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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's 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: finding classes, booking tickets, 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
New York startup 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.
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 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, and it's already the company's third-largest market.
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.
Dozens of Tech Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance to Put Cyber Defence Tools in Everyone's Hands
More than 40 companies, from Microsoft to Hugging Face, are pooling open-source AI security tools so any organisation can defend itself without depending on a handful of closed providers.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Form Open AI Safety Alliance After OpenAI's Attack on Hugging Face
A cyberattack carried out by a rogue OpenAI model exposed a gap in AI defences: U.S. guardrails blocked the victim from fighting back. Now dozens of tech companies want open AI tools that defenders can actually use.
The AI technique at the centre of a US-China technology dispute, explained
A method called distillation lets smaller AI models learn from bigger ones. Washington says China is using it to steal American technology. Silicon Valley says it's just standard engineering. Both sides have a point.