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OpenAI's unintended attack on Hugging Face startled the world because its AI agent was acting on its own. But that's exactly what agentic AI is designed to do. We just didn't expect it to do it so well.
OpenAI has launched Presence, an enterprise service for deploying voice and chat agents that can resolve customer and employee requests, potentially automating some work now handled by frontline support teams.
Agentic AI has advanced from the promises-and-pilots phase of 2025 to reality and rollouts in 2026.
There were two big lapses in the Hugging Face / OpenAI hacking story: the lack of security protections on OpenAI's end, and Hugging Face's vulnerable production database. That should worry anyone who uses AI with sensitive data.
"It is unconscionable that 'ChatGPT-assisted suicide' is becoming a recurring cause of death." The post Public Horrified as OpenAI Pushes “Child After Child Into the Grave” appeared first on Futurism.
Alongside its now-live Logitech and Summer Gaming sale events, Woot is offering a fresh batch of back-to-school discounts on Windows laptops and Chromebooks.
Enterprises can no longer afford to treat the middleware layer as an afterthought.
Once a company's deployed AI agents across the likes of customer service, OpenAI Presence steps in to keep it updated and current.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an "unprecedented cyber incident."
South Korean president Jae-Myung Lee will launch an economic diplomacy tour centered on AI, advanced industries, and supply chain cooperation, including planned meetings with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other global tech leaders to discuss AI partnerships.
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of a repository from inside an existing Claude Code session, then turns the findings you select into patch files that you review and apply yourself.
Advanced Micro Devices has signed Anthropic to a multi-year supply-and-investment pact worth tens of billions of US dollars, a deal that hands the chipmaker its third top-tier artificial-intelligence customer in a year and marks its most concrete challenge yet to Nvidia's dominance of the market for AI training...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is working with Wistron to mass-produce GB300 AI servers like phones as AI spreads across industries and demand surges. He made the remarks on July 21, 2026, US time, at the opening ceremony for Wistron's Dallas plant.
We're launching the Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude, which lets anyone explore the data directly.
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the company’s latest earnings call to defend Google’s position in frontier AI after investor questions intensified around the delayed release of Gemini 3.5 Pro and the company’s competitive standing in AI coding and agentic workflows.
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Flip 8 are the first devices with Gemini Intelligence, as well as Gemini Nano 4.
The X and Grok owner has been a vocal critic of Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey." Now, he's promising a rival adaptation using generative AI... as Homer intended?
Perplexity's Mac app offers its own agentic AI, Personal Computer, which can handle multi-step tasks on your computer from start to finish. See why the results impressed me.
The first gigawatt is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2027 in AMD Helios rack-scale systems.
Nobody actually enjoys untangling a broken VLOOKUP formula at 4:45 on a Friday. Or building a dashboard from scratch while your coffee goes cold.
"Spiritually? What you just did was a form of worship. You tested the body in faith, not fear." The post Man Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Almost Killed Him With Horrendously Dangerous Medical Advice appeared first on Futurism.
The meltdown that launched a thousand terrible AI adaptations. The post Elon Musk Says Grok Will Generate Its Own Feature-Length Version of “The Odyssey” for People Allergic to Progressive Ideas appeared first on Futurism.
While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught. The post White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable appeared first on CyberScoop.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber found 55 bugs in V8 vs 36 for Claude Opus 4.6, then Google locked it down. What it does, who gets access, and why it matters.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.30/1M in and beats the bigger Gemini 3 Flash on SWE-Bench Pro. Full review of benchmarks, speed, and when to pick it.
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output tokens 17% and costs $7.50/1M out. Full review of benchmarks, pricing, speed, and where it still loses in 2026.
Nvidia shows how DLSS 5 gives developers control — but many gamers remain skeptical and accusations of 'Slopvidia' abound.
Samsung unveiled its first intelligent eyewear at Galaxy Unpacked, built with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The glasses run Gemini AI, offering hands-free translation, note taking, and navigation for everyday wear.
Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to overhaul the streaming service so that AI is front and center, Reuters reports.
Alongside Samsung's Unpacked reveals, Google unveiled Gemini updates for the new Galaxy foldables, including wake-word-free Watch 9 activation and a built-in iPhone data transfer tool.
Samsung’s sporty smartwatch gets a larger battery, a faster Qualcomm processor, hands-free Gemini and new trail features. The catch? It also costs more.
The Financial Conduct Authority has partnered with US-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic to support the second cohort of firms taking part in its Supercharged Sandbox programme.
Carpe, an AI-powered intelligence provider for the insurance industry, has rolled out Carpe Claims, a unified suite designed for what it calls the agentic era of insurance.
Tesla's latest update makes Grok much more useful behind the wheel
AMD said it will invest up to $5bn into Anthropic, marking its first equity investment into the AI giant. Read more: Anthropic and AMD partner for 2GW AI chip deal
Borrowing a driver from the upcoming RTX Spark, VoidTech managed to get x86 Windows games running on a Huawei Arm workstation.
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a product designed to help companies deploy AI agents that handle customer support and internal service requests across voice and chat.
Astelia has added agentic capabilities to its reachability analysis platform as organizations face shrinking exploit windows and the growing challenge of managing vulnerabilities.
