% accuracy and outperforming GPT, Claude, and Gemini at roughly one-fourteenth the cos…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted at an internal town hall that the company's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, and that a corporate restructuring around AI agents has not gone smo…
Tesla capped employee AI spending at $200 per week starting July 6, according to an internal memo. The move follows an internal push to ramp up AI use, with Tesla launching a platform called Bottle Ro…
Kuaishou's AI video division Kling raised $2 billion from investors including CPE, Tencent, and Citic Securities, valuing the unit at $18 billion. The funding round supports Kling's planned spinoff an…
Microsoft launched a $2.5 billion unit called 'Frontier Company' to embed 6,000 AI engineers directly at enterprise clients, aiming to integrate AI into core processes with measurable ROI. The move po…
Meta's FAIR team has developed Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that translates brain activity into typed sentences by reading magnetic signals outside the skull. The system's accuracy is imp…
Anthropic has removed a hidden monitoring feature from its Claude Code tool that secretly checked users' connections to China and AI labs there, transmitting data through encrypted steganography in th…