Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
Microsoft more or less built an enterprise agent on top of OpenClaw, the AI tool that riveted San Francisco’s early adopters at the start of 2026. Scout is designed specifically to…
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X’s Big Bot Purge Wiped Out a Lot of People’s Secret Porn Feeds
…The company’s head of product, Nikita Bier, noted that the platform was flagging and suspending bots at a rapid pace—“208 bots per minute and growing,” he posted on April 9…
This AI Button Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle
…The Button will also be competing in a space where AI giants like OpenAI are building their own AI hardware aimed to meet the moment. Some of these efforts are bound to…
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
…AI seems to be driving every business model, and giants like Google are weaving AI into all their products and operations. At the same time, there’s rising resistance and even disgust…
Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
…vice president of product for Search. “So, you could be asleep, and it's still helping you.” This feature will arrive first for subscribers to Google’s AI Pro and Ultra plans…
Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
…The console he built is in “distress.” Blackley speculated that the February shuffle of Asha Sharma from AI executive to executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft Gaming means the product is…
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
…Magnifica Humanitas isn’t going to immediately convince the AI industry to stop pursuing AGI any more than Pope Francis’ 2015 plea to preserve the planet halted the production of fossil fuel…
The $6 Billion Chinese Startup Trying to Build Hands for Every Robot
…Its Linker Hand products range from $600 to $15,000, depending on the number of joints and level of dexterity required. “A lot of companies can show impressive demos. Fewer can ship…
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
The Pentagon formally sanctioned Anthropic last week, capping a weeks-long, publicly aired disagreement over limits on use of its generative AI technology for military applications such as autonomous weapons. “We do…
AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
…AI is inherently cold and without opinion,” she writes. “[Using serifs] signals ‘We’re AI! But real humans use (and made) our product! We swear!’” “Serifs have an origin in calligraphy,” Vadgama…