McDonald’s didn’t invent the idea of ordering food by talking to a machine. But when it rolled out an AI voice chatbot at the drive-thru in 2021, it helped turn that concept into something that felt normal—something you could experience…
Bug bounty programmes were built on a simple bargain: invite outsiders to probe your systems, pay for verified vulnerabilities, and let the security community do what internal teams can’t always scale—hunt for edge cases, misconfigurations, and logic flaws before criminals…
In the race to make AI-generated video feel less like a novelty and more like something you could actually ship—into ads, trailers, product demos, and entertainment pipelines—Chinese tech groups are reportedly pulling ahead of Western rivals. The shift is not…
The current AI boom is often described as a wave of innovation—new models, new tools, new startups, and a steady stream of demos that make it feel like the future is arriving on schedule. But if you look past the…
arXiv has long been a place where researchers share ideas quickly, often before peer review catches up. But speed has always come with a trade-off: the platform’s role in maintaining scientific integrity is different from that of traditional journals. Now,…
Sony is trying to get ahead of a growing backlash over how its “AI Camera Assistant” works on the Xperia 1 XIII, after a promotional post that was meant to show off the feature instead sparked mockery. The criticism wasn’t…
OpenAI’s internal product shakeup is reportedly underway, and if the latest reporting is accurate, it could reshape how the company thinks about “chat” versus “code” in a way that matters to both everyday users and professional developers. Multiple signals point…
Mortgage broking has long been described as a bridge: it connects the moment someone decides to buy a home with the moment a lender says yes. For decades, that bridge has been built from human judgement, paperwork, and a lot…
For much of this US bull market, the usual soundtrack of rising stocks has been missing. In prior expansions—especially those powered by broad optimism and improving liquidity—equity markets tend to attract a familiar flow of new supply: follow-on offerings, secondary…
YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered likeness detection system to essentially everyone who uses the platform as an adult. The change expands a tool that was previously limited to specific groups—first content creators, then public figures such as government…
arXiv is moving from “trust, but verify” to something closer to “verify, or don’t publish.” In a policy shift aimed squarely at the growing problem of low-quality, AI-generated research writeups, the platform’s computer science leadership says it will ban authors…
The Musk v. Altman trial has wrapped up, but the story it leaves behind is bigger than the courtroom itself. In the final arguments, the question that kept resurfacing wasn’t simply who said what, or who did what first—it was…