
- Anthropic Was So Concerned About Its New Mythos-Based Model’s Power That It Lobotomized Its Ability to Improve Itself
Earlier this year, Anthropic refused to release its Mythos AI model to the public, saying it was simply too dangerous. At the time, executives claimed the model was capable of punching through powerful cybersecurity safeguards,… Read more: Anthropic Was So Concerned About Its New Mythos-Based Model’s Power That It Lobotomized Its Ability to Improve Itself - Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI
Lawyers just can’t stop being caught using AI chatbots, polluting their filings with hallucinated citations that infuriate judges when they’re caught. Even prestigious law firms are being humiliated, with some perpetrators getting slapped with fines… Read more: Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI - Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing
Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock exposed the reasons cops conducted searches, and sometimes the specific searched license plates, in common search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing, according to tests by privacy advocates and… Read more: Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing - Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests
The AI industry has been pushing a narrative that the technology is a “black box” whose inner workings are so complex that they remain unknown even to the people making it. But another black box… Read more: Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests - lakeFS for Agentic AI: Isolated, Reproducible Enterprise Data for Every Agent
As AI agents become primary consumers of enterprise data, lakeFS gives every agent run the isolation, reproducibility, and audit trail companies require lakeFS, the control plane for AI-ready data, today introduced lakeFS for Agentic AI.… Read more: lakeFS for Agentic AI: Isolated, Reproducible Enterprise Data for Every Agent - “This cannot continue”: Xbox leaders lay out “hard truths” behind sagging brand
Just 100 days ago, when new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma replaced long-serving executive Phil Spencer, she said she’d work to “understand what makes [Xbox] work and protect it.” Now, Sharma and Xbox Studios chief… Read more: “This cannot continue”: Xbox leaders lay out “hard truths” behind sagging brand - OpenAI Execs Are Panicking
An AI price war is brewing. Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI tools is soaring — despite showing no clear payoff. In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios,… Read more: OpenAI Execs Are Panicking - Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
Former xAI engineer Devin Kim alleges he was illegally fired for trying to implement safety mechanisms for the chatbot A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI who now heads a thinktank focused on AI safety… Read more: Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims - AI doesn’t just help us think, it thinks instead of us: what this means for the process of learning
Deep in Book VII of Plato’s Republic, Socrates describes prisoners chained inside a cave, mistaking shadows cast on a wall by firelight for reality itself. They name the shadows, debate them and develop expertise about… Read more: AI doesn’t just help us think, it thinks instead of us: what this means for the process of learning - James Webb reveals two completely different twilights on an alien world
JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the evening side hotter and more… Read more: James Webb reveals two completely different twilights on an alien world - NASA reveals Artemis III crew for one of the most complex space missions ever
NASA has selected the Artemis III crew for a high-stakes 2027 mission designed to test the future of lunar exploration. Astronauts will launch aboard Orion and perform unprecedented docking operations with lunar landers being developed… Read more: NASA reveals Artemis III crew for one of the most complex space missions ever - India’s AI Hardware Scrutiny Puts Biometric Devices in Focus
India’s data-protection framework is moving into phased implementation while officials turn their attention to AI-linked hardware, biometric devices, and trusted-source controls. The post India’s AI Hardware Scrutiny Puts Biometric Devices in Focus appeared first on… Read more: India’s AI Hardware Scrutiny Puts Biometric Devices in Focus - Scientists discover a strange property in rice and turn it into a smart material
Scientists discovered that rice behaves in a highly unusual way: it weakens under rapid compression but stays stronger when pressure is applied slowly. Using this effect, they engineered a new material that reacts differently to… Read more: Scientists discover a strange property in rice and turn it into a smart material - The 1,100-year-old mystery of Montana’s lost bison hunting site finally solved
For nearly 700 years, Indigenous hunters repeatedly used a bison kill site in central Montana—then suddenly stopped, even though bison were still abundant. Researchers uncovered evidence that recurring, decades-long droughts likely made the site less… Read more: The 1,100-year-old mystery of Montana’s lost bison hunting site finally solved - Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel
Scientists have developed an artificial photosynthesis system that essentially regulates itself, eliminating the need for batteries used in many current designs. The key innovation is an electrolyzer that automatically adapts to changing sunlight by altering… Read more: Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel - AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
