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Voyage Launches the First AI-Native RPG Platform, Signaling the Future of Gaming
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2026--Latitude today launched Voyage, the world’s first AI role-playing game (RPG) platform. Voyage is the first RPG where nothing is scripted: every world is player-created, every character thinks for itself and every choice has real consequences.
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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.
Schematic Raises $6.5M To Help Companies Update Their Pricing Faster And Easier In The AI Era
Schematic, a startup that aims to simplify pricing and packaging for software and AI companies, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
John Ternus’ first big problem is AI
Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtime CEO Tim Cook as chief executive - and the official release doesn't mention AI once. Ternus, currently Apple's SVP of hardware engineering, will take over as CEO on September 1st, after Cook's decade and a half in the role. Ternus is a 25-year veteran of the company and the first Apple CEO in about 30 years to come from the hardware sector. According to Apple, he's led hardware engineering work for every model of iPad, as well as the most rec … Read the full story at The Verge.
Australia's Syenta raises $26 million to ease AI chip bottleneck, former Intel CEO joins board
Syenta, an Australian semiconductor technology startup, said on Tuesday that it has raised $26 million for a new manufacturing technique that could help ease persistent supply chain bottlenecks for artificial intelligence. Along with the funding, the company said it will open an office in the U.S. state of Arizona, near the manufacturing facilities of Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, and that former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will be joining its board of directors. Modern AI chips such as those from Nvidia, Google and others are not a single chip, but rather multiple chips bonded together with what is known as advanced packaging technology, mostly from TSMC.
Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription
The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era.
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox
The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.
AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs
Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.
Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to court documents.
Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
The AI industry's mudslinging continues.
AI backlash is coming for elections
Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies and executives is unrestrained - sometimes to the point of condoning violence. But look at the issues that most campaigns are focused on, and AI is far less prevalent, experts say. More than 60 percent of both Republicans and Democrats polled by Ipsos earlier this year agree that the government should regulate AI for economic stability and public safety, and that the technology's development should slow down. Still, "when you just ask folks, 'w … Read the full story at The Verge.
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.
Amazon deepens AI partnership with Anthropic with $5B investment
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced a $5 billion investment in AI company Anthropic, alongside plans for up to an additional $20 billion in future funding tied to commercial milestones. The funding builds on an earlier investment of approximately $8 billion and is part of a broader...
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
Anthropic is building its first data center team outside the US
According to job listings spotted by Data Center Dynamics, Anthropic is hiring data center contract specialists in Europe and Australia. The article Anthropic is building its first data center team outside the US appeared first on The Decoder.
Yelp is making its AI chatbot way more useful
Yelp is giving its chatbot assistant a major upgrade, turning the platform into something closer to a digital concierge with a suite of new features designed for "getting things done." The move, one of several AI-focused updates in recent months, is part of a broader industry push to make AI more relevant and practically useful to consumers while turning huge troves of user-generated data into a competitive edge. In a press release, Yelp says the Yelp Assistant chatbot will be at "the center of the app experience," where it can answer questions, make recommendations, and even handle bookings in a single conversation. The bot will be availa … Read the full story at The Verge.
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OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web
An image generated by ChatGPT Images 2.0. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. In a blog post, OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now create more "sophisticated" images, with improvements to its ability to follow instructions, preserve details of your choosing, and generate text. It's powered by OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 model, with new thinking capabilities available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers. When a thinking model is selected, the chatbot's image generator can pull information from the web, cr … Read the full story at The Verge.
Kimi K2.6 runs agents for days — and exposes the limits of enterprise orchestration
Most orchestration frameworks were built for agents that run for seconds or minutes. Now that agents are running for hours — and in some cases days — those frameworks are starting to crack. Several model providers, such as Anthropic with Claude Code and OpenAI with Codex, introduced early support for long-horizon agents through multi-session tasks, subagents and background execution. However, these systems sometimes assume agents are still operating within bounded-time workflows even when they run for extended periods. Open-source model provider Moonshot AI wants to push beyond that with its new model, Kimi K2.6. Moonshot says the model is designed for continuous execution, with internal use cases including agents that ran for hours and, in one case, five straight days, handling monitoring and incident response autonomously. But this growing use of this type of agent is exposing a critical gap in orchestration: most orchestration frameworks were not designed for this type of continuo
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly
It's been only a few months since OpenAI released its last big improvement to AI image generations in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API) — namely, a new image generation model known as GPT-Image-1.5, released in December 2025, which brought about improved instruction following, colors, and lighting. Now, after weeks of testing, the company that kicked off the generative AI boom is unveiling a far more dramatic and even more impressive update: ChatGPT Images 2.0, which has been available not-so-secretly for several weeks on LM Arena AI, a third-party testing platform used by OpenAI and other major AI model providers to get early feedback, under the name "duct tape." Throughout that time, it's already blown early users' minds with its capacity to generate long blocks of text or disparate text panels within the same image, its insanely realistic generation of user interfaces and screenshots from popular websites and platforms, its reproduction of real life fig
3 new ways Ads Advisor is making Google Ads safer and faster
Three new agentic safety and policy features integrated into Ads Advisor will help protect and streamline your Google Ads account.
