Blockchain infrastructure firm Alchemy said AI agents with its AgentCard now have access to the Visa network with complete identity and payment capabilities, enabling them to make online purchases on behalf of consumers. The integration allows AgentCard, a virtual ID and spending card for AI agents, to access Visa Intelligent

Michał Nowakowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt Red, says fully AI-generated games are coming and that he "knows for a fact" because he has talked with AI-based studios. He recalled a conversation in which a founder claimed: "I'm running a primarily AI-based studio. I can

After nearly 16 years at Nvidia, Greg Estes found retirement harder than he expected. He and other former Nvidia leaders have launched EverGreen, a community that formally launched in March to advise and invest in AI startups. Estes said, "It's really hard to go from a job

Tokenmaxxing briefly became the buzzy AI phrase of the spring, but the trend is already sputtering. Amazon pulled its AI leaderboard after employees gamed the system, Palantir’s CEO likened tokenmaxxing to a porn addiction, and Duolingo reversed a plan to factor AI use into performance reviews. Meta and AT&

An investigation found that brands are quietly deploying AI-generated influencers on social media, prompting calls for greater transparency. Companies are increasingly using AI-generated content that purports to show genuine customer experiences while giving no obvious indication the people featured are not real. Some content creators making AI influencer material have

Researchers demonstrated a Parameter-to-Prompt Injection by sending a targeted email containing a URL with this syntax: https://m365.cloud.microsoft/search/?auth=2&origindomain=microsoft365&q=. The q field carried an instruction and Copilot complied. "The search functionality is exactly what attackers need, because even with limited

David Gaider—former BioWare writer and lead writer on the first three Dragon Age games—recently spoke to GamesRadar about some of the dangers he foresees for future teams working with these tools. "It wouldn't be so bad if generative AI was seen more as an assistant,

“It’s myopic in the extreme to think that no other competitors to Anthropic will develop similar capabilities to Mythos or even that they have not already done so,” says Tarah Wheeler, chief security officer of the specialized cybersecurity consulting firm TPO Group. “There are other companies hot on Anthropic’

Microsoft AI researcher Adrian de Wynter built a neural network inside Age of Empires II using goats to argue against treating large language models as humanlike. He documented the project in a paper titled 'If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II.' "I

Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida has been making games for almost 30 years and has spent more than a decade shaping Final Fantasy 14. The 52-year-old says he has "no intention of retiring any time soon, and will continue to run at full speed." He says many game

Pocketpair's head of publishing and communication, John Buckley, said "Gamers don't want" AI in their games, and compared the influx of AI to "early crypto stuff," calling it intrusive and driven by "outsiders looking to get rich quick." He pushed

A startup called Subquadratic says it has slashed the number of computations transformers need to generate answers, producing a faster, cheaper large language model that uses far less energy than other models. Many experts remained skeptical, but Subquadratic has started to share the receipts, suggesting the approach might be worth

The US government ordered Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic has pointed out that

A collection of stories about how militaries are using AI models to make decisions. This subscriber-only eBook is a package of six stories. They were originally published in MIT Technology Review between April 11, 2025, and April 21, 2026, and have been updated to reflect recent developments. Stories written by

Two of AI's biggest names have reignited their feud. Former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told CNBC that Elon Musk's AI lab, xAI, was "kind of a failure." LeCun has long had a rocky relationship with Musk, criticizing his leadership and predictions while

Karan Singhal leads OpenAI’s effort to make ChatGPT more useful for health, with a goal of improving people’s lives while avoiding major harms and persuading skeptics. More than 230 million people use the tool for health and wellness advice each week, and Singhal is focused on making those

AI agents are transforming how complex tasks are carried out — from cyber defence to scientific discovery and product development — and could create substantial economic value. As these systems become more capable, they require more sophisticated safeguards. The AI Control Roadmap presents a defense-in-depth framework for building and managing advanced AI

I tried the new Siri AI available on the macOS 27 developer beta, which requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence and a spot on a waitlist. I installed the beta on spare hardware—an iPhone 15 Pro and a MacBook Air M1—and was able to access Siri AI

General Intuition, the New York-based startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise around $300 million. The financing would value the company at just over $2 billion and comes eight months after General Intuition spun out of

Jonathan Laramy, 32, left a customer-service job in June 2025 to focus full time on Chloe VS History, a YouTube channel built around an AI-generated influencer who visits moments like the Titanic's maiden voyage and Pompeii. The channel now brings in more than his former wage, but the

Getting started and capturing the essence and value of AI can be exhausting. It also poses a vexing question: is the way forward to move fast and furious, jumping on every model that comes online, or to proceed with a plan and extreme caution? Testimonials from two enterprise IT leaders

Pixi launched its messaging-native app on the App Store on Wednesday, letting users send AI-powered AR characters through iMessage. Rather than appearing as static media, the characters come to life through the recipient’s iPhone camera, reacting to their surroundings, interacting with people and responding in real time. The company

Major tech firms including Google, Microsoft, GoDaddy, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Databricks, Snowflake, GitHub and Cisco have announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open specification for publishing, discovering and verifying AI capabilities across the web. Notably, OpenAI and Anthropic are not listed among the participating partners. ARD aims to

OpenAI's updated ChatGPT memory, now using "Dreaming" to synthesize a profile from past chats, can produce confident but incorrect summaries. The writer gives an example where ChatGPT claimed experience with a Kasa KP125M Matter plug and Home Assistant—details he says are wrong—showing how the

As AI use grows across entertainment, some creators are pushing back. In a new interview with ComicsBeat, Critical Role co-founder Sam Riegel and music producer and songwriter Peter Habib discussed AI in creative spaces and whether they would ever use it in songwriting for the animated adaptations The Legend of