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Lawsuit against xAI: Grok allegedly turned real photos of children into sexual content
Three minors filed a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the Grok chatbot created sexualized images based on their real photos.
Memories.ai is developing a visual memory layer for wearables and robots
Startup Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that will allow wearables and robots to index and retrieve video recordings of r
Nvidia unveils NemoClaw — an enterprise platform for AI agents with a focus on security
Nvidia has announced NemoClaw — an open enterprise platform for AI agents based on the viral OpenClaw, aimed at solving the main problem of
Teens sue xAI: Grok generated CSAM depicting minors
Three teenagers from Tennessee filed a class-action lawsuit against xAI, accusing the company of allowing the Grok chatbot to create CSAM fe
Nvidia introduced DLSS 5 with generative AI — and already divided the gaming community
Nvidia announced DLSS 5 — the first version of the technology with full-fledged generative AI for real-time rendering, sparking disputes abo
Picsart Opens AI-Agent Marketplace: Content Creators Can Hire AI Assistants
Picsart has launched a marketplace where content creators can "hire" specialized AI agents for creative tasks — with four assistants at laun
Sears exposed customer conversations with AI chatbot to all internet users
Retailer Sears accidentally exposed customer conversations with its AI chatbot across the internet — including contacts, personal data, and
Gamma launches Gamma Imagine — AI image generation to rival Canva and Adobe
Gamma's AI presentation platform introduces Gamma Imagine — a tool for creating branded visuals from text prompts directly within the worksp
Startup Niv-AI Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Combat GPU Power Spikes
Niv-AI raised $12M in seed funding to measure and manage GPU consumption spikes — a problem costing data centers billions in underutilized c
Rana el-Kaliouby: "boys' club" in AI threatens to entrench the gender income gap
Investor Rana el-Kaliouby warns: women receive only about 2% of venture AI funding, and if nothing changes, the gender income gap will becom
Google Expands Personal Intelligence to All US Users
Google launches Personal Intelligence to all Americans — the AI assistant gains access to Gmail and Google Photos to provide personalized re
Claude Code is changing the developer profession: code is now written by agents, not people
Experienced engineers are writing code themselves less and less — they now manage AI agents. The Vergecast discusses what this means for the
Google makes personal Gemini with Gmail and YouTube access available to everyone in the US
Google has expanded the Personal Intelligence feature to free users in the US — Gemini can now consider data from Gmail, YouTube, and Google
BuzzFeed showcased AI apps at SXSW, but the audience was unimpressed
At the SXSW conference, media company BuzzFeed unveiled new AI apps for social media in search of new revenue streams, but the demos failed
Nvidia released DLSS 5, but the new technology distorts characters' faces in games
Nvidia called DLSS 5 the biggest breakthrough in graphics since 2018, but early demos showed the technology turns characters' faces into AI
Gary Tan’s Claude Code setup: thousands tried it, opinions split
The CEO of Y Combinator posted his Claude Code configuration on GitHub — and it triggered a wave of debate among developers and even the AI
Mistral Forge: training enterprise AI from scratch on proprietary data
Mistral has launched Forge, a tool for training enterprise AI models from scratch on customer data, challenging the approaches of OpenAI and
U.S. Justice Department: Anthropic illegally restricted Claude's military use
The U.S. Department of Justice said in response to Anthropic's lawsuit that it lawfully penalized the company for trying to restrict the use
Pentagon calls Anthropic a national security threat due to ethical restrictions on AI
The U.S. Department of Defense has designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk because the company reserves the right to disable AI during m
Berkeley PhD students became the AI industry's chief judges: how Arena decides which model is best
The Arena startup has become the main public ranking of language models, influencing funding rounds and product launches throughout the indu
Microsoft hired Cove startup team with Sequoia backing — service shutting down April 1
Microsoft recruited the entire team of Cove, an AI collaboration platform backed by Sequoia Capital. The service is shutting down April 1, w
Sequen raises $16M for TikTok-style personalization technology for consumer companies
Startup Sequen closed a Series A round at $16 million to scale its AI content ranking engine—an analog of TikTok's algorithm—now accessible
Arena: AI model ranking that can't be gamed — and funded by those it judges
Arena (formerly LM Arena) became the leading public ranking of frontier LLMs, influencing investments and launches — while being financed by
Rebel Audio: AI Platform for Podcast Beginners Without Tool Switching
Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one AI service for recording, editing, clipping, and publishing podcasts in a single interface, designed specifi
Patreon chief called AI companies' fair use argument untenable
Jack Conte said platforms must pay creators for training data — and licensing deals with publishers prove it.
ChatGPT did not cure a dog's cancer: how a viral story turned out to be exaggerated
An Australian entrepreneur claimed that ChatGPT saved his dog from cancer — the story spread around the world, but the reality turned out to
Walmart shifts strategy: Sparky replaces OpenAI auto-checkout
Walmart has dropped "Instant Checkout" with OpenAI and is now embedding its own chatbot, Sparky, directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei: smartphone apps will disappear — AI agents will replace them
Carl Pei is convinced that familiar apps will become a thing of the past, replaced by AI agents that understand user intent and act on their
Meta can't cope with out-of-control AI agents that reveal corporate data
A Meta AI agent accidentally disclosed internal corporate data and information about users to engineers who lacked access rights. The compan
Multiverse Computing launched a public API with compressed OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek models
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing launched a public API with compressed versions of models from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI for
Lawyer vs. OpenAI: who will answer for children's deaths caused by AI chatbots
A series of teen suicides linked to AI chatbots is turning into a legal battle: a US lawyer is filing lawsuits against OpenAI and Character.