Employees at artificial intelligence companies are coming into gargantuan sums of money amid boom in IPOs Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence… Read more: AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’ - The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species
We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that… Read more: The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species - Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network
The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average. The National Science Foundation announced… Read more: Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network - Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper ‘Elias Thorne’. We Might Know Why
Depending on which chatbot you ask, Elias Thorne might be a clockmaker, a lighthouse keeper, or a librarian. But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you… Read more: Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper ‘Elias Thorne’. We Might Know Why - qBotica and Atolio Partner to Boost Enterprise AI Knowledge Access
The partnership integrates Atolio’s sovereign AI search platform into qBotica’s Agentic AI and Automation-as-a-Service capabilities for regulated industries, including Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare. Atolio, a secure, self-hosted enterprise AI search platform, and qBotica, a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 intelligent automation-as-a-service provider, today announced a strategic partnership… Read more: qBotica and Atolio Partner to Boost Enterprise AI Knowledge Access - TritenIAG Expands Advisory Board to Meet AI-Era Infrastructure Demand
TritenIAG today announced the appointment of Doug Mouton to its Advisory Board, strengthening the firm’s expertise as demand for AI-era data center and power infrastructure accelerates. Doug is a global expert in hyperscale data center… Read more: TritenIAG Expands Advisory Board to Meet AI-Era Infrastructure Demand - Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change allowing pilots to fly them out of sight
Companies large and small are gearing up to deliver packages to you via drone. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel Today, almost anyone who flies a drone must maintain visual contact with it at all times, a practice… Read more: Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change allowing pilots to fly them out of sight - How Pennsylvania towns are protecting themselves from the noise, heat and utility costs of massive data centers
Residents of Archbald, Penn., are experiencing a contentious boom in proposed AI data center projects. Heather Ainsworth for The Washington Post via Getty Images Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and… Read more: How Pennsylvania towns are protecting themselves from the noise, heat and utility costs of massive data centers - Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI
Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to… Read more: Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI - The benchmark gap, explained: What AI leaderboards measure and what they miss
Somewhere out there, a model changelog is promising “significant reasoning improvements.” And somewhere else, an engineering team is staring at a production incident that the benchmark scores completely missed. These two things are related. Every… Read more: The benchmark gap, explained: What AI leaderboards measure and what they miss - DeployAIBots Establishes Miami Base to Accelerate AI Growth
Company builds agentic AI operating systems that replace repetitive work and enable teams to scale faster with fewer resources DeployAIBots, an artificial intelligence company focused on building agentic AI operating systems for business operations, today… Read more: DeployAIBots Establishes Miami Base to Accelerate AI Growth - Exaforce Achieves AWS Security Competency and AWS AI Competency
Dual designation spans Identity and Access Management, Threat Detection and Response, Generative AI Applications, and Agentic AI Applications, the precise intersection where Exaforce operates. Exaforce, the pioneer in agentic security operations, today announced it has… Read more: Exaforce Achieves AWS Security Competency and AWS AI Competency - Missile defense in the age of saturation warfare
With the evolution of new military technologies, the trajectory of war has undergone a massive change. Historically, wars were fought through direct confrontation on the battlefield, while contemporary warfare is […] The post Missile defense… Read more: Missile defense in the age of saturation warfare - Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing
Visa has linked its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to recommend retail products and execute financial transactions. The deployment removes human intervention from the final stages of the retail funnel. Autonomous agents will… Read more: Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing - AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivity Everything we hear about artificial intelligence is conflicting, and hearing about it feels inescapable. AI is terrible. AI is wonderful. It… Read more: AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable - Xebia: On building the data foundation for AI agents – and then accelerating
If your remit is to help your organisation add AI agents to accelerate its processes, you have to start at the foundation – and that means making your data available for AI consumption. Agentic AI… Read more: Xebia: On building the data foundation for AI agents – and then accelerating - Those tedious errands, tasks and chores that AI wants to replace? They help keep you fit | Manoush Zomorodi and Keith Diaz
