GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests

Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent [...]

Brave1 and the open source future of war

From writing apps to coding autonomous drone swarms, software engineers are becoming defense innovators through a new open source military ecosystem. [...]

Apple Upgrade is a great deal on paper, but make sure you read the fine print

Make a plan before you use the new Apple Upgrade program to avoid potential fees down the road. [...]

Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.

The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EU’s AI Office w [...]

Fired Tesla manager says Full Self-Driving cars were 'rolling hazards'

A new lawsuit accuses Tesla of overextending the safety operators overseeing its robotaxis. [...]

Mate Security Raises $35M to Build an Open Foundation for AI Security Operations

Mate Security has raised $35 million in Series A funding as enterprises look for new ways to operate security teams against attacks moving at machine speed. Canaan Partners led the round, with partici [...]

Microsoft Puts Its First Cyber Model Inside Project Perception

Microsoft has announced Project Perception, an agentic security system that turns three classes of AI agents loose on a customer's own environment, alongside MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, the first security [...]

What the Arrival of Frontier AI Models Tells Us About the Future of Vulnerability Discovery

When Claude Mythos was announced in April, it quickly became one of the biggest cybersecurity talking points of the AI era. Developed by Anthropic, the new LLM demonstrated unprecedented cyber capabil [...]

The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15

In China, the AI boom that put actors and models out of work has found a new use for them. It is renting their faces. A growing set of platforms now pays people $15 to $700 to license their likeness f [...]