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NEC announced Thursday that Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, and five other major Japanese financial firms will join its AI collaboration with U.S. startup Anthropic. The partnership will …
Apple announced a dramatically improved Siri AI at WWDC, but enthusiasts on X and Reddit quickly concluded the new assistant is merely a rebranded version of Google's Gemini. Apple executives later clarified in a private…
Microsoft has expanded the global rollout of Mico, its smiley-faced AI companion for Copilot, to 40 countries including the UK, Canada, and much of Europe. The feature, which launched as a U.S. exclusive in October 2025,…
Ben Bajarin discussed Apple's artificial intelligence strategy and the broader AI compute industry in a Stratechery interview, focusing on developments from WWDC. The conversation examined how Apple is positioning itself…
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick reported on June 9 that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model executed multi-page specifications for up to a dozen hours, outperforming public models he had used in sustained agent work. Mollic…
A Terminal command workaround allows macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta users to bypass the Siri AI waitlist and immediately enable the new virtual assistant. The command disables the waitlist flag in the system's featu…
Google is rolling out a new default setting that allows the company to use images, files, video, and audio from user interactions with Google Lens, Search, and Gemini Live to train its AI models. Users can opt out of the…
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models, along with the Codex coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, one month after OpenAI revised its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft. More than 100,000 organizatio…
Nearly nine in ten adults can no longer distinguish real from AI-generated content, according to a 2026 Malwarebytes survey of 1,500 adults across the United States, the UK, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. The share o…
Marketing professionals can no longer reliably measure the performance of email and push notification campaigns because Apple, Google, and other platform intermediaries actively edit, summarize, or suppress messages with…
Microsoft expanded its Microsoft Marketplace at Build 2026 to include software agents, allowing developers to publish and sell AI agents built across platforms like Copilot Studio and Visual Studio. The move aims to help…
Fintech company Block laid off 4,000 employees in February with CEO Jack Dorsey citing AI as enabling smaller teams, but subsequent reporting revealed the cuts were driven by financial pressure after pandemic-era overhir…
Engineering leaders Eric Anderson of Intuit and Ben Matthews of Stack Overflow discussed on the "Leaders of Code" podcast how the near-zero cost of AI-generated code is reshaping software team management and engineering …
A team of engineers and product managers at a technology company shared their most frequently used AI prompts, revealing a set of refined, reusable templates for tasks like building product specs, creating widget tests, …
OpenAI published a report detailing two China-linked influence campaigns that used its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content aimed at swaying American public opinion against AI data centers. The campaigns, which OpenAI say…
The Zig programming language has implemented a policy in its code of conduct that restricts contributions generated by large language models, prioritizing the growth of human contributors over automated code submissions.…
A new context layer called ktx aims to improve AI agent accuracy for database queries by combining hard semantics (warehouse schema, joins, metric definitions) with soft semantics (business context from docs, wikis, Noti…
More than 100 marketers surveyed by Digiday said they primarily use AI for data analysis and content creation, but only 32% use it to buy ad placements due to concerns about poor performance and lack of human oversight. …
Okara, an AI CMO platform built by a team of four, processes 4 billion tokens daily and manages marketing for over 120,000 businesses by directing eight specialized sub-agents across SEO, content, and social media. The c…
Shuchen Xue, a researcher specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning with a focus on generative AI, has published work accessible via Google Scholar. Her research contributes to advancements in AI and m…