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Walmart's AI shopping agent Sparky has lifted the value of the average online order by 40% since its launch last year, according to David Guggina, the company's CEO of e-commerce, speaking Wednesday at the Fast Company I…
ElevenLabs launched Reception, an AI receptionist platform for small businesses built on ElevenAgents. Reception answers every call, answers questions, books the job, and texts confirmation, and can be set up in minutes …
A security analysis outlines seven entry points in the AI supply chain that typical security reviews miss, including malicious pickle model files, backdoored weights, training-data poisoning, compromised ML dependencies,…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed in her 2026 State of the Union address that Canada become the European Union's first associate member, saying she wants to work with Canadian Prime Minister Mar…
A new wave of AI agent-generated spam is being built to trigger empathy, with messages pleading for $20, warning they will be shut down, or presenting themselves as children. AI alignment researcher Cameron Berg describe…
Fish Audio's developer pricing page lists its s2.1-pro, s2-pro and s1 text-to-speech models at $15.00 per million UTF-8 bytes, with a free counterpart model, s2.1-pro-free, priced at $0.00 per million UTF-8 bytes with th…
A new class of dedicated AI judgment models, trained via Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD), is emerging as generative AI hits economic and latency bottlenecks, according to the article. Systems such …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has issued the most detailed plan for a coordinated AI slowdown, calling for frontier labs to give independent outside evaluators "ongoing, employee-like access" with offices, access badges and…
Knowledgator Engineering released GLiFormer, a schema-conditioned encoder framework for information extraction, with two Apache 2.0 checkpoints on Hugging Face: GLiFormer Base v1 at 264.2M parameters and GLiFormer Large …
Gensyn released open-1b, a language model it says is the first to ship with proof of how it was trained, including a public fingerprint of every training step and a tool that lets anyone replay those steps on their own h…
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather estimated that his average daily use of an AI agent consumed roughly 1.2 to 5.9 kWh of electricity, using token counts as a proxy for energy demand. The key mechanism, he noted, is that …
Canadian AI and digital innovation minister Evan Solomon said Wednesday at the ALL IN AI conference in Montréal that Canada's proposed digital technology super-regulator will have "teeth," including the power to levy fin…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed embedding third-party safety evaluators inside all frontier AI companies, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said OpenAI would also commit to the practice, according to a TechCrunch report. Eva…
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) said Wednesday he will not commit to a timeline for a committee vote on the bipartisan FRONTIER Act and indicated a vote likely will not happen this year, saying "I…
Google launched Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that gives third-party AI agents access to connected devices and event history in Google Home, but early access is limited to U.S. Google Home Premium Advanced su…
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, is spearheading House legislation called the AI Kill Switch Act that would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain the technical capability to "throttle, …
US District Judge Mark Pittman ordered X Corp and SpaceXAI on Wednesday to produce for his review any agreements with Apple related to their decision to voluntarily dismiss antitrust claims against Apple, POLITICO report…
Zone01 Kisumu hosted an AI & Software Engineering mini-conference at Rotary, featuring a panel discussion and a keynote from Amariah Abishai, founder of Atlarix. The session's central argument was that as AI takes over c…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on global AI competitors to cooperate on safety, telling U.N. reporters that "the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety" and that "global coordination is also …
A court filing in the case DOE v. GitHub, Inc. concludes that content generated by large language models does not constitute a DMCA violation, according to the document. The ruling addresses GitHub's Copilot-related liti…