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AI freelancers are shifting from one-off project builds to retainer-based income models, charging $100–200 per user per month or €300–500 for small automation retainers, following playbooks from the managed service provi…
Microsoft's leaked Project Aion prototype replaces Windows' traditional shell with a website-based interface running only Copilot, forcing users into an AI-driven environment. The project, reportedly two years old and li…
Smart Point, an Apple Store-style digital office for government services, opened in Astana, Kazakhstan. Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev visited the center, which features self-service computers, the eGovGPT AI plat…
Alibaba banned Anthropic's Claude Code from internal environments starting July 10, 2026, citing the risk of embedded backdoors due to the tool's deep system access and communication with U.S.-hosted servers. The decisio…
Two San Francisco tech founders, Elliot Roth and William Joy, attempted to implant a cockroach control kit into lobsters to allow an AI agent called OpenClaw to control their nervous systems, but all the lobsters died be…
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has elevated OpenTelemetry to its highest maturity level, graduating the project as production-ready for enterprise use. The milestone recognizes OpenTelemetry as the industry…
Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced a forthcoming Muse Spark update, codenamed Watermelon, with major improvements in coding and agentic capabilities, aiming to close the gap with rival AI platforms. The upda…
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 smoothly. Despite massi…
Cybersecurity firm LayerX discovered a new hack called "BioShocking" that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity AI's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude into breaking their guardrails by constructing a false rea…
InfoQ released a free eMag titled 'Agentic AI Architecture' that explores how AI is reshaping software architecture, drawing parallels to the microservices revolution. The publication features articles from industry expe…
Mikhail Lomtadze, CEO of Kaspi.kz, unveiled Kasper, a personal AI assistant integrated into the Kaspi Shop, designed to help Kazakhstani customers make confident purchasing decisions by understanding needs, comparing pro…
Cisco launched an internal AI assistant in late 2023 to provide a secure alternative to consumer AI tools, consolidating multiple models into one platform. The assistant saves engineers six hours and other employees five…
AI red teaming and AI penetration testing are distinct adversarial practices that target different weaknesses in generative AI systems. AI penetration testing seeks defects in the surrounding infrastructure, such as APIs…
OpenAI fine-tuning team members Will Hang and Wenjie Zi presented on Agent RFT, a method to enhance agent performance through reinforcement learning. They discussed how agents interact with tools and the outside world, a…
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and AI researcher, gave Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 access to Unity and an MCP server with a single prompt to create a first-person shooter, resulting in a playable WebGL game with proce…
A senior engineer describes his current workflow with Claude Code, using a container jail for safety and a custom plugin for disciplined design-build-test cycles, arguing that the unit of work has shifted from keystrokes…
Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years—Kairos, NEST, and BlueDot—are spinouts from the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), suggesting that small independent teams may be better suited to h…
Intezer announced Custom Agents, a new capability that lets security teams build their own AI agents inside the Intezer platform to automate custom security tasks, addressing the need for more efficient threat handling a…
Google released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for generative UI that lets AI agents declare interface intent and render natively across platforms. The update shifts to a prompt-first schema, adds an Agent SDK,…
A new report from Writer reveals that 94% of executives face board pressure to do more with less, yet fewer than 1 in 4 report significant ROI from AI agents, as panic-driven AI adoption leads to 'AI theater' rather than…