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Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary…

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

Every few months, I write a guide for people who want to use AI to do stuff. This time, a lot has changed, in…

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for…

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries,…

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

Meta’s newest advertisement begins with a black-and-white shot of an eye, showing us what someone sees as…

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors 

Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C…

Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon

Nvidia’s effort to deploy its GPUs far and wide is aiming at a new target: the moon. Lunar Outpost, a…

I use Anthropic's Claude AI tools for very different jobs: How to pick between models, Code, and Cowork

Innovation Home Innovation Artificial Intelligence I use Anthropic's Claude AI tools for very different jobs:…

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind Kimi K3, the…

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow, the U.S. enterprise software company known for automating workflows like IT service management…

[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"

Reignited distillation wars conversation aside, today was more of the same of previous news cycles, which is…

OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model,…

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

On Wednesday, IBM officially reported earnings and the news was as bad as everyone knew it would be. While…

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the…

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Alphabet investors have very publicly worried that the company’s massive AI spending isn’t worth the…

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday,…

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI…

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen…

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a…

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

In Brief Posted: 10:54 AM PDT · July 22, 2026 Image Credits:Cheng Xin / Contributor / Getty Images Ram Iyer…

I gave Perplexity's agentic AI 5 complex tasks to run on my Mac - and I'll do it again

Innovation Why you can trust ZDNET : ZDNET independently tests and researches products to bring you our best…

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about…

Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack has launched a new feature that can show you which of your favorite newsletters are being written…