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Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions

Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the…

Does this AI comic make you laugh?

Comedian Garrett Millerick has created an AI avatar based on his own material. Is it any good?

RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.

Gig Guide: AI trailblazer Simon Lucey heads to StartupLand

Australian Institute for Machine Learning director Professor Simon Lucey has stepped down after six years at the 200 member research institute to lead a new AI venture. Professor Lucy became director in 2020, two years after the AIML launched as a joint initiative of the…

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof

OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Kevin Rudd’s radical call to arms on AI, national resilience

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered a stunning call to action to the Australian people, saying that without an urgent “change of mindset”, the nation would continue its inevitable slide to mediocrity. The global strategic, economic and technological forces now bearing…

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

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Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

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How Full-Stack NIM Optimizations Deliver 2.5x More Users on Nemotron 3 Ultra

Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to serve as many concurrent users as... Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to…

3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search

Illustration on a blue background of technicolor runners with a magnifying glass and Gemini spark overlaid

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Now everyone can put data to work

Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.

Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI

When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone.

Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.