
- Black Box: The Chatbots | Spirals | Ep 1 – podcast
Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, or is leading them… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | Spirals | Ep 1 – podcast - Anthropic uses Claude to formalize proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem
Anthropic PBC has used Claude to create a computer-verifiable version of a famous, highly complicated mathematical proof. The company detailed the project in a blog post published today. A proof is a series of arguments… Read more: Anthropic uses Claude to formalize proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem - Harvard scientists turn knitting into shape-shifting smart fabric
Harvard researchers have transformed ordinary knitting into a platform for creating fabrics that can snap between different shapes and perform useful functions. Using elastic yarns and industrial knitting techniques, the team engineered thick textiles that… Read more: Harvard scientists turn knitting into shape-shifting smart fabric - OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’ hacking abilities, researchers… Read more: OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki - Scientists overturn a theory about this shark’s strange head
Scientists have overturned a leading explanation for why male and female bonnethead sharks have differently shaped heads. Instead of males developing a pointed snout at maturity, both sexes actually begin with more pointed heads that… Read more: Scientists overturn a theory about this shark’s strange head - After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury, the hard-to-reach, scorching hot iron world at the Solar System’s innermost frontier. The robotic science… Read more: After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury - Gimlet Labs nabs $300M for its disaggregated inference platform
Gimlet Labs Inc., a startup that helps developers speed up their inference workloads, has raised $300 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B round. Gimlet stated in a… Read more: Gimlet Labs nabs $300M for its disaggregated inference platform - Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday urged a court to dismiss a Disney lawsuit and let the FCC continue a proceeding that could end in the nonrenewal of ABC’s broadcast licenses. Meanwhile, two watchdog groups and… Read more: Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC - Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
A six-week-old baby girl in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, died from measles, the county coroner confirmed to local press Friday. Stephen Diamantoni, a Republican first elected coroner in 2007, told Lancaster Online that the baby died at… Read more: Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths - Cisco remakes the edge for AI’s data-heavy future
The modern edge computing platform has arrived. Before the explosion of artificial intelligence, edge computing sites were generally regarded as a back-end support function, smaller and more remote copies of a data center. However, as… Read more: Cisco remakes the edge for AI’s data-heavy future - OpenAI Denies Coverup After Rogue Swarm of Agents Reportedly Targeted a Second Site From Hugging Face
OpenAI’s bots have allegedly been behaving badly again: a swarm of rogue agents created by the company reportedly took over an obscure German website and turned it into a messaging forum to communicate. The incident,… Read more: OpenAI Denies Coverup After Rogue Swarm of Agents Reportedly Targeted a Second Site From Hugging Face - Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s startling announcement in July that the US military would begin mandatory testosterone screening for personnel, the Pentagon released a clinical guidance document on September 2 outlining the new medically questionable… Read more: Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation - Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass campaigns.… Read more: Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers - “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
For many small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), VMware has become too expensive. Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualization firm brought the end of perpetual license sales and the arrival of pricey, stacked, subscription-based bundles that priced out many… Read more: “Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs - Medieval manuscripts are “biological time capsules” for deadly sheeppox virus
Sheeppox is a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease that was largely eradicated from much of European livestock in the 20th century. But there is still the occasional regional outbreak, such as the one that… Read more: Medieval manuscripts are “biological time capsules” for deadly sheeppox virus - Former Obama Admin Official Says It’s Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI
While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant idea to flatten the competition: simply bomb their data centers to smithereens. In a new report titled… Read more: Former Obama Admin Official Says It’s Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI - Resect launches with $25M to reduce hallucinations in AI models
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research startup Resect AI announced Thursday it has raised $25 million in early funding to build an accountability layer for enterprise AI by capturing and reducing hallucinations at runtime. Hallucinations, or confabulations,… Read more: Resect launches with $25M to reduce hallucinations in AI models - OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert… Read more: OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits - Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled out of a high-profile French space summit organized by… Read more: Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations - Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
