Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent — Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more — Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed an executive order addressing data canters and AI risks. … Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) …
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.
Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation — Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers …
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth — 37-country survey also finds growing awareness of AI - and growing concern in some places — Why did we do this?
X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase — X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched …
Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed — Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka just four months ago, has expanded its seed funding by another $53 million.
Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US — Google Home adds MCP integration, allowing third-party AI agents to analyze your home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards.
The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework — The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat …
Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others — AI lab Anthropic on Monday launched a set of tools for financial advisers, connecting its Claude chatbot to investment analytics …
House Speaker Johnson says there's “potentially” a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives — House Speaker Mike Johnson is at odds with President Donald Trump over regulating artificial intelligence …
Satya Nadella says “we welcome” the “deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right”, and announces a “Code of Conduct” for Microsoft's MAI models — Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, a...
Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI — Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been holding discussions about working together to create a standards body for the AI industry …
Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” is what happens if China does not do the same — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to slow the advancement of artificial intelligence …
Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like “AI-generated”, “deepfake”, and “nudify” by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 — Forces see a surge in crimes involving deepfake technology being used to ‘undress women’
An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth — The tech roll-up relies on aggressive price hikes and bespoke metrics. Rising interest rates could crimp its growth.
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public” — Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump — Donald Trump's pledge to ensure that Bitcoin mining activity is centered in the US is rapidly disintegrating under the twin forces …