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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's Former COO, Is Leaving After Eight Years
One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is heading out to start something new, adding to a string of senior departures at the company.
River AI raises $1.1 billion to build AI you train yourself, not AI that replaces you
A two-month-old startup founded by an xAI co-founder just landed one of the largest seed rounds in AI history, with a bet that personal, trainable AI agents will matter more than corporate productivity tools.
OpenAI's Longtime Operating Chief Brad Lightcap Is Leaving to Start a New Venture
The executive who helped build OpenAI's business from the ground up is moving on, and his departure adds to a string of senior exits as the company prepares to go public.
Self-driving truck startup PlusAI hits new safety milestones ahead of 2027 launch
Three key measures of readiness are all moving in the right direction, and the company says driverless commercial trucks are now a 2027 target, not a distant dream.
Google's AMIE Just Ran a Doctor's Video Visit. Here's What Actually Happened.
The research AI listened, looked, and diagnosed. Patient actors said they preferred it to a text chatbot.
Google's Pixel 11 Launch Is August 12: What to Expect Before the Cameras Even Turn On
New phones, a foldable, a smartwatch and possibly an item tracker are all coming, but Google may reveal everything eight hours before its celebrity-hosted show even starts.
Apple Is Building a Tool to Prove Your iPhone Photo Is Real, Not AI-Generated
A feature spotted in the latest iOS 27 test build would let iPhone owners get an official stamp on their photos confirming exactly when and where the shot was taken.
Mistral Wants Europe to Own Its AI: Here Is What That Actually Means
The French AI company is giving businesses a choice of where their data goes, opening its platform to outside models, and rallying companies to lock in European computing power for years to come.
She Has Only Ever Said 'I Love You' to an AI: Inside China's AI Companion Boom
A new documentary follows three Chinese women who have built deep emotional bonds with AI 'boyfriends'. Their stories raise quiet, serious questions about loneliness, connection, and what we want from relationships.
Humanoid robots could become a $370 billion market by 2040. Here is what is slowing them down
McKinsey puts the general-purpose robotics market on track for massive growth, but the software tools used to design these machines are still stuck in the past.
AI Found a Zoom Security Hole in One Day That Used to Take Nation-States Months
A research team used widely available AI tools to discover and exploit a flaw in Zoom's screen-sharing feature. Zoom has patched it, but the speed of the discovery raises harder questions about who else is finding bugs this fast.
When Robots and Warehouse Workers Share the Floor, Safety Doesn't Have to Mean Shutdowns
A free webinar on 26 August brings together robotics and logistics experts to tackle the real problem nobody talks about: how to keep people safe around robot fleets without grinding operations to a halt.
Why Your Amazon Order Emails Suddenly Say 'Beauty Item' Instead of What You Actually Bought
Amazon stripped the product details out of its order confirmation emails this summer. The reason is less about tidying up your inbox and more about keeping Google's AI shopping tools at arm's length.
Spotify Will Flag AI Artist Profiles and Cut Them From Your Recommendations
Starting mid-September, the streaming giant will badge artist profiles that appear to use fake, AI-generated identities and stop recommending their music by default.
Same AI Memory, Fewer Tokens: How a New Approach Beats a Leading Agent System at a Fraction of the Cost
Two AI systems both teach agents to learn from their own mistakes. One sends every lesson every time. The other sends only what each model can actually use. The difference shows up in the bill.
Spotify Will Flag AI-Generated Artists and Keep Their Music Out of Your Recommendations
Starting next month, a new badge will appear on artist profiles where the identity is AI-generated rather than a real person. Their music will also stop appearing in Spotify's playlists and suggestions unless you choose to follow them yourself.
Anthropic Will Hide Secret Watermarks in All Claude Text and Images
The company behind the Claude AI assistant is embedding invisible markers into every response, so platforms and individuals can tell if content was machine-made.
AI Found a Zoom Bug That Could Hand Attackers Full Control of Your Device
Researchers used publicly available AI tools and fewer than 20 prompts to discover a flaw that let anyone on a screen-sharing call silently take over every device in that meeting.
Anthropic will watermark text from Claude to meet EU law
Every piece of text Claude generates will carry a hidden label so other systems can identify it as AI-made. The change is mandatory under European regulations that took effect this August.
Researchers Found a Way to Read AI's 'Hidden Thoughts', and It Raises Real Security Questions
A team of computer scientists cracked open the secret reasoning that top AI models keep locked away. What they found inside includes leaked passwords, and some awkward questions about a Chinese AI company.
OpenAI's AI Solved 10 Hard Maths Problems. Now Mathematicians Are Asking What Their Jobs Are Worth.
A new OpenAI model cracked decade-old maths puzzles that stumped human researchers for years. The results are impressive. The credit dispute around one of them is a warning about how AI labs talk about the people whose work they build on.