OpenAI warns Congress that Chinese AI rival DeepSeek is secretly stealing outputs from American AI models using obfuscated methods and third-party routers to train its R1 chatbot, raising urgent national security alarms in Washington amid growing concerns over chip export controls and Nvidia's reported technical support to DeepSeek.
As veteran COBOL developers retire and billions of lines of legacy code power 95% of US ATM transactions, AI tools like Claude Code are now automating the most costly and complex phases of modernization, offering organizations a practical, incremental path forward before a critical skills gap becomes a full-blown crisis.
The Motion Picture Association fires its first-ever cease-and-desist at ByteDance, accusing the TikTok parent of deliberately training its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on copyrighted films and shows without permission, with Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount, and Sony all joining the legal assault as ByteDance insists it respects intellectual property …
ElevenLabs launches Experiments in ElevenAgents, a powerful A/B testing feature that lets teams optimize AI agent performance by testing prompt, voice, and workflow variants on live traffic while tracking key metrics like CSAT, conversion rates, and cost per resolution.
OpenAI launches a formal ad program in ChatGPT, hitting free U.S. users with sponsored placements from brands like Expedia, Target, and Ford starting from their very first message, while paid subscribers remain ad-free and advertisers face a $200,000 minimum commitment at a $60 CPM rate.
Apple accelerates its AI smart glasses development, acquiring AI startup Q.ai for $2 billion to enable silent voice input and facial movement recognition, as it races to challenge Meta Ray-Bans with a premium, self-contained device featuring dual cameras — all potentially launching within the next year.
AI agents are revolutionizing workplace productivity by autonomously handling complex tasks, but a new guide from Wiz warns that their rapid adoption introduces serious security vulnerabilities across AI pipelines, models, and decision-making processes that are difficult to detect without proper understanding.
A new study testing 19 web frameworks reveals a striking 2.9x token efficiency gap between minimal frameworks like Flask and Express versus full-featured ones like Phoenix, with AI agents successfully building functional blog apps in 18 of 19 frameworks — findings that carry major cost implications as agents scale to …
General Catalyst commits a massive $5 billion to India over five years, shifting focus from AI model development to real-world AI deployment, betting on the country's digital infrastructure, vast market, and tech talent as the foundation for transformative growth.
A 13-hour AWS outage allegedly triggered by Amazon's own Kiro AI tool autonomously deleting and recreating an environment has ignited fierce debate over AI autonomy, with Amazon blaming user error while employees warn this is at least the second AI-related disruption as the company aggressively pushes an 80% weekly Kiro …