SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion
… It’s a branch of Visual Studio Code with heavy AI integration. However, incumbent platforms and bigger AI companies have since rolled out comparable features. …
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FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent
… Those companies appear to be violating TIDA, the FTC warned, and need to implement “a process through which victims can request the removal of nonconsensual intimate images appearing on their platforms” within 48 hours or risk “civil penalties of up to $53,088 per violation.” It’s unclear if the so… …
Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps
Microsoft has been deeply committed to the growth of generative AI technology in recent years through its now-fragmented partnership with OpenAI. At Build 2026, the company remains all-in on AI, and it’s looking toward the future with a new software platform. …
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
… Those describe pre-algorithm Twitter circa 2012 quite well.” Now that more and more users are disengaging and often leaving those platforms entirely, the AI bots are moving in, often at the instigation of the social media platforms themselves. “We don’t need the users anymore,” said Törnberg of the… …
Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews
… The company says your favorite websites should appear more prominently in AI search, so it’s trying to make that happen in AI Overviews and AI Mode. …
3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild
… But such relatively inexpensive hardware could enable researchers to more easily test and train AI-powered robotics software in a physical body during real-world experiments. The newly available LeRobot Humanoid project comes from the machine-learning and AI development platform Hugging Face . …
Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more
… This doesn’t mean you’ll always be able to tell if something is AI by looking for SynthID. Plenty of publicly available models continue to produce content with no AI watermarking, and there are open models that can be trained by anyone looking to create AI images and videos on their own terms. …
Google's latest DiffusionGemma open AI model comes with a 4x speed boost
… Conversely, local AI encounters wasted compute cycles due to lower memory bandwidth and idle time. Diffusion models can make more efficient use of available compute, but this isn’t the only way. …
Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
… In fact, the GPUs in most phones can process more AI tokens than the AI-focused NPUs. Components like Apple’s Neural Engine are designed for contextual, efficient AI processing. Even if phones had faster AI processing, they lack the RAM to keep enormous models in memory. …
UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews
… Similar intimate functionalities will be restricted for under-18s on AI chatbots more widely,” the UK government said. Age checks Platforms will be ordered to verify users’ ages. …