OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT's erotic mode |

11:34 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 OpenAI has put the kibosh on yet another project — at least for the time being. On Thursday,…

Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills |

Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and…

Defense startup Shield AI lands $12.7B valuation, up 140%, after US Air Force deal |

In Brief Posted: 11:05 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Autonomous military aircraft maker Shield AI has raised $1.5 billion in Series G funding at…

Apple made strides with iOS 26 security, but leaked hacking tools still leave millions exposed to spyware attacks |

The common assumption among iPhone security experts has been that finding vulnerabilities and developing exploits for iOS was difficult, requiring a lot of time, resources,…

Google is launching Search Live globally |

9:37 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Google announced on Thursday that it’s expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, globally to all languages…

ByteDance's new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut |

OpenAI may be dialing back its efforts in the video generation market with the shutdown of its Sora app, but ByteDance on Thursday confirmed that…

WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations |

6:00 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI-powered suggested replies…

Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription |

6:30 AM PDT · March 26, 2026 Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech…

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation |

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use…

A little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber |

Mate Rimac, the founder of Croatian electric vehicle maker Rimac Group, started working on electric robotaxis seven years ago. Now part of his vision is…