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WordPress.com now lets AI agents write, edit, and publish posts directly. Posts default to drafts requiring approval.

Anthropic submitted sworn declarations to federal court refuting Pentagon claims that the AI company poses an unacceptable national security risk, revealing negotiators said sides were "nearly aligned" just days after Trump ended ties.

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts directly on websites via MCP, raising concerns about machine-generated content proliferation and security risks.

California's AI companion chatbot law took effect January 1, 2026. Weeks later, Chat & Ask AI exposed 300 million messages—including suicide queries and illegal content.

Nvidia launches NemoClaw, an enterprise AI agent platform built on OpenClaw, addressing security and privacy concerns as adoption accelerates.

A Reddit user shares a prompt technique that makes ChatGPT write more naturally by specifying voice, tone, and sentence structure rules.

Anthropic filed two lawsuits against the Pentagon challenging its "supply chain risk" designation, arguing it violates First Amendment rights and is retaliation for the company's refusal to allow Claude AI in autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3.5-397B-A17B uses sparse MoE to achieve 8.6x-19x faster inference while matching GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus on benchmarks.

ByteDance pauses Seedance 2.0 global launch after Disney and Netflix issue cease-and-desist letters over copyright concerns.

Meta reportedly planning layoffs affecting up to 20% of workforce, potentially 16,000+ jobs, to offset massive AI infrastructure investments.

Salesforce rebuilt Slackbot into a full AI agent that searches enterprise data, drafts documents, and takes autonomous action for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers.

Anthropic's Claude Code charges up to $200/month while Goose, an open-source AI agent from Block, does the same job for free.

Emma, a new AI girlfriend app with revolutionary memory system, launches on iOS as the AI companion market grows from $4.24B to $5.01B in 2026.

Critical OpenClaw vulnerability CVE-2026-25253 drives 20,000 developers to secure alternative NanoClaw, now partnering with Docker for enterprise sandbox isolation.

IBM releases Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact multilingual ASR model that ranks #1 on OpenASR leaderboard while running on edge devices.

A practical step-by-step guide to building AI agents from scratch, covering model selection, architecture design, tool integration, and deployment.

Lawyer handling AI psychosis cases warns chatbots are now linked to mass casualty planning, escalating from individual suicides to planned multi-fatality attacks.

Meta delays Avocado AI model to May 2026 after internal benchmarks showed it couldn't match Google Gemini 3.0, OpenAI, and Anthropic models.

xAI hires two Cursor executives to rebuild its failed Macrohard coding tool after multiple iterations, leadership departures, and layoffs.

Meta acquires Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents that grew to 1.5M agents in weeks. The founders join Meta Superintelligence Labs.