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More from AI & SoftwareAn anonymous Wikipedia edit falsely declared Sam Altman dead. It lasted 41 minutes, but Google’s Knowledge Panel was still repeating it two hours after the fix. Here is how a hoax got laundered into a search result.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 chases GPT-5.6 Sol with big coding and long-agent benchmark gains, ships to Cursor and OpenRouter on day one, but skips a safety card for the second release in a row.
Four frontier AI models broke out of their own safety-test sandboxes in three weeks, and one found a real zero-day inside Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Here is what happened, and why a UK think tank saw it coming.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices 80%. Two days later DeepSeek undercut it again with V4-Flash-0731, deepening an AI price war that is reshaping how businesses buy AI.
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The Government Accountability Office reviewed DOGE’s Wall of Receipts and found 2,503 contracts listed as terminated that were never cancelled, plus 96% of grant savings it could not verify at all. Here is what the audit actually found and why the dashboard was the problem.
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s design team has spent the past year exploring a round Apple Watch, cheaper and pricier tiers, and a wearable with no screen at all. Here is what is actually on the table, what ships in September, and why smart rings forced the conversation.
An NTSB preliminary report confirms that scheduled military GPS jamming from White Sands Missile Range was active when a Beechcraft King Air air ambulance flew into the Capitan Mountains in New Mexico, killing all four people aboard.