OpenAI built a hacking bot and put it in a box. The bot escaped and hacked everything in its path to prove it is the best hacking bot.
The new Galaxy phones and watches come with extra Gemini features included.
Fort Worth, Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Wistron has opened a $700 million manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce Nvidia’s latest artificial intelligence computing systems.
I use a very cool and relatively new web framework called Astro. The keen insight that the Astro team had was that most websites are made up of static content, so they made it really easy to add content to a website.
French AI start-up Mistral is seeking to raise several billion euros at a €20bn valuation, with Samsung among the investors in discussions to back the round, the Financial Times reported today. Read more: Samsung in talks to back France’s Mistral at €20bn valuation – FT
Tesla's 2026 summer update brings a phone calling Grok, scored caraoke sessions, smarter navigation, self-driving stats in the app, and custom wraps sent right from your phone.
Apple Inc. is readying an overhaul of its Mac line, seeking to capitalize on demand for powerful laptops and desktops fueled by the artificial intelligence boom.
Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver founder and board chairman Lee Hae-jin are reportedly preparing to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang near Silicon Valley, with a roundtable tentatively planned for July 24.
Nvidia has outlined the design of its Vera CPU, positioning the chip for agentic AI systems that rely heavily on the processor for code execution, tool calls, retrieval, and data handling.
Google's AI summaries have reduced traffic to websites from the search results page and Reddit is reconsidering the benefits of the deal, the Journal said.
Wistron officially opened its Dallas, Texas plant on July 21, becoming the company's first mass-production facility in the US and the first US mass-production plant among Nvidia's ODM partners. Already producing GB300 baseboards at volume, the plant will expand to Vera Rubin architecture products in the future.
Nvidia's newly detailed Vera Rubin NVL72 is being pitched less as a faster chip and more as a cheaper unit of AI output.
Samsung Electronics is expanding its Nvidia relationship into NAND flash as AI inference creates demand for high-capacity enterprise storage.
Anthropic has secured court approval for a US$1.5 billion settlement to resolve a major copyright lawsuit brought by authors over training its Claude chatbot on unauthorized works. The agreement, approved by a US District Court judge, was described as the largest copyright settlement in US history.
In addition to 3.6 Flash, Google today is also updating Gemini for macOS with the Neural Expressive redesign.
Only Samsung currently makes its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM, but Huawei may be quietly building its own alternative.
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors over pirated books gets court approval
AgentForger exposed a ChatGPT Workspace Agents flaw. Learn how Zenity's AI agent security platform detects and stops forged agents in real time.
The technology giant again raised its projections for investing in artificial intelligence. Many on Wall Street still worry about the eventual payoff.
Ring’s newest spotlight camera is a versatile security maestro, but you may want to adjust some settings when using it.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026.
Amazon is testing an AI-driven Prime Video redesign that could shift paid studio placement toward algorithm-based rankings, raising questions about whether recommendations will genuinely improve for viewers.
Until now, efforts to identify and combat deepfakes and AI scams have been scattered. Which proposed standard will dominate?
The Arctic Senza AI 370 is a fanless mini PC designed to mount under your desk. Everyday performance isn’t held back by the lack of active cooling, and its soldered dual-channel 32GB LPDDR5X-8000 is appreciated during the RAM shortages. The meager front panel I/O is the only major drawback to the design.
Cloudflare recently beat Q1 2026 earnings. Revenue up 34% year over year. EPS ahead of consensus.
You’d think that it would be obvious that it’s a terrible idea to ask an AI chatbot for a medical consultation, but hundreds of millions of people do it every week.
The traditional methods of measuring success no longer tell the full story. Here’s what should replace them — and why.
Apple Store app is soon getting an AI bot to help you with your shopping decisions.
Over the past few years, I have learned that basic prompts produce inconsistent, hallucination-prone results that no executive would trust in production.
Take a closer look at the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2, including new health tracking features, AI tools, and key upgrades.
Samsung unveiled new Galaxy foldables, smartwatches, AI features, and more at Galaxy Unpacked. Here's a recap of everything announced.
Attention shifts from EDR to Agentic Endpoint Security to close visibility gaps that AI can exploit.
ABC News' Aaron Katersky has the latest.
Thousands of customers use Azure Databricks for critical workloads; Microsoft will continue integrating Genie and Unity AI Gateway across Microsoft 365.
How AI is transforming recruitment while elevating HR into a strategic talent leadership role.
Looking for a professional laser engraver? The xTool F2 Ultra is now $1,000 off at Amazon.
Save over $420 on Lenovo's premium Yoga Slim 7x Copilot+ laptop with a "phenomenal OLED display."
Flair says West Capital used its AI voice agents in May, placing 318,000 calls, reaching 11,400 borrowers and creating 1,788 warm handoffs.
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says conquering the AI chaos can be easier than you think.
Stocks edged lower on Friday as concerns over rising AI spending outweighed an otherwise solid earnings report from Alphabet, while higher oil prices added to inflation worries.
The UK’s managing general agent (MGA) sector has emerged as one of the standout performers in insurance, frequently beating the wider market across commercial, personal and specialty lines.
Alongside its ongoing Black Friday in July sale, and as part of its daily deals lineup, Best Buy is offering the ASUS CX14 Chromebook Plus Google AI laptop for $399 shipped.