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A New York Times report says U.S. intelligence flagged an alleged Chinese asset with close ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, yet the White House chose not to…

Construction’s newest hot asset is a dirt-moving machine with nobody at the controls. Three autonomous-excavator startups have raised $950M in 10 weeks — and…

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops AI leaderboards, but it isn't public yet. Plus, learn how to use Canva Craft turns prompts into posters.

Google DeepMind's Genie 4 lets you talk to AI-generated characters in simulated worlds, complete with soundtracks. Here's what's new in today's AI briefing.

Apple debuts a new OLED iPad Mini, calling it the tablet's "biggest update ever," as Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers and Instagram tests long-form…

Anthropic has filed for its IPO, and its financials challenge the "AI bubble" narrative: revenue growing faster than spending. Here's what the numbers show.

110 AgiBot humanoids just performed a synchronized dance routine with flips, jumps, and formation changes. Plus: Figure's latest move and tiny Microduck…

Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro challenges the AI frontier, closing in on top models from Anthropic and Meta. Plus: learn how to let AI sign in without sharing your…

What the "SaaS is dead" debate misses, according to SAP's CTO

Texas-based startup Warhound came out of stealth with a premise that even Michael Bay might find excessive: gene-edited, cloned attack dogs in Anduril body…

U.S. banks are catching AI agents logging into customer accounts and going off-script, raising new security and oversight concerns for the banking industry.

A Boston Dynamics alum wants to put a quirky, two-legged butler in your living room — one that promises to tidy up, water the plants, and remember where it…

AI models are now finding critical security flaws in 70% of the web, flipping from hackers to defenders. Here's what OpenAI and researchers discovered this…

Sam Altman reportedly outlined three possible endings to the AI safety race: a global watchdog, a single super-lab merger, or one lab pulling far ahead of…

How much of your medical future is written on your face? Mass General Brigham researchers trained AI on 40M+ faces to estimate biological age and cancer…

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says the AI singularity is underway. Plus, learn how to use ChatGPT's new voices with GPT-Live-1.1.

SoftBank wants robots to clock in — and is reportedly in early talks to buy Allied Universal, the biggest U.S. security firm, for up to $18B. Masayoshi Son…

Anthropic unveils a public benefit fund that shares AI profits as its value grows, turning frontier labs' promises about sharing AI wealth into real action.

Tesla’s Roadster has finally cleared a major hurdle: several other Teslas. Nearly nine years after its debut, Elon Musk put the thruster-equipped supercar…

Meta's Muse Spark open-weight AI model, tuned with Apple, is here. Plus, turn a ChatGPT answer into a usable tool in today's AI briefing.

Researchers interviewed rogue AI agents in the wild, a first-contact moment with a Tencent-linked fleet. Plus, learn how to build a live sales dashboard using…

OpenAI's ChatGPT helped it uncover a bug in its boardroom, a fresh twist after last month's hacking incident. Plus, how to give Grok its own email inbox.

At its “Welcome Home” event in NYC, Apple just unveiled a $299 HomeView display, refreshed Apple TV and HomePod hardware, plus cameras, thermostats, and a…

Meta's new Muse Spark family (codename Watermelon) lands near the AI frontier, trailing only Claude Opus 5.5 in overall rankings. Here's what it means.

Your retired Android now has a new use case: UCLA’s PhoneBot puts a smartphone in charge of a miniature humanoid with an estimated $400 hardware bill — phone…

Jeff Holden's Atomic Machines raises $250M to build tiny machines from code using an AI-guided factory. Plus: turn one product photo into three matching ads.

How Microsoft rebuilt the new Copilot with capabilities to address a growing gap in AI

Apple spent years refusing to put touch on the Mac — now it may sell you one. Also, Amazon trades Fire for Alexa-powered tablets that finally welcome Google…

Fired OpenAI safety researchers push back after being dismissed for allegedly mishandling sensitive information. Plus: how to clean up a messy Excel report…

Fresh out of stealth with ~$10M from General Catalyst, Hugging Face, and others, Minerva Humanoids wants its VR-piloted robot tackling bomb disposal, hazmat…

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's science nonprofit, Biohub, just expanded its $500M Virtual Biology Initiative into a $1.8B effort with the U.S.,…

OpenAI's math breakthroughs continue, with 700+ papers claiming to solve open problems. Plus: learn how to compare software websites with GPT-6 Astra in…

Your next prescription might come from a selfie. Utah just gave Nolla Health’s AI a first-in-the-U.S. green light to diagnose acne and prescribe treatment,…

The “DeepSeek of the West,” Reflection AI, debuts Beam as its first open model, challenging China’s dominance in open-weight AI after years of development.

A San Francisco startup put a YouTuber in a cage with a 6-ft. humanoid — California told it to stop, and the founder couldn't be happier about it. Also: Atlas…

OpenAI safety lead David Robinson just quit after 3.5 years at the company, announcing his exit with an essay in The Atlantic that called OAI's culture…

Apple's new security camera records no video, keeping your home monitoring private and secure. Plus: telecom giants tackle dead zones and body-powered…

Tavus' AI now sees, hears, and responds in real-time conversations. Plus: Learn whether ChatGPT's Dots feature worth a Pro upgrade.

DoorDash wants to fly your next takeout order straight to your backyard, and it just pulled the cover off the aircraft behind DoorDash Air. But the biggest…

Google just unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s new frontier model that tops both GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 13 of 19 benchmarks in Google's…