A new book examines the booming genre of Chinese online fiction that reimagines historical eras with contemporary technology and ideology. Analysts argue the genre, while popular globally, also serves to reinforce author...
A jury trial is imminent in the lawsuit brought by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI, centering on whether the company has strayed from its nonprofit mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity. The case cou...
Developer Simon Willison reported that Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, run locally on a laptop, produced a superior pelican illustration compared to Anthropic's cloud-based Claude Opus 4.7, highlighting rapid progress in locally deploy...
A Chinese research vessel, Haiyang Dizhi 2, has tested a device capable of severing submarine data cables at depths of up to 3,500 meters. The demonstration heightens existing security concerns over a series of suspected...
The UK government has announced a $675 million sovereign AI investment fund aimed at reducing dependence on foreign technology and nurturing domestic AI companies. The initiative reflects a broader European push for tech...
Stellantis, the automaker behind Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram among others, has entered a five-year agreement with Microsoft to improve its digital services, cybersecurity, and engineering capabilities using AI....
Social platform Bluesky has been experiencing intermittent outages since just before 3 a.m. ET, affecting users across the platform....
Google has updated AI Mode on Chrome desktop so that clicking a link while using the feature opens the web page alongside the AI conversation. The change is designed to let users browse and research simultaneously....
Google has updated AI Mode in Chrome to keep the chatbot-style search interface persistently available throughout a user's browsing session, eliminating the need to switch tabs. The update is designed to create a more se...
Google is rolling out a 'personal intelligence' feature in Gemini that uses the Nano Banana image generation model to create personalized images informed by a user's Google Photos library, including photos and associated...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced prison sentences for two American nationals convicted of helping the North Korean government embed fraudulent IT workers inside U.S. companies, stealing approximately $5 million i...
InsightFinder has secured $15 million in funding to help enterprises diagnose failures not just in AI models but across entire technology stacks that now incorporate AI agents. CEO Helen Gu identified holistic stack obse...
Adobe data shows AI-sourced traffic to U.S. retail websites grew 393% in the first quarter of 2026, with a 269% jump in March alone. Visitors arriving via AI channels converted at higher rates and generated more revenue ...
Roblox has expanded its AI assistant with new agentic capabilities designed to support game creators throughout the full development lifecycle, from planning and building to testing....
Y Combinator W26 startup Kampala has launched a man-in-the-middle proxy that agenically reverse-engineers existing web, mobile, and desktop application workflows into usable APIs, aiming to replace brittle browser automa...
Andon Labs launched an experiment in which an AI agent was given a 3-year retail lease and tasked with operating a business profitably. The project, dubbed Andon Market, generated significant discussion on Hacker News wi...
Laws mandating age verification have rapidly transformed it from a fringe idea into standard practice across large portions of the internet. The push aims to prevent minors from accessing pornography, inappropriate conte...
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its latest AI model, as noted in a Hacker News post linking to the official Anthropic product page. The submission garnered early community attention with 19 points and 7 comments,...
Anthropic has announced Claude Opus 4.7, the latest update to its flagship AI model. The release attracted major attention on Hacker News, accumulating over 1,160 points and 869 comments, making it one of the most discus...
Kai Moskvitch, a 9-year-old known as the Quantum Kid, co-hosts a quantum mechanics podcast alongside his mother, theoretical physicist and science communicator Katia Moskvitch. The show, The Quantum Kid, recently surpass...