There’s a downside to too much convenience: it harms our bodies There is a seductive fantasy being floated by AI executives that all the efficiency their products will bring us will lead to humans finally… Read more: Those tedious errands, tasks and chores that AI wants to replace? They help keep you fit | Manoush Zomorodi and Keith Diaz - Atos and Microsoft Expand Alliance to Scale Secure Agentic AI
Atos Group and Microsoft Expand Strategic Collaboration to Scale Secure Agentic AI Across Atos Group Workforce and Clients Atos Group becomes the first French Global System Integrator to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot and one of the… Read more: Atos and Microsoft Expand Alliance to Scale Secure Agentic AI - Global AI Launches Strategic Partner Program
Program Designed to Expand Commercial Reach, Accelerate Customer Deployment and Support Market Leadership in the Emerging AEOS Category Global AI Inc. (OTC: GLAI), a leader in enterprise artificial intelligence (AI), agentic products and solutions, today… Read more: Global AI Launches Strategic Partner Program - BlueVoyant Ignites the Next Era of Cyber Defense with Launch of BlueVoyant AI
Introducing the leading AI-native SecOps platform built for both managed and self-service SOCs – delivering autonomous speed, precision, and control at scale BlueVoyant announced BlueVoyant AI, an innovative Agentic SecOps platform that fundamentally redefines how modern enterprises… Read more: BlueVoyant Ignites the Next Era of Cyber Defense with Launch of BlueVoyant AI - Decisions Unveils New Brand to Power Missing Control Layer for Enterprise AI
As enterprises struggle to orchestrate AI agents, people, and systems at scale, Decisions delivers the unified control layer required to drive governed, cost-controlled, executable outcomes. Decisions today announced its new brand, bringing together Decisions and ProcessMaker… Read more: Decisions Unveils New Brand to Power Missing Control Layer for Enterprise AI - Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily… Read more: Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom - Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models. - Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
There is great anxiety and uncertainty about AI replacing jobs. How can we move past vague warnings and bombastic predictions and bring data to bear on this question? One good way is to look at… Read more: Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t - Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by “93% match” in facial recognition
A man suing Florida police alleges that cops relied on a faulty facial recognition match and concealed exculpatory evidence when they arrested him on a charge of attempting to lure a child in August 2024.… Read more: Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by “93% match” in facial recognition - Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump
Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a video Wednesday apologizing for the organization’s decision on Friday to forcefully remove five leading diabetes scientists from the association’s annual meeting. The scientists were… Read more: Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump - AI Data Centers Put Australia’s Power Grid Under New Pressure
Australia’s energy operator warned that fast-growing AI data centers could create new power grid stability risks as compute demand rises across APAC. The post AI Data Centers Put Australia’s Power Grid Under New Pressure appeared… Read more: AI Data Centers Put Australia’s Power Grid Under New Pressure - EU Orders Meta to Reopen WhatsApp to AI Rivals
EU regulators ordered Meta to restore WhatsApp access for rival AI assistants while an antitrust probe into its policy continues. The post EU Orders Meta to Reopen WhatsApp to AI Rivals appeared first on TechRepublic. - Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them
I see it often. Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.… Read more: Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them - Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet
The White House and Congress are working on a deal to clamp down on what US citizens are allowed to say online. According to new reporting by Axios, the Trump administration is negotiating with key… Read more: Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet - Google’s latest DiffusionGemma open AI model comes with a 4x speed boost
Another day, another AI model from Google. This time, Google DeepMind has released a new member of the Gemma 4 open model family, but it’s fundamentally different from the rest of the lineup. DiffusionGemma doesn’t… Read more: Google’s latest DiffusionGemma open AI model comes with a 4x speed boost - The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn’t expect such a head-turner
You can tell Honda was trying to manage expectations when it emailed me to stress that “the Prelude is not a sports car.” And I can understand why. On paper, the specs make the sleek… Read more: The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn’t expect such a head-turner - Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
For years, Valve’s physical Steam gift cards have been the closest you could come to buying a Steam game at a brick-and-mortar store. Now, Valve says it is phasing out the production of new retail… Read more: Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers - OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.’s meddling
For the first time, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) has released its own recommendations for maternal vaccination, providing formal guidance that diverges from that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Read more: OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.’s meddling - Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance
