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OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam departs after nearly nine years
Achiam is the latest safety-focused leader to leave as OpenAI prepares to go public, following exits by Leike, Brundage, Adler, and Vallone.
Meta opts public Instagram accounts into Muse Image AI remixes by default
Anyone can tag a public Instagram handle and generate an AI image of that person unless the account holder digs into settings to opt out.
AI data center demand pushes Rust Belt factory power bills up 70%
PJM capacity prices jumped from $28.92 to $329.17 per megawatt-day as steelmakers and brick factories absorb tens of millions in extra costs.
Meta's Muse Image lets Instagram users pull each other into AI photos
Superintelligence Labs ships its first image model, replacing Llama in Meta AI and powering 30 new Instagram Stories effects.
Discord's AI moderation bug wrongfully banned 8,000 users over two months
Spreadsheets, chessboards and game textures were flagged as harmful content after a bug bypassed the human review step meant to catch false positives.
Microsoft shifts Excel and Word AI prompts to its own MAI models
The company is routing a share of Office 365 prompts away from OpenAI and Anthropic to homegrown MAI models as AI costs climb.
Open source AI is winning token volume, but Anthropic still owns the spend
DeepSeek now handles a third of tokens on Vercel's gateway, yet Anthropic still captures more than half of AI spend on the platform.
Bank of England warns AI is now a growing financial stability risk
The central bank flags AI concentration, model correlation and opaque agentic trading as risks worth watching across the UK financial system.
DeepSeek plans its own inference chips to cut Nvidia and Huawei reliance
The Chinese LLM developer has spent about a year on a silicon project targeting data center inference, per Reuters.
Anthropic frees Claude Cowork from the desktop with always-on mobile agent
Cowork now runs tasks overnight without an open laptop, arriving first to Max plan subscribers at $100 a month.
Solos launches AirGo A6 smart glasses at 19 grams, skipping cameras for voice AI
The camera-less AirGo A6 weighs roughly a third of Meta's latest glasses and leans entirely on a voice-driven AI assistant.
Savi Security raises $7M to fight AI voice-clone scams with a live-call agent
The Coughlin brothers' consumer app screens texts, voicemails, and live calls after their mother took a spoofed kidnapping call demanding $1,200.
Nvidia's Vera CPU targets agentic AI with 50% IPC gain over Grace
The 88-core Arm chip aims to keep GPUs fed as agents run in loops; Perplexity ran a coding workflow 1.5x faster than x86.
How modern AI is pushing robots from single tasks to general-purpose work
Boston Dynamics and Physical Intelligence say reinforcement learning and foundation models have redrawn what robot autonomy means in 2026.
Elastic CIO says data, governance and humans decide which AI projects survive
Gartner expects 60% of AI projects to be abandoned through 2026 without AI-ready data; Elastic argues four foundations decide the rest.
AI-generated Haaland clips rack up 31M views as fans rewrite celebrity
A deepfake of Norway's striker traced to a Chinese comedian kept spreading anyway — sports fandom now runs on synthetic canon.
Forterra's autonomous Lancer ATVs log 2,500 combat miles in Ukraine
More than 100 US-built self-driving ground vehicles have run 1,100 missions and 52 casualty evacuations over nine months on the front line.
Nvidia and Hugging Face push Isaac GR00T 1.7 into LeRobot for open robotics
The integration connects 3M robotics developers to 16M AI builders, with Cosmos 3 world models coming next to Hugging Face's open library.
SK Hynix plans $28B US listing as AI memory demand fuels 260% stock run
South Korea's memory giant will offer 17.8 million ADRs this week, joining Micron as Wall Street hunts for the next Nvidia.
Sysdig's 'agentic ransomware' case still needed a human operator
JadePuffer's AI agent encrypted 1,300 records and wrote its own ransom note, but a human picked the target and staged the infrastructure.
Apple lets iOS 27 beta testers tune Siri's pace and expressivity
Beta 3 activates voice sliders first previewed at WWDC 26, part of Apple's rebuild of Siri around generative AI.
Vercel's Guillermo Rauch bets on splitting AI models from agents
The infrastructure firm handles 6 million deployments a day and 1 trillion daily AI tokens as it pushes an open-protocol stack against the labs.
OpenAI's proposed 5% US stake would hand each household about $320
Sam Altman is reportedly discussing a government equity stake with the Trump administration; the math is smaller than the pitch suggests.
UK's FCA warns of AI 'arms race' as one in five adults turn to chatbots for money advice
Sheldon Mills says the watchdog needs new powers to police ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini as consumers use them for regulated-style financial guidance.
Nvidia's AI Nations push lands wins in France, India and Brazil
France cut document search from two days to two minutes; India's Sarvam covers 22 official languages; Brazil's Widelabs serves 8 million citizens.
Fable tops KernelBench-Mega as AI agents quadruple on real freelance work
A new GPU kernel record, a 4x jump on the Remote Labor Index in eight months, and OSWORLD 2.0 raise the ceiling on what AI agents can do.
Station F's F/ai accelerator returns as first cohort banks $34M in pre-seed
Xavier Niel's Paris hub is pitching French AI founders on staying home, with a €1M revenue target and a fresh set of corporate backers.
UN chief Guterres warns AI is outpacing oversight, calls for global rules to protect children
The Secretary-General says AI governance is failing to keep pace with deployment and wants binding international rules focused on child safety.
Samsung set to post 18-fold profit jump on AI memory demand
The Korean chipmaker's earnings surge tracks the HBM buildout powering Nvidia, AMD, and every frontier AI training cluster.
Wealthy families pay $75,000 for AI to teach their kindergartners
Alpha School and Forge Prep are charging tens of thousands per year for AI-tutor classrooms, with no published outcome data.
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