On Thursday, Elon Musk’s X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name. In his opinion, Chief Judge Colm Connolly explained that Operation Bluebird was unlikely… Read more: Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo - Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Anthropic’s prospective public-market investors must reckon with an external group of trustees that control the majority of the AI company’s board, as its planned blockbuster initial public offering forces close scrutiny of its experimental governance… Read more: Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight - Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
On Friday, researchers announced the completion of a map of every neuron in the brain of a male fruit fly. The “connectome” provides a tool that can accelerate neurobiology research. But it also provides an… Read more: Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed - Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB
Back in 2009, Ars wrote about what was being reported as a leaked trailer for the then-upcoming Left 4 Dead 2, saying the footage “looks like it’s straight from a high-gloss action movie.” Today, we… Read more: Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB - Datamaran Names Bert Sinnema as Chief Technology Officer
Datamaran, the AI-powered risk and governance software provider, today announced the appointment of Bert Sinnema as Chief Technology Officer. Based out of the company’s Leeuwarden office in the Netherlands, Sinnema will lead Datamaran’s global engineering… Read more: Datamaran Names Bert Sinnema as Chief Technology Officer - BranchLab adds Christopher Manning to its Scientific Advisory Board
Stanford AI leader brings deep expertise in machine learning and semantic language processing to an interdisciplinary board focused on healthcare commercialization BranchLab today announced that Christopher Manning has joined its Scientific Advisory Board, bringing foundational expertise… Read more: BranchLab adds Christopher Manning to its Scientific Advisory Board - CrowdStrike Launches Next Evolution of the Agentic SOC
Autonomous attacks move across systems at machine speed – only CrowdStrike can investigate every domain simultaneously Fal.Con 2026–CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today unveiled the next evolution of the agentic SOC. AI agents execute attack actions across multiple… Read more: CrowdStrike Launches Next Evolution of the Agentic SOC - Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday
On Thursday, three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — all went down without warning. The simultaneous outage of three flagship from AI systems from three different providers was bizarre. But, in an exceedingly… Read more: Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday - Nvidia bags Hugging Face, AI models play leapfrog and CrowdStrike doubles down on AI
Perhaps it’s no surprise that Nvidia ended up embracing open artificial intelligence model archive Hugging Face this week following more than a week of rumors. Even at almost $13 billion, it may end up being… Read more: Nvidia bags Hugging Face, AI models play leapfrog and CrowdStrike doubles down on AI - Experian expands into AI agents with ServiceNow partnership
Having launched an artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant in the spring, Experian plc is driving AI deeper into its operations with a commercial agent-based platform designed to bring its risk, identity and decision-making capabilities into enterprise… Read more: Experian expands into AI agents with ServiceNow partnership - War drama Pressure depicts D-day’s weather forecast – what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems
Meteorologist James Stagg gave what many regard as the most important weather forecast in history in June 1944. The fate of more than 150,000 allied troops preparing to invade the Normandy beaches on D-day and… Read more: War drama Pressure depicts D-day’s weather forecast – what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems - American Medical Association Fires Back Against Paper Finding AI Is Now Outperforming Doctors
A new paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month concluded, after surveying hundreds of studies on AI in medicine, that not only is AI already an indispensable tool that supports… Read more: American Medical Association Fires Back Against Paper Finding AI Is Now Outperforming Doctors - Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own. - As AI madness encroaches, we need human connection more than ever. But we’ll have to fight for it | Van Badham
We don’t want the isolating, automated outputs tech lords are selling us. We’re yearning for a shared frame of reference I have a cherished memory of a family trip to the movies. In the Australian… Read more: As AI madness encroaches, we need human connection more than ever. But we’ll have to fight for it | Van Badham - 6 reasons AI engineers can make the jump to robotics right now
Every humanoid startup, autonomous-vehicle refugee team, and frontier AI lab is fishing in the same tiny pond, and paying startup-lottery money to do it. If you build software for a living and have wondered whether… Read more: 6 reasons AI engineers can make the jump to robotics right now - Enterprise AI readiness trails the hype amid agentic rush
Enterprise AI readiness is trailing industry rhetoric as organizations struggle to modernize infrastructure, control costs and choose appropriate applications. That gap is becoming more visible as companies attempt to move from limited experimentation into systems… Read more: Enterprise AI readiness trails the hype amid agentic rush - OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra as Brockman Says the ‘AGI Era’ Has Arrived
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra with advanced computer-use capabilities as Greg Brockman declared the “AGI era” has arrived, though major questions remain. The post OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra as Brockman Says the ‘AGI Era’ Has Arrived… Read more: OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra as Brockman Says the ‘AGI Era’ Has Arrived - Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+.
