Popular right wing influencer Charlie Kirk was killed in a shooting in Utah yesterday, rocking the nation and spurring debate over the role of divisive rhetoric in political violence. As is often the case in breaking news about public massacres, misinformation spread quickly. And fanning the flames this time was Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot, which is now

A new pendant-shaped wearable that continuously records everything you do isn’t just an enormous privacy violation in the making — it’s also a jerk that loves to mouth off. The $129 wearable, with the uninspired name “Friend,” is the brainchild of 22-year-old entrepreneur Avi Schiffmann, who sought to end a growing loneliness epidemic by providing his

Countless users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of “AI psychosis” that’s alarming mental health professionals. Some even say the tech could give birth to entirely new categories of mental disorders. The grim trend has already been linked to several deaths, including the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, which has

Customers are discovering brands and learning about products and services in new ways from traditional search to AI search, to AI agents and more, the discovery journey has completely changed, and brands need to adapt to the new paradigm. Launched earlier this year, Yext Scout is an AI search and competitive intelligence agent that’s designed

Owner of VMware, Broadcom, announced that its VMware Cloud Foundation platform is now AI native at the VMware Explore conference a few weeks ago. It was the latest move by the company to keep up to speed with the rest of the technology industry’s wide and rapid adoption of large language models, yet came as

This year we’ve seen remarkable advances in agentic AI, including systems that conduct deep research, operate computers, complete substantial software engineering tasks, and tackle a range of other complex, multi-step goals. In each case, the industry relied on careful vertical integration: tools and agents were co-designed, co-trained, and tested together for peak performance. For example, OpenAI’s recent models presume the availability of web search and document retrieval tools (opens in new tab). Likewise, the prompts

UR8 Long’s extended reach combined with coordinated multi-axis motion allows for complex weldments at consistent quality. Motion performance optimization also delivers smoother movements at maximum speed to significantly enhance fast-paced bin picking. Universal Robots (UR), the world’s leading collaborative robot (cobot) company, today introduced a new addition to its portfolio, the UR8 Long. Showcased for the first time

From Rapid Development to Unified Observability, HARC Agents Powers Mission-Critical AI with a Pre-Built Agent Library, Seamless Collaboration, and Centralized Control The HARC Agents platform enables enterprises to design, build, deploy, and leverage complex agentic AI systems in 30% less time than typically required. HARC Agents combines four primary AI services from Hitachi: R202.ai, HARC

From Coders to AI Quality Guardians, Engineers are Shifting Focus — with 66% of Leaders Saying that Validating AI Outputs is Now a Critical Skill, According to Uplevel Survey AI is transforming software engineering at record speed — reshaping what engineers do and the skills they need to succeed. As AI adoption increases, a new

Advancing its vision of bringing AI into every stage of enablement, Seismic defines the dimensions of purpose-built, interoperable, and trusted AI Building on recent innovations, Seismic, the global leader in AI-powered enablement, today shared its perspective on the future of AI in enablement at Seismic Shift 2025. As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI, Seismic is setting