FTC AI accuracy policy puts chatbot trust under review
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 by Trey Abbe
The Federal Trade Commission is putting a sharper focus on how artificial intelligence systems are presented to consumers, how accurate those systems are expected to be, and whether companies are giving users a fair understanding of what they are actually getting.
On July 1, the FTC said it is seeking public comment on a proposed policy statement addressing AI accura...
Human-Made Video Ads Outperform AI-Generated Creativity
Monday, July 20, 2026 by Trey Abbe
AI can now make video ads that look polished, credible, and close enough to human-made work that many people cannot easily tell the difference.
That does not mean those ads move people the same way.
New research from Ipsos and Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications found that human-made video ads still outperform AI-generated creat...
SpaceX accelerates AI push with new hires
Monday, July 20, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
SpaceX is advancing its applied artificial intelligence program with targeted hiring across engineering and platform operations. The company is building teams that design, deploy, and maintain production AI systems to support both mission engineering and enterprise scale operations. SpaceX accelerates AI push with strategic hires and advanced engineering roles, reveals ...
Agentic Commerce Grows Cequence Unveils AI-Era Bot Defense
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 by Ben Conway
Cequence Security has announced Intent Graph and Biometric Check, two new capabilities designed to help enterprises protect applications as AI agents, bots, APIs, and agent-driven commerce create a more complicated traffic landscape.
The timing matters.
Enterprise traffic is no longer limited to people clicking through websites or mobile apps. Customers, bots, scr...
Nearly all developers use AI but few secure the code it generates
Monday, July 13, 2026 by Trey Abbe
Nearly all developers write code with AI, but fewer than one in five secure it as they go, citing limited use of AppSec tooling inside Integrated Developer Environments and difficulty integrating security into existing CI and CD pipelines. That gap is not a small nuisance. It is a structural flaw. If the code accelerates while the guardrails stand still, risk compounds ...
Enviromates new browser launches
Monday, July 6, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Enviromates announced the release of Enviromates Browser, a new browser designed to give people a cleaner, more user controlled way to search the web, access AI only when they need it, and help generate income to support environmental projects. The idea is straightforward. Keep traditional search intact when you want to explore primary sources, and give people a simple ...
AI Executive Order aims to balance security and innovation
Monday, June 29, 2026 by Richard Harris
One of the biggest concerns people had when talk started about regulating AI was whether the government was going to require developers to get permission before releasing new models. This executive order takes a different approach. Instead of creating another layer of bureaucracy, it establishes a voluntary review process for the handful of AI models that are considered...
Top manufacturing trends for 2026
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 by Trey Abbe
Manufacturers have spent years trying to make warehouses of data behave like a single source of truth. They wrote custom connectors, maintained brittle API chains, and paid the tax every time a schema shifted or a vendor upgraded. Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is the first credible exit ramp from that grind. Rather than forcing every system to integrate with every oth...
API scoring tool shows if your API is ready for AI
Monday, June 22, 2026 by Richard Harris
Jentic Launches new tool that scores APIs for AI readiness. The company is focused on connecting AI agents to the everyday reality of enterprise APIs. The new API Scoring tool comes as a free command line utility and a browser based interface. Both examine your APIs across six dimensions of readiness and produce a score that an engineering team can understand and improv...
Agentic AI Reality Check: The Million-Dollar Mistake Hiding Inside ERP
Friday, June 19, 2026 by Avinash Tiwari
There's a contradiction playing out in the world of enterprise software.
On one hand, Gartner predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. On the other, nearly 90% of business leaders say AI is essential to staying competitive. And that disconnect shows up in day-to-day development work.
Teams are being asked ...
Influencer Debate AI Anthropic IPO Reveals Industry Concerns
Wednesday, June 17, 2026 by Trey Abbe
Anthropic's move toward the public markets is not just another AI headline. For app developers, SaaS teams, and software companies building with AI, it is a sign that the industry is entering a more serious phase.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fo...
DomainTools announces real time threat feeds
Monday, June 15, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Real time is a phrase that gets tossed around until it means very little. In astrophotography, real time lives in the interval between when a satellite intrudes on your exposure and when you decide to toss the frame. A feed is only as useful as the speed and relevance of what it delivers. Here, the feeds do not simply ping you with trivia. The automatic infrastructure m...