A US Army helicopter gunship was apparently struck by an Iranian Shahed drone before going down near the Strait of Hormuz—but it’s unclear whether the one-way attack drone was deliberately aimed or achieved more of… Read more: Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance - Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. The preliminary ruling came in a… Read more: Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google - We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission
On Tuesday, NASA announced the crew for the Artemis III mission, which is scheduled to be flown no earlier than summer 2027. As part of the announcement, space agency officials also discussed plans for the… Read more: We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission - Saturn Cloud Launches Token Factory Platform for GPU Cloud Operators
Neocloud and AI Factory operators can now turn bare-metal GPU infrastructure into a fully managed, white-label AI platform with per-token billing and production inference. Saturn Cloud, the AI development platform for GPU cloud operators, today announced… Read more: Saturn Cloud Launches Token Factory Platform for GPU Cloud Operators - Micron Appoints Alexis Black Björlin to Board of Directors
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today announced the appointment of Dr. Alexis Black Björlin to its board of directors. Dr. Björlin is a highly accomplished technology executive with deep experience spanning artificial intelligence infrastructure, cloud… Read more: Micron Appoints Alexis Black Björlin to Board of Directors - Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility
The inside of a facility where AI chips are made is extraordinarily sensitive. Fabrication plants are filled with equipment so exquisitely delicate that even the tiniest contaminants can result in precious chips being ruined. As… Read more: Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility - Canada’s ‘AI for All’ strategy has ambitious growth targets, but it falls short on workers and the environment
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s AI for All strategy on June 4, committing over $2 billion in new spending and targeting $200 billion in additional GDP growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2031. The… Read more: Canada’s ‘AI for All’ strategy has ambitious growth targets, but it falls short on workers and the environment - Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error
Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later dropped Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A Florida man is suing several law enforcement… Read more: Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error - Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech
Department of Injustice Jalil Richardson of North Carolina is free after spending over 50 days in jail after being wrongfully arrested for a crime he did not commit. According to Action News Jax, Richardson was… Read more: Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech - Apple Intelligence Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide
Apple Intelligence is Apple’s suite of AI features, including writing tools, Genmoji, and live translation. The post Apple Intelligence Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide appeared first on TechRepublic. - GM Energy introduces V2G support and new energy storage battery chemistry
Electric vehicle sales might be better now than the end of last year when demand fell off a cliff following the surge of purchases ahead of the end of the federal financial incentives, but it’s… Read more: GM Energy introduces V2G support and new energy storage battery chemistry - Meta Taps Reliance for First India AI Data Center
Meta signed its first India AI data center deal with Reliance, leasing capacity at a 168 MW Jamnagar facility with options to scale. The post Meta Taps Reliance for First India AI Data Center appeared… Read more: Meta Taps Reliance for First India AI Data Center - Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules
Last year, Meta radically overhauled the rules around what content it would allow on its platforms. The company claimed that its own efforts policing speech had gone too far and that it would relax the… Read more: Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules - AI regulation in Africa: why copying the European model won’t work
Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then over a dozen African states have adopted national AI policies of some sort or another. As a national… Read more: AI regulation in Africa: why copying the European model won’t work - Microsoft Reportedly Cuts Hundreds of Azure Jobs in China
Microsoft reportedly cut 200 to 400 Azure jobs in China as US and Chinese data rules tighten around cloud operations. The post Microsoft Reportedly Cuts Hundreds of Azure Jobs in China appeared first on TechRepublic. - India Brings Its AI Pitch to VivaTech 2026
India’s VivaTech 2026 role gives its AI strategy a global stage as enterprises across APAC weigh regional AI partnerships, infrastructure control, and dependence on foreign chips and cloud platforms. The post India Brings Its AI… Read more: India Brings Its AI Pitch to VivaTech 2026 - Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
For months during the summer of 2024, Jarmarus Brown, an Orange City, Florida police officer, ran his ex-girlfriend’s license plate through the Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) system lookup database at least 69 times.… Read more: Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People - Podcast: Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is
