A Netherlands-based immigration activist named Dominick Skinner is using AI and facial recognition to reveal the identities of masked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Talk about turned tables — and a striking ethical paradox. In an interview with Politico, Skinner claimed that he and his team of volunteers have so far been able to

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when

Paranoia is as natural to Silicon Valley as lip fillers are to Los Angeles. In the Bay Area, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a startup founder convinced everyone is out to steal his ideas or poach his staff — a state of mind reaffirmed by the fact that sometimes, people very much are

When Elon Musk’s Grok AI had a Nazi meltdown the other month and started calling itself “MechaHitler,” the General Services Administration — the agency in charge of government technology — quietly dropped its plans to use it by removing it from a list of approved vendors. Now, it looks like the White House has swooped

Meta is revising how its AI chatbots interact with users after a series of reports exposed troubling behaviour, including interactions with minors. The company told TechCrunch it is now training its bots not to engage with teenagers on topics like self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders, and to avoid romantic banter. These are temporary steps while

A new AI tool – built to help companies find and fix their own security weaknesses – has been snatched up by cybercriminals, turned on its head, and used as a devastating hacking weapon exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. According to a report from cybersecurity firm Check Point, the framework – called Hexstrike-AI – is the turning

Anthropic has closed a massive $13 billion Series F funding round that values the AI company at $183 billion post-money. The financing was led by ICONIQ, with co-leads Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners joining the round. This investment marks one of the largest funding rounds in AI history and reflects strong

Proteintech, a global leader in antibodies and life science solutions, today announced the launch of Able AI, a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence tool that is now available on ptglab.com. Finding the most suitable antibodies from the vast pool of potential products is a challenge. Able helps scientists pinpoint the right antibody based on their research needs, while also

The groundbreaking Concept Edition automates complex web and desktop tasks, transforming your browser into an intelligent, autonomous partner that gets work done, so you don’t have to. Fellou, creator of the world’s first agentic AI browser and architect of a new human–computer interface, today announced the launch of Fellou CE (Concept Edition)—the world’s first spatial

Soul Machines, a pioneer in humanizing AI, today announced the launch of Digital Workforce, a groundbreaking product designed to empower large enterprises with the most lifelike, intelligent and secure AI-powered digital workers. This new platform is purpose-built to address the complex needs of enterprise businesses seeking to implement and deploy advanced AI across their organizations. The