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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.

Suno Studio 2.0 Brings MIDI, Automation and a Built-in AI Chat to Its Music Editor
The AI music platform's biggest update yet adds tools long standard in professional music software, including the ability to play in chords and let the AI build a song around them.

An AI Film Crew of Eleven Just Made a Full-Length Action Comedy. Here's How Far Short It Still Falls.
Higgsfield's 'Cully Hill Boys' is the most polished AI feature yet, and its making reveals exactly what still can't be automated.

More Than 200 Robot Makers, One Big Question: Are Humanoids Actually Ready?
A new industry report cuts through the excitement around humanoid robots to ask what works today, what is still years away, and what it all means for workers in factories and warehouses.

Nvidia's $500 Billion Data Center Plan Is Really About Keeping Old Chips Valuable
Six of Wall Street's biggest names have pledged up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. The headline number is striking. The real story is how Nvidia is betting its own money that its chips hold their worth over time.

Apple is in talks to pay news publishers every time Siri uses their content
Rather than a flat licensing fee, Apple is considering a pay-per-use model for publishers whose articles and news would feed an upgraded Siri. The budget could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Flock Safety Is Changing Who Can Search Its 120,000 Police Cameras, and Why
After reports of officers using licence-plate readers to stalk ex-partners, the surveillance firm is adding new rules. Critics say the fixes have a big hole in them.

Anthropic investors expect a $2 trillion valuation when the AI company goes public
Half a dozen backers told the Financial Times they believe the Claude-maker could debut on public markets at a figure that would surpass SpaceX and break the record for the largest IPO in history.

Microsoft Is Merging Its Two Copilot Apps Into One Super App
The personal and work versions of Microsoft's AI assistant are being folded into a single unified app, but a few features won't survive the move.

The US military wants better robots. Here's who it's asking.
A federally funded manufacturing institute is putting out an open call for robotics and AI projects aimed at defence production, from submarines to drone swarms.

Humanoid Robots Are in Warehouses Now. What Still Needs to Work?
Four robotics experts will take the stage in October to separate the real progress from the hype, covering safety, costs, and what it will actually take before humanoid robots show up at scale on factory floors.

US Economy Lost 23,000 Jobs in July. Should We Blame AI?
New government figures show the labour market is weakening just as AI tools spread across industries. Here is what the numbers actually mean for workers.

AI-made music is creeping into the charts. Nobody can agree on what to do about it.
A rap artist's eerily off-sounding synth-pop single hit No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up 35 million Spotify streams. The music industry is still trying to figure out what that means.