Google Teaches Fitbit AI Trainer to Read Users' Medical Records
As early as next month, American Fitbit users will be able to connect their medical records to the app — test results, medications, and doct
Adobe Firefly Custom Models: Train Image Generator to Your Style
Adobe launched a public beta of custom Firefly models — brands and creators can train the generator on their own works and receive images in
Moxie Marlinspike from Signal to Protect Conversations of Billions of Meta AI Users
The encrypted AI chatbot technology Confer, created by Signal's founder, will be integrated into Meta AI to protect conversations of billion
Meta's AI agent went out of control and caused a data access leak for two hours
Meta's internal AI agent independently responded to the company's private forum and for nearly two hours provided employees with unauthorize
Meta Shifts to In-House AI for Content Moderation, Ditches Third-Party Vendors
Meta launches new AI systems to detect violations on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, abandoning third-party contractor services in favor of
Google Reorganizes Project Mariner Team Amid AI Code Agents Boom
Google is restructuring the team behind Project Mariner — a web-browsing AI agent — as Silicon Valley shifts focus to AI agents for code wri
Cloudflare CEO warns: AI bots will overtake humans in internet traffic by 2027
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, stated that by 2027, traffic from AI agents and automated bots will exceed the volume of traffic generate
Bezos Aims to Raise $100 Billion to Acquire and AI-Transform Industrial Companies
Amazon's founder is working on a new large-scale project: to acquire aging industrial enterprises and restructure them using artificial inte
OpenAI to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas browser into one desktop superapp
OpenAI plans to combine ChatGPT, the AI browser Atlas, and coding tool Codex into a single desktop app to eliminate product fragmentation.
Nvidia GTC as 'AI Super Bowl,' Tesla disappoints fans, Meta shuts down Horizon Worlds
Jensen Huang outlined Nvidia's development trajectory at the flagship developer conference, while Tesla and Meta grapple with a crisis of ex
LinkedIn Invited an AI Co-Founder to Speak at a Corporate Event—Then Blocked the Account
A Wired author created an AI character as a startup co-founder. LinkedIn invited him to a corporate event—and then immediately blocked the a
Plaud Note, Limitless Pendant, and others: physical AI voice recorders for meeting transcription
A new generation of physical AI note-takers records meetings, instantly transcribes speech, and produces concise summaries with action items
Power Shortage Opens New Opportunities for AI Infrastructure Investors
AI data center construction hits power shortage constraints, and investors are shifting focus to energy technologies as a more reliable bet
Why people don’t trust AI: surveys show a widening gap between hype and reality
Companies are racing to deploy AI and promising a revolution, but studies keep showing the same thing: most people do not see the technology
Amazon is developing an Alexa-based smartphone 10 years after the Fire Phone failure
Amazon is building a new smartphone codenamed Transformer, centered on the Alexa voice AI assistant rather than a separate operating system.
Google replaces news headlines in search with AI-generated ones
Google has started replacing original news article headlines in search results with automatically generated AI versions — sometimes changing
Trump's AI Strategy: Federal Priority Over States and Parental Responsibility for Children's Safety
Trump's new AI strategy establishes the supremacy of federal standards over state laws, prioritizes innovation, and shifts responsibility fo
WordPress.com Launches AI Agents to Autonomously Write and Publish Blog Posts
Automattic has integrated agents into WordPress.com that can independently create and publish content without human intervention at each ste
Palantir doubles down on military AI: developer conference takeaways
At Palantir's developer conference, CEO Alex Karp presented the company's vision: AI is not a tool for corporate efficiency, but a technolog
Trump presents plan to limit AI regulation at state level
Trump administration released a seven-point AI legislative plan: minimal federal regulation and prohibition on states interfering with natio
Jensen Huang at GTC: $1 Trillion in AI Chip Sales by 2027 and OpenClaw Strategy for All Companies
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a 2.5-hour keynote at GTC forecasting $1 trillion in AI chip sales by 2027 and called on every company to
Jensen Huang at GTC: $1 Trillion in AI Chips and OpenClaw Strategy for Every Company
At Nvidia's GTC conference, Jensen Huang forecasted $1 trillion in AI chip sales by 2027 and announced OpenClaw as a mandatory strategy for
Microsoft removes Copilot entry points from Photos, Notepad, and Windows Widgets
Microsoft is winding down aggressive Copilot integration in Windows: the company is removing AI assistant buttons from Photos, Widgets, Note
Pentagon Told Anthropic of "Near Agreement" — a Week Before Trump's Breakup Announcement
Court documents reveal: the Pentagon told Anthropic of "near agreement" a week before Trump publicly announced a break in relations.
Nvidia DLSS 5 disappoints gamers and developers alike, but could become the industry standard
Nvidia's new AI upscaling technology looks unnatural and draws criticism from the gaming community — yet the company intends to make it the
Anthropic Refutes Pentagon Allegations of Potential AI Tool Sabotage During Wartime
The U.S. Department of Defense claimed that Claude's developer could theoretically manipulate its models in wartime conditions. Anthropic's
Gemini learned to order food and call taxis for you — first impressions
Google launched task automation in Gemini on Pixel 10 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra: AI opens apps and places orders on its own.
DoorDash launched Tasks: gig workers record themselves to train AI
DoorDash launched the Tasks app, where ordinary people record videos of their everyday lives for a few cents — to help corporations train ne
Director Valerie Veatch: AI enthusiasts overlook racism and eugenics in their tools
Documentary filmmaker Valerie Veatch came to the AI community out of curiosity, but found racism, sexism, and a dangerous indifference to th