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San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu ordered Apple and Google to remove at least 13 AI 'nudify' apps from their app stores that generate nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, warning the companies could face civil penaltie…
ICME Labs has launched three products—Verbatim Deterministic Gateway, PreFlight, and PreFlight Instruments—that use formal proofs and zero-knowledge receipts to make AI agent safety verifiable by third parties without tr…
Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping content on its platform, CEO Jack Conte announced on Instagram. The network-level protection applies to all posts published on Patreon, wi…
Kaiser Permanente nurses say AI and workplace surveillance are harming patient care, with seven current and former nurses telling CalMatters that call-time tracking, productivity-prediction software, and AI empathy ratin…
Vint Cerf, a co-inventor of the internet, has joined a project to create a system of durable identifiers for every AI agent, aiming to establish trust and verification when agents interact. The initiative seeks to solve …
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, declared that AI is a useful tool and that Linux is not an anti-AI project, warning that those who disagree can fork the project or walk away. Speaking on 17 July 2026, Torvalds stat…
Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm says de-extinction is an engineering problem, not science fiction, and that the company's work on species such as the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger uses ancient DNA, CRISPR g…
A new Adobe report surveying 16,000 creators across eight countries found that 87% of respondents using creative AI said it accelerated business or audience growth, while 75% described AI as integrated or essential to th…
Developer Frog1230 released MindShield, a free, open-source browser extension for Windows that uses a local AI model to detect and delay simple queries submitted to ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Grok, imposing a 5-…
Caltech professor Adam Wierman says cities can negotiate deals to mitigate the environmental and economic downsides of hyperscale data centers, as local communities in Southern California increasingly push back against o…
The Church of Scientology International asked the California Supreme Court to review whether a court can ignore an attorney's admitted misuse of artificial intelligence that violated court rules without explaining its re…
An investigation by 9to5Mac has uncovered more than 60 disguised gambling apps on the App Store in Brazil that appear as simple games or utilities but reveal betting platforms when accessed from a Brazilian IP address. T…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context window, has topped six of seven frontend domains on Arena.ai's benchmarks, surpassing models from Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, an…
A developer argues that most engineering teams are deploying AI agents with excessive human oversight, creating automation that requires more attention than the manual processes it replaced. The solution is to 'steer by …
Over 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates, released a joint statement on Monday pleading with government and industry to address the economic and social impacts of artificial intelligence, warning…
Venture capitalist Jeremy Levine changed his Zoom display name to 'Jeremy Levine I do not consent to transcribing or recording' as a protest against the rising use of AI note-taking apps, according to a Wall Street Journ…
Linus Torvalds on July 15 endorsed Sashiko, an AI-powered code review system for the Linux kernel, telling critics they can fork the kernel or walk away. By July 17, a fork had appeared. Sashiko, built by Google engineer…
Netflix disclosed in its second-quarter earnings report that generative AI was used in roughly 300 of its programs this year, mostly in production and postproduction. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos framed the technology as a way to…
Eric Trump-backed Foundation Future Industries (FFI) is developing a humanoid robot called Phantom MK-1 for battlefield use, with plans to arm the robots with lethal force within months, according to a Wired report. FFI …
Google's Gboard keyboard is preparing to introduce a Sign-to-Text input option that uses the phone's camera to interpret sign language, according to an APK teardown of version 17.8.3.939743344-beta-arm64-v8a. The feature…