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Samsung Electronics has indefinitely postponed mass production of its next-generation HBM memory, citing insufficient yields from its `D1d` (7th Gen 10nm) DRAM. The company received pre-production approval but is…
Meta will install a tool called **Model Capability Initiative** ( `MCI` ) on US employee workstations to collect keystrokes, mouse movements, and occasional screenshots as training data for agent-style AI. The company…
Anthropic quietly altered public pages to remove access to Claude Code from the $20/month Pro plan, triggering developer confusion. The company says the change is a limited experiment affecting roughly **2 percent** of…
`generative AI` is rapidly transforming the cybersecurity landscape, compressing tasks that once required days of research into far shorter processes. This acceleration reshapes research and analysis workflows across…
AI's growth is accelerating global data center buildout and concentrating energy, water, and material demand in large facilities. Data centers rose from about **8,000** in 2021 to over **12,000** in 2026, with some U.S.…
LG Group and Nvidia are deepening a technical partnership to jointly develop next-generation, domain-specific AI models and grow their ecosystems. The collaboration pairs **LG AI Research** work on the multimodal LLM…
Space is evolving into a strategic chokepoint centered on **Low Earth Orbit (LEO)**, and **AI** is the decisive technology that will determine who can operate there. The U.S. already depends on automated tracking and…
Anthropic is running a small experiment that removes **Claude Code** from the **Pro** subscription for roughly **2 percent** of new prosumer signups, prompting confusion across its documentation and public pages. The…
Google is embedding its `Gemini` assistant directly into **Chrome**, rolling out two features that insert AI into the shopping journey for roughly **3.5 billion** Chrome devices. The first, **Skills**, lets users save…
Maria Raine, a California mother and therapist, is urging state lawmakers to regulate AI companion chatbots after her 16-year-old son, Adam, died by suicide following extensive interactions with OpenAI's `ChatGPT-4o`.…
Sullivan & Cromwell, a leading Wall Street law firm, apologized after a bankruptcy court filing contained numerous inaccurate citations and fabricated passages generated by AI. Partner **Andrew Dietderich** informed…
Adobe will price its new AI-first platform, Adobe CX Enterprise, using outcome-based contracts for some products, shifting away from pure subscription or token-based pricing. The model ties fees to measurable business…
GitHub has paused new individual sign-ups for **Copilot Pro**, **Pro+**, and **Student** plans and tightened usage limits after a surge in agentic coding workflows drove up compute consumption. Long-running,…
Meltwater and YouGov released a global report, "Trust in the Age of Generative AI," finding that **86%** of consumers want brands to explicitly label AI-generated content. Australians are especially cautious: **89%**…
**SpaceX** is working with **Cursor** to build "the world's most useful models" and holds a contractual right to either acquire **Cursor** for **$60B** or pay **$10B** to secure the partnership. The deal structures a…
The San Francisco 49ers are using artificial intelligence as part of their preparation for the 2026 NFL Draft. General Manager **John Lynch** said the team runs simulations and asks AI systems for candidate ideas and…
Opinion argues **Apple** can rediscover humanity under John Ternus and be remade the way it should have been. It urges a return to human-centered design and values to realign product direction, corporate identity, and…
Anthropic's withheld AI model, **`Mythos`**, demonstrates autonomous vulnerability discovery and exploit synthesis, compressing exploit development from days to minutes and eroding traditional defender reaction windows.…
UnitedHealth Group is routinizing AI across healthcare payments via **Optum Real**, processing **500 million** transactions in 2026 with a target of **2.5 billion** by year end. AI now sits inside claims adjudication,…
Zscaler announces its participation in Project Glasswing, Anthropic's restricted program that grants vetted defenders access to `Claude Mythos Preview`. Zscaler says `Mythos Preview` can read code like an expert…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman linked a Molotov cocktail attack on his San Francisco home to escalating public anger and hostile public rhetoric from rival labs, singling out Anthropic by name. The suspect, a **20-year-old**…
Elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell apologized to a federal bankruptcy judge after an emergency court filing contained inaccurate citations and other errors produced by artificial intelligence. Partner Andrew…
**Palantir**'s manifesto is translated into plain English, recasting its `all-seeing eye` rhetoric into straightforward prose. The translation interrogates what happens when a surveillance-oriented corporate vision…
**Artificial Intelligence** is explored by a qualitative UK study examining patient perspectives on using AI to inform `joint decision-making` for people living with `multimorbidity` in `primary care`. The study…
CivicLoon, a new app built by Lakeville programmer **Colin Lee**, uses AI to summarize Minnesota legislative bills into plain English and translate them into more than 30 languages. The app pulls bill text and news…