Smartphone longevity didn’t used to matter. In the past, before you could wear out or break a phone, there was always some shiny new thing to buy. Today, we expect our smartphones to go the… Read more: Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+. - This $19.99 Claude AI Course Is Built for Work, Not Just Prompts
This eDegree covers Claude prompting, automation, integrations, and coding for practical business use. The post This $19.99 Claude AI Course Is Built for Work, Not Just Prompts appeared first on TechRepublic. - Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Welcome to Edition 9.09 of the Rocket Report! This edition includes an update from Blue Origin on the groundbreaking of a new Payload Processing Facility in Florida. It has been about a month since the… Read more: Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO - G20 Backs U.S. Push to Avoid New AI Regulators
G20 members backed a U.S.-led approach favoring existing regulators over new AI watchdogs, but major differences over oversight and safety remain. The post G20 Backs U.S. Push to Avoid New AI Regulators appeared first on… Read more: G20 Backs U.S. Push to Avoid New AI Regulators - College Graduate Employment Is Cratering Where Data Centers Are Being Built
Will AI supercharge the economy? Will the data centers powering it bring prosperity and provide paying jobs to the communities they’re built in? Probably not. New research shows that rapid rise of AI has instead… Read more: College Graduate Employment Is Cratering Where Data Centers Are Being Built - Dying radio galaxies fade faster than scientists expected
Astronomers have identified a surprisingly young population of fading radio galaxies whose supermassive black holes have already switched off their powerful jets. The confirmed remnants range from about 8 to 42 million years old, suggesting… Read more: Dying radio galaxies fade faster than scientists expected - A longer exhale may push your brain toward bolder decisions
Slow breathing with a prolonged exhale made people more willing to take risks by changing heart activity and increasing the brain’s sensitivity to rewards. The findings suggest that something as simple as controlling your breath… Read more: A longer exhale may push your brain toward bolder decisions - MIT turns bacteria into living transistors
MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing calculations and directing chemical signals. One day, these biological computers could coat plant roots or leaves, detecting environmental… Read more: MIT turns bacteria into living transistors - Extreme drought now covers 44% of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s normally rainy season has instead brought a severe and fast-growing drought. By August 25, three-quarters of the territory was in at least moderate drought, with extreme drought covering 44 percent and some areas… Read more: Extreme drought now covers 44% of Puerto Rico - Infosys brings enterprise context to CrowdStrike’s AI security push
No single vendor can keep pace with vulnerabilities that frontier AI models can now find by the millions in a single scan. That reality is pushing the industry toward coalition-style partnerships like Project QuiltWorks, pairing… Read more: Infosys brings enterprise context to CrowdStrike’s AI security push - Essential digital technologies are critical infrastructure – they are not always built and managed that way
Passengers fill a terminal at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on July 19, 2024, after a major internet outage disrupted flights worldwide. AP Photo/Ty ONeil What do the water system in Flint, Michigan,… Read more: Essential digital technologies are critical infrastructure – they are not always built and managed that way - Stanford scientists discover a seafood that can reverse signs of aging
A substance found in edible sea squirts appeared to reverse several signs of aging in older mice. Plasmalogen supplements improved memory and learning, strengthened connections between brain cells, reduced inflammation, and even helped the mice… Read more: Stanford scientists discover a seafood that can reverse signs of aging - Fuzzball 4.2 Gives Enterprises One Platform to Build and Serve AI
A new MCP server lets AI agents operate Fuzzball under explicit permission, and the workflows running inside the cluster can now direct additional work themselves. CIQ, the enterprise software company behind Rocky Linux, today announced… Read more: Fuzzball 4.2 Gives Enterprises One Platform to Build and Serve AI - BIOSTAR Launches Comprehensive Edge AI and IPC Lineup at LEAP 2026
Pioneering Advanced Memory and Storage Solutions for Next-Generation Computing BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of edge AI computing solutions, IPC systems, industrial motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices, is showcasing its IPC and edge AI computing solutions… Read more: BIOSTAR Launches Comprehensive Edge AI and IPC Lineup at LEAP 2026 - M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul
M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre… Read more: M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul - Norbert Health Raises $14 Mn Series A to Power Robotic Nursing Assistants
