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Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World

The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into "physical AGI." But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's hacker was noisy and fast - but not unstoppable

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.

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NVIDIA Blog

Best in Class: Stream PC Games and Study on the Same Laptop With GeForce NOW

Back to school means balancing assignments, deadlines and downtime. GeForce NOW makes it easy to have it all. With cloud gaming, everyday laptops used for class can also become GeForce RTX-powered gaming setups. When it's time to switch from studying to gaming, members can jump into Halo: Campaign Evolved, as GeForce NOW is bringing one [...]

AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating "exploitable trust" with others.

I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef-Who Filmed It All to Train Robots

A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.

More capital. Fewer deals. What H1 2026 tells us about European tech

Throughout the year we track various data points across the European tech ecosystem, and the mid-year mark is a great time to review numbers and highlight significant milestones and what the implicati...

The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

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Gemini for macOS adds new natural language capabilities

A look at how the Gemini app for macOS now lets you speak naturally to get clean transcriptions, edits, and summaries just using your voice.

The best webinar software for marketers in 2026

Webinars allow you to share your expertise at scale, helping you connect directly with new customers and deeply engage with existing ones. But there's more to webinars than just the content-you also need to invite and manage attendees, run the online event, facilitate real-time engagement, and measure success. That's where webinar software comes in. The best webinar platforms help you streamline and automate all the logistics related to running a webinar so you can focus on sharing your knowled

Boomers 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.

How The Bologna Gathering became an ecosystem builder

Alessandro Cillario and Stefano Onofri, co-founders and co-CEOs of Italian startup Cubbit, could easily spend all their time scaling internationally. Instead, alongside building one of Europe's leadin...

Dropbox vs. Google Drive: Which is right for you? [2026]

On its own, cloud storage is a commodity. Any provider worth its salt will let you back up your files to the cloud, sync them across devices, and share them with other people. But cloud storage apps like Dropbox and Google Drive now offer far more than just storage: with AI tools, real-time collaboration, and eSignatures all bundled together, each platform is now a destination for getting work done rather than just a place to stash files. As a result, Dropbox and Google Drive are more useful tha

The best productivity apps for Mac in 2026

If you're a Mac user, you have high standards. You invested in a high-quality machine for a reason-and you expect the best software to match. It shouldn't just work on your operating system and respond to familiar keyboard shortcuts-it should feel like a Mac app. It should be that ideal blend of form and function that you've come to expect from the Apple ecosystem. And developers know this-which is why there are so many productivity apps for Mac that are miles better than what you can find for o

Bot-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.

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

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Google AI Blog

5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world

It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of your time offline whether you want to book concert tickets or find the perf...

PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

The issue appears to have originated from Claude's "share chat" feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

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IEEE Spectrum AI

Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare

An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-agile threats render static library systems ineffective - Explore how wartime reserve modes and mode-agile emitters deploy unexpected frequencies, modulation techniques, and hopping schemes that cannot be matched against traditional threat databases, leaving legacy electronic protect, attack, and support systems unable to respond. How AI/ML techniques power cognitive radar/EW systems - Understand th

Google's AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows

Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.

This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

This Is Donald Trump's AI Brain Trust

"It's not an argument with two sides, it's an argument with 10 sides," one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.

The 6 best texting apps in 2026

Let's make one thing clear: unfortunately, there's no one best texting app. Unless you absolutely require one or two specific features or are a real stickler for security, the best text message app will be the one that the people you want to text also use. Depending on where you are in the world, that can be iMessage, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, LINE, WeChat, or even SMS. If you're looking for some magic WhatsApp alternatives that are a million times better, you're out of luck. But if, for whatev

What is Google Gemini?

Google has been in its "Gemini era" for a couple years now, and while the confusing rebrandings have slowed, everything else continues to improve at a rapid pace. Gemini is the name Google gave to its current generation family of multimodal AI models, but in typical Google fashion, it also applies to basically everything else that's related to AI. It can get a touch confusing since, by my reckoning, Google has: Google Gemini, a family of multimodal AI models. The latest is the 3.6 series, thoug

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Forget YouTube videos-frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

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Anthropic

Our position on open-weights models

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

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Meta AI

Reimagining Independence: How Meta's AI Models Are Helping the University of Pittsburgh Transform Assistive Robotics

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Berkeley BAIR

Jul 26, 2026

Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction

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Jul 25, 2026

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Jul 25, 2026

I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad - which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China's Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.

Bluesky's AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

OpenAI's new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

When AI Stops Experimenting and Starts Scaling [Sponsored]

For a decade, virtual try-on technology has been the industry's perennial "almost." The idea-letting shoppers see how a jacket or a shade of lipstick would actually look on them-was always compelling....

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

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Google Cloud AI

The Blueprint: How Voicify makes AI-enabled ordering a delight for customers

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to inspire others looking to innovate in their work. Founded in 2018, Voicify reimagines the traditional phone call with the goal of transforming every call into a seamless and engaging experience. The challenge: When we started Voicify in 2018, our vision was to help organizations build confident, pragmatic, and technically grounded voice-driven assistants for any channel, including phones and chat

Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

Google's Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

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Crunchbase News

Is On-Prem Making A Comeback?

While cloud migration previously offered unmatched speed and cost efficiency, decision-makers now perceive localized systems as offering superior long-term security. In this guest commentary, strategic adviser Itay Sagie shares three trends he believes are pushing on-prem back into the limelight.

