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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400

Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.

TechCrunch·

Google open-sources an AI model it says can help with earlier hurricane warnings

WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms' track and intensity.

Engadget·

Report shares new pricing and design details about OpenAI’s first device

After sharing initial details about OpenAI’s plans for its first smart device, Bloomberg has published a new report with more information about its form factor and price. Here are the details.

9to5Mac·

OpenAI's ring-shaped smart speaker will reportedly cost between $300 and $400

It would be an ambitiously high price for the AI-powered hardware pivot.

Engadget·

Oh Cool, AI Is Inventing New Biological Viruses Now

Can we just stick to cybercrimes?

Gizmodo·

Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker

The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is "essentially a smart speaker without a display" that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck, according to…

The Verge·

Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music

Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."

Ars Technica·

Google Maps Adds Agentic Feature That Orders Food and Books Hotels for You

Interested users will also be able to share their entire schedule with Google Maps and let its AI agents takeover.

Gizmodo·

Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

Ars Technica·

AI is now making new viruses

What could possibly go wrong?

Engadget·

Large genome models used to design new viruses

The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.

Ars Technica·

AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision

Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws

The Register·

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits

The Register·

Suno is adding audio watermarks so AI-generated songs are more easily identifiable

Suno is adding audio watermarks so AI-generated songs are more easily identifiable

Engadget·

Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music

Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out…

The Verge·

ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.

TechCrunch·

OpenAI updating ChatGPT with a smarter GPT-5.6 Sol and unlimited free chats

ChatGPT has become so much more than just chat over the last year. To that end, OpenAI is removing limits on text chat. ChatGPT will also improve with a smarter version of GPT-5.6 Sol. Details below.

9to5Mac·

OpenAI will no longer limit how many texts free accounts can send to ChatGPT

There will still be limits on image generation, voice mode usage and other features.

Engadget·

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats

OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run…

The Verge·

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?

The Register·

OpenAI Says Apple’s Real Problem Is Being Bad at AI, Not Stolen Secrets

The shame game continues.

Gizmodo·

GPT-5 turning one as OpenAI shares new Agent Plugins standard

OpenAI’s GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models. Today, OpenAI introduced Agent Plugins, an open standard meant to let reusable AI-agent extensions work across…

9to5Mac·

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

Ars Technica·

Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price

Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.

Tom's Hardware·

Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking

This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker.

TechCrunch·

Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it

PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era

The Register·

Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out

Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?

The Register·

Adobe's new ChatGPT plugin brings 70 of its tools to OpenAI's chatbot

Adobe is continuing its enthusiastic embrace of generative AI.

Engadget·

New Adobe plugin in ChatGPT combines Photoshop, Firefly, Premiere, Acrobat, and more

Adobe is unifying its ChatGPT integrations into a new plugin with more than 70 tools spanning photo editing, video, design, and PDFs. Here are the details.

9to5Mac·

Old Reddit a threat to AI data scraping, says platform, with changes coming

When Reddit significantly changed its user interface way back in 2018, there were widespread protests from those who preferred the original. The company has retained access to this at old.reddit.com , and last year…

9to5Mac·

Apple is taking OpenAI to court over alleged theft of trade secrets — ChatGPT maker suggests it doesn't want Cupertino's knowledge anyway

Two of the world's largest companies are heading to court over claims of trade secret theft. Apple alleges ex-employees took key Apple secrets and technologies to OpenAI. In responding, OpenAI claims this is based on…

Tom's Hardware·

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.

Ars Technica·

Rogue OpenAI models behind 'unprecedented cybersecurity incident' teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages for months, communicating undetected

The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an "unprecedented cybersecurity incident" recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.

Tom's Hardware·

News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'

Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'

The Register·

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter

The Register·

OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence

The Register·

An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse

Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional

The Register·

Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see

Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them

The Register·

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.

Ars Technica·

WhatsApp channel admins will soon get the ability to flag AI-generated media

As the EU’s new transparency requirements for AI-generated content take effect , WhatsApp is working on a feature that will allow channel admins to label certain types of AI-generated content. Here are the details.

9to5Mac·

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

"Slop" isn't the only problem.

Ars Technica·

Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars

In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate

The Register·

IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now

A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA

The Register·

Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm

Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures

The Register·

Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA

SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti

The Register·

$4,429 order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 cancelled by Nvidia due to a 'late' price increase, with Asus blamed — marketplace buyer refunded after immediate $500 increase, with top-spec GPU now almost 2.5x higher than MSRP

Nvidia cancelled a Redditor's Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.

Tom's Hardware·

MacPaw is building an on-device AI layer that will work across your Mac apps

MacPaw has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Liquid AI to co-develop an on-device AI technology stack built specifically for the Mac. The collaboration will start with Eney, MacPaw’s AI assistant for…

9to5Mac·

Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.

Tom's Hardware·