Round backs the company’s physical AI control system for healthcare, a growing library of clinical skills deployed on partner robots and live in facilities today Norbert Health, whose physical AI control system turns robotic hardware… Read more: Norbert Health Raises $14 Mn Series A to Power Robotic Nursing Assistants - BARC Study Finds Context Leaders 4x More Likely to Lead in AI
New research sponsored by DataHub defines the architectural foundation for reliable agentic AI and reveals that fewer than half of organizations manage context beyond a single agent or team A new global study of 285… Read more: BARC Study Finds Context Leaders 4x More Likely to Lead in AI - Everyone’s optimizing content for AI visibility. New research shows the cost
Generative Engine Optimization has become the new SEO fast. Every content team wants their work cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews, and a growing industry of tools promises to help. Most of the advice… Read more: Everyone’s optimizing content for AI visibility. New research shows the cost - AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think. - 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating
Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by… Read more: 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating - Nscale, Figure Sign Strategic Partnership to Power the Next Gen Physical AI
Nscale, a full-stack AI cloud platform, today announced it has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with humanoid robotics company Figure. The deal represents the potential to deploy the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform with up to 100,000 NVIDIA… Read more: Nscale, Figure Sign Strategic Partnership to Power the Next Gen Physical AI - Globant Announced the Introduction of MuleSoft AI Pod
New delivery model helps reduce migration timelines from months to weeks combining specialized AI agents with human integration experts for secure, governed API-led connectivity at scale. MuleSoft AI Pod is accessible through Glob.AI, Globant’s AI-native technology service… Read more: Globant Announced the Introduction of MuleSoft AI Pod - Half of UK firms fear staff feeding company secrets to AI
Nearly 9 in 10 UK businesses report unauthorised AI use – a practice known as ‘Shadow AI’ – while concerns grow over employees sharing sensitive company data, new survey data shows Over half of UK… Read more: Half of UK firms fear staff feeding company secrets to AI - GitKraken Announced the Appointment of Jim Shaw CEO
Shaw joins GitKraken as the company builds momentum for the next challenge in AI-powered development: helping developers direct multiple agents and helping engineering leaders understand the value AI is delivering GitKraken today announced that Jim… Read more: GitKraken Announced the Appointment of Jim Shaw CEO - OpenAI Gets US Government Backing in Major AI Copyright Fight
The US government backs OpenAI and Microsoft in a major copyright fight, arguing AI training is fair use and important to national security. The post OpenAI Gets US Government Backing in Major AI Copyright Fight… Read more: OpenAI Gets US Government Backing in Major AI Copyright Fight - Google Gemini Can Now Decide Which Parts of a Video Matter
Google gives Gemini agentic video understanding, cutting token use and analysis costs by selectively inspecting the most relevant parts of videos. The post Google Gemini Can Now Decide Which Parts of a Video Matter appeared… Read more: Google Gemini Can Now Decide Which Parts of a Video Matter - Anthropic Wins Back Trump Administration’s Trust After Pentagon Fight
Anthropic is rebuilding ties with the Trump administration after its Pentagon fight, potentially reopening the door to federal AI contracts. The post Anthropic Wins Back Trump Administration’s Trust After Pentagon Fight appeared first on TechRepublic. - Is everyone a robot? Will O’Mahony’s new play is a sharp, funny plunge into our AI world
Daniel J Grant Day (After Day) in the Life of the Useless by Will O’Mahony is a firecracker comedy, exquisitely handled in its premier production for Black Swan State Theatre Company. The play opens with… Read more: Is everyone a robot? Will O’Mahony’s new play is a sharp, funny plunge into our AI world - Nvidia PAIR makes it easy to create a household data center for running agentic AI tasks
Nvidia Corp. is targeting artificial intelligence agent enthusiasts with a new local distributed clustering tool called the Personal AI Router. It enables them to use any idle Mac computers or PCs lying around the house… Read more: Nvidia PAIR makes it easy to create a household data center for running agentic AI tasks - Comedian’s offensive mock Welcome to Country at far-right rally gets rerun in the Daily Mail | Weekly Beast
Daily Mail’s report on March for Australia rally quotes – in full – and embeds video of Lisa Jane Spencer’s disrespectful skit. Plus: AI takes us back to 1956 Last weekend’s March for Australia rally… Read more: Comedian’s offensive mock Welcome to Country at far-right rally gets rerun in the Daily Mail | Weekly Beast - Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal is a bet on open models — and proof it’s no longer just a chip company
As Nvidia Corp. announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face Inc. for $12.93 billion — one of the largest acquisitions in the company’s history — Chief Executive Jensen Huang promised that… Read more: Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal is a bet on open models — and proof it’s no longer just a chip company - Upwind reels in $300M for its automated cloud security platform
