Ring brings its ‘Search Party’ feature for finding lost dogs to non-Ring camera owners

Ring’s Search Party feature for finding lost dogs is now available across the U.S. — even if you don’t own a Ring camera.

Don’t Regulate AI Models. Regulate AI Use
Don’t Regulate AI Models. Regulate AI Use

At times, it can seem like efforts to regulate and rein in AI are everything everywhere all at once.China issued the first AI-specific regulations in 2021. The focus is squarely on providers and content governance, enforced through platform control an…

Coalition demands federal Grok ban over nonconsensual sexual content

Nonprofits urge the U.S. government to suspend Grok in federal agencies after the xAI chatbot generated thousands of nonconsensual sexual images, raising national security and child safety concerns.

Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants 

Carbon Robotics’ Large Plant Model will allow farmers to kill new types of weeds without having to retrain the machines.

Docusign’s CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts
Docusign’s CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts

Today, I’m talking with Allan Thygesen, who is the CEO of Docusign. You know Docusign; it’s the platform where you sign things online. It turns out 7,000 people work there, which is one of those facts you see flying around sometimes that’s always felt like perfect Decoder bait. What are all those people doing? And […]

Snowflake And OpenAI Strike $200M Deal To Power Enterprise AI Agents

The deal positions Snowflake to compete with Databricks in AI while giving OpenAI enterprise distribution beyond Microsoft’s ecosystem.

Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps

Linq offers an API that lets companies offer their AI assistants via iMessage, RCS and SMS.

Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men
Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men

After weeks of flooding the internet with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, X has finally reined in Elon Musk’s rogue chatbot Grok. Musk claims Grok obeys local laws and refuses to produce anything illegal – except it hasn’t and it can. My testing shows Grok still readily undresses men and is still churning out intimate images on […]

Is Voice Becoming the UI Of The AI Era?

Voice AI is here. ElevenLabs has become the leading AI voice platform building the infrastructure layer for what could become the defining UI of the AI era.

Notable Self-Driving Items From CES 2026: Nuro, Mobileye, Nvidia, More

CES has become the smart car show. I summarize what was interesting from several companies.