Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”
“Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real,” Lorde said on stage.
Nothing’s good-looking Watch 3 Pro smartwatch is just $69
The CMF by Nothing Watch 3 Pro comes in four different styles. | Image: Nothing While most fitness trackers are losing the screens to keep the price low, the CMF by Nothing Watch 3 Pro is a bit different. The budget-friendly smartwatch with a 1.43-inch OLED display is even cheaper than usual at Amazon, where … Read more
OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
The device is weirdly described as involving “mechanical elements that can move on their own” and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to “feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.”
OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
Risk, Ethics and Trust in Enterprise Generative AI: A Practical Control Framework for CIOs & Boards
2026 IBM Report Enterprise in 2030 highlights AI is changing what companies do and how they do it. 79% of executives say AI will significantly contribute to their revenue by 2030, but only 24% can clearly see where that revenue will come from. That gap between expectations and outcomes presents the leadership challenge of this … Read more
Tego AI Finds Claude Tag Slack Integration Can Trigger Unauthorized Enterprise Actions
Tel Aviv, Israel, July 14th, 2026/CyberNewswire/–Tego AI, a cybersecurity company, published new research identifying a potentially critical security weakness in Claude Tag, Anthropic’s native integration between Claude and Slack. Researchers observed Claude Tag responding to messages containing the literal text “@Claude” without requiring a genuine structural Slack mention. As a result, content delivered through bots, … Read more
Modernizing Business Intelligence: Strategies for Integrating Legacy and Cloud Platforms
In the strategic decision making process, business intelligence (BI) has become vital to an organization’s process. Whether businesses are looking to gauge how their business is performing or to uncover new business opportunities, BI can prove to be of immense benefit. However, many still use legacy BI systems that were built at a time when … Read more
Windows 11’s big patch Tuesday allows you to hold off on updates for longer
Microsoft just released a long list of improvements for Windows 11 as part of its bigger patch Tuesdays, and that includes the ability to pause updates indefinitely, as reported earlier by Windows Central. This option rolled out to Windows Insiders earlier this year, allowing you to hold off on updates for up to 35 days … Read more
Three US senators oppose CLARITY Act on ethics grounds with vote expected soon
Senate Majority Leader John Thune reportedly said the chamber will consider a vote on the crypto market structure bill before Aug. 10, though it’s unclear whether it has enough Democratic support to pass.
OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year
OpenAI’s first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won’t have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to “understand” your environment. The report comes just days after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that accused … Read more
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of CLIs > MCP: Everything You Need to Know
When a Google engineer released the Google Workspace CLI, the internet went crazy — finally, a Google Workspace surface for the agent era. But wait, why a CLI tool, and not an MCP server? MCP is all the rage nowadays — seems like everyone and their dog is shipping MCP servers. MCP, The Silver Bullet? MCP is … Read more
This AI Agent Read the Ticket, Then Reviewed the Pull Request
Eleven pull requests shipped to our main branch last month after being reviewed by an agent. That sounds riskier than it is, and the agentic part isn’t even what I find interesting about it. The thing I keep coming back to is this. Everyone is wiring AI into code review right now, and they’re all … Read more
U.S. CFTC moves to stop Kalshi from canceling trades as ordered by Michigan court
The federal derivatives regulator, which oversees trading at Kalshi, argued it was inappropriate for Michigan to “bully” the firm into reversing trades.
Velocity raises $38M to build stablecoin treasury infrastructure for enterprises
Backed by Dragonfly, FirstMark and Coinbase Ventures, the startup is expanding software that helps businesses integrate stablecoins into treasury and payment workflows.
DeepMind CEO Says AGI Will Be Bigger Than Electricity or Fire
Demis Hassabis says artificial general intelligence is only a few years away and proposes a new U.S. standards body to test frontier AI models before release.
US, UK treasuries to align transatlantic rules on tokenization and stablecoins
The two governments issued recommendations on the treatment of digital assets as the US prepares to implement a 2025 law on payment stablecoins.
Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.
Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out
Anthropic’s latest advert is stirring up high emotions — which is undoubtedly what it was designed to do.
The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone
Overtone describes itself as “a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions.”
SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
SpaceXAI’s Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users’ entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading entire code repositories, “including files it was told not to open … Read more
Some U.S. Senate Democrats come out against Clarity Act, calling it a ‘corrupt’ bill
Certain Democrats are taking an increasingly rigorous stand against the crypto market structure bill, which needs a significant number from their party to pass.
Lucid Motors denies report it’s considering bankruptcy
The company said the “rumors are completely false” after its stock sank more than 50% on a report that it was weighing the option.
Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
Your prospects leave trails across multiple sources: a founder asks “What should I use for X?” in r/SaaS while their product launches on Hacker News. Stack Overflow questions spike. A GitHub repo crosses 2,400 stars. Each signal alone is noise, but correlated across sources, they reveal a prospect ready to buy. Multi-agent systems built with … Read more
Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI “standards body” modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.