Eight months after its previous nine-figure round, Upwind Security Inc. has raised $300 million in additional funding. Returning bakers Bessemer and TCV led the Series C deal. CTech reported on Wednesday that the firms were… Read more: Upwind reels in $300M for its automated cloud security platform - UiPath beats on revenue but its stock tanks after-hours
UiPath Inc.’s stock endured a wild swing after the company posted second-quarter revenue that beat analyst expectations. The stock initially popped more than 10% right after the company reported, only to reverse course later. At… Read more: UiPath beats on revenue but its stock tanks after-hours - 150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
Having more than 150 non-human primates at a research center fall ill with diarrhea in a stomach-churning outbreak that flowed for over two years doesn’t sound much like good fortune. But for some scientists, it… Read more: 150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data - Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
In 2020, Microsoft announced that Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions would include unlimited access to its new Xbox Cloud Gaming service (then still known as Project xCloud). Now, that kind of streaming buffet service is coming… Read more: Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming - Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still secretly counting two measles deaths that were deleted from the agency’s public measles data—a deletion that occurred at the direct request of anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert… Read more: Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them - OpenAI starts rolling out its next-generation GPT-6 Astra model
OpenAI Group PBC today started opening access to GPT-6 Astra, its newest and most capable large language model. The company stated that the LLM demonstrates “state of the art” performance in multiple areas. The list… Read more: OpenAI starts rolling out its next-generation GPT-6 Astra model - Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents - Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky. - OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra today, its new top model for coding, computer use, scientific work, cybersecurity, and other tasks that require an agent to work through several steps. AIModels.fyi is a reader-supported publication. To receive… Read more: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra - Nvidia confirms $12.9B acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face
Nvidia Corp. today confirmed that it has agreed to buy Hugging Face Inc. for just over $12.93 billion. CNBC reported that the acquisition talks began a few weeks ago. Rumors that a deal was in… Read more: Nvidia confirms $12.9B acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face - Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn
On Thursday, the Trump administration imposed a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made drones, alarming critics who warn that high tariffs would harm public safety and devastate thousands of US businesses. Guidance posted by US Customs… Read more: Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn - Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant service interruptions over a period of hours Thursday morning. Anthropic first reported a “partial outage” related to… Read more: Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime - Just like a fruit fly, a new algorithm never forgets old scents
Fruit flies aren’t exactly famous for their brainpower; you’ve probably drowned more than one in a wine glass left too long on the patio table. And yet, working with roughly 140,000 neurons—a brain smaller than… Read more: Just like a fruit fly, a new algorithm never forgets old scents - VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur’s licensing fees by 85 percent
Tottenham Hotspur, a professional soccer team that’s part of the Premier League, has saved over 85 percent in licensing fees by replacing its stadium’s VMware instance with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) virtualization… Read more: VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur’s licensing fees by 85 percent - NJ urges SCOTUS to rule that Kalshi sports bets are gambling, not “swaps”
New Jersey yesterday asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether states can regulate sports betting on prediction markets such as Kalshi. “Companies like Kalshi claim to offer legal sports betting in all 50 states,… Read more: NJ urges SCOTUS to rule that Kalshi sports bets are gambling, not “swaps” - US senator calls on the NSA to give guidance for use of VPNs
A prominent US senator is asking the National Security Agency to provide guidance to the general public on best practices for using virtual private networks to secure their communications from spying by foreign adversaries. VPNs… Read more: US senator calls on the NSA to give guidance for use of VPNs - Teradata Integrates Enterprise AI With Microsoft OneLake
