News reporting focused on AI and machine learning, covering the companies behind these technologies, their real-world applications, and the ethical concerns they raise. This includes areas like generative AI (large language models, text-to-image and video), speech tech, and predictive analytics.
Nativ is a new open source desktop app that lets users run frontier open AI models locally on Apple Silicon Macs. The app supports models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI, and offers chat, telemetry, and integrations with coding agents. It is MIT licensed and requires no accounts or subscriptions.
A new study scored the full text of 12,750 arXiv papers and found that roughly one third of recent submissions read as machine-written. The detector was calibrated to a 0.4% false-positive rate on pre-ChatGPT papers. Computer science leads at 65%, while mathematics is lowest at 0.7%, though the authors note limitations in detecting AI writing in notation-heavy fields.
A step-by-step guide explains how to set up a spare Mac as an always-on machine that Claude Code can fully control, with computer use enabled. The setup allows users to interact with Claude Code from a phone via the Claude app or from a main Mac over SSH, providing a separate environment for delegated tasks.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first open-weights AI model. The 975B parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer is Apache-2.0 licensed and trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video. While not a frontier model, it aims to serve as a strong base for fine-tuning via the Tinker platform.
DoorDash has introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool that lets developers order food directly from their AI agents. The tool, called dd-cli, allows users to search stores, find deals, and check out. It is currently open to U.S. and Canadian macOS developers via a waitlist.
Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, an open-weights multimodal model with 975 billion parameters. The model leads U.S. open-source models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index but trails top Chinese models. It shows strong agentic performance but has a 63 percent hallucination rate.
Cloud security firm Sysdig reports the first known ransomware operation fully automated by an AI agent, named JADEPUFFER. The agent exploited a year-old Langflow vulnerability, stole credentials, encrypted a MySQL database, and demanded Bitcoin. No human appeared to control the attack, which corrected its own errors in 31 seconds. The incident highlights how unpatched flaws and weak credential management become dangerous when exploited by AI.
SoftBank has announced plans to build AI data centers in France with a total capacity of 5 gigawatts, representing an investment worth up to 75 billion euros. The first phase includes 45 billion euros for 3.1 gigawatts in the Hauts-de-France region, with sites in Dunkirk, Bosquel, and Bouchain targeted by 2031. The project, unveiled at President Macron's Choose France summit, is SoftBank's largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe.
Apple released macOS Tahoe 26.5, addressing numerous security vulnerabilities including a kernel bug (CVE-2026-28952) discovered by Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic. The update fixes issues from denial-of-service to privilege escalation, sandbox escapes, and memory corruption. Multiple researchers and organizations are credited.
At the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas," Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah said AI language models reveal signs of introspection and internal states resembling human emotions. The Pope's encyclical offered a more cautious view, warning against equating machine intelligence with human experience and calling for strong laws and oversight.
Osaurus, an open-source Apple-only LLM server, lets Mac users switch between local and cloud AI models while keeping files and tools on their hardware. It evolved from a desktop AI companion called Dinoki and supports models like Llama, DeepSeek V4, and cloud providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The tool offers a secure sandbox, over 20 plugins, and has seen more than 112,000 downloads since launch.
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has seen more than 50 researchers and engineers leave since February, following its merger. Key teams in coding, world models, and Grok voice have lost leaders, with rivals like Meta and Thinking Machine Labs hiring many. Concerns grow over pre-training team cuts and work culture.