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Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals
Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up and turn a profit.
View the articleWhy Regulated Industries Will Shape Enterprise AI Best Practices
Enterprise AI is entering a new phase. After several years of pilots, proofs of concept and experimentation, organizations are shifting their focus from what AI can do to how it can become a reliable ...
View the articleAI in AgeTech: It Won’t Replace Elder Care Workers, Because The Workers Are Already Gone
The debate around AI in elder care often starts with the wrong fear: that technology will replace human caregivers. Emotionally, it is a powerful argument, but it rests on a false premise. It assumes ...
View the articleAs AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.
View the articleMore Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
View the articleVibe Lawyering Is Off to a Rocky Start
Generative AI has expanded beyond coding assistants and content creation tools, finding its way into legal research and case preparation. While the technology has helped legal professionals quickly ge...
View the articleIBM Study Puts AI Inside One in Four Malicious Breaches
One in four malicious data breaches involved attackers using AI, according to the 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report IBM published on July 29, 2026. Those breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughl...
View the articleMoonshot AI Blows Past Its Funding Target Ahead of a Hong Kong IPO
Moonshot AI has closed a $3.5 billion financing round that values the Beijing lab at $35 billion, well above the $1 billion to $2 billion it originally set out to raise, Bloomberg reported on July 29,...
View the articleBoomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
View the articleOpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
View the articleCyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
View the articleOpenAI and Anthropic Back Employee Call to Pace AI Progress
More than 1,100 employees of the world's leading AI labs have signed a public statement asking Washington to help build the tools needed to deliberately slow frontier AI development, and within hours ...
View the articleHugging Face Traces the Rogue Agent to a Hijacked Sandbox
Hugging Face has published a technical timeline of the July 2026 intrusion that OpenAI's evaluation models ran against its production infrastructure, and it puts a third company in the attack path. Be...
View the articleBot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
View the articleMCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
View the articleSam Altman is ready to decelerate
His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
View the articleOzlo’s Sleepbuds 2 build on Bose’s sleep earbud legacy
Ozlo’s first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep features as the startup continues the product line once abandoned ...
View the articleThe robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope tumbled out of control
According to NASA, two of the three reaction wheels that control the spacecraft's alignment have failed, and there are problems with one of the spacecraft's thruster systems.
View the articleWaymo, robotaxi operators face fresh scrutiny over emergency response failures
Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-California ) has proposed a bill that would direct federal regulators to establish minimum national safety standards for autonomous vehicle operators.
View the articleMate Security Raises $35M to Build an Open Foundation for AI Security Operations
Mate Security has raised $35 million in Series A funding as enterprises look for new ways to operate security teams against attacks moving at machine speed. Canaan Partners led the round, with partici...
View the articleeBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019
Ina and David Steiner inspired the ire of high-level eBay executives after occasionally criticizing the company in their newsletter. In 2019, a plot was concocted to intimidate the couple into halting...
View the articleThese App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era
Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital ...
View the articleHBO Max embraces vertical video with a new ‘Shorts’ feed
HBO Max, like other streaming platforms, is rethinking content discovery as large libraries are making it hard for viewers to find something to watch and as audiences become accustomed to short-form c...
View the articleFBI Expects Adversaries to Turn Frontier AI on Software Bugs
The agency that investigates most computer intrusions in the United States now treats autonomous vulnerability discovery as a coming enforcement problem. Todd Hemmen, deputy assistant director of the ...
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