Fitbit’s AI health coach feature expands to Canada
Fitbit is expanding the availability of a preview of its AI-powered personal health coach to more regions, including…
Anthropic safety researcher quits, warning ‘world is in peril’
An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the “world is in peril” in part over AI advances. Mrinank Sharma…
AI economy: How Claude Code could upend white-collar work in 2026
It’s February 2020 again. An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world…
Artificial intelligence tools becoming ‘daily habit’ for merchants: Shopify president
OTTAWA — Shopify Inc. is seeing signs that business owners are increasingly growing comfortable with artificial intelligence. Harley…
Amazon Engineers Grate Against Internal Limits on Claude Code
Amazon is one of Anthropic’s largest investors and a key partner in bringing the startup’s AI models and…
Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI ‘productivity savings’
Dutch brewer Heineken is planning to lay off up to up to 7% of its workforce, as it…
Memory makers are set to earn $551 billion from the AI boom, twice as much as contract chip manufacturers — forecasts suggest that 2026 revenue will skyrocket thanks to data center demand
The artificial intelligence supercycle is reshaping the semiconductor and electronics industries, as the scale of the AI infrastructure…
AI Just Cracked the Rules of a Lost Roman Board Game, and It’s Unlike Anything We Expected
A potential ancient Roman gameboard with pencil marks highlighting the incised lines. Credit: Walter Crist During a brief…
Facebook adds new AI features, animated profile photos, and backgrounds for text posts
Facebook announced new AI-powered features on Tuesday designed to let users express themselves in more playful ways across…
This AI-Powered Photo Frame Turns Your Words Into Art (or Slop)
Even the cutest among us are not safe from AI’s fondness for adding limbs and other visual grotesqueries. Photo…
‘Observational memory’ cuts AI agent costs 10x and outscores RAG on long-context benchmarks
RAG isn’t always fast enough or intelligent enough for modern agentic AI workflows. As teams move from short-lived…
Claude surprised researchers by running a vending machine business better than its rivals and bending every rule to win
Claude Opus 4.6 beat all rival AI models in a simulated year-long vending machine challengeThe model boosted profits…