Eightfold co-founders secure $35 million in seed funding for Viven, a groundbreaking AI startup that creates digital employee clones by analyzing internal communications like emails and Slack messages, enabling colleagues to query these virtual twins when team members are unavailable.
South Korea strips AI textbooks of official status after just four months due to technical failures, factual errors, and privacy concerns, with adoption rates plummeting from 37% to 19% amid political turmoil and promises to cancel the $850 million program.
Docker launches Model Runner tool that enables developers to package and deploy fine-tuned AI models using LoRA technology, which dramatically reduces compute requirements by adding small adapter layers while keeping base models frozen.
Three popular software tools now harness local AI models to revolutionize digital workflows: Karakeep automatically tags and summarizes bookmarks, VS Code provides intelligent coding assistance through Continue and Granite extensions, and GIMP integrates Stable Diffusion for AI-powered photo editing—all while keeping user data completely private on local devices.
A shocking new national survey reveals nearly 20% of high schoolers report romantic relationships with AI while schools struggle with surging data breaches, deepfake harassment, and students becoming increasingly disconnected from teachers as AI usage skyrockets.
OpenAI revolutionizes ChatGPT by integrating third-party apps from Booking.com, Spotify, Figma, and others, allowing users to directly access external services through natural language commands within conversations, though privacy concerns emerge over data sharing with developers.
Sora launches new user controls allowing people to restrict how AI-generated versions of themselves appear in videos, including blocking political content and setting clothing preferences, following criticism over unauthorized deepfake videos mocking CEO Sam Altman.
Gate22 launches an open-source gateway that lets teams control and audit which tools AI agents can access across platforms like Cursor, featuring function-level permissions, credential management, and unified configuration bundles.
OpenAI and former Apple designer Jony Ive's ambitious palm-sized, screenless AI device hits major roadblocks as engineers struggle with 'always on' functionality, privacy concerns, and computing infrastructure issues, potentially derailing the planned 2026 launch.
OpenAI launches Sora 2, an invite-only iOS app that generates realistic videos with dialogue from text prompts, sparking controversy as users immediately create deepfakes of SpongeBob, JFK, and Martin Luther King Jr., raising intellectual property concerns despite new content safeguards.