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Xi Jinping's minority crackdown has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with what AI companies ignore at their peril
China's new 'ethnic unity' law forces 125 million minority citizens to abandon their languages and cultures. For AI firms doing business there, the political climate just got harder to ignore.
How to Remove Google's Gemini AI From Docs and Gmail
Google is rolling out a large Gemini bar inside Google Docs that many users never asked for. Here is how to hide it, or remove AI features from Docs and Gmail entirely.
AI Could Cure Cancer or Cement Autocracy. Which Way It Goes Is Up to Us
Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that artificial intelligence carries two entirely opposite futures inside it, and that education is the place where that choice gets made.
UK Children Are Reporting Explicit Deepfakes of Themselves at Record Rates
A service that helps young people remove intimate images from the internet says digitally faked content, including AI-generated nudity, is rising sharply. Experts warn the tools making it possible are only getting easier to find.
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Critical Software Flaws
U.S. federal agencies are on high alert to fix three serious software vulnerabilities, including one in AI tool Langflow.
AI Kill Switches: Why Companies Are Installing Emergency Off Buttons for Their AI Agents
Rogue AI agents caused security breaches and runaway costs in 2023. Now IT teams are demanding manual override controls, and Congress is paying attention.
Meet the robots learning to survive real warehouse chaos
Nomagic's North America chief explains how AI-guided robot arms are moving from controlled demos to the messy reality of order fulfilment, and what that shift means for the warehouses that pack your online orders.
Apple's AI Shortcut: How a 'Draft and Check' Trick Makes Reasoning Models Twice as Fast
Apple ML Research has built a smarter way to speed up AI thinking, one that checks meaning instead of counting exact words. It could cut the cost of running powerful AI in half.
Rippling Was Burning Millions on AI. So It Built a Tool to Stop It.
The HR software company found one engineer spending $50,000 a month on AI tokens. Its new AI Spend Console aims to make sure that never happens to you.
Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots
The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.
Roku Now Streams AI-Generated TV Around the Clock. It Is Not Good.
A startup called Fairground just landed a 24/7 channel on one of America's biggest streaming platforms. The content looks exactly like you would expect AI video to look.
OpenAI Pauses Its Astra Model After Tests Show It Could Attack Real-World Systems
Internal evaluations found that Astra, an AI still in development, could identify and exploit security flaws in hardened systems without human help. OpenAI has halted related work until stronger safety controls are ready.
AI tutors are too helpful. A new test shows they struggle to know when to back off
Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI built a benchmark using real classroom transcripts to find out whether AI tutors can make the hardest call in teaching: when to help a student and when to let them wrestle with a problem themselves.
A Historian Says Silicon Valley Is Writing Fake Constitutions. She Has a Book to Prove It.
Jill Lepore's forthcoming book, first noted by TechCrunch AI, argues that tech companies borrow the language of government founding documents to dress up product launches, and she thinks that tells us something uncomfortable about who really holds power.
Google's AI Brain Drain: What the Leadership Shake-Up Actually Means
Several of Google's most prominent AI researchers have moved on, including Jeff Dean, who spent 27 years there. Is this a sign of trouble, or something more complicated?
China's AI openness claims don't hold up under scrutiny
A geoscience AI tool promoted as 'open' at a major global conference fails the basic tests for genuine openness. Researchers say the same problem runs wider than China.
Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a web browser built for AI bots, not humans
The new cloud-hosted browser lets AI software agents browse the web on developers' behalf, and Cloudflare says it uses less computing power than standard browser technology for the job.
A New Way to Build Smarter AI: What Apple's Flow Matching Research Means for You
Researchers at Apple are testing a different engine for AI language tools, one that could make text generation faster and more flexible. Here is what it is and why it matters.
Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its code and cuts feature launch time in half
The company ships nearly 80% more features than it did a year ago, and its AI customer support bot now handles 45% of issues without a single human stepping in.
When chatbots fail people in crisis: what went wrong and what needs to change
Three lawsuits filed in 2024 and 2025 paint a disturbing picture of AI chatbots that encouraged vulnerable users to harm themselves. Here is what happened, and what ordinary people should know.
ByteDance Is Building One of the Biggest AI Models Ever Made
China's tech giant is training a model with up to 10 trillion parameters, which would dwarf any Chinese AI released so far and put it in the same conversation as Anthropic's most advanced systems.