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San Diego charter school chain Altus Schools spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots to serve as AI teaching partners, despite experts calling for bans on chatbot use by children. The robots, which function as a mout…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, Luna) to 20 trusted partners on June 26, 2026, with public launch expected by July 2026. The Sol variant shows enhanced cybersecurity capabilities, influencing prediction marke…
Tidal will label fully AI-generated music with an "AI" icon starting mid-July and remove fraudulent or deceptive tracks, while also stripping royalties from AI-generated songs to ensure only human-created music is moneti…
OpenClaw launched an Android and iOS app that lets users access AI agents on the go via a private gateway, enabling chat, voice, approvals, and device-aware automation. The Android version has received poor reviews, with…
The July issue of The Highlight explores the loss of tactile experiences in a screen-dominated world, with Sara Herschander reporting on the impact on young children and the potential for a return to more physical intera…
OpenClaw released an Android companion app that pairs with its Gateway to enable chat, voice, and device-aware automation, but early user feedback is negative with a 2.2 star rating and complaints of pairing failures and…
Open source AI agent OpenClaw has launched a native iOS app, enabling iPhone and iPad users to access its self-hosted AI agent for chat, voice approvals, and device-aware automation. The app replaces previous workarounds…
The US Commerce Department partially lifted a ban on Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, restoring access to over 100 vetted US entities while keeping the Fable 5 model completely restricted. The original ban, imposed two wee…
LangChain's structured output feature enables developers to force large language models to return data in predefined formats like JSON or Pydantic models, solving the problem of unreliable plain-text responses in enterpr…
Madonna declared in a Vogue Italia interview that AI is the opposite of art because it stifles creativity and risk-taking, despite her past use of AI for promotional visuals and tour backgrounds. She criticized the music…
A team of developers built LiquiShield, an AI-powered early-warning command center for predicting liquidity crises, during the H0 Hackathon by Vercel and AWS. The system uses a custom NLP model to analyze macroeconomic h…
A new platform offers retail investors access to institutional-grade financial data, including real-time breakouts, AI stock predictions, and institutional buying activity, at a fraction of the cost of Wall Street termin…
Bear Robotics acquired Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities, as announced on The Robot Report Podcast. Kinisi Robotics founder Bren Pierce, a humanoid robotics Ph.D. from TUM, has raised over $180 millio…
A U.S. Department of Defense contractor discovered that two shortlisted remote job candidates were the same North Korean operative, flagged by Alex's Fraud Detection Agent with 34 and 92 fraudulent signals respectively. …
Rampart, a 14.7MB on-device personal information filtering system, was open-sourced to redact PII before it leaves a user's device. It combines deterministic rules and a MiniLM model to catch structured data like SSNs an…
Allen Pike presented a talk on voice-in, visuals-out agents at the AI Engineering World's Fair, discussing the challenges and rewards of achieving immediate model responses.
A developer built Focus Flow, a serverless productivity suite that unifies daily task management, expense tracking, and personal finance into a single dashboard. The project uses AWS Aurora for relational data, Vercel v0…
OpenClaw released standalone apps for iOS and Android, bringing AI agents to smartphone marketplaces. The apps allow users to chat with an AI assistant and grant it access to device components like camera, screen, and co…
Telnyx released an AI Customer Churn Predictor that uses its AI Inference API to analyze call and message patterns via Telnyx APIs, predicting churn risk and suggesting interventions. The open-source Python tool, built w…
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiries into AI companies…