Hark, the AI company founded by Figure chief Brett Adcock, has launched Hark Pro free on the web, iOS and Android. We tour the app, decode the $20 Pro² and $100 Pro³ tiers, compare the launch with the pre-release build, and set out a first-week test plan and the checks IT teams should make.
Safeworld, co-founded by Carnegie Mellon’s Ding Zhao, has raised $12.2 million to test AI-controlled robots in simulations full of realistic digital humans. We explain how its tests work, what solar-farm robot maker Gritt wants from them, the case for and against a third-party tester, and the standards and EU rules now arriving.
HackerRank has made Chakra, its AI interviewer, generally available after 500,000 beta interviews. We explain how it watches candidates work with an AI assistant, what three rounds in one means for hiring teams, whether its cheating and bias claims hold up, and which US, EU and UK rules apply.
TikTok has unveiled Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent, and Buy Direct, a one-click checkout from the For You feed built with Shopify, Salesforce, Shoplazza and Stripe. We explain how it differs from TikTok Shop, the numbers behind it, the agentic commerce race, and what brands should ask first.
Instinct, the $10 billion personal AI agent, can now join group chats, even with friends who have never signed up. We explain its two-agent permission model, what its terms say about non-users and group purchases, how it compares with ChatGPT and Meta AI, and practical rules for families and teams.
Reflection AI’s first model, Beam, is a 501-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 23 billion active parameters and Apache 2.0 weights due this month. We count its wins and losses against seven open rivals in Reflection’s own table, unpack the 3-4x compute claim, and work out what it takes to run.
OpenAI will add an invisible textGrain watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to meet the AI Act. We break down how it works, OpenAI’s own detection and quality numbers, why the detector is gated, how it compares with Claude’s worldwide watermark, and what UK and EU organisations should do.
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told a rare full hearing of New York City Council that AI companies are ‘extremely reckless’ and cannot control their models. We cover the testimony, the companies’ answers under oath, the subpoena fight, the ten bills including kill switches, $25,000 fines and whistleblower rewards, and what UK firms selling AI into New York should prepare.
US universities from Yale to Cornell are moving away from AI detection software even as AI cheating grows. We look at a professor’s hidden-prompt trap that caught 60 of 350 students, the false-positive arithmetic, what a 1,057-faculty survey says, how assessment is being redesigned, and the lessons for UK employers.
OpenAI has made Auto-review, the Codex setting where a second AI agent approves or blocks a coding agent’s risky actions, free for everyone signed in with a ChatGPT account. We explain how it works, what OpenAI’s own evaluation numbers show, what it will not protect against, how businesses can configure it and why free matters.
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