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SpaceX closes $60 billion Cursor deal: CEO Elon Musk calls it ‘honour’

Tech News News: SpaceX has officially completed its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup…

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.

Your AI Glossary: 57 Terms Everyone Should Know

How does artificial intelligence use tokens, and should we be worried that AI now has claws? Here’s a quick primer on the…

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat…

Tech 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.

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data

Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals.…

These ‘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…

People 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…

Google AI health coach to use Abbott glucose data

Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the…

Google debuts new Gemini Flash while top AI model still delayed

Alphabet Inc’s Google released another instalment of its workhorse Gemini Flash artificial intelligence model but didn’t say when…

State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

The 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…

The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop

Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.

Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release

Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has “substantial improvements.”

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

Sheets canvas turns data into interactive dashboards, custom study trackers, seating charts, and more, all with a simple prompt.

Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public

Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker’s IPO is the biggest listing in history

Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash

The police-tech giant Flock is announcing today that it will change officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate…

Claude’s new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now

The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API…

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to…

Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping

Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI…