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Friend 2.0 Gets a Voice and a $249 Price Tag. But What Does It Actually Do?
The AI necklace designed to fight loneliness just added a built-in speaker and more than doubled its price. Its creator says it might be a confidant or a god. He's less certain about everything else.
Chrome is about to update twice a week, thanks to AI finding more bugs than ever
Google's AI security tools spotted more flaws in two recent Chrome releases than in the previous 23 combined. That's a lot of patches, and they may soon land silently in the background.
DoorDash becomes one of eight certified drone air carriers in the United States
The food delivery company has cleared a five-stage federal process and launched DoorDash Air, its own in-house drone delivery program.
LinkedIn adds a 'seems like AI slop' button so users can flag fake-sounding posts
The Microsoft-owned professional network is blocking hundreds of thousands of automated comments a day and scrapping its own AI writing tool, because its members want to hear from real people, not bots.
Rolls-Royce and the AI gold rush: how smart software is powering an unlikely comeback story
The British engine-maker's stunning recovery has many causes, and AI tools are quietly becoming one of them. Here's what that means for the company's future.
Teradyne Robotics hits $100 million in a single quarter, with AI driving the surge
The company that makes factory robots and warehouse vehicles posted its fifth straight quarter of growth, up 33% from a year ago. Its CEO says AI data centres are the reason why.
Your AI Data Map Has a Hidden Layer. Researchers Want to Use It.
A study from Apple ML Research shows that a structure AI tools quietly build while organising data can reveal far more than the scatter plots researchers usually look at.
Google DeepMind's New Robot AI Can Now Control a Full Body, From Feet to Fingertips
Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots whole-body movement and five-fingered hand control. Here is what the upgrade actually means, and how close these machines are to working alongside people.
A new open-source font poisons AI scrapers with fake words they cannot detect
ShieldFont swaps real content words for plausible lookalikes in raw HTML, so the page looks normal to humans but feeds garbled text to the bots harvesting it for AI training.
Chrome is now patching security holes twice a week, and AI found most of them
Google's browser shipped more security fixes in two releases last month than in the previous 23 combined. AI tools scanning its own code are the reason, and the pace may get faster before it slows down.
Friend Is Back at Nearly Double the Price, Now With a Speaker
The AI companion pendant that papered New York City's subway with ads has relaunched as 'Friend 2.0', same concept, new voice feature, and a price tag that jumped from $129 to $249.
Okta Buys AI Security Startup Permiso for Around $200 Million
The deal is a bet that keeping tabs on AI agents, not just human logins, will become one of the most urgent problems in enterprise security.
Friend AI Pendant Gets a Voice: Version 2 Can Now Speak Out Loud
The controversial AI companion necklace has a new speaker, a higher price tag, and a founder who admits the whole thing is 'inherently egomaniacal.'
Meta says AI is cutting the time it takes to build new apps, with more launches on the way
Mark Zuckerberg told investors AI now speeds up product development across Facebook, Instagram and gaming, and that a fresh wave of consumer apps is already in the pipeline.
Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft: Why AI's Next Problem Is Waste, Not Power
The AI industry spent years racing to build smarter models and buy more chips. A quieter problem is now taking shape: expensive hardware sitting in data centres is often doing very little, and nobody has been asked to fix that.
Nscale pays $1.65 billion to buy AI software startup Anyscale
A British AI cloud company is snapping up the team behind a popular tool for running big AI workloads, in a bet that owning the whole stack, from servers to software, is where the money is.
Black Americans Are Turning to AI for Health Advice. We Want to Hear Why.
A Guardian callout surfaces a quiet trend: some Black Americans, worn down by decades of medical mistreatment, are asking AI tools and AI-generated influencers for health and spiritual guidance instead.
There Are Only 2,000 Engineers in America Who Can Actually Make AI Pay Off
A new study says demand for the specialists who plug AI into real business workflows is about to surge by 2,100 percent. The problem: there aren't nearly enough of them.
Google's new robot brain can watch, plan, and tag-team with other robots
Gemini Robotics ER 2 gives machines a smarter high-level thinker that tracks progress on video and hands the actual moves off to a lower-level controller.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 teaches robots to walk, tie knots, and work in pairs
The new model controls humanoids from feet to fingertips, adapts to fresh robot bodies in hours, and lets machines team up on longer jobs.
MCP Gets Its Biggest Update Yet, and the Goal Is Letting AI Work at Company Scale
A key change to the open standard that helps AI tools talk to outside software removes a bottleneck that made large deployments tricky. Here is what changed and why it matters.