Experts say exploiting Anthropic's Fable isn't how Kimi K3 got so good

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.

Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable

The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.

How OpenAI's human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a "highly isolated" testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.

Substack's new tool tells you who's been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google's $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission

OpenAI and Datadog leaders back AI deployment startup Arrakis

London-based AI deployment startup Arrakis has emerged from stealth, having raised nearly $40m in just over three months. Arrakis was founded by former Accel investor Rafael Quintanilla, along with fo...

The 5 best photo editing apps for iPhone and Android (including free options) in 2026

"The best camera is the one you have with you" is an old adage in photography, and there's a lot of truth to it. Even as someone who has at least five cameras at home, I capture more photos with my smartphone than I do anything else. Smartphone cameras have been so good for so long now that it really doesn't feel like a tradeoff. My DSLR definitely doesn't have a wide-angle and an 8x telephoto lens built in. But capturing photos is just the first half of creating a good image. To really make gre

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Anthropic

Ask Claude about the Anthropic Economic Index

MuleSoft integrations: Capabilities and limitations

I have an engineering degree, which I once bravely attempted to use for its intended purpose. I tried connecting devices that absolutely didn't want to be connected. After all, where else was I supposed to use the IoT concepts I spent years pretending I fully understood? My smart setup included a light that needed one app, a plug that needed another app, and a speaker that refused to talk to either of them. That small adventure taught me that integrations sound simple until they meet real-world

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview

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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.

Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.

Voodin consortium secures €48M EU grant to build Spain's first automated wooden blade factory

Wind energy is an important part of Europe's shift to clean power, with €45 billion raised for new wind projects across the region in 2025. But that investment comes with a sustainability challenge: t...

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Meta AI

How Meta's AI Models are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects

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Anthropic

Anthropic is donating another $20 million to Public First Action

Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data

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Trump's latest AI czar has already resigned

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.

AI's most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use

Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.

Adobe camera app's new feature will critique your photos using AI

Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.

Web scraping: A comprehensive guide

There are two ways to catch a price drop on that obnoxiously priced all-terrain dog stroller you've been eyeing (but won't admit out loud to the general public-which, smart). You could check the product page every morning and hope today's the day for good boy Professor Waffles. Or you could let a price tracker like camelcamelcamel watch the listing for you and send an alert the moment it dips below a set price. That second option is web scraping at work: an automated tool visits the page, reads

Jul 19, 2026

Turn off your slop cannon

Good writing is a gift to everyone around you. Clear, concise communication means your readers spend less time decoding your words and more time acting on them. Here's how to write in a way that respects your reader's time and keeps us all from drowning in walls of text. Why this matters AI slop is real, and we can do better. The internet is full of bloated, padded writing generated (or at least inspired) by AI that optimizes for length over clarity. Don't add to it. When you write vague or word

Jul 19, 2026

What to watch for after Jensen Huang's Japan visit

Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.

Jul 19, 2026

'Odyssey' director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious 'Trojan horse'

"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."

The Zoom hack that says, 'Don't record me'

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who's actually reading any of it?

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla's backyard

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

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MIT News AI

Following the questions where they lead

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.

Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape - and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators' content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.

The best CRM software for real estate agents in 2026

A CRM is your prized possession in real estate. You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. But with countless options on the market, how do you know which software is right for you? I looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m., and gathered insights

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

Google's AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Moonshot's upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.

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IEEE Spectrum AI

Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia

In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain in the water. Engines maintain a steady speed. To the crew, it is an ordinary day at sea. Yet hundreds of kilometers above, satellites continuously record the vessel's position. At Indonesia's Marine and Fisheries Resources Surveillance Station, in Cilacap, where I work, a monitoring platform receives the signal and automatically compares it against fis

Newer Models, Same Advantage

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Our approach to bioresilience

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

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MIT News AI

A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.

Security incident disclosure - July 2026

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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

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Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn't.

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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

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IEEE Spectrum AI

The First Chatbot's Multiple Personalities

ELIZA is remembered as the world's first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users' worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction. For some, it heralded an age of automated psychotherapy, while others believed the program demonstrated sentience, a fallacy soon known as the "ELIZA effect." Based on published descriptions, ELIZA has been implemented on many different computers, but only recently has the actual source code been unearthed from MIT's archives. In Inventing ELIZA: How

Pollen is building the battery-swapping network electric motorcycles have been waiting for

Urban mobility is increasingly shifting toward electrification as cities aim to reduce emissions and improve air quality. However, while more than 60 per cent of new passenger cars sold in the EU we...

Reelful's AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media

The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.

The 4 best read it later apps to save content in 2026

Sometimes, during the work day, I stumble upon a really interesting but really long article that I don't have time to read at the moment. This is the moment read-it-later apps are built for. The idea: you can save the article, then get back to it later when you have time. I don't know how I lived before finding these kinds of apps, which I've been using for around 15 years. For this roundup, I considered over 20 read it later apps. After extensive testing, I can say that these are the four best

Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines

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Lorde says AI glasses are 'not sexy'

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.

The 8 best data integration tools in 2026

If you've ever had to hunt down an important email across one of your seven inboxes, you know the struggle of having information spread out between a bunch of unconnected systems. Ctrl+F can't save you when you aren't even sure where to start looking. Multiply that by hundreds of employees and dozens of systems, and things get real messy. Data integration tools take siloed data and un-silo it, uniting various data sources into a single master view. This means no more swapping between application

OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery

Now, when users navigate to Google Images, they'll see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history.