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Hackers are increasingly exploiting trusted developer tools rather than breaking into systems, with two major campaigns this week highlighting the trend. TeamPCP injected malicious code into over 1,000 open-source packag…
Major corporations including Uber, Amazon, and Walmart are rationing AI tool usage after inference costs consumed annual budgets months ahead of schedule. Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by April, while Amazon, …
OpenAI has launched a beta version of its ChatGPT Ads Manager to UK advertisers, offering a self-serve interface for campaign management. The move signals OpenAI's expansion into scalable advertising on its AI platform, …
A new analysis argues that most so-called AI agents are actually workflows, and paying agent prices for them wastes money. The key difference is who decides the steps: workflows follow a predetermined script, while agent…
Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, and Salesforce have launched Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), a new protocol that enables AI agents to autonomously discover and use tools and services across enterprise systems. ARD st…
A developer built Niriv, a custom WordPress-powered internet portal featuring search engine capabilities, news aggregation, business directories, and community features. The project was accelerated using Cursor AI, which…
A designer tested six AI tools with the same brief and found they all produced nearly identical, generic UI screens, which the author calls 'slop.' The author argues that AI tools invent design systems on the fly, leadin…
Microsoft, Hugging Face, Meta's PyTorch team, NVIDIA, and others launched OpenEnv, an open protocol for agent learning environments that standardizes how agents practice and improve. The protocol aims to make the learnin…
A developer created a World Cup Tracker using a 128x64 LED Matrix display to show live scores and goal animations. After AI-generated flags proved inaccurate, the developer's children manually fixed 36 flags, and a custo…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the influential 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-creator of transformer technology, has left Google to join OpenAI. The move, announced on X, comes as OpenAI prepares for its IPO and co…
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports AI credits consumed per user per day, enabling enterprise administrators and organization owners to track consumption alongside usage data. The new `ai_credits_used` field a…
OpenTunnel, a new open-source tool, enables AI agents to run commands on remote machines via ephemeral, end-to-end encrypted tunnels without SSH, accounts, or persistent access. The tool downloads a temporary CLI, requir…
CTERA announced on June 10, 2026, a new integration with n8n that enables agentic workflows to securely search, access, and manage file data across its enterprise data fabric. The integration exposes CTERA Search, Classi…
Google has slightly increased the height of the Pixel Launcher search bar and enlarged the Lens, voice search, and AI Mode icons in version 17.32 of the Google app. The change, now widely available on the stable channel,…
Headroom, an open-source local context compression layer, reduces LLM prompt sizes by 60-95% while preserving accuracy, solving cost and latency issues from massive context windows. Its multi-modal pipeline uses speciali…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's AI strategy, 'AI for All,' reframes opposition to AI and data centers as a lack of AI literacy, sparking criticism. Protesters in Vancouver have demonstrated against Telus's planned …
Zilliz has published a FAQ clarifying the differences between its Milvus vector database and the new Vector Lakebase, emphasizing that real-time vector search remains core while data now lives in open lake formats. The c…
A developer warns that shipping an AI agent without a kill switch is a liability, recounting a finance bot that issued refunds in a loop due to the lack of a stop mechanism. The developer argues that building the agent i…
A user describes using Codex as a personal agent to automate tasks across Gmail, WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Google Drive, and other tools, enabling workflows like drafting emails and updating records with minimal manu…
Datapoint launches a new AI-powered survey tool that lets users describe their audience and question in plain language, then automatically drafts and targets the survey. The platform streams studies to verified users glo…