Models, regulation, adoption and the risks, reported without the hype.
New York's new law bans AI companion features such as claiming human emotions or encouraging secrecy for minors, requires age checks with data deletion, and sets penalties of up to $25,000 per violation.
Forever Security says an AGENTS.md file dropped into a Downloads folder led a coding agent to try installing a malicious npm package, and that both Codex and Claude Code could be steered in tests.
Meta's new open-weight model has 816 billion parameters, a 1 million token context window and a custom license, and the company says it can run on two Mac Studio desktops.
Microsoft's third-generation in-house AI accelerator is built for inference and slated for production in 2027, with the company claiming 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems.
Regular AI users report much bigger gains than occasional users and are more likely to already hold quality jobs, a Gallup survey of more than 15,000 U.S. workers found.
