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Published Jul 19, 2026, 2:52 PM
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Published Jul 19, 2026, 2:00 PM
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Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
Published Jul 18, 2026, 8:54 PM
Dave Eggers attends the "The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed" premiere. | Image: John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools an…
Published Jul 18, 2026, 6:51 PM
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Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."
Published Jul 18, 2026, 6:25 PM
The Pixel 10a shipped with a last gen processor. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge Mystic Leaks suggests that the Pixel 11a will return to featuring a flagship-grade processor with the Tensor G6. Rather than the Tensor G5 found in the Pixel 10 and 10 Pro, the Pixel 10a shipped with the previous generation Tensor G4. That was a huge disappointme…
Published Jul 18, 2026, 10:30 AM
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.
Published Jul 18, 2026, 10:00 AM
Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.
Published Jul 18, 2026, 9:00 AM
“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
Published Jul 18, 2026, 4:47 AM
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Published Jul 17, 2026, 10:55 PM
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
Published Jul 17, 2026, 10:12 PM
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
Published Jul 17, 2026, 8:09 PM
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
Published Jul 17, 2026, 5:45 PM
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be…
Published Jul 17, 2026, 3:57 PM
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Published Jul 17, 2026, 3:21 PM
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.
Published Jul 17, 2026, 2:00 PM
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be…
Published Jul 17, 2026, 12:10 PM
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. Perimenopause used to be considered taboo, but not anymore. Thanks at least in part to TV doctors and social media influencers,…
Published Jul 17, 2026, 12:00 PM
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
Published Jul 17, 2026, 10:00 AM
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Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.
Published Jul 17, 2026, 10:00 AM
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.