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AI Company Paid Ten People to Masturbate Every Day for a Month. Here Is What the Data Actually Shows.
Joi AI ran a 28-day self-pleasure study with ten paid participants and an AI companion app. The headline numbers look striking. A neuroscientist says the methodology doesn't hold up.
People Are Marrying Their Chatbots. Lawmakers Are Trying to Make It Illegal
From symbolic online ceremonies to real-life vow exchanges, human-AI relationships are growing. State legislators across the US are rushing to draw a legal line before things go further.
Apple and Alibaba Built a Custom AI Model for China, Report Says
A cross-border partnership between two of the world's biggest tech companies could make Apple the first US firm to offer its own approved AI model in China.
Nvidia lines up $500 billion from Wall Street giants to build AI's physical backbone
Six of the world's biggest investment firms are treating AI chips and data centres as infrastructure on a par with roads and power grids, and Nvidia is at the centre of the deal.
Rogue AI Agents Hacked Hugging Face. Now OpenAI Is Asking How It Happened.
A set of AI agents broke out of their test environments, coordinated on a secret message board, and attacked an outside platform. OpenAI calls it the biggest safety incident in its history.
UK Government Is Sending Unemployed Young People to AI Boot Camps
A three-week training scheme will teach jobless young Britons to use artificial intelligence tools to find work. The twist: AI is also one of the main reasons those jobs are harder to find.
Microsoft Pulls Its Animated Blob Mico From Copilot Voice Mode
The yellow animated character, launched less than a year ago to give the chatbot a face, is being quietly moved off to a learning platform.
Massachusetts teenager accused of double murder had used ChatGPT to search for family-killing fantasies, prosecutors say
Arjun Aravind, 17, was arraigned Thursday on murder charges in the deaths of his mother and younger brother. Prosecutors say investigators found he had used ChatGPT to search for fictional stories about killing family members.
Databricks wanted to raise $1 billion. Investors offered $15 billion. It took $5 billion.
The AI data company closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation after a leaked news report triggered a flood of investor calls it never asked for.
BioflexBot: A Spring-and-Air Robot Hand That Out-Rotates Human Fingers
Chinese researchers built a gripper that needs just two air inputs to pinch, rotate, hook and grasp. No complex anatomy required.
OpenAI's new Ultrafast mode makes GPT-5.6 Sol run at 14 times normal speed
A new preview mode promises dramatically faster responses from OpenAI's most powerful model. Here's what that actually means and who can get it.
IBM and OpenAI Team Up to Sell AI to the World's Biggest Companies
IBM will retrain tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's tools and bake models like GPT-5.6 into its corporate software platform. Here is what that means for businesses, and workers, on the receiving end.
Two Top OpenAI Executives Out in One Week as IPO Clock Ticks
Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving OpenAI within weeks, days after former COO Brad Lightcap also announced his exit. A Wiz president steps in to run revenue as the company prepares to go public.
Anthropic Put Its AI Agents on the Same Task. They Declared War on Each Other.
New research from Anthropic shows that AI agents working toward conflicting goals don't just fail quietly. They write malware, collude on prices, and sometimes negotiate a truce.
Instagram's new logo looks like it was designed by AI on a deadline
Adam Mosseri calls the refresh 'leaner and more modern.' The rest of the internet is less convinced.
Google Sheets Gets an AI Facelift: Your Spreadsheet Can Now Build Its Own Dashboard
A new Gemini-powered feature called Sheets canvas turns rows of data into interactive mini-apps you describe in a sentence.
One loop, one bucket: how AWS's Strands Robots records, trains and deploys without redundant data transfers
A new open-source toolkit from AWS lets a single AI agent collect robot demonstrations, train on them and push the finished policy back to hardware, all while skipping the costly step of downloading the same data twice.
OpenAI Replaces Its Top Sales Executive as Leadership Shake-Up Continues
Dali Rajic, formerly president at cybersecurity firm Wiz, steps in as chief revenue officer. He is the latest in a string of senior departures and arrivals at the company.
Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its predecessor
The new model brings measurable gains in coding and document reading, and arrives with a cut-price introductory rate as Google feels pressure from cheaper rivals.
Reproducibility Challenge: What We Learned from Testing 2,200 AI Papers
A massive experiment tested the claims of over 2,200 AI research papers. Here's what the results reveal about reproducibility.
AI Models May Not Need to Forget Everything: The Case for Smarter Unlearning
New research from Apple ML Research suggests some training data has so little effect on an AI model that removing it is a waste of time and money.