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Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business
Skild AI has acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform. Central to the company’s plans is its “Skild Brain” – described as “the industry’s first omnibodied AI software designed to operate without prior knowledge of a robot’s exact body form” – is claimed to be able to control any robot, […]
Three AI coding agents leaked secrets through a single prompt injection. One vendor's system card predicted it
A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Security Review action post its own API key as a comment. The same prompt injection worked on Google’s Gemini CLI Action and GitHub’s Copilot Agent (Microsoft). No external infrastructure required. Aonan Guan, the researcher who discovered the vulnerability, alongside Johns Hopkins colleagues Zhengyu Liu and Gavin Zhong, published the full technical disclosure last week, calling it “Comment and Control.” GitHub Actions does not expose secrets to fork pull requests by default when using the pull_request trigger, but workflows using pull_request_target, which most AI agent integrations require for secret access, do inject secrets into the runner environment. This limits the practical attack surface but does not eliminate it: collaborators, comment fields, and any repo using pull_request_target with a
What AI model should you use for revenue intelligence? Von says all the big ones, and it will automate mixing and matching for you
Looking at enterprise AI adoption, VentureBeat has anecdotally observed a fairly wide divergence when it comes to specific roles: For those who build—engineers and developers—the arrival of AI has been transformative, moving through the workflow with the speed of tools like Claude Code and Cursor to automate the heavy lifting of syntax and architecture. Yet, for those who sell, the "revenue stack" has remained a fragmented collection of data silos, manual CRM entries, and anecdotal reporting. Von, a new AI platform emerging from the team behind process automation startup Rattle, aims to bridge this gap. By positioning itself not as another "point solution" but as a foundational "intelligence layer," Von seeks to do for Go-To-Market (GTM) teams what the modern IDE has done for the developer: provide a single, reasoning interface that understands the entire business context. “AI has revolutionized the workflow for people who build things, but there is nothing that has revolutionized th
Cloud AI Update - Osirus AI Unveils Comprehensive Enterprise AI Management Platform
Osirus AI has launched a new unified platform designed for the comprehensive building, deploying, and management of enterprise AI agents. This platform consolidates various AI capabilities such as Chat, Search, Image, Video, Speech, and Storage, integrated with major AI providers like AWS Bedrock, Google, and OpenAI. Alongside this, Osirus AI introduces the Agent Studio, a system enabling organizations to manage AI agents efficiently with substantial control and scalability across business...
Adversaries hijacked AI security tools at 90+ organizations. The next wave has write access to the firewall
Adversaries injected malicious prompts into legitimate AI tools at more than 90 organizations in 2025, stealing credentials and cryptocurrency. Every one of those compromised tools could read data, and none of them could rewrite a firewall rule. The autonomous SOC agents shipping now can. That escalation, from compromised tools that read data to autonomous agents that rewrite infrastructure, has not been exploited in production at scale yet. But the architectural conditions for it are shipping faster than the governance designed to prevent it. A compromised SOC agent can rewrite your firewall rules, modify IAM policies, and quarantine endpoints, all with its own privileged credentials, all through approved API calls that EDR classifies as authorized activity. The adversary never touches the network. The agent does it for them. Cisco announced AgenticOps for Security in February, with autonomous firewall remediation and PCI-DSS compliance capabilities. Ivanti launched Continuous Complia
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Dronamics Opens Japan Subsidiary, Names Asia Air Survey as First Japanese Investor
Dronamics has announced a strategic investment from Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd. (TSE: 9233). The company is also establishing a Japanese subsidiary, Dronamics Japan Holdings Co., Ltd. Asia Air Survey, investing through its Corporate Venture Capital arm, becomes the first Japanese investor in Dronamics. Black Swan Drone Targets Japan’s Geospatial Sector Founded in 1954, Asia Air Survey […] The post Dronamics Opens Japan Subsidiary, Names Asia Air Survey as First Japanese Investor appeared first on DRONELIFE.
The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.