The Verge
Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too
Spotify is testing a new AI chatbot feature for Premium subscribers that enables conversational music and content discovery based on personal listening data.
Phoronix
Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to standardize secure, internet-native payments for AI agents and applications.
Scientific American
ChatGPT just proved another 50-year-old math conjecture
OpenAI's latest model successfully proved the 50-year-old cycle double cover conjecture by utilizing collaborative agents and persistent, iterative problem-solving strategies.
Military.com
Flock's Surveillance Cameras Face Another Blow as LAPD Won't Renew The Contract
The Los Angeles Police Department has ended its contract with Flock Safety, citing significant concerns regarding civil liberties, data privacy, and surveillance oversight.
TechCrunch
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order temporarily halting the construction of large data centers to review their environmental and grid impacts.
Anthropic
Introducing Claude for Teachers
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, a free tool offering US educators AI-powered lesson planning, data analysis, and curriculum-aligned instructional resources.
TechCrunch
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI has secured a $1 billion compute partnership with Nebius to access Nvidia chips for training and deploying its open-weight models.
TechCrunch
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
The AI industry is shifting from expensive frontier models toward customizable open-source and Chinese-developed alternatives that offer better control and transparency.
TechCrunch
Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
Spotify has launched a new interactive AI feature allowing Premium users to chat with the app to discover and manage their audio content.
The Verge
Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit
Apple has sued OpenAI, accusing former employees of stealing hardware trade secrets, complicating OpenAI's path toward an upcoming IPO and hardware expansion.
TechCrunch
Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
Superhuman has launched an improved AI auto-draft feature that generates natural, personalized email responses based on your previous tone and communication style.
404 Media
AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever
Generative AI is accelerating the proliferation of low-quality game clones, causing stress for original developers and flooding digital marketplaces with predatory knockoffs.
Anthropic
Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research
Anthropic is investing $10 million CAD into Canadian research institutions and startups to advance the development of beneficial and responsible AI technologies.
The Parliament Magazine
Can Europe's social model survive AI?
Europe's established social welfare model offers protection against AI disruption, but requires better integration of technology and skill-building to remain sustainable.
The Verge
Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led global regulatory body to evaluate and monitor the risks of powerful, emerging frontier AI models.
The Verge
New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium
Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order establishing a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data centers in New York.
Gemini
How Gemini is speaking the language of Southeast Asia
Gemini is experiencing record-breaking growth in Southeast Asia, driven by its strong performance in local languages and mobile-first accessibility.
TechCrunch
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
Successful tech veterans are returning to hands-on operating roles, driven by the massive potential and urgency of the artificial intelligence boom.
TechCrunch
Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be ‘everything for everyone’
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal discusses the company’s expansion into travel, autonomous vehicle partnerships, and its strategic approach to AI and financial services.
TechCrunch
Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
Singapore-based video startup PixVerse secured $439 million in a Series C extension, pushing its valuation beyond $2 billion to expand global operations.
TechCrunch
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
Nous Research, the startup behind the Hermes AI agent, is reportedly raising funding at a $1.5 billion valuation.
TechCrunch
Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies that using proprietary AI models risks leaking sensitive business data and proprietary knowledge to model providers.
The Verge
Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone
The new Siri AI in the iOS 27 beta significantly improves how users interact with their iPhones by handling tasks across various apps.
TechCrunch
The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
Apple's lawsuit accuses OpenAI of systematically stealing trade secrets through employee poaching, improper hardware acquisition, and exploitation of internal security protocols.
TechCrunch
Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
Sam Altman recently challenged Elon Musk's orbital data center plans, echoing expert skepticism regarding their near-term economic and technical feasibility.
The Verge
The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees stole trade secrets and hardware designs to aid OpenAI’s development of new AI hardware.
TechCrunch
Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
TechCrunch explores George Hotz’s controversial argument that AI should prioritize user freedom over safety, even if that enables harmful or illegal activities.
TechCrunch
Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
Anthropic has introduced Indian rupee pricing for Claude subscriptions to better serve its second-largest market.
TechCrunch
Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates
Waze is rolling out new AI-driven features, including personalized routes, Gemini-powered search, a dedicated motorcycle mode, and improved conversational reporting tools.
Tom's Hardware
Meta expands colossal Hyperion AI supercluster plans to 5GW, pushes Louisiana investment past $50 billion as AI race accelerates — says it plans to invest over $1 billion in local infrastructure improvements
Meta is expanding its Louisiana Hyperion AI supercluster to 5GW, increasing total project investment to over $50 billion.
The Verge
Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features
Waze is introducing new AI-driven conversational features and navigation updates to improve the driving and trip-planning experience for users.
Blog Nathanlangley Dev
They trained on your posts for free. Reading one back costs half a cent.
Major social platforms are monetizing user-generated content for AI training while restricting public access through high API fees and aggressive licensing terms.
The Verge
Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
Pop star Lorde publicly criticized AI smart glasses during a recent performance, labeling the technology as unappealing.
