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OpenClaw has rapidly emerged as a transformative artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework, and its ability to autonomously execute complex, multi-step tasks has attracted an ever-growing and diverse user base. However, this capability comes with significant risks. While existing research has made important strides in characterizing these threats, such work is predominantly directed at technically sophisticated audiences. It remains largely inaccessible to non-technical users. This demographic now makes up an increasingly large and underserved portion of the community, yet it is these very...

Large language model unlearning aims to suppress designated undesirable knowledge while preserving benign capabilities. Many unlearning objectives focus on suppressing undesired answers, while recent target-guided variants specify replacement behavior but still leave update locality largely unconstrained. This paper introduces \emph{Null-Space Constrained Response-Specified Unlearning} (NSRU), a projection-constrained low-rank framework for controlled LLM unlearning. NSRU uses an explicitly structured safe target response to specify the desired behavior for each forget query, while suppressin...

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

Training a speech AI model to correctly recognize or synthesize clinical terminology is surprisingly difficult. Drug names like Acetaminophen, Amlodipine,... Training a speech AI model to correctly recognize or synthesize clinical terminology is surprisingly difficult. Drug names like Acetaminophen, Amlodipine, Cefazolin, and Biktarvy are not part of everyday vocabulary. Procedure names, anatomy terms, and specialty-specific diagnoses introduce the same problem in a different form. Off-the-shelf speech systems can sound fluent and still miss the words… Source

Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman is walking back his statement about AI automating jobs done by white-collar workers, including lawyers, accountants, and project managers. During an episode of Decoder on Monday, Suleyman says he meant AI will help these workers complete tasks, rather than do their jobs: Sending an email, having a conversation with a colleague, putting together a PowerPoint - sub-tasks will increasingly become digitized, automated, and we can basically generate more and more of them. That does not necessarily mean that the role goes away at all. It just means that the work c...

Apple kicked off its annual developer conference with bold promises about AI. The company, CEO Tim Cook said, would be "introducing new technologies and innovations that push the limits on what's possible." But its slew of announcements - centered on a brand-new "Siri AI" - had more to do with catching up. After almost entirely neglecting Siri and punting its AI promises down the road in 2025, Apple went all in on the tech this year. It pitched Siri as an all-encompassing virtual assistant that ties together all your Apple devices, with multimodal features, a dedicated app, an all-in-one AI a...

Sandstone's Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia.

Most of Apple's current AI ideas are roughly the same as everyone else's AI ideas. A chatbot you can ask questions; quick ways to create or summarize text; bizarre, borderline creepy image-generation tools. The company spent most of its WWDC keynote playing catch-up with the state of the AI art, announcing Siri features you can already find on Android phones and in the Claude and ChatGPT apps. The pitch, in so many cases, is just "this thing you know, but on your iPhone now." But a few minutes after I downloaded the first developer beta of iPadOS 26 (I didn't want to risk it on my Mac or my i...

Some models run in Google's cloud, but without giving Google any kind of access.

Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software.

Apple says its cloud processing is as private as on-device, despite expanding to run on Google’s servers. | Screenshot: Apple WWDC 2026 keynote As expected, yesterday's WWDC keynote was mostly about AI. And also as expected, Apple tried to turn its late arrival into its sales pitch: it didn't rush into AI because it was taking its time to do things right. In this case, "right" means "with more privacy than anyone else." It's a good pitch - the question will be how well it holds up. The new Apple Intelligence features and the updated Siri AI have been designed to work across iPhone, iPad, Mac,...

How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex with GPT-5.5 to investigate hard-to-reproduce issues, build across platforms, and focus on product outcomes.

Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers.

As adoption of AI agents looks set to surge by as much as 300% in the next two years, leadership teams are carefully considering the implications of a hybrid human-AI workforce. Unlike existing enterprise-level automation that relies on manual input, AI agents are capable of autonomously coordinating complex tasks, interacting with multiple tools and environments across…

On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers - just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the city. Among the moratorium's fiercest supporters are current employees from the city's biggest tech giant, Amazon, who joined others to testify in support of the policy last week. Data centers have sparked protests across the country over concerns about water consumption, local electricity prices, and noise. In Seattle and the surrounding King County, the issue is coming to a head. If the city c...

Siri isn't state of the art, but as long as it works — and it appears it does — it's good enough for the consumer market.

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few things from our first AI10 list, an annual guide to the most important trends in this buzzy world,…

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Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race?

Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices.

Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere's first open-source agentic coding model. Built for sovereign developers, this efficient 30B MoE model delivers strong software development performance with minimal hardware requirements.

Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict "I'll believe it when I see it" policy for everything they announced today . The new Siri AI features do at least look feasible with today's technology, especially since Apple are licensing a custom Gemini-derived model that they can run on their own Private Cloud Compute. It sounds like they'll be taking advantage of vision-LLMs to extract information from the user's screen, which neatly sidesteps the need for every existing application to ship custom code in o...

Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identify verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will downsize its staff.

The vibe of Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote felt like a spouse proudly listing all the honey-do-list items tackled. One subtle example: the many AI demos of someone standing, phone in hand.

Apple is trying to solve one of Safari's biggest weaknesses with AI. Safari has long lacked the robust library of extensions that its rivals have, mainly due to the stringent development requirements from Apple. But now, Apple is inviting users to essentially vibe code their own extensions. In a demo shared by Apple, the company showed how you can ask Safari to create an extension by describing it. "Save and track cooking recipes from around the web," the prompt said. "Click the toolbar button to see your saved recipes and add notes to each." From there, Safari used Apple Intelligence to gene...