As AI models have become more powerful, the potential for those models to be misused has grown — as has a clamor for safety guardrails…
Author: Lucas Ropek
Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up |
In Brief Posted: 3:43 PM PDT · August 14, 2026 PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale —…
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes |
Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled…
Wacom's MovinkPad 11 is a fun, midpriced entry point for digital artists |
Since the advent of the internet, there has been a dedicated digital art community that’s all about creating through computing. Wacom, a Japanese company founded…
OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 |
In Brief Posted: 3:43 PM PDT · August 6, 2026 More details continue to trickle out about OpenAI’s mysterious new hardware device — described previously…
Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup |
Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup.…
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok |
In Brief Posted: 3:47 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out…
Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation |
In Brief Posted: 12:47 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana…