John Doe was around 13 years old when he was tricked, blackmailed and threatened by sex traffickers on Snapchat into taking nude photos and videos of himself. Two years later, he learned from his high […]
Katelyn Chedraoui
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with coding platform Cursor to build new AI models. As part of this deal, Cursor gave SpaceX the right to acquire the company later this […]
Exactly seven weeks after releasing ChatGPT 5.4, OpenAI is dropping a new family of models. ChatGPT 5.5 is now available for paying ChatGPT and Codex users, along with the thinking and pro versions, with plans […]
TikTok is testing an AI-powered meme maker that’s inspired by your videos, the company confirmed to CNET this week. The experimental feature prompted TikTok to add a new setting that automatically gives other users permission […]
Google is going all-in on agentic AI. At Google’s Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, the tech giant announced a slew of updates aimed at helping its enterprise customers automate their business processes with AI agents. […]
A lot has changed in the AI industry in the four months since OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 1.5. We’ve seen a heated race to build agentic tools, an unprecedented deal with the Pentagon and unending […]
Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, will have to deal with a lot of issues when he takes the reins of the company in September. But undoubtedly the biggest challenge Ternus will have to immediately reckon […]
If you want an app you built to be downloadable from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, it has to pass a slew of criteria, including safety standards. But a new report on […]
Anthropic is getting into the design business. The AI company on Friday introduced Claude Design, its first proprietary AI design tool. Claude Design is not explicitly an AI image generator, like Google’s Nano Banana or […]
Anthropic on Thursday released a new AI model, and no, it’s not Claude Mythos Preview. Claude Opus 4.7 is now generally available, meant to help developers and vibe coders with their hardest coding tasks. Opus […]
Codex is less than a year old, but the AI coding platform may be the key to OpenAI’s dream of a superapp — a theoretical one-stop shop for ChatGPT, its Atlas browser and Codex. OpenAI […]
Be careful delegating your work to that chatbot. A new peer-reviewed study published Thursday by the American Psychological Association found that people who heavily rely on AI tools for work tasks reported feeling less confident […]
In the age of generative AI, it seems like every tech company has become an AI company overnight. Creative companies aren’t immune, as Canva proved this week with the launch of what it calls Canva […]
Adobe is diving deeper into agentic AI and expanding its partnership roster in a new deal with the AI developer Anthropic. Adobe on Wednesday introduced its latest conversational, agentic creative assistant, which is the technological […]
OpenAI has a new AI model called GPT 5.4-Cyber, but it’s not coming to your ChatGPT. At least not yet. Instead, the company is doing a limited release to verified cybersecurity testers, according to a […]
Amazon’s AI services division filed 1.1 million reports of suspected online child exploitation in 2025 to an advocacy group. But because those reports lacked essential information, there were zero cases where law enforcement was able […]
The first person has been convicted under the new federal anti-AI deepfake law, the Take It Down Act. It’s a landmark moment for supporters of the law and the growing movement to protect people, particularly […]
In the wake of two massive US court losses around child safety online, Meta is expanding its teen safety programs. The company said on Thursday that it is expanding the use of its PG-13 movie rating-inspired […]
OpenAI on Wednesday released a new policy blueprint for how it should address one of the most important and consequential issues of the AI age: protecting its youngest users. Like every AI company trying to […]
With the school year wrapping up, Adobe’s newest AI tool could help students cram for finals. The company on Tuesday introduced Student Spaces in Acrobat, a new learning space for college students to get personalized […]
Editor’s note, April 3: On March 24, OpenAI announced that it will shut down its AI video generation app, Sora. You can still use Sora for now. OpenAI said in a help center post that […]
From checking emails over morning coffee to scrolling through social media before bed, most of us spend nearly every waking hour jumping from one screen to the next. While staying connected feels necessary, this constant […]
Microsoft is doubling down on AI models that aren’t large language models. The company announced on Thursday that it’s releasing three new models: brand new models for voice and text transcription, and the second generation […]
NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft and the launch gantry at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 31, 2026. NASA/Keegan Barber Fifty-four years after the last Apollo mission […]
In its relatively short history as a social media platform, Bluesky has a pretty decent record for listening to its users. The site saw a surge in popularity after the 2024 election, following what many […]
You really shouldn’t use chatbots in your love life, but if you do, beware. A new study published on Thursday in the journal Science found that when AI dispenses relationship advice, it’s more likely to […]
A California jury found both Instagram owner Meta and Google’s parent company Alphabet liable on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by a 20-year-old woman who alleged that YouTube and Instagram were designed to be addictive […]
OpenAI on Tuesday said it will discontinue its once-viral AI video app, Sora, 176 days (or about 6 months) after it was initially released. It bravely asked the question: Do we really need this? For […]
OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday that it is discontinuing its once-viral AI video app, Sora. OpenAI’s $1 billion deal with Disney, which included licensing of over 200 Disney characters to appear on Sora, is also ending. We’re […]
Music is my constant companion. I’m almost always listening to a carefully curated playlist or new album. I wholeheartedly believe Spotify Wrapped Day should be a national holiday. So, as an AI reporter who has […]
The White House’s new policy framework for regulating generative artificial intelligence, released Friday, covers many areas, but one thing is clear: President Donald Trump wants the federal government to set the rules. And those rules […]
Cybersecurity researchers from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and two cybersecurity firms, Lookout and iVerify, have identified a new hacking toolkit this week that makes iPhone owners’ data vulnerable. The toolkit, called DarkSword, differs from other forms of […]
A new class-action lawsuit, filed on Monday by three teenage girls and their guardians, alleges that Elon Musk’s xAI created and distributed child sexual abuse material featuring their faces and likenesses with its Grok AI tech. […]
As a lifelong Apple fan, I was excited to finally upgrade to a newer iPhone after my beloved but worn iPhone 11 died. There’s a lot to like about the newer models, including the iPhone […]
Nvidia’s GTC event is kicking off on Monday, March 16, in San Jose, California. CEO Jensen Huang will give the keynote address this afternoon, and it’s sure to be all about artificial intelligence and the […]
Adobe has reached a deal with the US Department of Justice to settle the government’s case alleging the creative software giant made it purposefully difficult to cancel its services in violation of consumer protection laws. […]
Adobe has reached a deal with the US Department of Justice to settle the government’s case alleging the creative software giant made it purposefully difficult to cancel its services in violation of consumer protection laws. […]
Meta’s Avocado isn’t ripe quite yet. The company has reportedly delayed the release of its next-generation foundational model until May, according to The New York Times, citing unnamed sources. The model has fallen short “on internal […]
Meta’s Avocado isn’t ripe quite yet. The company has reportedly delayed the release of its next-generation foundational model until May, according to The New York Times, citing unnamed sources. The model has fallen short “on internal […]
Microsoft is taking a major swing at health AI. The company announced on Thursday that it’s introducing Copilot Health, a new experience inside its chatbot that will bring together all your medical records and wearable […]
It’s been three whole months since Google dropped its latest AI image model, so given the breakneck pace of AI development, we were overdue. Google delivered, with Nano Banana 2, released in late February. At […]
One of the biggest issues with AI image tools is that it’s difficult to edit them after they’re created. This is especially a hassle for people using AI in their work, who need to perfect […]
Photoshop is practically bursting at the seams with new generative AI tools these days. As someone who spends way too much time testing AI image generators, I know firsthand that “AI-powered” can mean anything from genuinely useful to hilariously […]
Some of my strongest memories from growing up, while not my fondest, are struggling with my math homework at the kitchen table while my parents fruitlessly tried to help me. OpenAI today hopes its newest […]