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Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides
Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overview…
Runway's Solaris is an AI system that generates software interfaces in real time
AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls "Interface World Models." Instead of running code, the system generates the user interface frame…
Google's AI search dropped its emergency-call advice over nationalities but still flags people from Facebook
"Please get to a safe place or call emergency services": That's the advice Google's AI search gave users who typed that they were alone with an African, Indian, or Pakistani. The …
Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis
Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks from frontier AI models. Cross-investments between AI comp…
Instagram admits users often can't tell AI profiles from real people
Instagram is replacing its "AI creator" tag with a new "AI-generated profile" label because users can't tell AI profiles from real people. Singularity, defined by Instagram user c…
OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion annual run rate
OpenAI's advertising business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, according to the company. The article OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion…
China's CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap
China's top memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is producing HBM3E for the first time in small quantities, a fast memory found in many current AI processors. The arti…
ChatGPT now faces stricter EU oversight as a very large search engine
The EU Commission is classifying ChatGPT as a very large search engine under the Digital Services Act for the first time, with at least 45 million monthly EU users. By the end of …
OpenAI starts charging some customers only when its AI actually works
OpenAI is offering some large customers outcome-based pricing, where they pay only once the AI actually finishes a task. Salesforce, Adobe, and several startups are also moving aw…
OpenClaw 2.0 brings simplified setup, a rebuilt browser app, and multiplayer sessions
The OpenClaw Foundation has released version 2.0 of its open-source AI platform, its largest release to date with over 16,000 pull requests. New features include cloud sessions on…
OpenAI and rival AI labs are buying tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents
According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer agents. Anthropic also relies on Apple hardware. Demand is so h…
AI sentiment is turning sour as employee reviews reveal growing frustration across the workforce
An analysis of Glassdoor reviews shows that positive AI comments have dropped from 81 to 43 percent since 2019. Executives rate AI mostly positive, while insurance claims workers …
AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it
AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, according to a new study. Both systematically overestimate how long tasks will take. Codex is off by as much…
The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best
GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned…
Anthropic's Claude Code limit change is a raise on paper but a cut in practice
Anthropic is effectively cutting Claude Code's weekly usage limits by 17 percent. A temporary 50 percent boost expires on September 14 and will be replaced by a permanent 25 perce…
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"
Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers are suing Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei personally for allegedly using tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to tra…
AI-generated videos are already displacing actors and livestreamers across China's entertainment industry
In China, 95 percent of the 128,000 short dramas released in Q1 2026 were AI-generated. Some actors are being forced to hand over their voice and likeness to AI tools before getti…
Google's WikiSkill gives AI agents a persistent memory of past mistakes to sharpen future performance
Google Research has introduced WikiSkill, a framework that gives AI agents a persistent knowledge base. Instead of discarding what they learned after each run, agents document bot…
LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research
LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips…
Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a unified interface to physical devices like robotic arms and lab instruments. In early tests, integration time dropped f…
OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, citing Musk's history of breaking contracts
OpenAI is cutting off the AI coding tool Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company, citing Elon Musk's track record of breaking contracts. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell downplay…
Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers
Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to …
Google DeepMind's "Co-Scientist" Evolves from a Hypothesis Generator to a Research Partner
Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to …
AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it
Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from se…