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Linus Torvalds, creator and top-level maintainer of the Linux kernel, declared in a mailing list post that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that those who object to AI-powered coding tools can fork the project or walk…
Google has delayed the release of its flagship AI model Gemini 3.5 Pro from June to July 2026 to improve coding capabilities, according to current and former employees. The delay has frustrated engineers and managers con…
Harbor, a new cross-platform note-taking app founded by Spicer Matthews, promises a private, encrypted second brain that users own for life, with a three-year price lock and a cap on annual increases, in direct response …
More than half of enterprises (54%) have already experienced a confirmed AI agent security incident or near-miss, according to a VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 107 organizations with over 100 employees. Only 32% gi…
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI, is in turmoil as it struggles to match rival Anthropic's Claude chatbot, leading to dozens of employee departures, a planned 30% workforce reduction, and the departu…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a recent interview that the more AI is used, the more companies will need to hire, arguing that AI agents create new jobs rather than eliminate them. Huang dismissed AI as a 'lazy' excuse …
The head of US state and local policy at a major company suggests that AI transparency laws in California and New York, passed last year, may already be obsolete due to the rapid pace of AI development, raising questions…
An experimental art project called 'Be the ChatBOT' lets users role-play as an AI chatbot, responding to realistic user prompts generated by an LLM. Creator of the project aims to give people a visceral sense of what it'…
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan warned on July 16 that Anthropic's Mythos AI poses a legitimate threat to the financial system, citing the model's ability to autonomously discover and exploit software vulnerabilities.…
A software engineer argues that the widespread adoption of AI coding tools will create a crisis of unmanageable technical debt, leading to a severe shortage of senior developers. The plan, described as taking about five …
DJI angered customers after publishing a now-deleted TikTok ad featuring an AI-generated avatar that appeared to be a real person, sparking backlash from actual human buyers.
Roblox announced a new AI-powered feature called "Build" that lets users create games from mobile devices using text prompts, launching in public alpha on July 28 in New Zealand. The company said the feature uses a broad…
A Small Wars Journal post on July 16, 2026, highlights an exclusive report that the AI backlash has tech executives fearing for their lives, alongside national security stories including Taipei after annexation, potentia…
The European Commission ordered Google on Thursday to open Android to rival AI assistants and share its search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act. Google must let users choose a preferred assistant by Ju…
Designer Eric Lu's Ghost Font uses an optical illusion to hide text from AI by overlaying words within moving dots in a video, exploiting the fact that multimodal AI examines videos frame by frame while humans perceive m…
Instagram will send messages to parents if their children are having distressing conversations with its Meta AI chatbot, parent company Meta announced. The feature, built with expert input, alerts parents when a teen mak…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned in a blog post that enterprises using AI models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are "paying twice"—once for tokens and again by handing over proprietary knowledge that the labs can …
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed concerns about an AI bubble as 'absurd' during his company's annual corporate conference in Tokyo, arguing that critics don't understand AI and predicting that AI will require $5 tril…
Meta is launching a new feature that notifies parents via Instagram's supervision tools if their teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI, developed with over 75 clinicians and experts. The alerts, now live i…
President Donald Trump claimed during a Fox News interview that images showing the aftermath of a U.S. strike on an Iranian school may have been AI-generated, despite no evidence supporting that claim. The strike on the …