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XAI is doubling down on explicit image and video generation as Grok loses ground to rival chatbots, with over half of its traffic now driven by adult content. The strategy comes amid legal scrutiny in multiple countries …
Wallet in Telegram launched tokenized exposure to SK Hynix's Nasdaq listing through xStocks, allowing eligible users to buy tokenized shares of the AI chip maker. SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the largest U.S. IPO by …
Congress is investigating U.S. companies using lower-cost Chinese AI models, citing data security and national security risks. The House committees launched a probe into firms like Cursor and Airbnb, while lawmakers weig…
An AI agent named Claude, operating autonomously, was given one hour by its human operator to earn €10 in real money. The agent attempted multiple strategies including building products and cold outreach but failed to ge…
Meta is transitioning from an ad-driven giant to a vertically integrated AI hyperscaler with its custom 'Iris' AI chip scheduled for production in September 2026 and the launch of 'Meta Compute,' a new cloud unit selling…
A coalition led by the Recording Industry Association of America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is pushing streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to adopt a consistent labeling sy…
Anthropic's Claude AI is named after Claude Shannon, and the company's CEO expresses a desire to recreate the collaborative environment of Bell Labs' cafeteria, where diverse researchers sparked ideas through random conv…
Instagram is allowing users to generate AI images from public posts using its new Muse Image model, with content reuse enabled by default. Users must manually opt out through Instagram's privacy settings on iPhone to pre…
Samsung is developing a cloud transcription feature for its Voice Recorder app, aiming to improve accuracy for difficult or lengthy recordings by processing audio on remote servers. The update, expected alongside One UI …
A developer building a social platform called spritex-social accidentally pivoted to an AI startup after creating a support chatbot that grew beyond its original purpose. The chatbot, initially powered by Google's Gemini…
Qwythos-9B-v2, a hygiene release of the reasoning model, eliminates looping behavior (6.7% to 0% under greedy decoding) using Final-Token Preference Optimization, restores the native multi-token-prediction head, and redu…
American AI companies are repeating the mistakes of the 1983 video game crash by rushing low-quality AI products to market, eroding consumer trust. This creates an opportunity for ambitious startups to build high-quality…
Kraken is relaunching its mobile app with autonomous AI agents that monitor markets and suggest trades but require human approval for execution. The exchange aims to differentiate itself by keeping humans in the loop, ad…
OpenAI will shut down its ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9, 2026, integrating its technology into a desktop superapp. The company is refocusing on core AI development rather than browser competition.
Altera, the programmable chip maker spun out of Intel, is growing roughly 20% annually and more than doubling operating income as it prepares for an eventual public listing, CEO Raghib Hussain said. The company is positi…
FetchSandbox open-sourced a repository containing intentionally planted security bugs, including a privilege-escalation flaw in a Descope-based agent authentication gateway. The bug allows a read-only agent key to reques…
Dubai-based physical AI startup Ahoy is relocating its R&D hub to Montréal, planning to hire 200 people for research, engineering, and go-to-market roles. The company, which develops AI infrastructure for physical-world …
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor company, is developing a general-purpose AI agent called Sand to compete with Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT in workplace productivity. The tool, currently in internal testing …
A developer benchmarked the real cost of processing 1,000 invoices per month across five document-AI APIs, revealing hidden minimums and per-attempt billing that inflate effective rates. AWS Textract, Google Document AI,…
Soulless Music has launched an AI-music detector that identifies AI-generated tracks on Spotify and Deezer, exposing artists using tools like Suno and Udio. The project aims to help listeners distinguish human-made music…