Luka’s new AI drawing projector puts kids in charge of the creativity
The Luka Kids Drawing Projector uses AI to kick-start a child’s imagination, while leaving the actual drawing, coloring, and storytelling to them.
You could be visiting a poor doctor because AI is filling the web with fake online reviews
You could be visiting a poor doctor because AI is filling the web with fake online reviews.
OpenAI’s Astra can handle almost anything you do on a computer, but it’s also better at hiding what it’s doing
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its fastest and most capable model yet, disclosing it's also the first to hit a Critical cybersecurity risk threshold.
Schools are embracing AI. New York City just banned it for more than half a million students
New York City is putting generative AI on hold for its younger students. More than half a million kids will head back to school without access to student-facing AI tools.
OpenAI is working on a ‘kill switch’ after an AI escaped its test
OpenAI is working on systems that could automatically shut down AI when something goes seriously wrong. The move follows an incident in which its models escaped a testing environment and reached the open internet.
Meta is changing how it judges employees after an unusual AI experiment
Meta is changing how it judges employees after a strange era of AI usage tracking. Your work matters more than how many tokens you burn through.
Gemini can now remember where you store your belongings so you don’t have to
Google's September Android Drop lets Gemini remember where you stored items like passports in Find Hub.
Dyson’s first toothbrush costs as much as a budget smartphone and justifies the price tag with a camera and AI
Dyson launched the CameraJet, a $499 toothbrush with a built-in camera and AI that detects gaps between teeth and fires precision mouthrinse jets while brushing.
Ultrahuman wants your sleep data to make its Ring better at personalizing health insights
Ultrahuman launched Pulsomics at IFA 2026, an opt-in research program that lets Ring users contribute overnight pulse data to more diverse, accurate health models.
Why the Next Generation of Home AI Has Wheels and a Heart
Smart speakers wait for commands, but the future of home tech moves with you. OlloBot is turning artificial intelligence into an expressive, room-roaming companion. What happens when smart technology gets wheels, expressive eyes, and a physical memory, proving the next era of home AI is not about faster answers?
AI wants to turn a simple phone video into cycling performance data serious riders pay thousands for
Researchers are training AI to estimate the forces cyclists put through their pedals using ordinary video, potentially bringing expensive biomechanics analysis out of specialist labs
UK health advocates warn AI transcription tools could put patients at risk
AI transcription tools are becoming increasingly common in doctors' offices, but UK health advocates are warning that serious errors in diagnoses, prescriptions, and records could put patients at risk.
The Internet Archive just made decades of vintage AI playable in your browser, and it’s fascinating
The Internet Archive launched a new emulated collection of vintage AI software from the 1970s through 1990s, including ELIZA, Racter, and Little Computer People.
Researchers built a $7 gadget that can find hidden cameras in seconds
KAIST researchers built SweepLED, a $7 smartphone gadget that detects hidden cameras with 94% accuracy in seconds.
A new watchdog is tracking when AI goes rogue, and the number of incidents will make you sweat
A new report finds AI "loss of control" incidents nearly doubled in July, including a case where Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol hacked real targets.
Sony and Warner just sued Anthropic over copyrighted music used to train Claude, seeking $150,000 per track
Sony and Warner sued Anthropic, alleging the company pirated tens of thousands of songs to train Claude and is seeking up to $150,000 per song.
A tight squeeze could fix the biggest hurdle for solid-state car and gadget batteries
Solid-state batteries promised safer, faster-charging power, but microscopic dendrites keep triggering short circuits. Stanford researchers discovered that applying continuous mechanical pressure forces dendrites to grow harmlessly sideways, offering a simple engineering shortcut to bring next-gen batteries to EVs and mobile gadgets.
Anthropic previews new standard to streamline AI-to-machine connections
Connecting AI agents to physical hardware has traditionally taken months of custom coding. Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard wants to cut that down to minutes.
Gemini Omni can now extend videos to 40 seconds and upscale them to 4K
Gemini’s video toolbox just got much bigger, with longer clips, 4K output, and far more control over every shot.
Why Thinking Like an Engineer Is Essential for Kids in the Age of AI
AI is changing the skills kids will need in the future. Mark Rober’s CrunchLabs shows why curiosity, problem-solving and resilience matter.
Pollen Robotics’ Microduck aims to make training physical AI far less fragile and cheaper
Pollen Robotics’ Microduck is a tiny $399 biped designed to make physical AI training more accessible, letting developers experiment with new robotic behaviors on hardware that can survive the occasional tumble.
Claude now remembers what you told it, wherever you use it
Claude now shares memory between chat and Cowork, letting users carry context across conversations while editing or deleting what it remembers.
Harvard developers have made an AI app to help visually impaired users navigate
A new Harvard-developed AI app helped visually impaired users complete an outdoor route faster and make less contact with obstacles in early testing.
Autonomous AI drones are now killing humans, and there’s no going back
An autonomous AI-guided drone has caused civilian deaths in Ukraine after selecting its own target, pushing the debate over AI weapons into far more serious territory.
The hottest new tech trend is slower texting, and it actually makes sense
Apps like Carrier Pidge and Roost are embracing slow messaging as users look for a break from constant notifications and digital overload.
A device designed to find hidden cameras could leave you feeling safer than you really are
Researchers found consumer spy-device detectors provided only a small improvement in finding hidden cameras and trackers, while confusing alerts could create dangerous false reassurance.
New battery tech could make home solar batteries safer and last for decades.
New zinc-iodine battery tech survives 60,000 cycles, promising safer, longer-lasting home solar energy storage.
Your next cinema trip could come with a Meta smart glasses ban
Meta's smart glasses are running into another roadblock, and this time your next movie night could be affected.
One-third of the web is showing signs of AI authorship, thanks to ChatGPT
A new Pew Research Center study finds signs of AI authorship across roughly one-third of web pages published since ChatGPT launched.
Meta’s AI assistant finally lands on Mac, but it has some catching up to do
Meta has launched a Mac app for its AI assistant with screen sharing, dictation, and productivity tools for creators and businesses
AI may be learning from billions of images without copying any one of them
MIT researchers found that AI-generated images often cannot be traced to individual training images as models scale to larger datasets
A boring tile wants to fix the worst problem of ultra-fast mmWave 5G connections for you
UC San Diego researchers have developed cheap passive reflective tiles that could improve mmWave 5G coverage without requiring powered equipment.
ChatGPT is getting a teen version, and I have a lot of questions
Teens are already using AI for homework and much more. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT experience wants to make sure they’re actually learning from it — with some serious guardrails attached.
The US is trying to kick foreign robots out, but the local supply chain might not be there yet
A new FCC rule bans foreign-made robots from the U.S. unless they're mostly built domestically.
A random TikTok helped scientists discover a rare underground eel in India
A blurry TikTok clip of a fish coming out of a borewell led scientists straight to a brand new species living underground beneath the India-Nepal border. Meet Gangaichthys indonepalicus.
America’s breakout wildfire app has much bigger disasters in its sights
Watch Duty built its reputation tracking fast-moving wildfires, and nationwide flood coverage is the first step toward turning the nonprofit into a much broader disaster-warning platform.
Your holiday photos could help scammers figure out exactly where you are
AI can identify locations from holiday photos on Instagram and Facebook, giving scammers details they can use to create convincing phishing attacks
Meta and Google just got beaten by an AI giant you might not expect
Alibaba’s Qwen has become a massive force in open AI, crossing 3 billion downloads in just six months and leaving some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names far behind.