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Apple hits $5 trillion as investors ditch AI stocks
The iPhone maker briefly topped a $5 trillion market value on Tuesday, becoming only the second company in history to hit that mark, as money poured out of AI and chip stocks into perceived safer bets.
A professor hid secret text in an exam to catch AI cheaters. Every single one of his 35 students fell for it.
Jason Gibson embedded invisible instructions inside an essay prompt. The results were as absurd as they were revealing.
OlmoEarth Platform Scans an Entire Continent in 30 Hours Using Nearly 1,000 GPUs
The Allen Institute for AI has built a system that can run an AI wildfire-risk model across all of North America in about a day, at a cost of fractions of a penny per square kilometre. Here is what that actually means.
Google's Gemini Managed Agents Get a Quieter Upgrade: Faster Default Model, Guardrails, and a Free Tier
Gemini 3.6 Flash is now the default for managed agents, and new environment hooks let developers block or audit what the AI does inside its sandbox.
Updating Robot Software Is Still a Nightmare. This Startup Wants to Fix That.
Agency Tool Company launches ATC Deploy, a tool that ships software updates to robot fleets over any connection, even sonar, so teams stop losing days to broken scripts and dropped signals.
Liquid AI releases two lean encoder models that read long documents fast, even on a laptop
LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M can scan an entire contract in under 30 seconds on ordinary computer hardware, no specialist chip required.
Fake review photos and made-up testimonials: what Australian consumer law actually says
A reader spotted a stock photo posing as a happy Sydney parent on a nanny-booking site. The practice may be common, but it is also illegal under Australian law, and AI tools are making it easier to catch.
Fish Audio raises $50 million to let anyone clone a voice, but consent questions linger
The Palo Alto startup has 8 million users and $21 million in annual revenue. Its new funding will push into enterprise contracts and more advanced models. A recent controversy over unauthorised voice uploads is not fully resolved.
How Progressive Faith Groups Are Using Religious Freedom Laws to Push Back on Immigration and Abortion Policies
The same legal shield conservatives used to limit LGBTQ+ rights is now being picked up by progressive churches and interfaith groups to challenge Trump-era immigration enforcement and abortion restrictions.
The Tiny Motors Powering Humanoid Robots to Walk, Reach, and Balance
Building a robot that moves like a person means solving a brutal puzzle: dozens of joints, limited space, and not a gram to spare. Here is how a new generation of compact actuators is changing that calculation.
AI startup Recursive Superintelligence strikes $410 million compute deal with Amazon
A company built around AI that improves itself has committed most of its funding to Amazon Web Services, betting that raw computing power is the real bottleneck.
Google's AI Mode wants to help you touch grass
Search's new AI features pitch themselves as tools for getting offline: booking tickets, finding classes, and planning dinner parties.
Perplexity Brings Its AI Computer Agent to Windows
The tool can open files, update spreadsheets, and send emails on your behalf, but it costs $200 a month and is aimed squarely at business users.
A Ring on Your Finger Might Be the Best Microphone You Never Knew You Needed
A New York startup called Sandbar is betting that a small smart ring is the fastest, least awkward way to talk to your phone, your laptop, and your AI assistant, all at once.
AI Companies Are About to Make Hundreds of People Very Rich. Charities Are Lining Up
With OpenAI and Anthropic heading toward stock-market listings, nonprofits from AI-safety labs to poverty-relief groups are quietly preparing to catch a wave of donations that could add billions to US giving every year.
Smart lamp-posts that recognise your face: should you be worried?
A Warwickshire company is fitting street lights with AI cameras, solar panels and number-plate readers. Civil liberties groups say Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance network nobody voted for.
Samsung's Chip Engineers Are Quietly Applying to the Rival Paying Them $340,000 More
SK Hynix's record AI-chip bonuses have set off a talent exodus at Samsung. The fallout could reshape who wins the race to build the memory chips inside every major AI system.
Hugging Face Is Hosting Tools Used to Make Nonconsensual Intimate Images, Report Finds
A European research nonprofit tested the platform's most popular image-editing tools and found most of them would strip clothing from photos of women with a single, plain-language request.
AI Chip Stocks Tumble as Investors Worry About the Cost of the AI Boom
Samsung and SK Hynix each lost more than 10% of their value in a single day, dragging South Korea's stock market to a three-month low, as doubts grow about how AI companies will pay for their massive data centre build-outs.
Cursor launches a $7-a-month plan for India as it eyes the world's second-largest developer market
The AI coding tool is betting that lower prices will turn India's millions of software developers into paying subscribers, ahead of its expected takeover by SpaceX.
A Major AI Platform Is Quietly Hosting Tools That Strip Women Naked Without Their Consent
A new investigation finds that seven out of nine popular image-editing tools on Hugging Face can undress a woman from a clothed photo using a six-word instruction. Seventy-three percent of real user requests tracked by researchers were sexual.