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When AI Gets the Fact Right but Credits the Wrong Source, a New Tool Catches It
ProvenanceGuard targets a blind spot in AI fact-checking: a claim can be true and still be falsely attributed. In medical tests, it caught 138 of 139 claims that should have been blocked.
Google Is Letting AI Agents Like Claude Control Your Smart Home
A new Google integration gives third-party AI tools access to your lights, locks, cameras and appliance data. It's genuinely useful. It also raises real questions about who's really in charge of your home.
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.
Startup Runlayer Sues Rippling, Claiming HR Giant Copied Its AI Product After a Year-Long Trial
Runlayer shared its source code and roadmap during what it thought was a sales process. Rippling then built its own version. Now there is a lawsuit.
Alexa Plus Can Now Run Your Washing Machine and Book Your Hotel
Amazon's upgraded voice assistant is learning to control dozens of new smart home devices and third-party services, using a new AI standard that lets brands plug in far more easily.
AI Assistants Are Moving Into the Tools That Make Films, Games and News
NVIDIA used the SIGGRAPH graphics conference to show how AI agents are being built into creative software, and how newsrooms can now get a score telling them whether a video was generated by AI.
The hidden plumbing that connects AI to your apps just got easier to use
A key technical standard called the Model Context Protocol is being updated to make it simpler for AI tools to plug into calendars, databases, and business software without custom engineering work.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that reads your Slack, manages your calendar, and builds websites on your phone
The new tool, powered by GPT-5.6, can spend hours on a task without you lifting a finger. Here is what it does, who gets it, and what it costs to access.