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One Layer Does the Job: Apple Research Finds a Smarter Way to Teach AI to Generate Images
Apple ML Research shows that adapting a single layer of a pre-trained visual encoder is enough to improve image generation quality, sharper results without retraining the whole model.
Whatnot Buys AI Startup Shaped to Make Live Shopping Feel Personal
The livestream shopping app is betting that smarter recommendation technology will help viewers find what they want faster, as it pushes into new product categories.
OpenAI Built an AI That Hacks Its Own Models to Make Them Safer
GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming system that attacks OpenAI's own chatbots to find weak spots before real attackers do. It already discovered a trick that human testers had missed.
Suno Hacked: Breach Exposes How AI Music Tool May Have Scraped Millions of Songs
A hacker broke into Suno's systems in November 2025, accessed customer data, and found source code that reportedly shows the AI music generator pulled audio from YouTube, Deezer, and podcast feeds without permission.
Microsoft patches a record 570 security flaws, and says AI found them
The company's biggest-ever monthly security update includes two bugs already being used by hackers. AI tools are why the number is so high, and why it'll stay high.
OpenAI's First Hardware Product Is a $230 Button Pad for Its AI Coding Tool
The Codex Micro puts physical controls on your desk to manage AI-driven coding tasks. It isn't the secret Jony Ive device everyone has been waiting for.
OpenAI's first piece of hardware is a light-up mini-keyboard for its AI coding agent
The $230 Codex Micro uses colour-coded keys to show you, at a glance, whether your AI coding tasks are running, waiting, or broken.
The Original Chatbot Had Many Faces, and We Never Knew It
ELIZA, the 1960s program that convinced people a computer understood them, turns out to be far stranger and more capable than anyone realised. Newly unearthed source code changes the story.
Apple Intelligence Gets the Green Light in China, Powered by Alibaba's AI
Chinese regulators have approved Apple's AI features for the country, with local tech giant Alibaba supplying the underlying models. For Apple, it's a meaningful win in one of its biggest markets.
Australia's AI Plan Is Bold. The Tech Giants It Must Deal With Are Bigger Than Most Governments
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to get ahead of artificial intelligence. The companies he will need to negotiate with have revenues larger than many national economies.
Reelful Automates Social Media Video Creation with AI
An iOS app built by a former Snapchat engineer aims to take the editing burden off founders who want a social presence but not the hours it demands.
Voice AI Can Talk, But Can It Actually Listen?
A large-scale human study finds today's best voice models often miss the pauses, hesitations, and tone shifts that make real conversation work.
Rime raises $24 million to make AI phone calls feel less like talking to a robot
The San Francisco startup trains its voice models on real recorded conversations, not scraped internet audio. Its bet: better data means enterprise customers stop hanging up.
Meet Ode: The $1.5 Billion Company Anthropic Built to Put Its AI to Work Inside Your Business
Anthropic and a group of private equity firms have launched Ode, a new company that sends specialist engineers directly into businesses to implement AI. It is a bet that knowing how to deploy AI is now worth as much as building it.
South Korean Researchers Used AI to Design DNA That Folds Itself into Tiny Shapes
A new AI model cuts the hardest part out of DNA origami, the decades-old technique for sculpting genetic material into nanoscale structures with medical and scientific uses.
The engineer behind Apple Face ID now wants AI to read your brain
Hemispheric has raised $52 million to build an AI that diagnoses depression, Alzheimer's, and PTSD from a 15-minute brain scan. No surgery needed.
George Lucas Says AI Is the Future of Film-Making and Critics Are Like Luddites Who Rejected Cars
The Star Wars creator, now 82, told an interviewer that artificial intelligence makes films easier to produce and that resistance to it is pointless. His comments put him firmly on one side of Hollywood's sharpest debate.
Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.
Indian AI startup Emergent hits $1.5 billion valuation after $130 million raise
The Bengaluru-based company lets non-technical business owners build software by typing plain instructions. It now has 200,000 paying customers and $120 million in annual revenue.
He Lost a $2,000 Ebike. Then the Chatbots Took Over.
A missing delivery turned into a months-long loop of automated dead ends. His story reflects a growing shift in customer service that is leaving real people stranded.
OpenAI Workers Are Bankrolling a Super PAC to Push Back Against Their Own Boss
Eight current and former OpenAI employees have quietly donated more than $215,000 to a political group that wants stricter rules on AI companies, setting up an unusual fight inside one of the world's most powerful tech firms.