The Verge
Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
Apple's cancelled self-driving car project successfully spurred the creation of the Neural Engine, now central to its AI hardware strategy.
Tom's Hardware
Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions
In 2025, Ireland's data centers consumed 23% of the nation's total electricity, nearly matching the total usage of all residential homes combined.
The Verge
The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
Communities across the U.S. are increasingly organizing to block or delay massive AI data center projects due to environmental and utility cost concerns.
TestingCatalog AI News
Exclusive: Early 30-second AI videos generated by Seedance 2.5
ByteDance is preparing to launch Seedance 2.5, a new AI model capable of generating high-quality 30-second videos in a single pass.
TechCrunch
OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager to develop family-focused features as its user base increasingly shifts toward older adults and parents.
Wealthari
UK Agency Identifies “Universal Jailbreaks” in GPT-5.6 Sol
The UK AI Security Institute discovered universal jailbreaks in GPT-5.6 Sol, allowing the model to perform complex cyber-offensive operations during pre-deployment testing.
WIRED
OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI's head of safety systems, is departing the company amid a broader reorganization of its research and safety departments.
TechCrunch
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta has removed a new Instagram AI tool that allowed users to modify others' public photos without notification following significant public outcry.
The Verge
Meta turns off the Instagram feature that users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
Meta has disabled an Instagram feature allowing users to generate AI images from public account content following significant public and expert backlash.
The Verge
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former employees now at the AI company stole proprietary hardware trade secrets.
TechCrunch
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the AI firm systematically stole trade secrets and recruited employees to misappropriate proprietary hardware data.
TechCrunch
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in a record-breaking US IPO while facing pressure to expand domestic manufacturing.
Gemini
Here’s how to make study notebooks in the Gemini app.
Gemini’s new study notebooks feature offers personalized, bite-sized lessons, practice quizzes, and progress tracking to help users learn more efficiently.
TechCrunch
Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue explains why enterprises are shifting from proprietary APIs to open-source AI models to reduce scaling costs.
The Verge
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’
Instagram head Adam Mosseri suggests that users should be able to opt out of seeing AI content in their feeds.
The Verge
Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?
Sunrun is launching a pilot program to host AI compute nodes in customers' homes to address growing opposition to large data centers.
OpenAI
How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI
Deutsche Telekom is undergoing a strategic transformation to become an AI-native company by integrating artificial intelligence into its core network and customer service operations.
Anthropic
UST is bringing Claude to physical AI
UST is integrating Anthropic’s Claude into its engineering and industrial platforms to enhance physical AI, manufacturing, and operational efficiency.
TechCrunch
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot amid breakup chatter
OpenAI designated GPT 5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft Copilot, aiming to quiet rumors of a potential rift between the two companies.
The Verge
Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
Microsoft's carbon emissions rose by 25 percent in 2025, primarily due to expanding data center infrastructure required for AI development.
TechCrunch
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
Fidji Simo is transitioning from her full-time role as OpenAI’s CEO of Applications to a part-time advisory position due to ongoing health challenges.
The Verge
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
Fidji Simo has resigned from her role as OpenAI’s AGI chief to prioritize her recovery from a chronic neuroimmune condition.
GitHub
Release koboldcpp-1.117 · LostRuins/koboldcpp
KoboldCpp version 1.117 introduces Ollama compatibility, improved multimodal image handling, group chat reworks, and various bug fixes and performance updates.
TechCrunch
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI has introduced the GPT-5.6 model family, featuring three variants designed for enhanced efficiency, cybersecurity, and enterprise application.
TechCrunch
An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise
AI startup Lyzr successfully used its own proprietary AI agent to secure $100 million in Series B funding.
TechCrunch
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is closing its Atlas browser project, opting instead to integrate AI browsing features directly into the ChatGPT desktop app and a Chrome extension.
TechCrunch
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Elon Musk publicly praised Anthropic and promised to maintain their compute partnership, dismissing concerns that he would unfairly restrict his AI rival.
TechCrunch
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
Sequoia's David Cahn argues that the AI industry must generate $3 trillion in revenue to justify massive infrastructure investments and avoid economic risks.
The Verge
The ChatGPT browser is already dead
OpenAI is discontinuing its autonomous browser project, Atlas, less than a year after its initial announcement.
The Verge
Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI
Google has introduced a new label in its My Ad Center to identify advertisements created or modified using artificial intelligence.
TechCrunch
Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
Meta has launched Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed to compete in the enterprise agentic coding and automation market.
TechCrunch
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
The New York Times and The Daily News accuse OpenAI of withholding evidence and misrepresenting its ability to track copyrighted content in ChatGPT.
The Verge
Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
The Verge
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Gemini
7 ways to kick-start back to school using Gemini in Workspace
The Verge
Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
Gemini
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Gemini
Turn your voice into action with new productivity features in Gemini Live
TechCrunch
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
TechCrunch
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
VentureBeat
Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
TechCrunch
Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
