Discord’s move to require age verification through facial recognition and ID scans arrives wrapped in the language of protection. But it’s actually a blueprint for something more troubling: ...

"We leverage an advanced machine learning model developed at Discord to predict whether a user falls into a particular age group based on patterns of user behavior and several other signals associated ...

Hackers have revealed that parts of Discord's new age verification system were effectively exposed to the public after the frontend code for third-party vendor Persona was left accessible on the open ...

When a group of researchers at Northeastern University's Bau Lab began toying with a new kind of autonomous artificial intelligence "agent," it was supposed to be a fun weekend experiment. Instead, ...

Vibe coding is programming by gut feel. You have an idea for a tool, a website, or a repetitive task you want to automate… but instead of enrolling in a coding boot camp or slogging through YouTube ...

Nandan Nilekani said AI is being adopted faster than any previous technological transition, from the internet to smartphones, and is poised to fundamentally reshape how businesses operate. Photograph: ...

A developer gives the AI agent OpenClaw programming instructions via his smart glasses and always keeps an eye on its progress thanks to the display. Vibe Coding is when a large language model ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amazon’s cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools, leading some ...

Shortly after Discord announced that all users will soon be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified, the messaging platform faced immediate backlash. One of the major complaints ...

As early as September 2025, Qwen announced models with a new, hybrid architecture. The only available model was Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct, which was more of an experiment. However, Qwen has ...

Ever scroll through your socials and stumble upon a story that makes you do a double-take? That’s exactly how I felt today with the whole “Beep Boop Beep Boop” saga featuring new Xbox boss Asha Sharma ...

We interviewed our bot about what it learned on Moltbook, the A.I.-only social network. The proof isn’t the karma spike; it’s whether the persona earns you a seat in the rooms your work needs. The ...