Customers can now run Teradata enterprise AI on OneLake data where it lives, without replicating or moving it Teradata (NYSE: TDC) today announced the integration between the Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform and Microsoft OneLake, enabling enterprise customers… Read more: Teradata Integrates Enterprise AI With Microsoft OneLake - HiddenLayer Secures $100M Series B to Advance Trustworthy AI
The investment comes as enterprises race to secure a rapidly expanding AI attack surface, from foundation models to the autonomous agents now writing and shipping code on their behalf. HiddenLayer, the leading AI security company… Read more: HiddenLayer Secures $100M Series B to Advance Trustworthy AI - Sayari Rebuilds Commercial World Model on Snowflake
The rebuild makes readable what earlier technology could not capture – up to 75% of Sayari’s archive – and is expected to cut data infrastructure costs by more than 50% Sayari, the trusted AI platform… Read more: Sayari Rebuilds Commercial World Model on Snowflake - OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’ The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new era of artificial general… Read more: OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release - Toronto Blue Jays Roasted for Posting AI Slop Promoting Nestle, Claiming It’s the Work of a Human Animator
The animation industry is facing an existential threat in the form of generative AI. Entertainment execs remain adamant that the tech is the answer, allowing fewer workers to accomplish more in less time — a… Read more: Toronto Blue Jays Roasted for Posting AI Slop Promoting Nestle, Claiming It’s the Work of a Human Animator - GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development. - New Research Finds Mutant AI Swarms Outperform Optimized Models
Researchers at Allora Labs demonstrate that intentionally worsening individual AI models through genetic mutations improves their collective performance Current AI systems are limited by their inability to adapt when the world they were trained on… Read more: New Research Finds Mutant AI Swarms Outperform Optimized Models - Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion, in the latest step by the $5.4 trillion chip giant to use its financial might to accelerate the technology’s boom while exerting… Read more: Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion - World Plunged Into Chaos as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Suddenly Go Down Simultaneously: “Finally I Can See the Sun!”
As if a million white collar workers suddenly cried out in terror at once, a great disturbance in the AI force forced down every major AI chatbot service — a brief moment of reprieve from… Read more: World Plunged Into Chaos as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Suddenly Go Down Simultaneously: “Finally I Can See the Sun!” - OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup. - Zohran Mamdani Bans AI for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade
New York City just instituted a sweeping ban on schools using AI in the classroom through the start of high school, along with other restrictions on the technology. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the one-year moratorium… Read more: Zohran Mamdani Bans AI for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade - Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
It’s that time of year again, when we learn which lucky scientists are among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes. This year, the prizes honor research on designing the perfect splash-free urinal; using mosquito… Read more: Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners - Hundreds gather outside Holyrood to call for pause on Scotland’s datacentre boom
Opposition mounts as at least 20 projects proposed, including one in Fife billed as second largest in world Kat Jones might be the closest thing Scotland has to Erin Brockovich in 2026. Standing in the… Read more: Hundreds gather outside Holyrood to call for pause on Scotland’s datacentre boom - Virtual patching closes the gap as AI erases the patch window
Patch Tuesday used to buy defenders a short head start. Now the exploit often lands before the patch does since automated scanners can weaponize a newly disclosed vulnerability within hours. That inversion is pushing security… Read more: Virtual patching closes the gap as AI erases the patch window - NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source model repository’s platform and infrastructure. The transaction targets platform growth and infrastructure investment, aiming to expand AI access for enterprise developers,… Read more: NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B - CrowdStrike builds an identity provider for AI agents, not humans
Every enterprise identity system ever built started with a human logging in. AI agents don’t work that way: there’s no face behind the login, no single owner, and soon there will be far more of… Read more: CrowdStrike builds an identity provider for AI agents, not humans - OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real-time last-mile delivery optimisation
OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers, wholesalers, and distributors decide how individual orders should be delivered. Called OmniSTAR, the system evaluates options including owned fleets, couriers, parcel… Read more: OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real-time last-mile delivery optimisation
