Discord delays its global age verification rollout to 2026 after user backlash, promising expanded options including credit card verification and on-device facial estimation, while maintaining compliance in countries like the UK and Australia where legal requirements already exist.
Quill raises $6.5M in seed funding and launches Quilliam, an AI 'Chief of Staff' that transforms meeting action items into real tasks, drafts follow-up communications, and queries full meeting histories — all while keeping humans in control with privacy-first, fully offline operation.
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.
DuckDuckGo launches free AI image editing on Duck.ai, letting users upload and edit images via text prompts powered by OpenAI, with privacy protections that strip metadata and IP addresses before processing — no account required.
Microsoft 365 Copilot bug exposes confidential emails by bypassing security protections, allowing the AI assistant to incorrectly summarize sensitive messages from users' Sent Items and Drafts folders since late January, with Microsoft now deploying fixes.
Perplexity is dropping ads from its AI search platform, warning that advertising erodes user trust by making people 'doubt everything,' as the company pivots to paid subscriptions targeting high-value professionals like lawyers, doctors, and CEOs — drawing a sharp contrast with OpenAI's pro-advertising stance.
Meta partners with NVIDIA in a multiyear deal to deploy millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs across hyperscale data centers, while expanding use of Grace CPUs and implementing confidential computing for WhatsApp's AI-powered features with enhanced privacy protection.
EU Parliament disables AI features on lawmakers' work devices over security concerns, blocking writing assistants and virtual tools that send data to cloud services while urging officials to take similar precautions on personal devices.
OpenClaw, a viral open-source AI agent with 190,000 GitHub stars, faces critical security vulnerabilities that expose user credentials through prompt injection attacks, making the automation tool currently unusable despite its popularity and promises of unprecedented productivity.
Enterprise security teams block AI coding tools like Cursor due to $25 million annual costs and governance nightmares from uncontrolled local access to private repositories, while companies seek secure alternatives through controlled infrastructure solutions.