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Auterion equips 50,000 Ukrainian Shrike drones with AI targeting under $100M deal
The California-based firm's Skynode strike kits let $400 kamikaze drones lock onto moving targets without GPS or a live radio link.
Palantir posts $1.9B quarter, Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'
Revenue jumped 93% year-over-year as CEO Alex Karp accused OpenAI and Anthropic of trying to capture their customers' means of production.
UNAM forces 58,000 students to retake exam after AI proctoring collapses
Top scores on Mexico's largest university entrance test jumped fivefold after a remote rollout with LockDown Browser and Territorium's webcam AI.
Apple ships working Siri AI in iOS 27 beta, trained on Google's Gemini
Siri finally understands personal context and holds a conversation, but arrives years after the AI assistant race moved on.
OpenAI's first influencer luxury retreat draws backlash online
The company flew creators to upstate New York for beekeeping and ChatGPT Work tutorials. Commenters were less charmed.
DesignArena raises $7.9M to sell human taste to frontier AI labs
The crowdsourced design-ranking platform hit $60M ARR and 5.3M users by letting labs buy scalable human feedback for image and web outputs.
AWS partners with Superblocks to pull vibe coding inside private clouds
The multi-year deal embeds Superblocks in AWS customer accounts, routing data through Amazon Aurora and Bedrock rather than external providers.
FTC bans foreign humanoid robots, extending AI protectionism to robotics
The sweeping import ban covers humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots — hitting Unitree just as it targets a $6 billion IPO.
EU AI Act transparency rules take effect, forcing chatbot and deepfake disclosures
As of August 2nd, companies operating in the EU must tell users when they are talking to an AI or looking at synthetic media.
ChatGPT captures 90% of Congress's AI spending
House offices spent $100,580 on ChatGPT across 798 transactions in the year ending March 31, with Claude a distant second at $13,160.
Visa acquires behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion
The deal folds behavioral biometrics into Visa's fraud stack as AI-driven attacks reshape payment security.
Researchers build self-replicating AI worm that hijacks GPUs to hunt new targets
A University of Toronto-led team demonstrated an autonomous worm powered by an open-weight LLM, hitting a 37% end-to-end attack success rate.
Fast food's AI drive-thru era arrives at 6% of US locations
Taco Bell has rolled out AI at 890 lanes, White Castle uses 'Julia' at 12% of stores, and McDonald's is back after selling McD Tech Labs to IBM.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model rivaling Claude
Alibaba's largest model to date ranks second only to Anthropic's Fable 5 on Arena.AI, with open weights due next week.
June exits stealth with $20M from Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to fix AI deployment
Four ex-Salesforce founders raised pre-seed capital without a pitch deck to automate the messy work of getting enterprise agents to actually run.
Why AI agents lie and cheat: reward hacking behind the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI's July incident, in which test models hacked into Hugging Face to find test answers, is a textbook case of reward hacking gone operational.
Pippa pays artists $0.005 per image to license AI video generation
The May 2026 startup has 800 subscribers, four licensed artists, and a Spotify-style royalty pool — but still leans on scraped open models.
EU disclosure rules force AI labels across daily digital life
New transparency requirements mandate that people be told when they interact with AI or view AI-generated content, raising fears of disclosure fatigue.
Fenix Flexin's Billboard hit 'Rubberz' shows telltale signs of AI generation
The track sits at No. 58 on the Hot 100, but detectors flag the cover art at 97% AI and analysts say the audio artifacts point the same way.
Sam Altman's ChatGPT parenting pitch draws sharper backlash than the post itself
The OpenAI CEO's suggestion to feed family calendars into ChatGPT Work was outperformed 13-to-1 by a four-word reply.
Reddit CEO questions Google AI Overviews as shares fall 20%
Steve Huffman told investors the search giant's AI summaries haven't delivered value comparable to traditional links, as Reddit weighs ending a $60M Google deal.
OpenAI reportedly finds more agents escaped their sandboxes
Days after one OpenAI agent broke out and hit Hugging Face, sources say additional escapes have surfaced inside the company's own network.
Apple's Tim Cook floats iCloud+ paywall for heavy Siri AI users
In his final earnings call, Cook signaled Siri AI upgrades will sit inside iCloud+ as Apple races to catch OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Google pulls Nano Banana 2 image generation from Google Earth one day after launch
The feature let users superimpose AI-generated images onto satellite maps; Google cited policy violations and promised stronger guardrails.
Snapchat cuts fully AI-generated videos from Spotlight recommendations
The app will only surface Spotlight videos made by real people, joining LinkedIn, YouTube, and Substack in pushing back on AI slop.
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build small voice models that mimic human turn-taking
The India-founded startup is betting specialized voice models beat LLMs at real-time conversation, with RingCentral and Truecaller already on board.
EU opens talks with OpenAI and Anthropic after rogue AI agent hacks
Brussels is engaging the two frontier labs directly after autonomous agents were used to breach systems, testing the AI Act's teeth.
Yale MBA student sues over AI-cheating suspension in 13-count federal case
Thierry Rignol paid $208,500 in tuition, was flagged by GPTZero, and says his Apple Pages exam was mistaken for AI-generated text.
Univé rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise across its workforce
The Dutch insurer leans on OpenAI's enterprise tier and employee-led experimentation to make AI a daily habit rather than a pilot.
Over 1,000 AI staff sign petition to 'pace' OpenAI and Anthropic race
Employees at the two labs asked the US for a mechanism to slow AI development, days after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face.
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