We start this week with Emanuel’s story about the internal memes Google employees are making all about AI. Definitely check out some of the examples in the article or on YouTube. After the break, Jason… Read more: Podcast: Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is - China Opens World’s First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center
With an initial capacity of 24 megawatts, the innovative data center uses seawater as a natural cooling system. - Scientists Just Accidentally Discovered a Strange, Hidden Rule of Human Nature
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have discovered that people walking in crowds tend to spontaneously… Read more: Scientists Just Accidentally Discovered a Strange, Hidden Rule of Human Nature - Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face recognition match as a near-certain ID. - College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read
Here’s the latest harrowing dispatch from the frontlines of education, as yet another higher education instructor laments that his pupils literally can’t read. In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and… Read more: College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read - Scientists mapped every neural connection in a fruit fly and found a surprise
A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an unprecedented view of how the brain and body work together. The findings suggest that complex behaviors emerge… Read more: Scientists mapped every neural connection in a fruit fly and found a surprise - A classic brain test exposed AI’s biggest weakness
Researchers gave top AI models a classic attention test used in psychology and found a major flaw. While the models could correctly name colors in short lists, their performance deteriorated sharply as the task became… Read more: A classic brain test exposed AI’s biggest weakness - MIT’s new spacecraft engine could send tiny satellites to Mars
MIT researchers have shown that one fuel can power both chemical and electric spacecraft thrusters, potentially transforming what small satellites can do. The approach combines quick bursts of speed with highly efficient long-range propulsion in… Read more: MIT’s new spacecraft engine could send tiny satellites to Mars - Siri AI arrives with Google inside, and much of the world is locked out
“We’ve all had that moment where you search for something you know is there, but it just won’t show up.” Apple’s Stacey Ford, vice president of OS Program Management, was talking about Spotlight at WWDC… Read more: Siri AI arrives with Google inside, and much of the world is locked out - BlueRock Unveils Secure AI Infrastructure with AMD DMA Isolation
Open source NOVA addresses growing AI infrastructure challenges driven by continuous, active workloads requiring a new approach to execution, isolation, and scalability. BlueRock today announced the latest open-source release of its NOVA Microhypervisor, which introduces advanced… Read more: BlueRock Unveils Secure AI Infrastructure with AMD DMA Isolation - Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into the World Cup Thanks to Google Gemini
The Argentine national team will be Google’s test bench and technological showcase during the World Cup. - McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system
McDonald’s is testing a new AI system that can take drive-thru orders and support restaurant operations. The system, called ArchIQ and nicknamed “Archy,” was introduced during the company’s Worldwide convention, according to Restaurant Business. It… Read more: McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system - Blunom Launches Sovereign AI Control Plane
The Secure Agentic AI Orchestration Platform Enables Enterprises and AI Service Providers to Deploy and Govern Production-Ready Agents in Weeks within Data-Centers and the Cloud Blunom Inc. today announced the public preview of Blunom.ai, the Secure… Read more: Blunom Launches Sovereign AI Control Plane - Do we really need gigantic, noisy, water-guzzling datacentres ruining our communities? In this economy? | First Dog on the Moon
Excessive heat, pollution and making climate change worse just so you can ask the computer to draw a funny dancing cabbage Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get… Read more: Do we really need gigantic, noisy, water-guzzling datacentres ruining our communities? In this economy? | First Dog on the Moon - Earth’s first animals barely evolved until sex changed everything
Earth’s earliest animals may have held evolution back because they reproduced asexually, creating low-competition communities that changed very little over time. When environmental pressures pushed them toward sexual reproduction, biodiversity exploded and evolution accelerated dramatically. - Popular joint supplement glucosamine linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression
A major study suggests glucosamine, a popular supplement for joint pain, could be linked to faster progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found a 25% higher likelihood of developing dementia among glucosamine… Read more: Popular joint supplement glucosamine linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression - Graphwise Achieves ISO 42001 – Sets Gold Standard for Compliant Enterprise AI
Reinforces its commitment to responsible AI management and governance for its Graph RAG solution Graphwise, the leading Graph AI provider, today announced it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management… Read more: Graphwise Achieves ISO 42001 – Sets Gold Standard for Compliant Enterprise AI - Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules
