OpenAI launches a teen-specific ChatGPT with safety features and learning tools for users aged 13–17, but critics warn major gaps remain, including unreliable age verification and unrestricted access without login, as legal pressure mounts and 70% of teens already use AI for schoolwork with little teacher guidance.
Apple is set to launch camera-equipped AirPods with AI Visual Intelligence alongside new iPhones, positioning the device as a privacy-first alternative to Meta Ray-Bans by using camera feeds solely to provide Siri with environmental context rather than recording content.
Meta is caught running ads for Kromix, an AI deepfake porn app targeting real women including a US politician, directly violating its own policies — exposing a massive failure in the company's automated ad review systems as thousands of similar nudify app ads continue slipping through unchecked.
Andrew Yang demands $15,000 annual payments for Americans as AI disrupts the economy, arguing citizens deserve a share of profits generated from their personal data, while leaving the door open for a 2028 presidential run.
OpenAI launches a dedicated ChatGPT experience for teens, featuring built-in safety controls, parental notifications, Study Mode, and responsible homework tools designed to guide students through learning rather than simply handing them answers.
Anthropic is embedding invisible watermarks into Claude's AI-generated text using Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text system to comply with the EU AI Act's mandate that synthetic content be machine-readable identifiable, with no impact on output quality or user costs.
Voice AI startup Wispr reaches a $2 billion valuation after closing a $280 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures, fueled by four straight quarters of 150%-plus revenue growth and millions of users flocking to its flagship dictation app, Wispr Flow.
X takes a major step toward algorithmic transparency by open-sourcing its expanded 'For You' ranking algorithm on GitHub and launching a new tool that lets active users download their account data to see if their posts have been labeled or suppressed.
A new open-source tool called 'watermarks-remover' is surging on GitHub with 4.8k stars, offering developers the ability to strip AI watermarks from text and images across multiple file formats — but creators warn it's best-effort only, lossy on statistical watermarks, and intended for legitimate privacy use, not fraudulent claims of …
Oumi, founded by a former Google Gemini lead, launches a platform enabling enterprises to build and own custom AI models in hours, challenging Big AI Labs as major companies like Thomson Reuters ditch costly rentals from OpenAI and Anthropic in favor of full control, customization, and data privacy.