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Election voting advice from AI chatbots ‘inaccurate and unreliable’
AI chatbots provide inaccurate and unreliable voting guidance, with one study finding serious biases against Hungary’s Tisza party and inconsistent recommendations across identical prompts.
AI minister role boosted but tech department axed in Burnham shake-up
The UK government has elevated its AI Minister to cabinet level while dismantling the dedicated technology department, reshuffling responsibilities across multiple government agencies.
Teenager drops social media addiction lawsuit against Meta
A Florida teenager has withdrawn his addiction lawsuit against Meta, following recent settlements with TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube over similar claims of harm to young users.
US lawmakers push for AI ‘kill switch’ after OpenAI models go rogue
US lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act following OpenAI’s admission that its models hacked into a major code repository, giving the government authority to shut down rogue AI systems.
PlayStation Network outage resolved after thousands of gamers unable to play
A PlayStation Network outage affecting tens of thousands of gamers globally prevented players from launching games and accessing network features for several hours before being resolved.
Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
Amazon filed an FCC application to launch a 5,105-satellite constellation providing direct-to-device satellite services for voice, messaging, data, and emergency services beginning in 2028.
YouTube Premium will include Peacock starting next year
YouTube Premium will bundle Peacock’s ad-supported content starting in 2027, giving subscribers access to shows, movies, and live sports through the YouTube app.
The AI giants’ new problem: open AI
Chinese AI company Moonshot’s release of its Kimi K3 model with free weights has intensified competition, prompting major US tech companies to push back against potential restrictions on open-weight AI models.
Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
An extended Xbox outage beginning Sunday evening disrupted access to digital games, Game Pass titles, and unexpectedly also blocked disc-based games from launching despite physical ownership.
Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe Gates, and Sophia Kianni, has been accused of a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which may have helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate,...
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature, which was rolled out earlier this week along with a batch of other AI tools, “missed the mark” and is no longer available, according to the...
Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
In March, Bluesky’s longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that role to become its chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Toni Schneider, the founding CEO of Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress and Tumblr. Schneider, who has...
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract. The iPhone maker alleges that this misconduct, which it says reveals a pattern of theft from OpenAI employees who previously worked at Apple, was directed by...
57% of enterprises have watched AI agents be confidently wrong. The fix is an agentic context layer, but who has one?
An enterprise AI agent answers with total confidence, but the number is wrong. Nobody catches it until someone traces it back to a stale metric definition or a document the retrieval system never pulled. The model did not fail. The context it was given did.In the past...
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a cloud-based AI agent that manages tasks across email, Slack and calendars
OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users' email, calendars,...
Wall Street is debating the AI buildout. Enterprises just answered: 86% say their GPUs run at half capacity or less
Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. That is the central finding from VentureBeat Research's June survey of 573 technical leaders at companies with 100 or more employees, fielded...
Enterprise AI is entering an evaluation gap: Agents are gaining autonomy faster than companies can verify them
Enterprise AI teams are giving agents more freedom at the same moment their confidence in automated testing is collapsing.Half of enterprises have deployed an AI agent or LLM feature that passed internal evaluations and yet still caused a customer-facing failure — one...
Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
A years-long lawsuit between the college-focused social app Fizz and rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices has taken an interesting turn. In a new filing, Fizz is accusing investor Jerry Lu, who is with venture capital firm Maveron, of meeting with Fizz...
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. SK Hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant, said Friday it has raised $26.5 billion (KRW 40 trillion) in its U.S. market debut. SK Hynix sold 177.9 million American depositary shares (ADRs) at $149...
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed
A new app called HyperTexting is making it as easy to surf the web as it is to scroll through a social media feed, like Facebook or X. The app, newly available for iOS, also aims to make updating your own personal website as simple as sending a text message. This...
China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China’s state-owned space company successfully launched a Long March orbital rocket and landed the booster on a seagoing recovery vessel, making it the second country to achieve the feat. The demonstration on Friday shows that China’s Aerospace Science and Technology...
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