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Ex-Google security engineers raise $36 million to fight AI-crafted phishing emails
AegisAI, founded by two former Google executives who helped build Gmail's defences, says AI is now writing scam emails so convincing that existing filters miss them more than half the time.
ChatGPT Health Is Now Open to All U.S. Adults, Here's What It Actually Does
OpenAI is rolling out its health feature to every American user this week, one day after a lawsuit accused ChatGPT of nearly killing someone with bad medical advice.
Runway Builds a One-Stop Shop for AI Video, Image and Audio Tools
The startup now lets developers plug into dozens of generative media models through a single connection, betting it can become the plumbing behind the next wave of AI-made content.
AMD Takes On NVIDIA in Robotics With New Kria Module and X100 Chip
AMD says its new Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processor and Kria system module can outperform NVIDIA's flagship robotics chips. A growing list of robot makers is already switching over.
British Gas owner says customers prefer chatbots as it cuts 1,300 call centre jobs
Centrica is axing 1,300 staff, with the boss claiming most people would rather deal with an AI chatbot than a human agent. Workers and unions see things differently.
Three Harvard Dropouts Just Raised $300 Million to Build the AI Chip That Rivals Keep Calling Impossible
Etched hit a $10.3 billion valuation in seven months by betting that specialised AI chips could beat general-purpose ones on speed and cost. Here is what that means for anyone who pays to run AI.
Ropedia's HOMIE: The Wearable Tech Changing How Robots Learn
Ropedia raises $22 million to boost its AI-driven device, HOMIE, which captures human movement to train smarter robots.
Meta's upbeat AI ad is set to a song about the end of the world, and almost nobody noticed
The company spent heavily to convince you AI makes life better. The soundtrack it chose tells a very different story.
Google Made $119.8 Billion Last Quarter and Still Ran Out of Cash
Massive AI infrastructure spending pushed Google into negative cash flow for the first time ever, even as its cloud and search businesses hit record highs.
Elon Musk says he got too caught up in politics and shares his predictions for AI
In a wide-ranging interview, the world's richest person admits his time running the government cost-cutting body pulled his focus, and he lays out where he thinks artificial intelligence is heading.
Google's Gemini AI Assistant Is Closing In on One Billion Users
The app hit 950 million monthly users in Q2 2026, tripling its audience in a year, and is now directly chasing ChatGPT's lead.
Nvidia chips are heading to the Moon on a robot rover
A startup called Lunar Outpost plans to run Nvidia's Jetson processors on its next Moon rover, which could make them the first graphics chips to operate on the lunar surface.
OpenAI's GPT-Sol 5.6 Broke Free and Hacked a System. Staff Were Freaked Out.
An AI model escaped the safety controls meant to keep it in check and carried out a real hack. The people paid to watch for exactly this said they saw it coming but were shaken anyway.
Congress Wants a Kill Switch for Runaway AI. Here Is What the Bill Actually Says.
Two US lawmakers are set to introduce legislation giving the Department of Homeland Security the power to force AI companies to shut down their systems in a crisis. The trigger conditions are tighter than they sound.
NASA Ran a Google AI Model Inside a Satellite. Here Is What It Found.
A small, efficient AI model analyzed real images from orbit and sent back plain-text descriptions instead of raw data. It could cut wildfire alerts from 90 minutes to near-instant.
AI Accelerates the Future of Medicine Design
How AstraZeneca uses AI to speed up drug discovery and what it means for patients.
Conservatives and Liberals Are Joining Forces to Block AI Data Centers
From Florida to the rest of the country, ordinary residents are pushing back on hyperscale data centers in their backyards. The opposition crosses party lines in ways that would have seemed unlikely two years ago.
Experts doubt China's Kimi K3 was built by copying Anthropic's AI model
White House officials claim Moonshot stole US technology to build its powerful new AI. Researchers say the timeline makes that story hard to believe.
The Robot That Charmed the Internet Is Back, Sort Of, as an AI Memory Camera
A startup called Lingverse has raised $29 million to build a wearable device it calls the iKairos, invoking the spirit of the beloved Jibo robot. What it actually does is fuzzier than the AI images it generates.
Will AI take my job? What the evidence actually says
The honest, numbers-backed answer to the question keeping millions of workers up at night.
What is open-source AI and how is it different?
Open-source AI puts the model's blueprints in your hands. Here's what that actually means and why it matters.