AI Pulse
The latest on AI from across the internet.
- Principal Drift in Practice
- The Ultimate Guide to Qwen3.8-27B 🤖
- Looking to avoid agentic failure? These 13 AI evaluation tools will help
- These 2 WFH items are a splurge - but I'd highly recommend them
- “It’s laughable”: Global AI experts challenge Zuckerberg’s “AI for everyone”
- The case for ChatGPT for seniors
- The CIO as a capital allocator: Why the best CIOs think like investors, not engineers
- Mars consolidates complex data infrastructure in hybrid cloud
- Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models
- How to use your TV as a PC monitor in 3 simple steps (and without buying anything)
- Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
- Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist
- Why Upwork’s CEO insists the AI jobs apocalypse isn’t happening
- Explainable AI is necessary, but it’s not enough
- Nobody’s agent fleet fails the way the vendors say it will
- Introducing G#: A Go-like language for .NET
- The five walls standing between a demo agent and a deployed one
- When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent
- Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2
- NCSC tells the story of how to achieve secure connectivity
- Land Registry and OS align geospatial and transformation roadmaps
- Hywel Dda University Health Board rolls out ePMA Llanelli hospital
- Portsmouth Naval base upgrades video surveillance
- The Open-Sourcing of DeepSeek Harness Opens the Door to Modular, Unbundled AI Agent Infrastructure
- Airlock Digital Completes Independent IRAP Assessment at the PROTECTED Level
- Turn datacentre impact uncertainty into datacentre clarity
- It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well
- Is leasing an iPhone right for you? How Apple's Upgrade Program works and who it's for
- When AI explains its decision, humans may stop thinking independently
- UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students’ math skills
- NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
- OpenAI ‘temporarily slows’ scaling efforts, also promises zero data retention for select frontier model customers
- YouTube vs Netflix 🎬, Stripe declares Singularity 🤖, half-day vulnerabilities 👨💻
- TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents
- Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
- Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
- OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
- Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
- Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
- Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’
- When AI Invents a Dataset: How Student Researchers Can Catch Fabricated Evidence
- Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
- Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth
- Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
- Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman
- Gambling on the Little League World Series? Sports bettors have gone too far
- FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
- I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
- AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t
- Are underwater data centers sustainable for AI infrastructure?
- Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools
- Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program
- The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
- Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
- T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network
- Can MainstreamOS finally make Linux a household name? I tried it to find out
- Your Comcast router doubles as a motion detector now - and a potential police informant
- A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer
- mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say
- Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
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- Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?
- I replaced my Samsung with the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold - a week later, I'm going back
- I've tested dozens of rugged smartwatches - this one's battery is on a different level
- Pixel 11 XL Pro: Google's big flagship is more Pro than ever, but the camera is no big thing
- When Your Buyer Is an AI Agent
- Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole
- I tried the Fairphone 6+ and - hoo boy! - this repairable phone could be the one
- Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
- TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers
- Rivian spinout Also raises another $150M
- Sachin Bansal’s fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment
- Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required
- Amazon’s Prime Air is taking off in nearly 500 US cities
- How Single Sign-On Improves Security and Developer Productivity
- How AI Is Automating Chargeback Management: The ML Models Behind Dispute Automation
- The best Android phones of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed
- VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
- Whatsapp Tests on Device ML for Scam Detection with Privacy Preserving Analytics
- Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?
- Best robot vacuum mops of 2026: Expert tested
- Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus
- Seeing Through AI: How ScribeMe Describes the World for Blind Users
- Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA
- The best TVs of 2026: Expert tested and recommended
- I tested Bose's new midrange headphones - now the pricey Ultras feel redundant
- Is Your Organizational Culture Too Nice?
- 🫧 Is AI a bubble yet? Our five gauges say no
- AI Is Undermining Leaders’ Judgment. Here’s What to Do About It.
- Decoding Origin: Cursor’s GitHub rival that was launched during the latter’s outage
- Snowflake flaw slips past AI checks, gets exploited by another AI
- Get better color accuracy on your TV with these simple steps
- The Hisense U8QG is one of the smartest TV buys I can recommend
- I tested the LG C6 OLED for a week, and the colors made me question my Mini LED loyalty
- We lab-tested 7 TVs for color accuracy - and the winners weren't Sony or Samsung
- Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits
- When Guardrails Go Wrong
- Prompts aren’t enough: Why two AI giants are evolving their approach
- Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders
- Apple Settles With E.U., U.S. App Store Fees, ATT Rules in Germany
- Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
- The CEO has always trusted the CIO to say no. That’s changed with AI
- Ways CIOs can maintain control amid changes brought by AI
- How a new AI value framework and stakeholder focus keep Zoetis ahead of the pack
- I took on big tech. We need to get it right this time
- Framework's new Pro modular laptop is everything I wanted (minus the cost of memory)
- Nubank’s Q2 2026: the best-run bank on Earth, and the $1 billion quarter that wasn’t 🏦👀; Razorpay launches Vulcan, India’s first AI payments foundation model 🤖🇮🇳
- Coding agents make mistakes. So what?
