Today in AI

'Godzilla' El Niño threatens soft commodity prices: The expected super El Niño could disrupt crops like coffee and cocoa, which saw their largest price increases during the previous 2023-2024 event.

An iPhone engineer's "LOL" discovery triggered Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI.

OpenAI is hiring a product manager for families: The role, focused on building experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults.

Trump's Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation is being drained again after an algae bloom and peeling paint.

Phoebe Gates, 23, wants her AI shopping startup Phia to succeed on merit alone: She told Yahoo Finance she has a chip on her shoulder and wants the venture to have no ties to her privilege or her.

Tilly Norwood is an AI actor, not a human: The Guardian's Dave Schilling critiques Particle6's computer-generated character set to star in a feature film called Misaligned.

Clinical decision-making roles in medicine are relatively AI-proof: Pharmacists, doctors and nurses who carry direct responsibility for patient safety and treatment decisions are less susceptible to.

Work defined American identity for 250 years: it was proof of character, a claim to belonging, and the main way Americans organized meaning.

Meta is adding a privacy safeguard that shuts off the camera if the recording LED is tampered with or destroyed.

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in the second-largest U.S. share sale ever: It debuted on the Nasdaq after the listing, the largest ever by a foreign company, and shares rose 12.8% on day one.

SpaceX's June 12 IPO raised roughly $86 billion and gave it a $1.8 trillion market value: It was the largest IPO in financial market history and the defining deal of 2026's first half.

Meta ditched its Muse Image AI feature just days after launch following backlash over using public Instagram photos without clear opt-in, with criticism from actor Hannah Einbinder and SAG-AFTRA.

China is racing to build dextrous robotic hands, the hardest problem in robotics, because tasks like tying shoelaces require complex neurological instructions that current humanoid robots cannot.

The Last One for the Road is the week's top film pick: Peter Bradshaw calls it a "cynically amused and lenient witness to drunkenness" in this Italian ageing-boozer tragicomedy.

Chat and citations are traps: Chat forces users to wait for responses, and citations make users manually verify outputs, adding work instead of removing it.