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OpenAI drops erotic AI plans to prioritize enterprise clients before 2026 IPO

OpenAI has indefinitely shelved its planned erotic chatbot feature, citing safety concerns and investor pressure, as the company accelerates a sweeping consolidation of its product line ahead of a...

Mistral Launches Voxtral TTS: Shifts Voice Cloning From Cloud to Smartphones

Mistral's new open-source text-to-speech model, built on a 3-billion-parameter architecture, runs directly on smartphones...

Melania Trump Pitches AI Educators: Figure 03 Humanoid Debuts at White House

First Lady Melania Trump introduced the Figure 03 humanoid robot at a White House...

US Jury Fines Meta $375 Million For Child Harm: Verdict Targets Algorithms

A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for misleading users about child safety, ordering...

Japanese Manga Publishers Require B4 Paper: Why Digital Artists Must Adapt

Manga artists worldwide are discovering that drawing at the correct B4 manuscript size — and understanding the scaling rules that follow — is not optional if they want their work to survive the print publishing pipeline.

OpenAI drops erotic AI plans to prioritize enterprise clients before 2026 IPO

OpenAI has indefinitely shelved its planned erotic chatbot feature, citing safety concerns and investor pressure, as the company accelerates a sweeping consolidation of its...

Mistral Launches Voxtral TTS: Shifts Voice Cloning From Cloud to Smartphones

Mistral's new open-source text-to-speech model, built on a 3-billion-parameter architecture, runs directly on smartphones and smartwatches — moving voice cloning away from expensive cloud...

Melania Trump Pitches AI Educators: Figure 03 Humanoid Debuts at White House

First Lady Melania Trump introduced the Figure 03 humanoid robot at a White House summit on Wednesday, pitching the $25,000 physical labor machine as...

US Jury Fines Meta $375 Million For Child Harm: Verdict Targets Algorithms

A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for misleading users about child safety, ordering $375 million in civil penalties — the first successful state...

Japanese Manga Publishers Require B4 Paper: Why Digital Artists Must Adapt

Manga artists worldwide are discovering that drawing at the correct B4 manuscript size — and understanding the scaling rules that follow — is not optional if they want their work to survive the print publishing pipeline.

Tencent Pushes AI Agent OpenClaw, But China Warns Over 12,000 Yuan Data Fraud

China's biggest tech companies race to profit from an AI agent craze while the government quietly bans it from government offices — and ordinary users are already paying the price.

Nvidia Rolls Out Free Dynamo 1.0 AI OS, Boosting Blackwell Speeds 7x To Lower Costs

Nvidia's open-source inference "operating system" enters full production with adoption from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and dozens of enterprises - all getting the performance gains for free, entirely through software.

Alibaba Bets $53 Billion On Business AI Agent, But Senior Exec Exits Pose Risk

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu launches a new enterprise AI agent this week amid a severe internal leadership crisis. The sudden resignation of top technical executives threatens the company's massive financial pivot toward autonomous business software ahead of Thursday's earnings call.

EU Publishers Demand Google Fine As European Firms Face Bankruptcy

A coalition of 18 European industry groups formally demands EU regulators penalize Google for two years of alleged search self-preferencing under the Digital Markets Act, warning that the delay is already pushing businesses into financial failure.

OpenAI Nears $10B Joint Venture With TPG and Bain to Push AI Into Businesses

OpenAI races to lock in corporate America before Anthropic does — and four of the world's biggest private equity firms may be its fastest route in.
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