Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines, launched June 10, names Ripple among more than 30 partners, with the XRP Ledger and RLUSD as a settlement option for AI agent payments as small as fractions of a ...

Google says its AI tutor delivered a year of math progress in eight weeks. I asked the DeepMind researcher behind the trial ...

Guardrails, when designed thoughtfully, do several things at once. They define what the AI will act on. They define what it ...

China’s cybersecurity watchdog has warned against third-party AI “skills” packages that claim to bypass model safety guard rails and generate otherwise prohibited content, or provide access to ...

Makers of AI browsers make lofty promises. With a single prompt, users can ask one to find a restaurant in a particular part ...

Today at WWDC Apple unveiled its next generation of Apple Intelligence, including the new Siri AI. But the most powerful on-device AI model will be restricted to some of Apple’s newest products. Here ...

In her letter, Jacqueline Christmas misses the point that it was exactly such human-imposed guard rails that I was looking for in my correspondence with AI concerning nuclear weapons. Another insight ...

Apple’s WWDC 2026 event kicked off yesterday at Apple Park, starting a week packed with reveals about Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence, and more, along with developer events and demos as Apple ...

A college student in Michigan received a threatening response during a chat with Google's AI chatbot Gemini. In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults, ...

Google just made its budget AI subscription plan a lot more budget-friendly, bringing a price war that’s been brewing in emerging markets squarely to American consumers. The company announced Monday ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...