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HoneyBook, a customer-relationship platform for independent service businesses, shipped a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector — a standard that lets AI assistants plug into a business app's data and tools — that lets Claude send invoices, update
The rule took effect on 2 August and binds deployed models by 2 December. The statistical trick behind it works on images and audio; on text, one named researcher has already shown it can be erased in seconds.
A third-party review of 11,000 real ChatGPT ad placements between July 4 and August 4, 2026 found 33% of ads had nothing to do with the discussion.
The deal puts the routing decision and per-token billing under one corporate parent, so the company that collects the bill now also picks the model.
The CEOs building frontier AI and the philosophers arguing for AI rights keep arriving at the same place: both push today's harms off the companies shipping the systems.
Healthwatch Rotherham's ask is structural: practices that have switched on a voice-AI receptionist should publish the alternative access route the Equality Act already requires.
Set up to study the Ukraine war, the Army's drone battalion will refold into a parachute infantry unit after its September exercise. Multiple U.S. officials describe the move as a leadership shake-up, not a doctrinal shift.
Osaka University researchers show that a small machine-learning controller on Madagascar-hissing cockroaches can steer them across rocky, unknown ground using the insect's own climbing and recovery behavior.
DiffusionGemma, a fine-tune of Google's Gemma 4 (a model architecture that activates only part of its weights per input, here 3.8B of 25.
Salesforce launched Slack Code on Aug. 20 across every Slack plan.
TCS, Infosys and Wipro built the world's largest IT services industry by selling hours and heads. Now AI lets clients refuse that deal, and the Nifty IT index is down a fifth in 2026.
Harvard SEAS researchers gave an algorithm an optical target and fabrication rules; the resulting nanostructures were built and tested.