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Meta has acquired Moltbook, a viral social network designed for AI agents, where bots can post, comment, and interact with one another.

Meta AI security researcher Summer Yu asked an OpenClaw agent to help clean her inbox — it ended up deleting everything in a "speed run" while ignoring her stop commands. Here's a detailed breakdown of what went wrong, why context compaction is a real danger in agentic AI, and what it means for the rest of us trusting these tools with real data.

NotebookLM is Google’s AI research assistant that works from your sources (links, PDFs, docs, slides, etc.) and turns them into useful, structured outputs like summaries, Q&A, mind maps, flashcards, and audio-style overviews. It feels different from a normal chatbot because it stays grounded in the materials you provide and helps you convert long content into ready-to-use formats.

Elon Musk’s new AI-powered encyclopedia, Grokipedia, launched as a rival to Wikipedia, with some pages reportedly copied nearly verbatim from Wikipedia and labelled “adapted from Wikipedia”.

Discover how OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Atlas browser integrates ChatGPT everywhere you browse: sidebar, Agent mode, memory, import tools — and what it means for Chrome, Safari, and the future of search.

Deloitte agreed to refund part of a $290,000 report to the Australian government after errors generated by AI as part of the provided report were identified. 

Explore key highlights from Microsoft Build 2025, covering breakthrough AI tools, developer updates, GitHub enhancements, and major platform innovations.

Notion Introduces Notion Mail, an AI-powered email Client Integrated with Its Productivity Ecosystem. It only supports Gmail accounts and is available on the web and Mac, with an iOS app in testing. Android and Windows versions are expected to launch in 2025.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acquired the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in an all-stock transaction valued at $33 billion, including $12 billion in debt. 

Microsoft is set to launch an AI-powered feature called Copilot for Gaming, designed to act as an in-game coach and assistant for Xbox players. Initially available through the Xbox mobile app, Copilot aims to enhance the gaming experience by offering personalized tips, guides, and support for various game-related tasks.

​Microsoft has announced a significant enhancement to TypeScript by porting its compiler to Go, resulting in up to a 10x performance boost.

On December 18, 2024, Microsoft introduced a free plan for GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code, making AI-assisted coding more accessible to developers, offering developers 2,000 code completions and 50 chat requests per month, with access to GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models.

Discover the latest features including enhanced runtime performance, dynamic garbage collection, new library updates like System.Text.Json enhancements, LINQ updates, C# 13 language features, and powerful tooling support for modern application development.

Linux developers have excluded 11 Russian-linked programmers from the list of those responsible for kernel development 

Figma returns the AI design generation feature. The feature now has a different name - First Draft instead of Make Designs.

Apple presented the new Apple Watch, AirPods, and iPhone 16 at the Apple Event 2024

На ежегодной конференции Google I/O компания представила несколько новых инструментов на базе искусственного интеллекта, в частности генерацию видео, личного помощника, платформу для синтеза музыки и продвинутый поиск в сети. 

21-23 мая 2024 года корпорация Microsoft провела ежегодную трехдневную конференцию для разработчиков Build. В новости рассматриваем, что нового показали 

В новой либе MongoDB для EF Core предлагают разработчикам следующие возможности:   совместимость с Entity Framework Core 8 и .NET 8; полный набор опций для запросов, включая сложные операции и агрегации, такие как Where, OrderBy и ThenBy; гибкость в маппинге и конфигурации; улучшенная работа с массивами и списками, позволяющая легко управлять и манипулировать более сложными структурами данных в ваших приложениях; logging

Президент США Джо Байден подписал законопроект о принудительной продаже TikTok. Теперь у компании ByteDance есть девять месяцев, чтобы найти покупателя для своего видеосервиса. Байден сможет продлить срок ещё на три месяца, если увидит «прогресс» Если та не захочет идти на сделку, сервис заблокируют в стране.