The new body, which will steward the x402 payments protocol, is backed by 40 members including Visa, Mastercard, Google and Microsoft.

Over 200 Nobel laureates and global leaders gathered in Rome for a three-day assembly on AI and nuclear war, culminating in the signing of the Rome Declaration emphasizing human dignity, cooperation, and peace. The event, inspired by Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, featured addresses by prominent figures including Juan Manuel Santos and Muhammad Yunus, focusing on the urgent need for AI governance.

Control work with your voice. The Siri for work.

Free tool that scans your website to score its readiness for AI agents and LLMs across three tiers: Access, Citation, and Transaction, with actionable fixes.

Chinese users of AI companion bots bid emotional farewells as new national regulations took effect Wednesday, aiming to curb emotional dependency. Major providers suspended features, sparking grief among users who archived chats and shared last conversations.

Hardware-isolated sandboxes for AI agents, created instantly.

Neko Health raised $700 million in Series C funding to launch its AI-powered preventive health screening service in the United States, starting with a New York clinic. The company combines full-body scans, blood tests, and clinician review.

Spotify has removed 75 million AI-generated songs from its platform and introduced new transparency measures, including a verification program and AI credits for artists to disclose AI use.

DocuWriter.ai is an AI code documentation tool that generates complete book-style documentation, API docs, and UML diagrams from any codebase, and keeps them in sync automatically as code evolves.

As companies introduce AI to boost productivity, a troubling paradox emerges: people often train the systems that may replace them. AI ethics advocate Madison Mohns presents three leadership principles to embrace tech progress while prioritizing coworker well-being, paving the way for a future where AI enhances human potential.

Northstar is an AI-powered pull request review tool for GitHub and Azure DevOps that analyzes risk, provides reviewer guidance, and drafts release notes without storing diffs. It offers flat pricing instead of per-seat fees, emphasizing privacy with no permanent storage of code changes.

Glad-AI-Tor is a platform that ranks AI tools based on crowd verdicts. It covers voice, LLMs, image, video, coding, and music with 75 tools and 188 votes. Rankings are unbiased and cannot be bought.

The semantic transaction model treats an entire AI agent task as a single atomic transaction, staged in shadow state and effect outbox, validated against the full trace before any irreversible operation commits. This article uses Cordon and Agentic Transaction Processing (ATP) as examples to explain how the model addresses the dual-write problem of agent tool calls, and highlights two zero-click injection attacks (EchoLeak and ForcedLeak) that demonstrate the inadequacy of stateless runtimes and in-model filters.

This tutorial explores building a voice-agent workflow using Patter SDK for restaurant booking. It covers defining dynamic caller variables, registering callable tools for availability, bookings, hours, and human transfer, layering output guardrails, simulating speech-to-text and text-to-speech, running scripted call flows, tracking modeled latency and cost in a dashboard, and validating the agent with a deterministic eval harness. The same logic is then mapped to a real deployment using Twilio and OpenAI Realtime.

The world's first open 3-trillion-parameter model.

SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build on July 15, 2026. The Apache 2.0 Rust tree covers the agent loop, tool dispatch, the TUI, and the extension system. Grok 4.5 stays closed, and external contributions are not accepted.

Linux founder Linus Torvalds declares Linux is not an anti-AI project, telling objecting contributors to fork or walk away. He views AI as a useful tool that maintainers should embrace rather than ignore.

Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!

Scarf founder Avi Press is moving new development from Haskell to Python, citing the language's poor support for AI-assisted development. The decision has ignited a fierce debate in the Haskell community, with some embracing change and others condemning the move as ignoring AI's harms.

VaultCharts is a free desktop trading app that combines charting tools with an AI assistant. It supports multiple AI models, is local-first, and allows users to analyze markets with or without AI assistance.

An analysis of how AI-generated content is degrading the quality and accuracy of World War II historical information.

Ode is an end-to-end partner that helps companies turn frontier AI models into measurable business results, leveraging a unique relationship with Anthropic. The company offers scalable AI systems built by veteran engineers, from roadmap to deployment.

EU officials expressed displeasure after AI company Anthropic sent a junior staffer to testify about AI safety, indicating a lack of regard for European regulation.

Your teachable AI intern for everyday browser work.

The article criticizes the common phrase "AI is just a tool—it matters how you use it," arguing that tools are never neutral. They have politics, shape environments, and influence humanity. Using examples like cars and chairs, the author shows how designs embed values. AI, as a tool, is especially dangerous because it eliminates meaningful struggle, threatening critical thinking and human essence. The piece calls for a critical re-examination of technology beyond simplistic "tool neutrality."

A survey offering personalized free AI toothpaste recommendations upon completion.

A curated collection of 50+ open-source Next.js AI templates and starter kits covering chatbots, RAG, voice agents, image generation, and more, created by Suhas Bhairav.

Paul Graham suggests one of AI's biggest advantages is allowing companies to stay productive before hitting team-size thresholds of about 10 and 150 people. This article examines how AI may reconfigure teams from multiple humans to one human plus AI. Anthropic's Claude Tag lets AI join Slack as a team member, but such tools still follow old team-collaboration paradigms. The piece argues software development teams are inherently inefficient, and AI could enable solo developers. Data also shows solopreneurship is rising, with AI filling capability gaps that once required hiring.

A lightweight desktop AI companion built with Tauri v2 + React + Rust, featuring always-on-top floating mode, secure keyring storage, local SQLite database, and multi-provider support (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, local Ollama, or custom endpoints). Open-source and free, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The Royal Netherlands Navy is pioneering unmanned systems to keep personnel out of danger zones, testing vessels like Defender 1 and Defender 2 in a five-week mission off Den Helder.