NTT Research Launches New Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group at Harvard

When a parent is teaching their young child to relate to the world, they teach through associations and the identification of patterns. Take the letter S, for example. Parents show their child enough [...]

Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside

Companies that pushed hardest to adopt generative AI are now contending with a problem the technology was supposed to prevent: their work is getting worse. Two articles published by Harvard Business R [...]

Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation as leaders push back

A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code — intentionally or as an outcome of c [...]

Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

Agency by agency, Harvard is losing all of its federal research dollars. [...]

Apple explains how it will comply with App Store age verification requirements in Texas

Earlier this year,Texas passed a law requiring app stores to verify the ages of their users. Now, Apple has shared more about how it plans to comply with requirements, which are slated to go into effe [...]

Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

Google has told the EU it will not comply with a forthcoming fact-checking law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios. The company states that it will not be adding fact checks to search r [...]

Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]

eSelf lets enterprises deploy live, interactive AI avatars with screen share guidance in 5 minutes

eSelf, a startup developing interactive, photorealistic talking AI video avatars, has introduced a new feature called Share Screen Analysis that allows its avatars to view and respond to what users di [...]

Playdate Season 2 review: Tiny Turnip and Chance's Lucky Escape

It's hard to believe that Playdate Season Two is almost over already, but here we are in week five with just one more drop of new games left to go after this. In the latest batch, we got the clim [...]