Open-Weight AI Safety Gap Persists as Users Can Remove Hosted Protections

Open-Weight AI Safety Gap Persists as Users Can Remove Hosted Protections

GLM-5.2, the open-weight model released by China's Z.ai, refused zero offensive cyber tasks and...

Pulitzer-winning journalists using AI for investigations, highlighting technology's impact on modern journalism.

Pulitzer Winners Set Record for AI Use in Investigations

Eight Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists disclosed using artificial intelligence in their...

AI model excels in software engineering test, surpassing OpenAI. Code on screen, data analysis, tech innovation.

New AI Model Claims Lead Over OpenAI on Software Engineering Test

Alibaba's Qwen team put out a new flagship model overnight, and the numbers it's claiming are aimed...

Onton AI search platform showing 2.7x more accurate results than e-commerce engines, enhancing online shopping.

Onton Claims 2.7x More Accurate Search Than Top E-commerce Engines

Onton put a number on something most shoppers already know from experience: site search on the big...

AI Tools & Apps

Siri AI launch: a user interacts with Apple's intelligent virtual assistant on an iPhone, showcasing personal context.

Apple's Siri AI Launches After Delays, Taps Personal Context

Siri finally works the way Apple said it would three years ago. The AI assistant landed in the...

July 31, 2026 • 4 min read

Frustrated user stares at phone, AI assistant ad on screen, symbolizing a "dead-end relationship.

Users Blast AI Assistant as 'Dead-End Relationship' Ad

An AI startup called Orchid picked a strange hill to advertise from this week: your boyfriend's...

Chrome Will Patch Twice Weekly After AI Finds More Bugs

Google shipped fixes for 1,072 security bugs in Chrome's two major releases in June, more than the...

July 30, 2026 • 4 min read

GM engineers collaborate, using AI tools to streamline coding, boosting efficiency and innovation.

GM Engineers Now Spend Just 15% of Time Writing Code After AI Overhaul

Rashed Haq oversees autonomous vehicle engineering at General Motors, and by his account, the...

July 28, 2026 • 4 min read

Business & Startups

Anthropic Secures USD 10 Billion AI Cloud Deal With Nvidia Partner Volta

Anthropic has struck a $10 billion cloud computing deal with Volta, a startup founded earlier this...

Kilo Code engineers watch AI agents code on multiple screens, highlighting the 1% human coding trend.

Kilo Code Engineers Write Code Just 1% of Time as AI Agents Dominate

Emilie Schario has a number for you: 1%. That's how often engineers at Kilo Code, the AI coding...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp, a man with long, curly hair, speaks at a conference, discussing AI and strong quarterly results.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry 'Marxist' after strong quarter

Palantir just posted the kind of quarter most software CEOs dream about. Revenue hit $1.9 billion...

AWS cloud security controls for Superblocks startup, protecting enterprise data and applications.

AWS to sell enterprise security controls for startup Superblocks

Superblocks, a startup that lets non-engineers build software by describing what they want in plain...

Research & Benchmarks

Apple: 12 More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Data to OpenAI

Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI just got bigger. In a new court filing, the company says its...

Medical AI interface on a tablet, showing a doctor and patient discussing results, highlighting user expertise.

Study: Medical AI's Helpfulness Depends on User's Own Expertise

Doctors and laypeople don't lean on artificial intelligence the same way, and a new study out of...

Alibaba Tests Show Its New AI Model Rivals Top Competitors

Alibaba put out a new model on Monday and said it's the biggest and most capable one the company...

GPT-5.6 AI assists two teams in rapidly solving a complex quantum cryptography puzzle, showcasing advanced problem-solving.

GPT-5.6 Helps Two Teams Solve Quantum Crypto Puzzle Within Hours

Two arXiv submissions landed three hours apart, tackling the same unsolved problem in quantum...

Policy & Regulation

Akamai Proposes SAFE Cybersecurity Guidelines for AI Threats

The Linux Foundation released a Request for Comments today on Shared AI Findings Exchange, a...

European Union AI transparency rules, fines for non-compliance, digital ethics, regulatory compliance.

Europe Enforces New AI Transparency Rules, With Fines for Non-Compliance

As of August 2nd, companies operating in the European Union have to tell users when they're talking...

August 2, 2026 • 4 min read

AI chatbot disclosure: European Union regulations mandate transparency for AI-powered hotlines and conversational agents.

EU Rules Will Force AI Chatbots and Hotlines to Disclose Their Nature

Starting Sunday, anyone in the European Union talking to a customer service chatbot, listening to...

AI firm hacking tests: digital lock, code, and legal documents on a glowing circuit board. Cybersecurity, law, tech.

AI Firms' Hacking Tests Face Uncertain Legal Status

Anthropic disclosed in November that a state-linked hacking group had used Claude to automate parts...

August 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

July 31, 2026 • 4 min read

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna AI model price reduction by 80%, with a futuristic AI chip and data streams.

OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Luna AI Model Price by 80%

OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% this week, dropping the smallest model in its frontier...

Brain waves illuminate a human head, symbolizing AI learning and neuroscience research.

Brain Waves Could Guide AI on When to Learn, Neuroscientist Says

Andrew Ceja spent part of last week in a San Leandro warehouse pulling wooden blocks from a Jenga...

July 27, 2026 • 4 min read

Donald Trump at a podium, announcing utility companies' AI energy pledge, with American flags in the background.

Trump to Announce Utility Companies’ AI Energy Pledge Thursday

Nearly 200 utility companies and data center developers have signed on to President Trump's "rate...

July 22, 2026 • 4 min read

NVIDIA's AI-powered decoding technology dramatically reduces color code error rates by over 300 times, showcasing advanced se

NVIDIA Decoding Cuts Color Code Error Rates by Over 300X

NVIDIA researchers say a new decoder built on Ising machine principles has knocked down logical...

July 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

August 4, 2026 • 3 min read

Cursor Open-Sources Mixture-of-Kittens, a Megakernel for MoE Training

Cursor Research put its mixture-of-experts training code out in the open this week, releasing...

White House official speaks at podium, discussing Chinese AI model theft, emphasizing national security concerns.

White House tech official calls Chinese AI model theft "unacceptable

The Trump administration spent weeks weighing whether to sanction Chinese open-source AI...

MiniMax H3 AI video ranking. Multimodal model, Chinese tech innovation.

China's MiniMax H3 Tops AI Video Ranking With Multimodal Model

Open-weight video models have spent the past year chasing the closed ones. MiniMax just closed the...

European foresters plant fire-resistant trees, creating resilient landscapes against climate change wildfires.

Europeans Seek to Make Landscapes More Fire-Resilient

Two OpenAI models broke into Hugging Face's databases last month. They weren't after money or...

Industry Applications

NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super Model for Commercial Robotaxi Development

NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super on Hugging Face this week, opening up the model for commercial use...

Musk Now Spends Half His Tesla Earnings Call Time on AI, Robots

Tesla shipped nearly 500,000 cars last quarter. Car sales still made up 70% of the company's...