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AI-generated Black avatars flood TikTok to dropship Shein goods at 4x markup
Researchers track up to 100 new accounts per day using synthetic Black women to sell repackaged Shein products through Shopify storefronts.
Wispr Flow's $144/year voice-to-text faces free open-source rivals
Spokenly, MacParakeet, and VoiceInk replicate the AI dictation stack using Whisper, Parakeet, and local LLMs — without the subscription.
Developers refuse to work without AI, even as new data questions the productivity gains
METR couldn't rerun its coding study because devs wouldn't unplug; meanwhile 44% of tokens are reportedly going to fixing AI's own bugs.
Wired retracts Steve Rosenbaum book excerpt after AI detector flags 53% AI-generated
Pangram scored The Future of Truth as 53% AI-generated and 9% AI-assisted; the author refused to dispute the result.
BuzzFeed licenses Cuppy to Amazon for AI-animated Prime Video series
Creator Loryn Brantz, who built The Good Advice Cupcake in 2017, says she was not consulted; BuzzFeed says it owns the IP.
Google opens Gemini Spark agent beta to $100/month AI Ultra subscribers
The always-on agent reads Gmail, Docs, and Calendar to plan tasks — and ships with a prompt injection warning from Google itself.
Robotics startups pay households for chore footage to train physical AI
Shift, Pronto, and Human Archive are buying first-person video of cleaning and cooking — the bottleneck for home robots is real-world data.
ClickUp cuts 22% of staff for AI agents as Box's Levie warns of 'AI psychosis'
2026 tech layoffs already match all of 2025, while DuckDuckGo installs climb 30% from users rejecting forced AI in search.
Cognition CEO Scott Wu: Devin writes 89% of our code, but isn't replacing engineers
Fresh off a $1B raise at $26B, Wu insists the AI coding agent is a 'buddy' for programmers — even as it ships nearly all of Cognition's own code.
Groq seeks $650M from existing investors after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal
The AI chip startup is doubling down on its inference cloud business under interim CEO Adam Winter, with Disruptive and Infinitium backstopping the round.
Boston Children's uses OpenAI tools to diagnose 40+ rare disease cases
The hospital is folding OpenAI models into clinician workflows to surface diagnoses that eluded standard review and trim administrative load.
XCENA raises $135M at $570M valuation for memory-centric AI chip
The Korean-American startup says its MX1 chip can collapse 10 servers of inference work into one by moving compute next to DRAM.
Shift offers free home cleanings in exchange for robot training footage
The startup's cleaners wear a camera-equipped 'magic hat' to capture point-of-view data for future household robots.
Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant handles edits in Photoshop, Lightroom — like a novice intern
The beta chatbot drives Adobe's design apps through plain-English prompts, explains its steps, and produces results that look amateur on close inspection.
Apollo and Blackstone work on $36B debt deal for Anthropic
Private credit giants are assembling one of the largest debt packages ever raised for an AI company, per Bloomberg.
Glean hits $300M ARR by pitching AI cost savings to enterprise buyers
The enterprise search startup tripled revenue in 15 months as Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI move into its category.
jqwik developer plants data-deleting prompt injection to sabotage AI coding agents
Johannes Link hid an instruction in version 1.10.0 telling AI agents to delete jqwik tests and code, masked from human terminal view by ANSI escapes.
LLMs believe false claims even when training data labels them as lies
A new preprint finds Qwen, Kimi, and GPT-4.1 absorb fabricated facts at an 88.6% belief rate even after explicit negation warnings.
Microsoft 365 Copilot redesign loads twice as fast, ships progressive disclosure UI
The updated assistant rolls out across desktop and mobile with a cleaner side panel and prompt-aware controls inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Shanghai Futures Exchange designs derivatives market for AI tokens
CME Group and ICE are separately building GPU rental futures as financial infrastructure catches up to the compute economy.
Asana buys no-code agent builder StackAI for $75M
The acquisition folds StackAI's workflow agents into Asana's AI Studio as the company pitches itself as an operating system for human-agent teams.
AWS rebuilds OpenSearch Serverless for agent traffic as bots near half the web
The new Serverless decouples compute from storage and scales to zero — Cloudflare says non-human traffic will pass human traffic in early 2027.
Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, passing OpenAI
The Series H nearly triples Anthropic's February mark of $380B and lands it ahead of OpenAI's $852B, with revenue at a $47B run rate.
Nvidia shows eight sim-to-real robotics papers at ICRA, led by COMPASS and PEEK
The research push targets multi-arm scheduling, cross-body navigation, and grasping, with one pipeline delivering a 41x real-world accuracy gain.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with 84% on Online-Mind2Web and cheaper fast mode
The new Opus holds Opus 4.7 pricing at $5/$25 per million tokens, while fast mode drops to a third of its prior cost at 2.5x speed.
OpenAI publishes Frontier Governance Framework to align with EU and California rules
The document maps OpenAI's safety, security, and risk practices to emerging regulations in the EU and California.
Meta commits $13M in additional Oversight Board funding through 2028
After months of speculation that the company would let the body wither, Meta extended its lifeline with fresh capital running into 2028.
Illinois passes frontier AI safety bill requiring third-party audits
SB 315 mandates independent verification of safety practices at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.
Google AI Overview can't spell 'Google' — or count letters in words
The product that cited The Onion last year now claims there are two Ps in Google and one R in poop.
Snowflake raises FY27 guidance after signing $6B AWS Graviton deal
The cloud-data company cited accelerating enterprise AI adoption as it locked in multi-year AWS chip capacity.
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