Apple Peiqing Ni targeted by account portraying her as promiscuous drug addict after posting about Tiananmen Square A high-profile Chinese activist in the UK who was inundated with deepfake posts on X portraying her as… Read more: Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules - Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable
The rise of artificial intelligence is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion. Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in the… Read more: Startup’s nuclear-inspired cooling system could make data centers more sustainable - How do you want to live? Both James Valentine and the pope have offered a challenge to humanity at a crossroads | Peter Lewis
Both public figures have urged us to be active makers of the world we want our children to inherit James Valentine meets the pope at the Pearly Gates. This is not the lead-in to a… Read more: How do you want to live? Both James Valentine and the pope have offered a challenge to humanity at a crossroads | Peter Lewis - Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters
Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of new datacenters. The city council voted unanimously in favor of… Read more: Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters - Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ITER reactor, and then using… Read more: Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor - Three key vital signs make up the “urban pulse” of a city
People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cities do indeed have… Read more: Three key vital signs make up the “urban pulse” of a city - Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two high-severity zero-days that were disclosed by a researcher who has been locked in a testy beef with the software giant. Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym the researcher goes by,… Read more: Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed - Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases
Starlink has started charging a $10 monthly rental fee for hardware in a shift away from its longtime practice of selling hardware to customers for a one-time charge. Starlink residential ordering pages now show an… Read more: Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases - Anthropic releases ‘safe’ version of Claude Mythos AI model to public
AI company restricted access to Fable 5, its most powerful Mythos model, for months over cybersecurity concerns Anthropic, the maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made a new version of its technology available… Read more: Anthropic releases ‘safe’ version of Claude Mythos AI model to public - Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation
Google has been chasing real-time translation for years, which it says has been one of its “pioneering machine learning experiments.” We’ve seen numerous demos on stage at Google events in the past, but you needed… Read more: Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation - Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about
Anthropic Tuesday publicly released Claude Fable 5, its first “Mythos-class” model that it says surpasses its previous frontier Opus models in overall capabilities. But the model’s launch today comes with safeguards designed to prevent it… Read more: Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about - Netflix trying to “poison regulators” about WBD merger, Paramount lawyer claims
Paramount Skydance is accusing Netflix of maintaining a campaign against its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). In a June 5 letter (PDF) addressed to Jared A. Hughes, acting section chief of the Media,… Read more: Netflix trying to “poison regulators” about WBD merger, Paramount lawyer claims - The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news
It’s no secret that the last few years have seen a massive explosion in the use of artificial intelligence for general information-gathering. An even more recent trend, though, is how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT,… Read more: The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news - As SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic plan blockbuster launches, will it make AI giants more accountable?
A huge change is coming to the world’s booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Starting with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with OpenAI and Anthropic preparing to follow, all three private companies are set to sell shares of… Read more: As SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic plan blockbuster launches, will it make AI giants more accountable? - Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull
Ravenous, flesh-eating flies have busted through containment barriers and have now reemerged in the US. On Monday and Tuesday, the US Department of Agriculture reported three new cases, bringing the tally to five. One of… Read more: Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull - NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it
The US space agency unveiled the crew for its Artemis III mission on Tuesday during an enthusiastic event at Johnson Space Center in Houston. For this spaceflight into low-Earth orbit, which will see the Orion… Read more: NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it - India GCCs Lead AI and Cloud Hiring as IT Services Trail
India’s Global Capability Centers are pulling ahead of IT services firms in AI and cloud hiring, as multinationals bring more sensitive, high-value technology work in-house. The post India GCCs Lead AI and Cloud Hiring as… Read more: India GCCs Lead AI and Cloud Hiring as IT Services Trail
