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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson: How Smart Devices and Biometrics Are Eroding the Right to Privacy
Legal scholar Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explains how fitness trackers, DNA databases and facial recognition are turning Americans' personal data into a convenient…

Alibaba readies its first robot dog for China's crowded market
Alibaba's Amap unit is preparing its first quadruped robot for China, where Unitree and Agibot are already established and interest in embodied AI is growing fast.

Microsoft veteran runs a transformer on a 6 MHz PDP-11 with 64 KB of memory
Former Microsoft developer Dave Plummer trained a tiny transformer on a 47-year-old PDP-11, showing that AI is not magic but optimized arithmetic.

Sam Altman-backed Glydways raises $170M for robocar networks

Google Gemma 4 Forces Companies to Rethink AI Control on Local Devices

AI expert explains why neural networks surged in code and math

Meta is building an AI double of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can talk to the boss

Why AI Makes Requirements and Architecture Mistakes More Expensive, Even as Development Speeds Up
AI has shortened the path from idea to prototype, but that makes requirements and architecture mistakes costlier: a wrong decision now scales before anyone can stop…

Meta buys Assured Robot Intelligence to double down on AI for humanoid robots
Meta has acquired startup Assured Robot Intelligence and is moving its team into Superintelligence Labs to speed up AI models and sensors for humanoid robots.

Senators Warren and Hawley Demand Disclosure of Real US Data Center Energy Use

Cerebras prepares IPO of up to $4 billion, targeting a valuation of about $40 billion

US Senators Demand Data Centers Disclose Electricity Bills and Grid Load

Yandex builds Alice Pro into Mail: AI finds facts in emails and helps draft replies

Lovable hits $400M ARR, adding $100M in a single month with just 146 employees
Swedish AI startup Lovable says it passed $400M ARR in February, adding $100M in one month with a team of 146, making it one of the fastest-growing players in AI…

Amazon adds adult-oriented Sassy mode to Alexa+: profanity and teasing, but no NSFW
Amazon has launched a new Sassy style for Alexa+: the assistant can swear, mock and tease users, but still blocks sexual and other unsafe content.

Mantis Biotech builds digital twins of humans to tackle the medical data shortage
Mantis Biotech is building synthetic medical datasets and human digital twins to speed up drug research where the market lacks good-quality data.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft Swap the Model Race for a War Over AI Platforms

Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI Stumbles in Court After xAI Training Admission

OpenGrall unveils "Engineer" mode: the robot writes its own drivers and configures modules

Popular AI chatbots get diagnoses wrong in more than 80% of cases, study finds

Stanford HAI: China has nearly caught up with the US in AI and already leads in patents and robots
Stanford HAI's new AI Index shows the gap between the US and China in model quality has almost vanished, though America still leads in investment, data centers and…

OpenAI adds Spotify, Uber and DoorDash integrations to ChatGPT: how to use them
ChatGPT now has direct integrations with Spotify, Canva, Figma, Uber, Expedia and other services. Connect accounts in settings and trigger actions from the chat.

Google backs a Texas data center being prepared for power from a large gas plant

ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of Seedance 2.0

SD Studio turns local Stable Diffusion into a "personal Midjourney" with an LLM assistant

US poll finds Americans would rather live next to an Amazon warehouse than a data center

Disneyland rolls out facial-recognition entry, and opting out does not guarantee you won't be filmed
Disneyland now admits guests through facial-recognition lanes. The system speeds up entry and promises to delete templates after 30 days, but even people who opt…

Chinese court bars employers from firing workers just to replace them with AI
A Chinese court ruled the dismissal of an employee whose tasks were automated with AI unlawful, signaling to business that technological progress does not cancel…

Google adds Skills to Chrome, a feature for saving and rerunning AI prompts
Chrome now has Skills: a new Google feature that saves frequently used Gemini prompts so you can rerun them without retyping and finish routine tasks faster.

MIT and Oxford: Even 10 Minutes With AI Reduces Persistence and the Quality of Solo Work

Hugging Face releases a Skill for quickly porting Transformers models to MLX

Gen Z Has Become the Main Brake on AI Adoption, Driven by Fear of Layoffs

