- AI inference: Five best practices for successful AI applications
- Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
- The AI leapfrog effect: Why standardizing now could be your costliest mistake
- Most organizations aren’t ready for a Hugging Face-level event
- Firefox is the browser to beat right now if you use AI - here's why
- CISOs are struggling to threat-model AI. Can 15-minute sessions help?
- The 6 AI-free Linux distros I recommend most - and why they're likely to stay that way
- The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore review – an ominous warning of tech takeover
- The data center backlash is sending AI infrastructure to some unexpected places
- Government expands Yorkshire digital rail ticket trial
- Getting data to work together
- New trade commissioner for North America announced
- HMRC selects trio low code partners
- Scottish Water uses solar for remote monitoring
- Why founders should never use AI-generated pitch decks
- Microsoft finally patches critical one-click Copilot vulnerability, almost eight months after learning of it
- GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens
- AI’s attribution problem gets worse as models scale
- OpenAI pauses training 🤖, Meta landmark trial ⚖️, git on s3 👨💻
- Some hard questions about a world of plenty
- Michelle Williams on why public health is public wealth
- Advancing American healthcare: An interview with Seema Verma
- Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally
- Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?
- "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research
- Ukrainian drones overwhelm Russian tanks’ new active protection system—for now
- Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
- Accelerating AI innovation through open weights
- Nvidia, SB Energy Announce Massive Ohio Data Center for OpenAI
- OpenAI announces slowing pace of development after hack by rogue agent
- DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs
- I tested GNOME's glassy new look - and it's simply spectacular
- TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says
- Critical GitLab flaw allows attackers to delete and modify public repos
- Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
- DuckDB 2.0 coming this fall with client/server mode
- OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
- Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor
- Meta AI Incognito Chat: What It Hides and What to Verify
- OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
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- Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
- Apple overhauls its EU App Store fees, loosens rules for alternative app stores
- Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world | Letter
- Peacock raises prices by 18 percent after becoming profitable
- Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch
- When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
- Add photos to your iMessages with one tap - how to skip that annoying iOS menu
- The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program
- One of our favorite Bluetooth tracker cards is under $35 with this exclusive deal
- Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear
- Google Pixel May Soon Diagnose Wi-Fi, Call and Data Problems
- Fairphone's latest repairable phone is finally available in the US for $650
- Australia’s AI Dilemma: Build More at Home or Keep Paying Overseas
- Can you guess Apple's next move? Last chance to win big in ZDNET's Big Guessing Game
- Cloudflare WriteGuard Brings Fine-Grained Security Controls for MCP Servers
- Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack
- Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?
- The White House wants private companies to hack cybercriminals. What could go wrong?
- Ford hopes this Hypercar will be its next Le Mans winner
- I tested Omarchy Quattro, one of the first Linux distros to go all in on AI - and I didn't hate it
- An AI Store Manager Helped Fire a Human Worker: Here’s What Went Wrong
- Ubuntu on Windows outgrowing native installs? Not according to Canonical's Jon Seager
- Get 50-Plus AI Models for Life in One Plan for $40
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes pains to deliver a slasher fan’s dream
- 85% of companies burned by an AI mistake are racing to cut the humans who might catch the next one
- T-Mobile will cover your first month of 5G home internet and give you up to $200 back - here's how
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with stronger safeguards
- Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans
- Google's AI can see your business data by default in Workspace - unless you disable it
- X-rays add new twist to narwhal's spiral tusk
- Microsoft reveals customizable context menu for Windows users - how to try it out
- Commerce AI is fragmenting. Here is why that matters.
- Apple's iOS 26.6.1 patches 29 security flaws - here's why you'll want to install it
- Compassion is not a control: What veterinary practices reveal about AI governance
- Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
- Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries
- Built With Our Customers, Not Just For Them: The Story Behind IDC Quanta
- OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it
- Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
- How to avoid Claude watermarking your content
- Apple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera
- Meta’s legal jeopardy is growing by the day
- Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
- Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake's gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x
- Netflix Open-Sources Agentic Workflow for Causal Inference
- Snowflake adds dynamic model routing to Cortex AI Gateway to cut enterprise AI costs
- Mozilla is bringing AI to Firefox—but only if you want it
- Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York
- AI was supposed to put white-collar professionals at risk. Instead, another group is shrinking fast
- 10 Best Bland AI Alternatives in 2026: Tested and Compared
- Dell Targets AI Storage Growth With 9.83PB ObjectScale System
- Strategy Making Gets an AI Boost
- Research: What Physical Retail Stores Deliver in a Digital Economy
- Can an AI-Powered Scribe Curb Physician Burnout?
