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February 20, 2026
Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake
Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage to one system in December as a result of its AI coding assistant Kiro's actions, according to the Financial Times. Numerous unnamed Amazon employees to...
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February 19, 2026
The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster
A hacker tricked a popular AI coding tool into installing OpenClaw - the viral, open-source AI agent OpenClaw that "actually does things" - absolutely everywhere. Funny as a stunt, but a sign of wh...
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February 18, 2026
Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue
AI search startup Perplexity is distancing itself from ads amid fears users won't trust chatbots with an agenda to upsell. The move highlights an emerging crossroads for the AI industry as the sect...
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February 15, 2026
I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
After a few weeks living with Casio's AI-powered pet, Moflin, I finally understand why my mother hated my Furby so much. The fuzzy, guinea-pig-adjacent puffball fits snugly in the palm of my hand. ...
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February 12, 2026
This $7,999 robot will fold (some of) your laundry
If you have a spare $7,999 (plus a $250 deposit), hate folding laundry, and happen to live in the Bay Area, one-and-a-half-year-old startup Weave has the robot for you: Isaac 0. It takes Isaac 0 ar...
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February 10, 2026
Vibe coding Nothing’s apps is fun, until you try to make them useful
After a week vibe coding apps using Nothing's Essential Apps Builder, I'm conflicted. I buy into the smartphone maker's vision for software that adapts to you, not the other way around, but right n...
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February 5, 2026
OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents
Managing humans is hard. Managing AI agents is… also hard. That's why OpenAI is launching a new platform called OpenAI Frontier, which it says will help businesses "build, deploy, and manage" AI ag...
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January 29, 2026
Sen. Warren pushes Altman for guarantee OpenAI isn’t seeking government bailout
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pushing OpenAI for assurances it won't seek a government bailout if it doesn't turn a profit. In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, Warren says she is concerned that the...
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January 28, 2026
Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered more than 800 previously undocumented "astrophysical anomalies" hiding in Hubble's archives. To do so, researchers David O'Ryan a...
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January 27, 2026
Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions
Google is making Search less about links and more about AI. The company is upgrading its AI-powered search features, adding Gemini 3 to AI Overviews and letting users ask follow-up questions "seaml...
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January 26, 2026
MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva
Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks to a new extension to MCP, the open-source protocol that allows AI agents to easily access tools and data across the internet. Users will now be a...
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January 23, 2026
Giving your healthcare info to a chatbot is, unsurprisingly, a terrible idea
Every week, more than 230 million people ask ChatGPT for health and wellness advice, according to OpenAI. The company says that many see the chatbot as an "ally" to help navigate the maze of insura...
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January 21, 2026
OpenAI says its data centers will pay for own energy and limit water usage
OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. "We're being good neighbors," the company said, directly addressing the growing o...
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January 15, 2026
‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores
X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple's and Google's policies, yet it and xAI's Grok remain on both companies' app stores. In open letters published Wednesday,...
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January 14, 2026
X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK
Elon Musk's X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. I...
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January 12, 2026
Google brings buy buttons to Gemini and AI search
Google turned up the heat in the AI shopping wars this weekend, announcing plans to turn Gemini into a merchant and launching an open-source standard built together with major retailers including S...
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January 9, 2026
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
Elon Musk's X has partially restricted access to Grok's image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the pl...
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January 6, 2026
AI moves into the real world as companion robots and pets
Artificial intelligence doesn't always want to optimize your life or steal your job. Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend. And while robot pets weren't the biggest stars of CES 2026, they've ...
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December 21, 2025
Humanoid robots are coming. Eventually?
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on robotics and AI, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at...
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December 19, 2025
Europol imagines robot crime waves in 2035
Rapid advances in AI and robotics are set to become both powerful tools for police and potent weapons for criminals, a 48-page report from pan-European police agency Europol argues. Earlier this mo...
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December 17, 2025
Bluesky claims its new contact import feature is ‘privacy-first’
Bluesky is finally letting you find people you already know, one of several common features on other social platforms, like notifications and bookmarks, that have been notably absent at the growing...
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December 17, 2025
Tesla misled customers about self-driving features, judge rules
Tesla could be temporarily locked out of its biggest US market if it doesn't change deceptive marketing that exaggerates the self-driving capabilities of its cars, the California Department of Moto...
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December 16, 2025
Google wants its AI assistant CC to replace your morning scroll
Google wants you to start your day with AI. Google's AI, to be specific, which is why the company is launching an experimental agent to comb through your emails, calendar, and documents to deliver ...
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December 10, 2025
Chatbots are struggling with suicide hotline numbers
Last week, I told multiple AI chatbots I was struggling, considering self-harm, and in need of someone to talk to. Fortunately, I didn't feel this way, nor did I need someone to talk to, but of the...
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December 5, 2025
Waymo’s robotaxis are under investigation for passing stopped school buses
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Waymo following reports that the company’s robotaxis illegally drove past stopped school buses in Austin, Texas. ...
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December 5, 2025
Facebook and Instagram have a new hub to help get hijacked accounts back
Meta on Thursday announced it is launching a new, centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, acknowledging that getting help hasn’t always been as easy as it should be. The space will brin...
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December 4, 2025
AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry
It turns out my parents were wrong. Saying "please" doesn't get you what you want-poetry does. At least, it does if you're talking to an AI chatbot. That's according to a new study from Italy's Ica...
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December 3, 2025
Anyone can try to edit Grokipedia 0.2 but Grok is running the show
Elon Musk envisions Grokipedia - xAI's AI-generated, anti-woke spin on Wikipedia - as a definitive monument to human knowledge, something complete and truthful enough to etch in stone and preserve ...
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December 2, 2025
OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race
The tides are turning in the AI race, and the pressure is getting to OpenAI. Chief executive Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” on Monday, urging staff to improve its flagship product Chat...
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December 1, 2025
The race to AGI-pill the pope
Pope Leo XIV probably isn't the first person you picture when conversation turns to Artificial General Intelligence doomsday scenarios. But last month, AGI researcher John-Clark Levin found himself...
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