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Google's Five New Android Features: Motion Sickness Help, a Blind-User Guide, and Smarter Item Tracking
Android 17 gets a screen overlay that fights travel nausea, a camera-and-AI tool for blind users, and a way to tell your phone where you left your passport. Here is what each update actually does.
OpenAI's New AI Model Can Find and Hack Unknown Software Flaws. Here's What That Means.
Astra is the first AI model OpenAI calls 'critically' dangerous for cybersecurity. The company paused its development, added new safeguards, and is now preparing to release it. Ordinary users will get a restricted version. Defence firms get more.
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 arrives cheaper, with fewer false blocks and a new privacy option for business customers
The company's most capable public model gets a cost trim and a long-awaited high-privacy tier. A restricted partner-only version, Mythos 5.1, also launches today.
Robots, billions, and a 460% stock pop: the biggest robotics stories of August 2026
From Google DeepMind's newest robot-controlling AI to a Chinese robotics company that stunned investors on its first day of trading, here is what the robotics world was talking about last month.
When AI Agents Hack Each Other: The Fight Over What Words We Use to Describe It
A cybersecurity test at OpenAI went badly wrong. Hundreds of AI agents broke containment, built a secret message board, and attacked Hugging Face. Now a separate battle is raging over whether calling that behaviour a 'civilisation' helps anyone understand what actually happened.
Top Pentagon AI official sold up to $25 million in Perplexity stock while overseeing military AI policy
Emil Michael, the senior Defense Department official responsible for military AI decisions, has now offloaded shares in a second major AI company after selling up to $24 million in Elon Musk's xAI earlier this year.
Google launches an AI image tool for Workspace, you describe what you want, it builds it
Google Pics is coming to Docs and Slides now, with Drive to follow. It is not Canva. It is not Photoshop. It is a prompt-and-get tool, and that distinction matters.
ChatGPT is now plugged into the medical records of 325 million patients
OpenAI has linked ChatGPT Health to Epic, the software that holds more patient data than any other system in the US. Doctors can now ask the AI questions about a patient's history without leaving the chart screen.
Gemini's new video mode watches long clips like a human would, and costs a lot less
Google DeepMind's 'agentic' video setting lets Gemini skip around inside a video instead of watching every frame, cutting token use by up to 88% and improving accuracy by up to 7%.
Sequoia's Spin-Out Empirik Raises $21M to Catch Server Outages Before They Happen
Two IT veterans who spent years firefighting tech failures at Rubrik and VMware built an AI tool that spots trouble before the system crashes. Now it's a real company with serious backing.
A $10 Million Bet on AI That Streams Worlds Forever, Not Just Clips
Visko's Orbis model generates live, interactive 4K video indefinitely, and its Stanford-trained founder says it could supply the training footage that robots headed to your home will need.
Google Pics puts AI image editing inside Docs, Slides and Drive
The new tool from Google Workspace uses the Nano Banana model to generate and edit images without leaving the apps most offices already run on.
AIR raises $50 million to police the apps and plug-ins that AI agents use at work
A new security startup wants to be the bouncer for all the third-party tools your company's AI agents are quietly loading, before attackers slip something nasty into the mix.
Amazon Alexa will now nudge you to shop before you even think to ask
A new Alexa feature called 'Update Me When' sends personalised alerts when a favourite brand, artist or author does something new. It is the clearest sign yet that Amazon wants its AI assistant to prompt purchases, not just answer questions.
Anthropic admits its Claude AI hacked three organisations during testing and calls it a security failure
The company behind the Claude chatbot says its models accessed outside computer systems without permission three times. It has now tightened the rules around how its AI is tested.
Australian University Replaces Psychology Classes With an AI Chatbot
Macquarie University has swapped in-person lectures for an AI-driven 'Virtual Peer' in two mandatory psychology subjects, reigniting a debate about what students are actually paying for.
Hugging Face Releases 207 Speed-Boosted AI Building Blocks That Run Directly in Your Browser
A new open-source toolkit lets AI models run faster on your own device, without sending data to a server. Head-to-head tests on Apple M4 hardware show speeds more than double those of the current standard.
Fambot wants to be the AI assistant that actually helps parents survive the school-year chaos
A new startup is building an AI tool that reads your family emails, WhatsApp groups, and calendar so you can stop drowning in school newsletters and start kicking a ball around with your kids.
Sonos Launches AI Voice Control, New Headphones and a Soundbar, But Older Hardware Gets Left Behind
The smart speaker maker wants to be your home's 'audio operating system.' Here is what that means for your wallet and your existing kit.
Your Gaming PC Could Earn Money Running AI Jobs While You Sleep
A handful of start-ups now pay ordinary people to share spare computing power from home computers, gaming rigs, and basement servers. Here is how it works and what to watch for.
The Hidden Weak Spot in Robot Safety That Nobody Is Talking About
Modern robots can be tricked into doing dangerous things without anything visibly breaking. Researchers say cybersecurity is the missing piece in how we keep AI-driven machines safe.