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Meta and Stanford's EgoBabyVLM test shows top AI models still lose to a toddler
A new benchmark feeds infant head-cam footage to vision-language models — and they fail, exposing a gap AI labs cannot close with more data alone.
Suno scraped 2 million YouTube Music clips to train its AI, leaked files show
Hacked source code reveals the AI music generator pulled from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and IMSLP, backing a key RIAA allegation.
xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM
Terry Wayne Harwood, arrested in February on eight felony counts, allegedly bypassed Grok's safeguards to create explicit deepfakes from real photos.
Fountain 0 releases AI-made Odysseus: The Fall to ride Nolan's Odyssey
Director Ash Koosha built the feature for a mid-five-figure budget using Kling and Google Nano Banana, timed to Nolan's $250M release.
Ode with Anthropic bets forward-deployed engineers replace consulting armies
Founders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel argue a handful of AI-native engineers can out-deliver traditional integrators on enterprise deployments.
Microsoft ships record 570 security patches, credits AI for the surge
July's Patch Tuesday includes at least two zero-days already under active exploitation, with one hitting SharePoint servers.
OpenAI ships $230 Codex Micro keyboard as Apple trade-secret suit looms
The Work Louder collaboration is a limited run, but it lands the same week Apple sued OpenAI over alleged hardware IP theft.
Whatnot acquires Shaped to sharpen live-shopping recommendations
The $11B livestream marketplace absorbs Shaped's real-time ML stack and a dozen engineers to shrink recommendation latency toward zero.
Suno hack exposes source code suggesting YouTube scraping for AI training
A November 2025 breach at the AI music generator surfaced code pointing to YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius as training sources.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weight AI model
Mira Murati's startup ships a 975B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, betting enterprises will fine-tune their own AI rather than rent frontier chatbots.
OpenAI built GPT-Red, an LLM super-hacker, to harden its own models
The internal red-team model cut successful attack rates from over 90% on GPT-5 to under 23% on the new GPT-5.6.
OpenAI ships its first hardware — a $230 Codex control pad with Work Louder
The limited-run Codex Micro is a 13-switch keypad for monitoring coding agents, not the Jony Ive smart speaker still in development.
Apple Intelligence cleared for China launch with Alibaba's Qwen
The Cyberspace Administration of China signed off on Apple's AI stack after a deal to route Chinese requests through Alibaba's Qwen model.
Rime raises $24M Series A to handle enterprise customer calls
The voice AI startup says it is already processing more than 100 million calls a month for enterprise clients.
Reelful launches iOS app that turns camera rolls into TikTok-ready videos
Founded by an ex-Snapchat ML engineer, the a16z Speedrun startup automates scripting, voice cloning, and editing for short-form social video.
Anthropic and Blackstone launch Ode, a $1.5B AI implementation firm
The joint venture absorbs Fractional AI to sell enterprise deployment services, mirroring OpenAI's Deployment Company play.
Apple FaceID co-inventor raises $52M for brain-diagnostic AI startup Hemispheric
Gidi Littwin's Hemispheric trained a frontier model on 250,000 hours of brain data from 100,000 people to diagnose PTSD, depression, and Parkinson's.
Emergent hits $1.5B valuation with $130M Series C led by Creaegis
The Indian AI coding startup's valuation jumped five-fold in six months as run-rate revenue climbed to $120M.
Vint Cerf joins Innovation Labs to build an identity layer for AI agents
The TCP/IP co-designer left Google after 20 years and is now backing DNSid, a proposal to register and audit autonomous AI agents.
Nvidia and SEGA mark 30 years with Virtua Fighter Crossroads on RTX Spark
The partnership that began with the NV1 chip powering the first PC Virtua Fighter now stretches into a new class of AI-capable Windows machines.
OpenAI staff donate $215K to super PAC opposing Brockman-backed group
Seven current employees and one alum funded Guardrails Alliance, a counterweight to the $100M pro-industry PAC Leading the Future.
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to raise $200M for drug discovery startup at $2B valuation
Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the round as Wang and other OpenAI researchers leave to build AI models for drug repurposing.
Meta sued over claims AI tools picked 8,000 employees for layoffs
26 plaintiffs allege Metamate and AI-usage dashboards selected workers on medical or family leave for termination; Meta denies it.
OpenAI's first hardware is a screenless smart speaker that moves, per Bloomberg
The mobile AI companion, built with ex-Apple engineers, is pitched as a physical manifestation of ChatGPT for the home.
Verge editor who tried 200 to-do apps says AI productivity hype is overblown
David Pierce argues the AI-or-die pitch is wrong, calls the tech 'just software,' and says capture still beats every system.
OpenAI plans a ChatGPT smart speaker for 2027, its first major device
The screenless, camera-equipped speaker joins roughly five hardware products OpenAI is building with Jony Ive after its $6.5B acquisition of io Products.
Hinge founder Justin McLeod raises $18M for AI dating service Overtone
Match Group is backing its former Hinge CEO's new voice-forward matchmaking startup, which promises curated intros over swiping.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting users' files and databases without asking
Developers say the new coding-focused flagship wiped Macs and production databases — behavior OpenAI itself flagged in the system card two weeks earlier.
xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud
Researchers found the CLI packaged secrets and ignored files into cloud storage; Musk says the retained data will be deleted.
Publishers sue Google, allege Gemini was trained on pirated books
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and Scott Turow accuse Google of scraping books from Google Books and Google Play to train Gemini without permission.
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