Take It Down Act results in warning letters from FTC
Friday, June 12, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
The Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to a dozen websites for apparent failures to comply with the TAKE IT DOWN Act. The law requires platforms to provide a clear and accessible way for people to request the removal of nonconsensual intimate images and to take down those images within forty eight hours of receiving a valid request. This enforcement step re...
Anthropic launches Claude Design
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Anthropic launched Claude Design, a new AI native visual design tool powered by its flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7. The tool turns plain text prompts into polished websites, landing pages, pitch decks, product mockups, and marketing collateral. Within hours of the launch, Figma shares dropped around seven per cent, and Adobe slid on the news, with Wall Street reading i...
Spotlite Expands Into AI Era With New IP Protection Tool
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Spotlite, the leading platform in Asia that brought transparency to how models get booked and paid, is now taking on the next version of the same problem. The company announced the closed beta of IP Protection, a product that lets creators find where their face appears online and act against unauthorized use. That feels like a simple statement until you try to do it wit...
Spotify and UMG strike landmark AI music licensing deal
Thursday, May 28, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
For years, fan made covers and remixes have lived in a legal gray zone. Creators moved fast. Rights lagged. Platforms patched around the edges. This deal recognizes the obvious and does something useful about it. Spotify will offer a generative AI powered creation tool as a paid add on for Premium users. It is not a free for all. It is a licensed lane where artists and ...
Anthropic investigation opened after Mythos accessed by Discord group
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 by Richard Harris
Anthropic has opened an internal investigation following reports that a Discord community gained unauthorized access to its Mythos cybersecurity model shortly after the system was introduced. The incident is a wake up call for an industry that has grown used to predictable timelines for vulnerability discovery, patching, and coordinated disclosure. As AI driven analysis...
The identity system is failing under AI
Monday, May 25, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
The global cybersecurity crisis has entered a new and far more dangerous phase. Artificial intelligence has handed attackers the tools to automate credential theft at unprecedented speed, and the identity systems billions of people rely on every day including passwords, biometrics, and passkeys are failing one by one. Netlok, LLC, a California based cybersecurity innova...
When Social Listening Becomes Social Surveillance
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 by Sameer Ahmed Khan
I want to tell you about two tools that do the exact same thing.
The first tool scans Facebook, X, and YouTube. It reads public posts. It analyzes them for sentiment, emotional tone, and trending patterns. It tells you what people feel, what they care about, and what they are saying about you.
Marketers call this social listening. It is how brands understand their...
Quant Pros Say AI Is Widening the Skills Gap
Monday, May 18, 2026 by Austin Harris
Organizations across finance report that building strong quantitative teams is getting harder as artificial intelligence spreads through workflows and raises the bar for technical depth. New data from a global survey of practicing quants shows that the requirements for success in these roles are expanding faster than the available talent pool, with the burden falling on...
Tether QVAC SDK Powers AI Across Devices and Platforms
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 by Austin Harris
Tether has launched QVAC SDK, an open source framework that lets developers run AI features directly on device with no cloud, no server dependency, and no data leaving the device. The SDK is built to deliver private, fast, and reliable intelligence in applications where responsiveness and control matter. By bringing AI to the device, QVAC gives teams a way to ship exper...
How AI is causing app litter everywhere
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 by Trey Abbe
I've worked on systems that have been running for years, the kind you don't think about because they just work. No noise, no constant updates, no surprises. They were built carefully, and that care shows over time. You can tell when something was designed with longevity in mind because it doesn't demand your attention. It just does its job.
That's a c...
New AI tool targets early dementia detection
Thursday, April 16, 2026 by Trey Abbe
A research team is creating an AI powered digital human to help clinicians catch early signs of dementia sooner and more consistently. The system combines structured screening conversations with analysis of facial expressions and physiologic signals to highlight subtle patterns that busy clinics and traditional questionnaires may miss. By turning a routine intake into a...
Jentic launch gives AI agents api access
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 by Ben Conway
Jentic is introducing Jentic Mini, a free, open source, self hosted offering for developers building with OpenClaw. The goal is straightforward. Make it safer and simpler to let capable agents interact with real systems. Jentic Mini provides a lightweight deployment that runs in a developer controlled environment and adds a safety and control layer around what agents ca...
