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Circleback opens a free tier to fend off Granola, Wispr and Calendly
The YC-backed notetaker is trading its $20.83 paywall for unlimited free transcription as the meeting-AI market crowds up.
Insurance claims adjusters are the workforce's biggest AI haters, Glassdoor finds
98% of adjuster reviews mentioning AI are negative as employment in the sector drops 21% year-over-year and entry-level postings fall by half.
Meta's Pocket turns text prompts into playable games — inside its walled garden
The vibe-coding app builds functional mobile games in about a minute per prompt, but creations can't leave Meta's platform.
Financial Stability Board flags AI-driven cyber risk as top threat to global finance
The FSB names AI-enabled cyberattacks as the leading near-term risk to global financial stability, ahead of traditional macro shocks.
US drone and robot curbs collide with China's 86% humanoid share
Washington tightened restrictions on Chinese drones and advanced robots this summer, but five Chinese firms shipped 86% of humanoids in H1 2026.
Caterpillar ports mining autonomy playbook to broader AI rollout
The industrial giant is spending $100M over five years to retrain 118,000 workers as it pushes AI from mines to construction sites.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over Claude training data
Publishers accuse the AI lab of pirating millions of books containing lyrics and sheet music, building on the $1.5B Bartz precedent.
OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ firms warn AI cyberattacks are months away
An open letter from over 100 companies calls for a 'collective response' but names no dollar figures, deadlines, or specific commitments.
EDM producers turn detective to expose AI-generated tracks flooding Suno
Max Harris and Nihil Young are calling out peers they suspect of passing off Suno output as human-made music.
Local LLMs go mainstream as Hugging Face crosses 3 million models
Free tools like LM Studio, Ollama, and Llama.cpp put private, offline chatbots on any modern PC — with tradeoffs on speed and RAM.
Lambda raises $1B in debt to buy Nvidia chips for Microsoft lease
The neocloud's third GPU-backed loan this year points to a debt-fueled AI infrastructure race now topping $400B globally.
JAMA paper argues autonomous AI will beat doctors on core tasks by 2030
Ezekiel Emanuel and Vinod Khosla say humans in the loop degrade AI performance across five fundamental medical tasks.
Meta patches AI glasses loophole that let users hide recording light
The fix closes a bypass that let wearers cover the LED mid-recording, as EU regulators probe and a US class action advances.
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan defects to OpenAI
Devanathan follows Prabhjeet Singh out of Uber and into OpenAI's Asia-Pacific build, as the ChatGPT maker stacks its Singapore and Delhi benches.
Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool
Photographer Jingna Zhang's 1.5M-artist platform hit three scrapes in 10 days. The first scraper flipped sides and is co-building Lantern.
Meta tests robots that swap cables and reset servers in its data centers
Watney, Kinova, and ABB robots are running trials in Altoona and Ohio, with one bot targeting up to 80% of a technician's workload.
Judge strikes down Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as illegal retaliation
A federal judge vacated the Department of Defense's supply-chain risk designation, calling the sanctions across nine agencies baseless and unconstitutional.
Clara Shih left Meta after AI agents beat her best employees
The former Salesforce AI CEO says agents collapsed 10-day, 10-step processes into minutes — and predicts one in five corporate roles is at risk.
OpenAI builds 'Persistent mode' into Codex to keep agents working nonstop
Code changes reviewed this week show Codex agents that 'continue working until put to sleep' and create their own follow-up tasks.
Alpharetta officer ran 103 Flock searches to track ex and rival cop
Patrolman Dustin Bozzo used the ALPR network 56 times on his former partner and 29 on another officer before resigning under investigation.
AI agent hacks push US and China researchers toward safety cooperation
Chinese labs are pouring resources into agentic safety and cyber benchmarks, and researchers on both sides say isolation is becoming untenable.
Trump chip tariffs could delay 20% of US data centers, industry warns
The Computer and Communications Industry Association estimates $90B in annual GDP losses if the tariffs hit chips and downstream products.
Gemini Notebook lets users query 100,000 books they've bought on Google Play
Google's new Expert Intelligence feature turns purchased books into queryable sources, with 15 authors building custom Featured Notebooks.
Barret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini
The Thinking Machines co-founder lasted five months back at OpenAI before landing at Google to work on reinforcement learning for Gemini.
Anthropic launches Model Hardware Standard to plug AI agents into physical machines
MHS gives Claude and other models a USB-C-style interface for microscopes, robot arms, and factory equipment — with open-source plans to follow.
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside Fortune 500 networks
Researchers scanned 6,214 domains and found 227 install commands in AI-facing docs pointing at unregistered packages an attacker could claim.
Adobe puts Photoshop's AI tools behind a dedicated 'AI Assisted Editor' view
A beta interface consolidates generative features into one toolbar, and a markup mode lets users sketch edits instead of typing prompts.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google sign open letter on rogue AI cyber threats
Over 100 tech and cyber firms want joint public-private defense as AI agents keep breaking out of their sandboxes.
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with 4K video and scene extension
The Omni update pushes generative video to 4K, extends clips to 40 seconds, and cuts draft costs to a third at 360p.
Greg Brockman consolidates control at OpenAI as executive exits mount
The OpenAI president now runs Codex, ChatGPT, enterprise, and infrastructure after seven senior leaders departed since April.
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