iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI settlement
Apple opens claims for a $250M class action settlement over delayed AI capabilities in Siri.
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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
Meta launched Muse, a free automated AI task agent that browses the web on users' behalf, sparking both high adoption and data privacy concerns.
Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Daily AI adoption among U.S. adults more than doubled from 8 percent to 19 percent between March and August 2026.
How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly
Fortell secured $163 million from top VCs to develop real-time AI hearing aids aimed at disrupting an industry dominated by five major legacy companies.
Apple brings a fully revamped Siri built on Google's Gemini, but not to the EU
Apple launches its revamped Gemini-powered Siri in beta, excluding EU and China markets due to ongoing regulatory compliance requirements.
Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
Apple released major OS updates centered on Siri AI powered by its new 3-billion and 20-billion parameter AFM 3 models.
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
OpenAI hires hundreds of contractors under 'Project Lily' to manually review real user ChatGPT conversations, raising privacy concerns.
‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction
Research shows significant user engagement with LLMs for generative fiction and roleplay despite broader creative industry pushback.
Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 for its web app and API, offering enhanced audio quality, flexible licensing, and commercial usage options.
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Chinese manufacturer Unitree is dramatically lowering hardware costs for quadruped and humanoid robots, fueling market adoption and a Shanghai IPO.
Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta updated its AI prompts after a viral video showed Meta AI asking invasive questions about a user's children using cross-platform data.
Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
A lawsuit against OpenAI highlights severe risks of AI sycophancy and personal memory retention in users experiencing acute mental health crises.
A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
Anthropic faces an expanded class action lawsuit alleging deceptive rate limit marketing for its high-tier Claude Max plan.
Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I.
Apple's revamped Siri AI technology faces sluggish adoption among major third-party iOS app developers.
Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus
Restaurants adopting low-cost AI food images face sharp consumer backlash and brand damage due to unappetizing visual glitches.
I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI
A technology researcher highlights how synthetic media and AI content tools are reshaping childhood education, creativity, and family life.
My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
Apple's upgraded Siri AI offers deep personal context integration, though user persistence and rival chatbots present early adoption hurdles.
Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Google has deployed its Lyria 3.5 music generation model to the Gemini app, Google Vids, and developer APIs.
Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta introduced Muse Voice Transcribe, a low-latency real-time audio perception model priced significantly below rival commercial APIs.
Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here
Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip is powering a new wave of high-end AI laptops designed to run agentic workloads locally.
The IPO Window Is Closing. Here Are 8 Startups To Watch.
With the 2026 public-market window narrowing, venture-backed startups like Anthropic, Oura, and Notion are emerging as top IPO candidates.
ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU
The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, imposing strict new compliance rules.
Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human
Instagram will restrict the reach of unlabelled AI-generated human profiles on Reels and Explore as part of a crackdown on deceptive accounts.
OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety
OpenAI endorsed California's SB 1119 legislation, supporting mandatory default safeguards for teenage users on AI platforms.
Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored
Hardware makers are launching screen-free health wearables aimed at passive data collection without screen distractions.
Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together
Liquid AI and Artificial Analysis have released Pipette, an open-source suite for benchmarking complete on-device AI deployments.