With so much buzzy tech floating around these days, it’s only natural for national governments to experiment as well. For the past few years, the country of El Salvador’s been experimenting with Bitcoin as legal tender, a woefully ineffective system that’s had he opposite of its stated effects. In the United States, president Donald Trump

Fool Me Twice Yet another team of lawyers was found leaving AI slop in court documents. It’s the latest example of white-collar professionals outsourcing their work to confidently wrong AI tools — and this time, it’s not just about any old frivolous lawsuit. As The Guardian reports, a pair of Australian lawyers named Rishi Nathwani and Amelia

Alibaba is moving into the smart glasses market with a device powered by its own AI models, part of a wider $52.4 billion furthering of AI and cloud computing. The Quark AI Glasses marks the company’s first step into the wearables category and is due to launch in China by the end of 2025. The

Market disruption and shockwaves through Silicon Valley marked Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions of how artificial intelligence companies had operated and scaled. In less than a couple of years, the Beijing-based newcomer has accomplished what many thought impossible: creating AI models that compete with industry giants while spending only a

While AI might feel ubiquitous, it primarily operates in a tiny fraction of the world’s 7,000 languages, leaving a huge portion of the global population behind. NVIDIA aims to fix this glaring blind spot, particularly within Europe. The company has just released a powerful new set of open-source tools aimed at giving developers the power

There’s this quiet battle going on, one you won’t hear about at your neighborhood coffee shop or even on CNBC unless you’re paying close attention. It’s not bulls vs. bears this time. It’s human vs. machine. Flesh and bone intuition versus cold, calculated code. Can AI trading bots really beat human traders? Depends who you

Promptchan includes a built-in NSFW AI Chatbot—designed for sexting, flirting, voice messages, and even selfie/image sharing within chats. It adapts to the tone you set, recalls past messages, and tries to tailor responses based on your history and preferences. Key modes: Text chat with context retention Voice message exchange for added realism Media attachments—selfies or

I didn’t wake up thinking I’d spend two hours scanning my own face, wondering if an AI thought I looked like me. But that’s what happened. So, I tested Facia.ai—not once, not twice, but over a dozen times across devices, lighting conditions, moods, and even hairstyles (my hair has a mind of its own). And

On July 29, 2025, enterprises relying on Microsoft Azure’s East US region experienced an unexpected disruption that reverberated across numerous organizations. Attempted allocations for virtual machines failed. The root cause wasn’t a network breach, misconfiguration, or other complex technical mishap. It was something shockingly basic: a lack of capacity. A sudden surge in demand outstripped

Python’s popularity is surging thanks to AI, but also its power and ease of use. Editable installs for Python packages and the newly refined type hinting in Python 3.14 are just two examples, and the brand new, in-beta installation manager also helps. We get you started with all three—and more—in this week’s Python Report. Top