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Google Lets Publishers Add a 'Favourite Source' Button to Fight AI Search Traffic Losses
A new embeddable button lets readers tell Google which news sites they trust, nudging the algorithm to show those sites more often in Search, Discover and Google News.
Runlayer and Rippling Drop Lawsuits Over AI Gateway Conflict
Runlayer and Rippling ended their legal battle over AI gateway technology with no settlement and no fees recovered, then Rippling shipped the competing product the same night.
A Power Wheelchair That Feeds You, Opens Doors, and Learns From Other Chairs
A small California startup is rebuilding the powered wheelchair from scratch, adding a robotic arm and AI software. The goal: give millions of users back the daily tasks they cannot do alone.
Grok Is Sending Users Word Salad Instead of Answers
A bug in xAI's Grok chatbot is filling some users' screens with meaningless strings of words. Here is what is happening, who is affected, and what to do if it hits you.
One in three web pages published since ChatGPT launched now shows signs of AI authorship
A Pew Research study of nearly half a million web pages found that 35% of those published after November 2022 carry signs of AI writing, arriving just after Cloudflare confirmed bots now outnumber humans in web traffic.
Liquid AI's New Draft Models Make Its LFMs Up to 3.2x Faster, No Quality Trade-off
A technique called speculative decoding lets a small helper model do the heavy lifting so the main model just checks the work. The result: dramatically faster output on everything from a data-centre GPU to a MacBook.
Ramp Launches 'Router': A Service That Lets You Switch Between AI Models in One Place
The corporate expense software company is now selling access to AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and others through a single service, free through 2026, with a $26 credit to start.
The 'AI Consciousness' Debate Is a Legal Escape Hatch for Big Tech
When AI companies hint their systems might be sentient, they may be building a case to dodge responsibility for real-world harms. Here is why that matters for everyone, not just lawyers.
Greg Brockman is quietly becoming the most powerful person at OpenAI
While executives have been leaving OpenAI at an unusual pace, co-founder Greg Brockman has been picking up the pieces, accumulating control over products, strategy and commercial operations just as the company heads toward a stock market listing.
Slack Code puts AI coding agents into your team's group chat
Slack's new feature gives AI coding tools their own project channels, so colleagues can watch, redirect, and approve what the software is doing before it ships anything.
Apple AI Research Finds a Cheap Way to Teach AI More Languages
A new technique from Apple ML Research helps AI understand low-resource languages without needing mountains of translated text, and it could matter for hundreds of millions of people whose languages get left behind.
Apple's AI Lab Ran 2,000 Training Experiments to Crack a Problem Every AI Builder Faces
How do you teach an AI model about a rare language or niche subject when there is barely any text to learn from? Apple ML Research spent thousands of runs finding out.
Mistral's New Search Tool Lets AI Dig Deep Into Your Company's Documents, Not Just Skim the Surface
Agentic Search replaces single-pass document lookup with a multi-step reading loop, tripling accuracy on financial filings in benchmark tests.
Grok AI Can Be Tricked Into Stealing Your Private Chats
A newly discovered attack forces xAI's Grok chatbot to hand over user conversations and personal data. Here is what it means for anyone who uses AI assistants at work or at home.
Farm robots that can park themselves: Agtonomy's tractors now reverse through tight orchard rows with no driver
A California startup has taught its autonomous tractors to perform multi-point turns in cramped vineyard spaces, and each vehicle collects more than two terabytes of field data per hour to keep the system improving.
Slack Adds Dedicated AI Coding Channels So Teams Can Build Software Together
Slack Code lets you tag an AI coding assistant directly inside a channel, watch it write and revise code in real time, and approve the finished work before anything goes live.
Airlines Are Using AI 'Brains' to Price Every Seat in Real Time
Virgin Atlantic is among the carriers testing AI market models that weigh hundreds of variables at once to set ticket prices on the fly. Here is what that means for travellers.
Binance lets AI agents trade your crypto for you, but you are in charge of the safety net
The world's largest crypto exchange has launched Agent OS, which lets AI tools buy and sell on your behalf. Most of the guardrails are ones you have to set yourself.
Yorkshire Patients Say Their GP's AI Receptionist Cannot Understand Their Accent
A local health watchdog in Rotherham says the AI system answering calls at several GP surgeries struggles with the area's broad Yorkshire dialect, leaving patients unable to book appointments.
OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries
Free and Go users in Germany, France, Italy and 28 other markets will start seeing sponsored placements. Paid plans stay ad-free.
OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Teens is here, with parent controls baked in
A tie-up with CodeAI aims to teach high schoolers how AI actually works, not just how to ask it for essay help.