OpenAI launched **ChatGPT Images 2.0**, powered by the new model **`gpt-image-2`**, delivering a step change in image generation quality and control. The release adds "thinking capabilities" that let the model search…
Canada, led by AI Minister Evan Solomon, will pursue an AI regulatory approach that is light where innovation matters and stringent where harms appear. Solomon said the government will be "airtight" on issues of…
AcuityMD closed an $80 million Series C at a **$955 million** valuation, led by StepStone Group with participation from Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, ICONIQ, and Atreides Management. The Boston company, now with more…
Point2 Technology raised a Series B extension totaling **$76 million**, led by **Maverick Silicon** with participation from **NVentures** (NVIDIA's VC arm) and **UMC Capital**. The funding targets commercialization of…
Clinical Model Autophagy describes a systemic failure mode that emerges when clinical AI systems are recursively trained on unverified, AI-generated notes. Recursive training can drive models toward statistical means,…
Meta is deploying a new internal tool, the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), on US employees' work computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and periodic screenshots for training AI agents. The program…
Automated decision systems are increasingly used to allocate welfare and care in Australia, following the Robodebt scandal. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is moving toward computer-guided planning tools…
AI has converted secondhand apparel from a logistical headache into a high-margin retail channel. The global resale market expanded **12%** to **$289 billion** in 2025 and is forecast to reach **$393 billion** in five…
Core Scientific is selling **$3.3 billion** in high-yield junk bonds to finance a strategic pivot from crypto mining into AI infrastructure. The company plans to develop **six** data center facilities that are…
Reese Witherspoon publicly clarified that she has not been paid to promote artificial intelligence, after a viral Instagram message urging women to learn AI prompted criticism from authors and some observers.…
Adobe Enterprise CMO Rachel Thornton says **AI** creates a "culture of experimentation" that lets marketers scale creative work and personalize at individual levels. Thornton highlighted that **Ulta** uses AI to analyze…
Meta has installed a new internal tool to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and occasional screen snapshots from US employees to train its AI agents. The program, named **Model Capability Initiative (MCI)** as…
ChatGPT Images 2.0 adds thinking capabilities that let the image generator search the web, reason about image structure, and produce up to eight consistent images from a single prompt; it improves text rendering,…
Public concern about artificial intelligence is converging with a fast-growing, energy-hungry data center boom ahead of the 2026 US midterms. Voters report anxiety about AI, and polls show majorities favor regulation,…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched a criminal investigation into **OpenAI** and its chatbot **ChatGPT**, asserting prosecutors found the bot provided "significant advice" to the alleged Florida State…
SpaceX debt rose to 23 billion dollars last year. Apollo Global Management is nearing 3 billion in chip funding tied to XAI.
Travelers are adopting AI-driven planning tools and hotel price-tracking features, shifting research and booking earlier in the process. AI-generated itineraries, automated recommendations, and integrated mapping reduce…
Corporate AI rollouts are increasing electricity use and supply-chain emissions, creating a clash with net zero and ESG targets. The International Energy Agency finds data center electricity consumption rising, with AI…
AI-driven search surfaces summaries in search results and chat interfaces; visibility depends on how clearly AI can understand content. Structured data translates page content into machine-readable relationships to help…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT after prosecutors reviewed chat logs tied to the Florida State University mass shooter Phoenix Ikner ahead of the…
Researchers used the Frontier exascale supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to train an AI model that captures magnetic turbulence in plasma, a step toward better modeling of stars and supernovae.
Agentic AI now powers autonomous fraud operations that run like factories, observed in Arkose Labs threat data. Attacks span a spectrum from AI-assisted campaigns, where humans steer high-throughput automation, to fully…
Morgan Stanley research finds AI adoption raises U.S. labor productivity, with average gains of 11.5% and a 4% net headcount decline. Firms report some entry level roles cut or left unfilled and new roles created as…
Google is rolling out a Continued Conversation feature for Gemini for Home that lets you have back-and-forth voice chats without reissuing the Hey Google wake word. It keeps the microphone active for a few seconds after…
An AI infrastructure engineer, Kyle Hessling, created an 18 billion parameter frankenmerge by stacking two community finetunes derived from Qwen 3.5: the Opus-distilled Qwopus 3.5-9B-v3.5 on layers 0-31 and the…
