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Gambit Security’s “AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle” Shows How AI Is Moving Deeper Into Real-World Cyberattacks
Gambit Security’s new report, AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle offers a detailed look at how artificial intelligence is moving beyond a supporting role in cybercrime and becoming integrated into th...
View the articleUnforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze
Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore — or accidentally dismiss.
View the articleGoogle will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
View the articleEric Picard, SVP of Product at Fluency – Interview Series
Eric Picard, Senior Vice President of Product at Fluency, is an experienced product and technology executive who has spent decades developing digital advertising platforms, automated marketplaces, dat...
View the articleDoes Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behi...
View the articleTech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.
View the articleApple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links in iOS apps.
View the articleKog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
View the articleGiving ‘Secret Identities’ to Copyrighted Animation Characters
New research from China offers a non-invasive way to protect copyrighted animation characters, by 'injecting' generic substitutes at inference time. But can this method defeat the ingenuity of prompt-...
View the articleHyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.
View the articleUS courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.
View the articleAI’s Best ROI Right Now Is Fixing Old Code, Not Writing New Code
Every AI product demo I sit through starts the same way: an empty prompt box, a request in plain English, and a working app a few minutes later. It's a genuinely impressive party trick. It's also, I'd...
View the articleYour KV Cache Doesn’t Have a Bit Problem. It Has a Geometry Problem.
At identical 2-bit precision, one decision about which axis you quantize along swings a benchmark score from 2.88 to 63.53. Keys and values need opposite treatment — and the reason is in the attenti...
View the articleWhen AI Is Right and the Process Is Wrong
Imagine a common scenario in financial services. A team deploys AI to review contracts: hundreds of pages, repetitive clauses, and routine work that normally takes employees days. The model identifies...
View the articleThe Shift from AI Capability to AI Control
A series of high-profile incidents involving frontier AI providers has left businesses asking a question that, until recently, many hadn't seriously considered. What happens when the technology you've...
View the articleThese ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”
View the articleUber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe
The partnership is expanding beyond the initial market of Zagreb, Croatia to four additional European cities.
View the articleEMERGING and Promethean Raise $300M Experience Fund With $500M Hard Cap
EMERGING and Promethean Investments launched The Experience Fund (XPR) on August 14, 2026, a $300 million vehicle with a $500 million hard cap that will invest in artificial intelligence, IP holdings ...
View the articlePeople Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way.
View the articleZ.ai Launches GLM-5.3 With Frontier Coding and a Cyber Capability That Outgrew Its Training
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, an update the company says keeps the same base model as GLM-5.2 and derives every capability gain from scaled-up post-training. The headline results are in co...
View the articleLG to Unveil Next-Gen Bipedal Humanoid Robot Built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T
LG Corp. said on August 13, 2026, that it is developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid robot built on NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T foundation model, targeting a public unveiling in the first quarter of 20...
View the articlePony.ai and Uber Expand Partnership to 2,000+ Robotaxis Across Europe
Pony.ai and Uber are expanding their strategic partnership to deploy more than 2,000 Pony.ai robotaxis across Europe, the companies announced on August 13, 2026, growing a collaboration that began wit...
View the articleThe Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
View the articleInvestors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup
The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.
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