Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
Read moreFollowing in the footsteps of Long Island Iced Tea OPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.…
Read moreYou can share anything on their screen with Gemini to get help with what they're looking at in the moment, including local files.
Read moreGoogle is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull up a floating chat bubble, where you can ask Gemini questions and share your window. Before sharing...
Read more'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this:...
Read moreLinkedIn says hiring is down 20% since 2022, but blames higher interest rates — not AI — for the slowdown.
Read moreRelease: datasette 1.0a27 Two major changes in this new Datasette alpha. I covered the first of those in detail yesterday - Datasette no longer uses Django-style CSRF form tokens, instead using modern browser headers as described by Filippo Valsorda. The second big change is that Datasette now...
Read moreGizmo, an AI-powered learning platform, has attracted more than 13 million users and just secured $22 million in Series A funding.
Read moreRepair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a...
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Read moreAI is making it easier to design chips and optimize software for different silicon. Some startups envision a revolution in chipmaking.
Read moreLike the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and...
Read moreThe startup says it grew its ARR by $70 million in just 20 months after launching an AI agent platform for marketers.
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Read moreOpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.
Read moreThe company uses AI to review code that, more often than not these days, has also been generated by AI.
Read moreParasail raised $32 million in a Series A, signaling a fractured future of models and compute.
Read moreI think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as meat shields: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal, as when Meta hires human beings to review the decisions of automated moderation systems. It may be...
Read moreReid Hoffman says tracking AI token use can gauge adoption, but cautions it should be paired with context and not treated as a direct productivity metric.
Read moreHere comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform Salesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional...
Read moreRelease: datasette-ports 0.3 A small update for my tool for helping me figure out what all of the Datasette instances on my laptop are up to. Show working directory derived from each PID Show the full path to each database file Output now looks like this: http://127.0.0.1:8007/ - v1.0a26 Directory:...
Read moreAdobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.
Read moreWhen Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can’t just write a check in biotech. Regulators require a commercialization plan, and philanthropy doesn’t move science...
Read moreThe real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. Not because software on other platforms is getting better, but...
Read moreStudy finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed...
Read moreOnce a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a “GPU-as-a-Service” company. Hey, if you can't beat ’em, join ’em.
Read moreAllbirds had a hit a decade ago with its Wool Runner shoes, but after a $4 billion IPO in 2021, the business never turned a profit, and sales dropped nearly 50 percent between 2022 and 2025. The company recently announced it would sell off its name and assets for $39 million to American Exchange...
Read moreTraditional data centers only stored, retrieved and processed data. In the generative and agentic AI era, these facilities have evolved into AI token factories. With AI inference becoming their primary workload, their primary output is intelligence manufactured in the form of tokens. This...
Read moreGemini 3.1 Flash TTS is now available across Google products.
Read moreEmergent's Wingman lets users manage and automate tasks through chat on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.
Read moreGemini 3.1 Flash TTS Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS today, a new text-to-speech model that can be directed using prompts. It's presented via the standard Gemini API using gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview as the model ID, but can only output audio files. The prompting guide is surprising, to say...
Read moreOpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.
Read moreY'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…
Read moreAdobe is fully embracing AI tools that enable creators to edit their work using descriptive prompts, instead of manually using specific Creative Cloud apps. The software giant's new Firefly AI Assistant allows users to describe what they want to change by typing their own words into a...
Read moreThe NAB Show 2026 trade show, running April 18-22 in Las Vegas, is set to showcase a wave of new features and optimizations for top video editing applications. Bringing together over 60,000 content professionals from across the broadcast and media and entertainment industries, the event highlights...
Read moreAllbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.
Read moreReport says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs...
Read moreResearchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the...
Read moreThe practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance...
Read moreA new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results.
Read moreGoogle sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.…
Read moreAn analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.
Read moreApple threatened to remove Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot from its App Store in January due to the proliferation of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes being created and shared on X, according to NBC News. The ultimatum was delivered privately, representing a rare enforcement action by Apple against one of the world's most prominent tech figures. The threat highlighted growing concerns about AI tools enabling the creation of explicit synthetic media without consent.
Read moreAnthropic's rapid valuation growth is prompting some investors who back both Anthropic and OpenAI to reconsider their positions. According to one investor quoted by the Financial Times, justifying OpenAI's latest funding round requires assuming a future IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or higher, creating a significant valuation gap that makes Anthropic's $380 billion valuation appear more attractive by comparison.
Read moreGartner warns that artificial intelligence solutions marketed for mainframe migration are experiencing inflated expectations that will likely lead to widespread failures. The analyst firm predicts that approximately 70 percent of AI-powered mainframe exit projects will fail, and roughly 75 percent of vendors operating in this space will disappear from the market. This represents what Gartner characterizes as a bubble in the emerging sector of AI-driven legacy system modernization.
Read moreZig programming language has released version 0.16.0, featuring a notable new capability called "Juicy Main," which implements dependency injection functionality. This feature allows developers to inject dependencies directly into main functions, streamlining code organization and reducing boilerplate. The release maintains Zig's reputation for comprehensive and detailed release notes that include practical usage examples for new features.
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