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Anthropic launched a new AI model, Claude Opus 4.5, roughly ten days after its CEO publicly called for a slowdown in AI development. The company says the model performs well on internal alignment safety measures, while also stating that government policy will eventually be needed to guard against risks from AI systems that can improve themselves.
Teardown of Google Play Store version 53.2.23-34 reveals an in-progress 'Your creations' section under the app's 'Manage apps & device' screen, intended to surface apps users build with Google's AI Studio vibe-coding tool. Currently, tapping the feature's 'Try it now' button opens a browser to the mobile AI Studio site rather than a native experience.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has postponed work on a wearable AI pendant that would have included a camera and microphone to feed visual and audio data to Siri. The device was designed to be worn as a necklace or clipped to clothing, serving as an always-on companion to the iPhone. Apple is instead prioritizing AI features on Apple Watch, with AirPods featuring cameras and smart glasses reportedly planned for 2027.
A new report compiles 20 different ways business leaders are measuring returns on AI investments, moving past simple adoption and experimentation metrics. It emphasizes that organizations need clearly defined outcomes and measurement plans before deploying AI to avoid wasted effort without real results.
An Entrepreneur contributor writing about ecommerce optimization warns that many online store pages render prices, inventory and specs using JavaScript, which most AI crawlers cannot execute. As a result, pages that rank well on Google may return blank or incomplete data to AI shopping assistants like ChatGPT, effectively excluding those products from AI-generated recommendations. The piece cites OpenAI's research team estimating roughly 50 million daily shopping-related queries on ChatGPT alone.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS he sees no chance of a catastrophic AI scenario unfolding by 2030, calling some AI industry leaders' warnings irresponsible and unnecessarily frightening to the public. He suggested that frontier AI labs pushing for new regulations may be doing so to sidestep accountability under existing laws.
A new report finds that the growing volume of AI-generated content online is eroding consumer trust, weakening the influence that social media personalities have historically had over purchasing decisions. Shoppers who once relied on influencer recommendations for items like clothing and home appliances are said to be growing more skeptical of what they see online.
Sony's new PlayStation 5 system software update (26.06-14.00.00) turns on the 'Enhance PSSR Image Quality' setting by default for PS5 Pro owners. This applies Sony's newer, upgraded PSSR upscaling algorithm to games originally built around the first version of PSSR, without users needing to manually toggle it. The enhanced PSSR itself launched in March as an optional setting, not a new PSSR 2.0 release.
An opinion column argues that when a named author does little more than type a prompt and approve the output, the resulting work amounts to substitution rather than assistance. The piece frames this distinction as a test for determining accountability when AI tools are used in authorship.
Following a column from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warning that AI systems could escape human control without safeguards, Microsoft published a 'Humanist AI Code of Conduct' and Google DeepMind's CEO signaled agreement on X with calls for stronger oversight. President Trump dismissed calls for tighter AI regulation, saying winning the AI race against China matters more, according to reported remarks.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, President Trump rejected any global effort to regulate artificial intelligence, arguing that the lack of strict climate regulation has worked out fine and using that as reasoning against AI oversight. He also said he wants to rename artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence,' claiming the word 'artificial' makes it sound 'fake.'
Rabbit has released OS3, a cloud-based 'agentic operating system' that works locally on Windows, Mac and Linux machines rather than requiring its R1 device. Users can link up to five devices and preferred AI models, and access OS3 via a desktop site, messaging apps like Telegram or iMessage, or the R1. Founder Jesse Lyu told Wired that Rabbit has stopped manufacturing the R1 but is developing a new 'cyberdeck' device to run OS3 within months.