Experts warn ai-generated health content risks misinterpretation without human oversight
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
As AI generated personas and automated video hosts enter health communications, experts caution that scaling content without human interpretation can raise the odds that people misunderstand what they read or watch. Digital platforms have become a primary source for health information, with more than half of adults turning to social feeds for guidance and many consultin...
Ludo.ai Unveils API and MCP Beta to Power AI Game Asset Pipelines
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ludo.ai, the AI game design and production hub, has released the beta of its new API and Model Context Protocol integration, giving developers a faster way to generate production ready game assets without breaking creative flow. The release enables indie developers, content creators, and studios to integrate Ludo.ai asset creation directly into everyday workflows, from ...
Tech hiring slumps as Software Developer job postings fall
Monday, April 13, 2026 by Richard Harris
A noticeable downshift is emerging in the technology labor market as software developer job postings cool from prior highs. Employers are recalibrating hiring plans, focusing their open roles on business critical initiatives and slowing requisitions tied to speculative growth. While demand for skilled engineers remains significant in absolute terms, the pace of new post...
AI is becoming more widespread in collaboration tools
Thursday, April 9, 2026 by Richard Harris
Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects and isolated features to the connective fabric of enterprise collaboration and communications. Across meetings, chat, calling, contact centers, and the business applications that surround them, AI is becoming a practical tool that links people, workflows, and data. AI reach and influence on collaboration and communic...
ChatGPT Carbon Footprint Matches 1.3 Million Cars Report Finds
Monday, April 6, 2026 by Ben Conway
A new independent analysis takes a closer look at the electricity use and environmental impact tied to one of the most widely used conversational AI tools. The findings suggest that serving today’s massive volume of daily prompts now requires energy on the scale of a small nation, with emissions comparable to a large fleet of vehicles.
The report breaks down ho...
Lens Launches MCP Server to Connect AI Coding Assistants with Kubernetes
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 by Ben Conway
Lens by Mirantis announces a built in Model Context Protocol server in Lens Desktop, expanding how teams connect AI coding assistants to Kubernetes in a secure and straightforward way. The addition makes Lens a practical bridge between popular AI tools and real infrastructure, so software delivery and operations tasks can be handled within existing workflows rather than...
Private Repository Secures the AI-driven Development Boom
Friday, March 27, 2026 by Austin Harris
ActiveState has launched ActiveState Curated Catalog. This new offering provides organizations with a private, secure repository of open source components from the ActiveState Library, giving developers and AI code generators access to vetted packages from a trusted internal source instead of pulling them directly from the open internet.
Directly pulling open source ...
Env Zero and CloudQuery Announce Merger
Thursday, March 26, 2026 by Austin Harris
env zero, an Infrastructure as Code management and governance, and CloudQuery, a leading cloud asset management platform, announced the successful close of their merger. The combined company will operate under the env zero brand and focus on unifying asset intelligence with infrastructure automation so enterprise teams can run cloud operations with greater confidence, s...
AI generated work from managers is damaging trust among employees
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
Across industries, employees are noticing a shift in how work is created and presented by their managers. Generative AI tools are now part of the managerial toolkit, shaping emails, presentations, performance notes, and strategic updates. While AI can speed up drafting and analysis, a growing number of team members feel unsettled when work that influences careers, pay, ...
Foresight Secures $25M to Bridge Infrastructure Execution Gap
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Richard Harris
Foresight, the AI powered project delivery platform for large scale infrastructure, announced a Series A financing of 25 million United States dollars led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital, with participation from seed investor Creandum, ISAI Build from the Bouygues group managed by ISAI, i2bf Global Ventures, and Somersault Ventures. The company will use the capital...
UNESCO AI initiatives driving sustainable development in Africa
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Trey Abbe
Artificial intelligence in Africa is often framed through big promises and global headlines, but the most important work is happening at a much more practical level. Across the continent, developers, educators, and institutions are focusing on what actually makes systems useful: reliable data, resilient infrastructure, and tools that fit local constraints. This is not a...
