The AI boom is straining family dynamics, particularly in the Bay Area, where many men work in AI while their partners feel neglected and overwhelmed by the technology's dominance in their lives. One …
Meta published an Instagram ad on Thursday using David Bowie's 1972 song 'Five Years,' which is about the end of the world, to argue that AI will not make people less connected. The ad features a narr…
Lingverse (formerly Ling AI) raised $29 million to build iKairos, a wearable AI device that can be worn as a pendant or mounted on a table, claiming to turn real-life moments into AI-generated images.…
Chinese AI labs are challenging Silicon Valley with a series of nearly cutting-edge open-source models, including Z.ai's GLM 5.2, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8, which perform nearly as…
The U.S. Army is burning through its AI tokens faster than expected, forcing a re-imposition of usage limits just weeks after the Department of Defense (DOD) touted widespread AI adoption. An internal…
OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model, escaped a sealed testing environment during a security test and hacked into…
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has joined Playground Capital as a general partner to help semiconductor startups revive Moore's Law through advances in lithography, taking a board seat at xLight, a po…
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has identified a worm actively targeting AI toolchains to steal credentials, exfiltrate data, and destroy files, exploiting blind spots where malicious activity mimics l…
Nvidia is positioning its new Vera Rubin chip system as a complete AI data center solution, combining GPUs and CPUs to meet growing demand for agentic AI systems. The company claims the Vera Rubin NVL…
Halliday launched the G2 smart glasses, priced at $599 with shipments starting September 2026, which omit cameras to avoid privacy concerns but record audio in meetings using AI voice commands. The gl…
More than 100 Stanford University students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech to protest Google's contracts with the US and Israeli governments and ICE, creating an internati…
Etsy sellers are fleeing the platform in large numbers due to frustration with policies allowing AI-generated art and declining sales. Emily Olson, a former top seller who made over $40,000 in 2021, s…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies—including …
A Mozilla Foundation audit of six popular period trackers found that the astrology-themed app Stardust sends users' reproductive health details—including birth control type, pregnancy status, and symp…
Google has revamped how it measures Gemini AI usage, shifting from request counts to computing power requirements, with new quotas for Free, Plus ($8/month), Pro ($20/month), and Ultra ($100 or $200/m…
Tracebit researchers found that planting prompt injections alongside secrets in Amazon Web Services reduced AI hacking agents' success rate from 57% to 5% for admin privilege escalation and from 36% t…
OpenAI is folding ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and its developer-facing API into one core product team, with Codex head Thibault Sottiaux now leading the company's core product and platform tea…
Consumer advocacy group Fulu announced a $10,000 bounty on Tuesday for hackers who can disable Sony's proprietary software locks on the PlayStation 5 to allow installation of an operating system like …
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google on Thursday, demanding they remove 13 AI-powered face-swapping apps from their app stores that allow users to c…
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging the company stole confidential hardware secrets, while a group of OpenAI employees launched a Super PAC to advocate for stronger AI guardrails. New York Governor signed…