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Russia is mulling a crackdown on foreign artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.

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Google Translate is testing a new AI-powered pronunciation training mode that lets users practice speaking and receive feedback on their accuracy. The post Google

Russia has proposed new rules that could restrict or ban foreign AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, citing data security concerns, while pushing for data localisation and tighter control to promote domestic platforms and reduce reliance on Western technology.

CISA added critical Apple WebKit, Craft CMS, and Laravel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, mandating federal agencies patch by April 3, 2025. All three

Here's a mildly dystopian prompt I've been experimenting with recently: "Profile this user", accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hacker News. Obtaining those comments is easy. The Algolia Hacker News API supports listing comments s

Cursor shipped Composer 2 with benchmarks beating Claude Opus 4.6, but a developer found a Kimi K2.5 model ID buried in API traffic within 24 hours. What followed: a licensing dispute, deleted accusations from Moonshot AI, and a partnership announcement that left more questions than answers.

Googling isn't quite what it used to be. Now, when typing something into Google's search engine, the first response flashing to life on your screen is not the top-ranked search result but an "AI Overview." When asked why (using Google's search engine), the AI Overview replied: "… to provide users wi

The Trivy vulnerability scanner was compromised in a supply-chain attack by threat actors known as TeamPCP, which distributed credential-stealing malware through official releases and GitHub Actions. [...]

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OpenAI has informed advertising agencies that it plans to expand the number of users who will see advertisements. According to The Information, ChatGPT will begin showing ads to all users on its free and lower-cost plans in the coming weeks.

As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech firm

Privacy at home, power in the cloud.

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade a

Google Forms is one of the easiest ways to collect data from customers and users, but it goes so far beyond that. Did you k

More than half of consumers now use ChatGPT for product recommendations, with 70% preferring it over Google. New research from HubSpot reveals how AI-driven shopping is reshaping br

Three months ago, the tech industry was unaware of a lobster-themed AI coding project built by an under-the-radar Austrian software developer. OpenClaw, as that creation is known, has enjoyed such a rapid ascent since then that it took center stage this week at GTC, Nvidia's annual conference, where

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Cursor releases Composer 2, the second generation of its own AI model fo

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws impacting Apple, Craft CMS, and Laravel Livewire to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch them by April 3, 2026. The vulnerabilities that have come under

The technology assisted with everything from marketing and pricing to suggesting which walls to repaint.

The technology assisted with everything from marketing and pricing to suggesting which walls to repaint.

AI is being cringy. OpenAI has decided to reduce the cringe factor of ChatGPT. Here's the deal. Don't expect miracles. An AI Insider scoop.

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OpenAI has confirmed that a technical glitch in its AI tool, ChatGPT, led to the erroneous flagging of links to Republican websites as potentially unsafe.

WordPress, a leading web hosting platform, is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its services.

Claude Code Channels launched without voice messaging. A 120-line patch and a Whisper server add it in 20 minutes, with cloud alternatives for those without GPU hardware. Plus: how OpenClaw's agent improvised voice transcription before anyone built support for it.

CoreWeave expects monster growth over the next few years.

OpenAI Group PBC plans to merge ChatGPT and two of its other services into a single “superapp.” The Wall Street Journal broke the news on Thursday. Today, MIT Technology Review reported that OpenAI is also working on an artificial intelligence tool designed to make researchers more producti

OpenAI's ChatGPT may quietly substitute different AI model variants when users select specific models, raising serious transparency concerns for professionals who depend on consiste

WordPress.com now allows AI agents to autonomously create, edit, and publish content through a Model Context Protocol server, marking the most aggressive move any major web platform

Google Chat now features a dedicated Meetings section that consolidates all meeting-related messages, summaries, and artifacts in one place — a strategic move that reveals Google's

Anthropic's Claude Code Channels lets developers message a running coding session from Telegram or Discord. MacStories built iOS apps from an iPhone on night one. But permissions still require walking to Terminal, and only three plugins exist so far.

Translate wants to train you to sound just like a native!

Nvidia's robotics chief Deepu Talla argues AI agents will trigger a ChatGPT-like inflection point for physical machines. With foundation models, simulation, and edge computing conve

OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT, Operator, Deep Research, and image generation into a unified desktop superapp — a bold architectural bet aimed at making one native application the pr

OpenAI will consolidate its fragmented desktop products into a single superapp, a report claims, as rival Anthropic gains momentum.

Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage commen

Commentary: OpenAI reportedly wants one app for everything, and I'm here for it.

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Emergent CEO Mukund Jha feeds job interview transcripts into ChatGPT to evaluate candidates before making hiring decisions, raising questions about AI bias, data privacy, and the fu

A GitHub pull request to the open-source AI coding tool OpenCode has ignited a sharp debate about how AI agents should handle shell command permissions — exposing the fundamental te

Trivy, a popular open-source vulnerability scanner maintained by Aqua Security, was compromised a second time within the span of a month to deliver malware that stole sensitive CI/CD secrets. The latest incident impacted GitHub Actions "aquasecurity/trivy-action" and "aquasecurity/setup-trivy," whic

Nvidia is so gung-ho about AI agents that it’s betting the buzzy software can power another one of its big bets: robots. The “agentic AI system is being built for digital first,” said Deepu Talla, Nvidia’s vice president of robotics and edge AI, or AI for powering devices, in an interview

Meeting messages no longer vanish in the abyss

Meeting messages no longer vanish in the abyss

New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.

Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversation. But the benchmarks used to evaluate those models are largely still running on synthetic s