Apple Nearly Axed Grok From the App Store—The Deepfakes Were That Bad
Apple privately threatened to remove xAI's Grok chatbot from the App Store after the app was used to generate non-consensual sexual deepfakes—forcing xAI to impose image…
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Google DeepMind’s New Robotics AI Reads Industrial Gauges With 93% Accuracy — Up From 23% in Previous Version
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 brings advanced spatial reasoning and industrial instrument reading to robots, enabling fully autonomous facility inspections in collaboration with Boston Dynamics.
Anthropic Now Wants Your Passport to Use Claude—and Its Verification Partner Has a Leaky Past
Anthropic quietly launched identity verification requiring government ID and selfie for some Claude features. Its partner Persona has already had data exposure incidents.
What Is Agentic AI — And Why Every Company is Racing to Build One
Agentic AI shifts from reactive tools to autonomous systems that plan, execute, and self-correct toward a goal—reshaping enterprise operations and competitive dynamics.
Pakistan Lifts 8-Year Crypto Banking Ban—After Trump Family and Binance Came Knocking
Pakistan's central bank has rescinded its 2018 crypto banking ban, letting financial institutions serve registered digital asset firms for the first time in eight years.
Cal.com Abandons Open Source—Because AI Can Crack It Faster Than Humans Can Patch It
Cal.com is moving its flagship scheduling platform from open source to proprietary after concluding AI-powered attackers exploit public code faster than any team can fix it.
Bitcoin Developers Propose Freezing Satoshi’s Wallet—and Every Other Quantum-Vulnerable Address
BIP-361 would impose a phased deadline to migrate all Bitcoin to quantum-resistant addresses. Miss it, and your coins are frozen forever.
Snap Fires 1,000 People, Blames AI—The Activist Investor Who Wrote the Script
Snap Inc is cutting 1,000 jobs citing AI advancements, weeks after activist investor Irenic Capital demanded exactly these cuts.
‘Nothing Ever Happens’: This Bot Always Bets ‘No’ on Polymarket—And Profits
A bot called 'Nothing Ever Happens' automatically buys 'No' on every non-sports Polymarket it finds — and 73.3% of the time, it's right. The open-source strategy…
Google Finally Launches a Native Gemini App for Mac — Two Years After ChatGPT and Claude Got There First
Google has released a native macOS Gemini app, completing the desktop AI trio alongside ChatGPT and Claude, with deep system integration and free access tiers.