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The creator of Walmart's vibe-coding tool Code Puppy is leaving for AI startup Pydantic

The creator of Walmart's internal vibe-coding tool is leaving for AI start-up Pydantic. Code Puppy lets workers code their own software tools.

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry 'Marxist'

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

The White House will brief AI companies about its model testing framework on Tuesday.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are all expected to attend the meeting, CNBC reports.

US company's AI lets Ukraine's cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

Palantir soars as corporate AI sales surge in U.S.

U.S. commercial software sales rose roughly 150% in the second quarter.

Is AI Telling Better Stories Than Us? Why Human Writers May Be Less Appealing

Not only are people unable to tell the difference between stories written by humans or artificial intelligence, they actually prefer it when the stories are created by AI. And that’s especially true when they are told that the stories had human authors, according to a new study from Villanova University.

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward decoupling apps from models.

Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has looked out into the Universe. Now, Lego is inviting builders to look inward with its latest model of the orbiting observatory.

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software, over several weeks from late May through early June.

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.