
The first US ban on nudify apps took effect after a judge denied xAI's freeze
Judge Donovan Frank refused xAI's restraining order against Minnesota's nudification-app ban, citing a three-month filing delay. The law carries $500,000 per image.

Judge Donovan Frank refused xAI's restraining order against Minnesota's nudification-app ban, citing a three-month filing delay. The law carries $500,000 per image.

OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business went from a February beta to a fast-growing machine now serving two ad slots per answer. How it works, and why skeptics doubt the money.

A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement for pirating books to train Claude, the largest copyright recovery on record.

Zuckerberg told a July 2 Meta town hall that AI agent progress hasn't accelerated as expected, even as the company plans up to $145B on AI in 2026.

A Brown economist found AI fraud across a midterm. The scandal exposes how routine AI cheating has become, and why detectors can't reliably catch it.

The Vesuvius Challenge read a whole carbonized Herculaneum scroll using CT scans and machine learning. Here is how the ink-detection pipeline works.

A popular Hacker News how-to walked through a fully local coding agent on Apple Silicon. Here's the realistic 2026 stack: runner, model, and harness.

AI-built interfaces all look the same: purple gradients, Inter, three icon cards in a row. Here's why the output converges, what it costs, and how developers break the pattern.

A blinded Stanford Law study had 16 professors grade AI tutoring answers against their own. Here's what the 75% win rate actually measures, and what it doesn't.

Oura's Ring 5 is 40% smaller than the Ring 4, adds live workout tracking and an AI Advisor, and costs $50 more. Here's what's new and whether it's worth it.

Uber exhausted its full-year Claude Code budget by April. Adoption hit 84%, heavy users burn $2,000 a month, and COO Andrew Macdonald can't connect the spend to shipped features.

Apple agreed to a $250M class-action settlement over the personalized Siri features it advertised with the iPhone 16. iPhone 15 Pro and 16 owners get $25–$95 per device.

A report from The Information reveals Apple is retraining Siri staff on AI tools like Claude Code. With WWDC two months away, Apple's AI gap has never been more visible.