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ByteDance's Anew Labs enters AI drug discovery with IL-17 inhibitor
ByteDance's drug discovery unit Anew Labs presented its first AI-designed therapy at the American Association of Immunologists' annual meeting in Boston in mid-...
xAI launches Grok 4.3 with always-on reasoning and voice cloning suite
xAI has released Grok 4.3, a new base large language model featuring what the company calls "always-on reasoning," alongside a voice cloning suite called Custom...
Security researchers warn 200,000 MCP servers are vulnerable to command injection
Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol as the open standard for AI agent-to-tool communication. OpenAI adopted it in March 2025. Google DeepMind followed....
Meta acquires robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid platform
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup specializing in whole-body robot control models and tactile sensors, as it pushes deeper into humanoid r...
Uber plans to turn driver fleet into sensor grid for autonomous-vehicle companies
Uber plans to eventually equip the cars in its human-driver network with sensors that can collect real-world data for autonomous-vehicle companies and other fir...
Replit CEO Masad says company will try to stay independent amid rival Cursor sale talks
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says the AI coding assistant company intends to remain independent, even as rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX ...
Apple accuses India antitrust watchdog of overstepping authority in new court filing
Apple has accused India's Competition Commission of India (CCI) of overstepping its judicial authority in a new court filing tied to an ongoing antitrust invest...
OnePlus and Nothing Raise Smartphone Prices in India Amid Ongoing RAM Crisis
Smartphone price hikes have hit the OnePlus 15 and Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, among others, in India, as manufacturers respond to the ongoing RAM crisis. Motorola...
Five Eyes agencies publish guidance on securing agentic AI deployments
Cybersecurity agencies from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom jointly published guidance Friday urging organizations to t...
Minnesota passes first-in-nation law banning AI nudification apps
Minnesota has become the first U.S. state to pass a law banning nudification apps that use artificial intelligence to create fake sexualized images of real peop...
Y Combinator pivots toward hard tech in Summer 2026 Request for Startups
Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, listing 15 categories of companies the accelerator wants to fund. Eight of them requi...
Avoca raises more than $125 million to build AI agents for home-services businesses
Avoca, a startup whose artificial-intelligence agents handle inbound calls, scheduling and dispatch for home-services businesses, has raised more than $125 mill...
Disneyland deploys face recognition technology at park entrances
The Walt Disney Company announced this week that visitors to Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park will have the option to enter through a lane e...
Canonical infrastructure remains offline after sustained cross-border attack
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down. Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu...
French authorities detain 15-year-old suspected in government agency data breach
French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of selling data stolen from France Titres, the government agency that issues and manages administrative...
Cybercrime Groups Exploit Vishing and SSO Trust in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have identified two cybercrime groups carrying out rapid, high-impact attacks that operate almost entirely within SaaS environments wh...
AWS stops billing Middle East customers as war damage repairs stretch for months
Amazon Web Services has suspended billing for customers in its Middle East cloud regions and warned that repairs to war-damaged data centers will take several m...