The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI assistants the same access as Gemini on Android
The decision forces equal footing for external AI assistants and mandates anonymized search data pipelines
Over 4,500 Google workers demand layoff protections as Alphabet's value hits $4.3 trillion
"Make no mistake: this is a company that is enjoying massive, unprecedented success"
New York school will deploy AI teaching robot from company linked to sex bots
A headline for our times, if ever there was one
OpenAI's first hardware product is a $230 mini keypad for AI coding
Think of it as a Stream Deck for ChatGPT
Woman discovers a hidden AI camera in her rental car recording her and warning about unsafe driving
Recording drivers' every move is legal in most states but raises privacy concerns
George Lucas says rejecting AI is like choosing the horse and buggy over cars
The Star Wars creator says generative AI is inevitable progress
Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away
Linux is not an anti-AI project, says its creator
IBM's stock just had its worst day since 1968
IBM warns clients are skipping mainframes to stockpile AI chips and memory instead
SoftBank boss says the AI revolution will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble
Reports of an AI bubble are greatly exaggerated, says the man behind WeWork's $47 billion collapse
Sarah Connor warned us: Multiple reports are routinely confirming that the alleged "AI revolution" is not going the way Big Tech and VC investors would like it to. SoftBank's founder and largest shareholder, however, still believes the revolution will come to pass. AI skeptics, in his view, are simply on the wrong side of history. Or are they?
Christopher Nolan believes Gen Z will push back against generative AI and its growing influence
Nolan says younger generations are seeking more authentic experiences
UChicago Law bans laptops and phones for first-year students, mandates in-class exams starting this fall
The goal is to protect critical thinking skills as AI reshapes legal education
Apple's iOS 27 public beta arrives with Siri AI, faster app launches, and more
Full Siri AI needs 12GB of RAM, macOS 27's beta drops support for every Intel Mac
Apple is reportedly skipping M6 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips to fast-track AI-focused M7 Macs
Apple's next Mac chips could pack 1.5TB of memory, all in the name of AI
SK Hynix predicts memory crunch will peak in 2027 and continue through 2030
Things will get worse before they get better
Claude's new Reflect feature is Spotify Wrapped for your AI habits
Claude now has its own take on Spotify Wrapped, only instead of exposing your questionable music taste, Reflect shows how you use AI. The beta dashboard summarizes up to 12 months of topics, activity patterns, and common tasks. Check out Reflect using the the Claude desktop app for Windows or macOS.
New York hospital replaces 12 nurses with AI, prompting warnings over patient care dangers
The layoffs come only months after nurses went on strike and won protections against AI
TSMC posts blowout $39 billion quarter, raising the same old AI question: is this sustainable?
TSMC posts $39.6 billion in Q2 revenue, up 36% year-over-year on AI chip demand
Samsung is building a dedicated AI chip for PCs, and HP and Lenovo are already testing it
Samsung wants back into PC silicon with a new NPU, coming in through the AI side door
A tiny London startup built a CUDA compiler that reportedly beats AMD's own tools on AMD hardware
The bet is that CUDA, not Nvidia's hardware, is the real key to AI computing dominance
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging former employees stole trade secrets to build AI hardware
Primary defendants include Tang Tan, who led iPhone and Apple Watch design at Apple before co-founding OpenAI's hardware unit
Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead jobs task force days after Microsoft laid off 3,200 people
The task force will examine AI's impact on productivity, employment, and economic growth
SK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in massive US share offering
The largest ever listing by a foreign company in the US
Professor's chart exposes the scale of AI cheating in college exams
One student's scores are honest if nothing else
Facepalm: The endemic scale of AI-assisted cheating among students over the past few years is well documented, but few visual representations illustrate the problem as well as a recent chart from a Brown University professor. As concerning as the graph is, the university's muted response to it is potentially even more worrying.
Meta's new AI tool can generate images of you using your Instagram photos, and you're opted in by default
And here's how to opt out of Meta Muse...
Through the looking glass: Meta launched a new AI image-generation model called Muse Image this week, letting users create, edit, and blend photos using natural language prompts inside Meta AI, with the tool already live on Instagram and WhatsApp and expected on Facebook and Messenger soon. However, the new feature is already raising privacy concerns, as it allows anyone to generate AI images using other people's Instagram photos.
Cheyenne suspends datacenter wastewater after rare bacterium traced to Meta's AI site
Another data center water scare gives AI opponents more ammunition