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AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI,OpenAI CEOSam Altman saysmaybe it’stime for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments camejust days after…

Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content |

9:49 AM PDT · July 31, 2026 Snapchat is the latest company to strengthen its stance against AI slop. The social network platform will no…

GM and Ford are talking less and less about EVs |

Just a few short years ago, General Motors and Ford were all in on electric vehicles, spending billions of dollars on those efforts. Now the…

Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users |

9:08 AM PDT · July 31, 2026 In his final earnings call as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook said that the company’s long-awaited Siri AI…

Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human |

While AI agents are increasingly capable of solving customer support problems, most people can still tell immediately when they’re talking to a machine instead of…

AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In

For 6 months, my husband convinced everyone that I had stolen millions from the company I built, including our own daughter. As I sat in…

This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence

Over the past few years, the term “weaponized incompetence” has blown up in dating discourse online. It’s used to describe someone—most often the guy, when…

Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers |

5:00 AM PDT · July 31, 2026 Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding from investors including First…

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests

Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing. The company says…

Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is Now Available, Advancing Data and AI Trust With Deeper Enterprise Application Protection

Jul 31, 2026 By Stephanie Simone VeeamSoftware, the Data and AI Trust Company, is releasingVeeam Data Platform v13.1, advancing the standard for data resilience by…