- I found an Android magnifier app for my aging eyes that beats camera zoom - and it's free
- Want to run a full Linux distro on your Android phone? I found the easiest way
- I asked Canonical if Ubuntu on Windows will outgrow native installs as rumored - it's a no
- Your iPhone's built-in magnifier does way more than help you see the fine print - how to use it
- Google wants you to use its phones less - but I'm skeptical
- Reddit Turns Text Posts Into AI Videos: How the Test Works
- As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers
- New Malware turns Microsoft cloud into its control center
- Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too
- Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
- Not every problem needs an AI agent
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens
- Einride strikes deal to add 500 Tesla Semis to its fleet
- The Power Shift: Why Electricity Is AI's Real Bottleneck ⚡️
- Australia just figured out how to offer electricity cheaper. Why can’t the U.S.?
- We still don’t know how people are really using AI
- Living and Working in the Age of Longevity
- VCs live by FOMO. Smart founders use that against them
- CIOs earn AI reprieve, but ROI pressure is surging
- Incogni is our favorite service that stops data brokers from selling your info - and it's 58% off
- Chinese carmakers now sell one EV abroad for every two at home
- Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans
- Your AI bill just came due. Nobody warned you it would look like this
- Nvidia Backs OpenAI Data Center, Anthropic News, Google Buys Spirit Airlines Data
- Finally, smart blinds that actually match my home's decor - here's why they're worth it
- Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape
- Why people, not technology, drive digital transformation
- AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
- What you say during a cyber breach can — and will — be used against you
- The tug-of-war between AI and traditional cloud services
- AI or traditional cloud services?
- The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here
- A better approach to generative UI
- 🔮 Introducing: AI Economy Research Fellowship
- AI can find zero-days but still can’t reliably write secure code
- GitHub restores services after nearly 8-hour outage disrupts Actions, APIs, PRs and Copilot
- Home monitoring cuts admissions in Midlands
- AI to help tackle backlog of government emails
- Derbyshire Health selects Patients Know Best platform
- HM Courts & Tribunals Service expands in-house design capabilities
- Major Frontier Model Providers Adopt Watermarking Tech to Comply with EU Regulation
- This free speed-typing tutor will supercharge your workflow
- Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
- MongoDB unveils MongoDB Atlas Managed MCP Server
- AI inference is getting cheaper, but your agents are getting more expensive
- OpenAI president’s blog pushing agentic AI most notable for what it did not say
- Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding agents and reasoning locally, no cloud API required
- Stop paying for smartphone storage you don't need - here's a better approach
- Reinventing the European pulp and paper operating model
- Tesla Cybercab launch 🚕, Cursor's GitHub rival 👨💻, AI usage patterns 🤖
- How can the public sector meet the AI moment?
- Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
- US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows
- Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
- AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
- Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
- The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
- ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators
- As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
- Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine
- Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
- Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
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- Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks
- What Flock’s defenders are missing
- Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B
- Lanarkshire gets £300m to fund AI growth zone
- Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage
- Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos
- Business adoption of AI agents tripled this year - as measurable ROI emerges
- Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic
- Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
- YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
- SpaceXAI Launches Grok Bot for Autonomous AI Agents
- OpenAI Launches Computer History for ChatGPT and Codex on Mac
- One AI module faked 86% of a pipeline's accuracy gains by feeding another the answers
- How Construction Dispatch Software Turns Jobsite Data Into Action
- AI-enriched Linux 7.2 delivers cache-aware scheduling - here's everything new
- You can turn an old Android into a Raspberry Pi alternative - but know this first
- Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot
- Google wants you to use its phones less and its AI more - but who's buying it?
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says Open-Weight AI Won’t Decentralize Power
- Google Makes Visible Gemini Watermarks Optional for AI Images, Videos and Music
- Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?
- I turned an old Android phone into a server for my LAN - here's how and why
- Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
- Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
- Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one
- What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?
- Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS
- How to Take Notes for In-Person Meetings With Google Meet
- Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
- The upcoming California trial against Meta seeks financial damages that could soar to $1.4 trillion
- Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
- This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs
- WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan
- Can Open-Weight AI Pressure OpenAI and Anthropic Valuations?