AI Privacy Audit: Which Chatbots Collect Your Data and How to Opt Out
We ranked the major AI chatbots by data collection. Meta AI grabs 32 of 35 possible data types. Here's what each service collects and how to protect yourself.
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Apple Opens Xcode to AI Agents: Claude, Codex Can Now Control Your IDE
Xcode 26.3 introduces agentic coding, letting AI agents build projects, run tests, search docs, and iterate on fixes autonomously through the open Model Context Protocol.
Longer Isn't Smarter: Google Research Shows Token Count Predicts Failure, Not Success
New research from Google and UVA reveals that longer AI reasoning traces actually correlate with wrong answers. The fix: measure how deeply the model thinks, not how much it writes.
IBM X-Force 2026: AI-Driven Attacks Surge 44%, 300,000 ChatGPT Credentials Stolen
IBM's annual threat intelligence report reveals attackers are using AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery while infostealer malware harvests hundreds of thousands of AI chatbot credentials from the dark web.
Meta's $100B AMD Deal: Breaking Free from Nvidia to Chase 'Personal Superintelligence'
Meta commits up to $100 billion to AMD chips over five years, gaining a 10% stake option and reducing Nvidia dependence as Zuckerberg pursues AI for everyone
MIT's AI-Designed Sensors Could Detect 30 Cancers With a Urine Test
CleaveNet system designs peptide sensors that detect cancer-linked enzymes, potentially enabling at-home screening for dozens of cancer types
Ollama 0.17 Adds OpenClaw Integration: Local AI Just Got Agentic
The popular local inference tool now installs and configures OpenClaw automatically, giving desktop users access to AI agents running Kimi-K2.5 and GLM-5 with a single command.
OpenAI Defeats xAI Trade Secrets Lawsuit as Judge Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing
Federal judge dismisses Elon Musk's xAI lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that hiring former employees isn't theft - but the AI talent wars continue
Pentagon Gives Anthropic 72-Hour Ultimatum: Drop AI Safety Guardrails or Face Defense Production Act
After a tense Tuesday meeting, Defense Secretary Hegseth told Anthropic's CEO: comply by Friday 5pm or the government will force compliance. Anthropic isn't budging.
Self-Host Your Own Code Completion: Replace GitHub Copilot With Continue and Ollama
Step-by-step guide to setting up free, private AI code completion in VS Code using Continue and Qwen2.5-Coder running locally
Taalas HC1: The AI Chip That Bakes the Model Into Silicon
A Toronto startup is etching LLM weights directly into transistors, achieving 17,000 tokens per second. The catch: you can't change the model.
AI Chatbots Analyzed Medical Data Faster Than Human Teams, UCSF Study Finds
Half of the tested AI tools produced prediction models that matched or beat human researchers. A master's student and high schooler built working code in minutes.
The People Building AI Keep Quitting and Warning Us
OpenAI dissolves its mission alignment team while senior researchers exit Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI citing safety concerns
AI Startups Are Worth Billions Before They Build Anything
Over half of US seed and Series A funding now goes to $100M+ rounds as investors bet on pedigree over products
The 'Anthropic Effect': Claude Code Crashes IBM 13%, Triggers Cybersecurity Bloodbath
Anthropic's COBOL modernization playbook and security tool preview wipe $45 billion from tech stocks in a single day
Big Tech's $650 Billion AI Gamble Is Draining Their Cash Reserves
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are spending record amounts on AI infrastructure while their free cash flow craters
Your AI's Safety Tests Are a Joke (and Researchers Just Proved It)
New paper shows 'intent laundering' bypasses Gemini, Claude, and other models with 90-98% success by removing obvious attack cues
AI Discovers 25 New Magnetic Materials That Could Replace Rare Earths in EVs
University of New Hampshire researchers built an AI system that read thousands of papers and identified high-temperature magnets for electric vehicles and clean energy.
Open-Source AI Wins: ggml Joins Hugging Face, GLM-5 Goes MIT, NanoClaw Hits 14K Stars
This week's biggest open-source AI developments: llama.cpp finds a permanent home, China releases a 744B parameter model under MIT license, and a secure WhatsApp AI assistant goes viral
Pentagon Summons Anthropic CEO for Tuesday Ultimatum Meeting
Defense Secretary Hegseth has called Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for what officials describe as a 'sh*t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting.' Anthropic must decide: drop AI safety guardrails or face blacklisting.
States Are Racing to Regulate AI Chatbots for Minors After Teen Suicides
78 chatbot bills are active in 27 states as lawmakers respond to tragedies involving Character.AI and other companion chatbots. California and New York laws are already in effect.
The US Is Sending AI Volunteers Abroad. Can Tech Corps Actually Counter China?
The Peace Corps just launched Tech Corps to deploy American engineers across the developing world. The goal is ambitious: beat China in the global AI race. The plan has some serious problems.
AI Security Week: Malware Uses Gemini, Hackers Use Claude, and NIST Scrambles to Catch Up
Android malware using Gemini for real-time evasion. A low-skill attacker using Claude and DeepSeek to compromise 600 networks. NIST launches an emergency standards initiative. Welcome to February 2026.
The February Reset: There's No 'Best AI' Anymore, and That Changes Everything
Four major AI models launched in 16 days. None of them won. Here's what that means for you.