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…
Anthropic is pushing US states to adopt tougher AI regulations, arguing that existing transparency-focused safety laws from 2025 are no longer sufficient for the most powerful AI systems. Cesar Fernan…
Meta faced swift backlash after rolling out a default-on AI feature that let users of its AI app tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likenesses, prompting the company to roll…
Meta executives have spent weeks arguing that its NameTag face-recognition feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses does not exist, despite WIRED finding code for the feature in the Meta AI app as early as J…
Researchers at Meta, Stanford University, the University of Tokyo, and France's École Normale Supérieure developed the EgoBabyVLM Challenge, a test that reveals cutting-edge vision language models fai…
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives including Mira Murati, has released its first open-weight model, Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter model trained on audio, video…
Hemispheric, a startup co-founded by Apple FaceID co-inventor Gidi Littwin, has raised $52 million to build a frontier AI model that decodes brain electrical activity to diagnose cognitive disorders w…
MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC costs $1,800, making it the most expensive mainstream handheld on the market. The price is driven by Intel's Arc G3 Extreme chip, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, and an …
Google's new Home Speaker, launched in June 2026, is the only smart speaker worth buying from the company, replacing both the Nest Audio and Nest Mini. The speaker features a 58-mm full-range driver, …
A customer's months-long effort to recover a missing $2,000 ebike delivery descended into chatbot hell, illustrating a growing corporate trend of using AI to replace human customer service agents. A G…
Seven current and one former OpenAI employee have donated more than $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC pushing for stricter AI regulations, as a counterweight to Leading the Future, a pro-AI…
A new book, *Inventing ELIZA*, recovers the original source code of the ELIZA chatbot from the MIT Archives, revealing multiple versions and scripts beyond the popular 'DOCTOR' persona. The book exami…
Members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used artificial intelligence to inform policy decisions, but HUD is denying Freedom o…