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Wealthy parents are enrolling their children in Alpha School, a private network charging $75,000 a year for AI-based tutoring, despite having access to top traditional education. The school, promoted by the Trump adminis…
Apple has added Siri AI support to the Apple Watch with the watchOS 27 beta 3 update, enabling users to access the smarter Siri directly from their wrist. The feature relies on a nearby Apple Intelligence-compatible iPho…
Drug companies are codifying the reasoning of their top scientists into AI systems to preserve expertise lost when those scientists leave, but face challenges because drug discovery lacks the closed feedback loops of sof…
GLM 5.2, an open-weights model from Z.ai, has emerged as a genuine competitor to frontier models like Opus and GPT, but its slow inference speed and lack of vision and web search capabilities limit its practical use. The…
Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 model, released in June 2026, approaches proprietary system performance on coding and agentic tasks while compressing inference costs, according to benchmarks and developer reviews. The model f…
Apple released iOS 27 beta 3, enabling users to fine-tune Siri's speaking pace and expressivity with five adjustment levels for each of two available voices. The new sliders, previously grayed out, now provide real-time …
Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model, Gemini Nano, to eligible desktop machines without user consent, sparking privacy concerns. The deployment, discovered by researcher Alexander Hanff, persists ev…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 7, #1122, features pop-culture categories including rooms in Clue, student athlete designations, words ending in 'twist', and hidden 'Sesame Street' character names. The puz…
The author praises Anthropic's Fable AI model, describing it as thrilling, technically impressive, and graceful, particularly when used inside Claude Code. They note the model's sense of mass and nimbleness, comparing it…
Companies heavily investing in AI are growing headcount by 10% over two years, with entry-level hiring up 12%, according to a Ramp and Revelio Labs study of 21,559 U.S. firms. Meanwhile, the five largest AI compute spend…
Apple's watchOS 27 introduces three major health upgrades for Apple Watch, including perimenopause and menopause support via Cycle Tracking, enhanced Workout Buddy features with new insights and Spanish language support,…
Utah became the first US state to allow an AI chatbot, Doctronic, to renew prescriptions without a doctor through a regulatory sandbox that waives licensing laws. The state's medical licensing board, blindsided by the Ja…
Agentgateway released v1.3.0, a major update that introduces a purpose-built UI, AI cost analysis with full attribution, virtual models, reusable providers and guardrails, and support for 13 new LLM providers. The releas…
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch discussed the company's role in AI software, noting that half of its 6 million daily deployments are triggered by coding agents and over 1 trillion tokens flow through its AI gateway daily. He …
Munich Regional Court I ruled on May 28, 2026, that Google's AI Overviews can be treated as Google's own statements, issuing a temporary injunction in case 26 O 869/26 over false claims about two Munich publishers. The c…
Kapa, a developer of AI assistants for product knowledge bases, introduced a pruning step between retrieval and generation that uses a small LLM to discard about 68% of retrieved context while retaining 96% recall, cutti…
Google has updated its Spanner distributed database to support global-scale agentic AI workloads, enabling unified multi-modal data handling with strict consistency. The move positions Spanner as a foundational pillar fo…
Apple has added a new popup in iOS 27 and iOS 26 that notifies users and requests permission when their data is sent to Google Cloud to power certain AI features, such as shape generation in iWork and Freeform. The move …
Daikin and NTT DATA Japan will conduct a proof of concept from July 2026 to March 2027 for an AI-driven data center cooling system at an NTT DATA facility in Japan. The system predicts server thermal conditions from powe…
Google updated its privacy policy to allow using media uploaded to its search tools—including images, audio, and video—for AI training, automatically opting in all users. Users can opt out by adjusting settings in Search…