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Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend
A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.
View the articleThis Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.
View the articleHot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
View the articleAI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
View the articleFinal extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
View the articleMeta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
View the articleMeta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
View the articleOpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company
Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.
View the articleWhy the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
View the articleMicrosoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
View the articleDiscord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
View the articleGoogle’s Pixel event is set for August 12
Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.
View the articleFigma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app
The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.
View the articleHow novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications
A USAF cadet and a Lincoln Laboratory researcher found AI chatbots can help nontechnical service members produce viable software applications for their unique problems.
View the articleNetflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others
Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.
View the articleHacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far
From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026....
View the articleClaude Cowork expands to mobile and web
With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
View the articleShut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.
View the articleX adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts
X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other editing tools.
View the articleChemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund
Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.
View the articleJesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science
The professor of physics and inaugural director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions will lead LNS and continue his research in particle physics.
View the articleAI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation
AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion.
View the articleThis startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car
Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors.
View the articleHacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."
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