
- Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model
Microsoft Corp. has expanded its MAI artificial intelligence model family with its first streaming transcription model, debuting alongside two others focused on text-to-speech. They’re designed for developers who want to build voice agents that can… Read more: Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model - Australia’s Medicare breach reveals a new kind of cyber threat. How must NZ respond?
Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images Last week, New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner ordered Manage My Health and Health NZ to make further security improvements following last December’s major data breach. In that incident, a ransomware group stole more… Read more: Australia’s Medicare breach reveals a new kind of cyber threat. How must NZ respond? - We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin
If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code The recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer security by… Read more: We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin - Report: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI’s ‘existential risks’
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC is reportedly forging ahead with its plans to go public and has set a new target date of Nov. 9, according to a report from Bloomberg that cited anonymous sources… Read more: Report: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI’s ‘existential risks’ - SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
A four-person crew rocketed into orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, heading for a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. Riding a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, the four crew… Read more: SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission - Venus’ mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
Venus is shrouded in a veil of mystery. The yellowish “lower haze” at the bottom of its atmosphere was discovered by the Venera and Pioneer Venus probes in the 1970s. These spacecraft were some of… Read more: Venus’ mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust - OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material
OpenAI Group PBC today confirmed it has dismissed three researchers it says mishandled sensitive company information. According to The Wall Street Journal, the three were safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential material with a third-party… Read more: OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material - New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
“What you see is what you get” is a guiding principle for many software engineers — create programs where the content you’re editing looks the same as the final product. But when you’re using generative artificial… Read more: New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want - The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
Meta’s fuzzy Muse AI personal assistant overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the US after launching earlier this month, surpassing 3.4 million downloads last week. But whether the agent will be able… Read more: The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life - Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something. - Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?
Humans can be a frisky bunch, and it wasn’t very long after Tesla Autopilot started letting drivers go hands-free before people decided to post footage of themselves having sex from the driver’s seat. Recently, The… Read more: Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis? - Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
In a setback for publishers worried about the effects of AI search, a US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google. The companies accused Google of antitrust violations in… Read more: Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search - Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
The Pentagon is informing more than 2 million current and former military members that their personnel records storing sensitive personal information were stolen over a monthslong compromise of one of its networks. The breach is… Read more: Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data - Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic
A Malaysian man is facing up to three years in a Singaporean prison — after an ill-conceived text containing AI slop shut down the city-state’s largest reservoir for days. According to the BBC, the bizarre… Read more: Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic - NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers
Artificial intelligence has pulled data infrastructure out of the back office and into conversations with buyers who never had to think about storage before. For longtime storage providers, that shift is a rare chance to… Read more: NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers - IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform
IBM Corp. today announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform, allowing enterprises to use artificial intelligence to build and modernize applications within their own infrastructure.. The offering supports on-premises,… Read more: IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform - Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms. - NetApp and Nvidia rethink storage for AI factories
Storage architecture is being rewritten for artificial intelligence factories. Traditional enterprise storage was designed around workloads that scaled in relatively predictable ways. AI changes that equation by combining heavy data movement with transactional metadata activity,… Read more: NetApp and Nvidia rethink storage for AI factories - Always-on AI agents turn infrastructure into a continuous learning loop
AI agent infrastructure is evolving to support systems that move continuously among inference, feedback and training. Cognition AI Inc.’s Devin now assists throughout the software development lifecycle, from planning and writing code to reviewing it… Read more: Always-on AI agents turn infrastructure into a continuous learning loop - Florida cops say they don’t know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras
Florida cops are facing questions after a mandate to remove all Flock cameras tracking cars on St. Lucie County roads led local police to uncover more than a dozen suspicious cameras operating without permits. Local… Read more: Florida cops say they don’t know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras - Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
Micron and Samsung executives this week said the memory shortage will continue for at least the next couple of years. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects demand for the firm’s memory to exceed its available supply… Read more: Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 - Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
With its premiere just two weeks away, Marvel Studios has dropped one last trailer for the limited series, VisionQuest, which will complete the trilogy begun with WandaVision and Agatha All Along. (Spoilers for WandaVision and… Read more: Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer - California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking
State attorney general issues subpoena to OpenAI as part of broader inquiry into potential security vulnerabilities California’s attorney general has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, starting an investigation into the startup as part of… Read more: California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking - Australia’s proposed laws could help regulate privacy risks from chatbots – if we get the details right
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Online privacy used to mean being careful about what you shared. You also had some control over what others shared about you, because much of that info was public. You could ask… Read more: Australia’s proposed laws could help regulate privacy risks from chatbots – if we get the details right - It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made the rash decision to double-down on massive AI spending, pushing a cutesy AI-mascot and poaching tech industry veteran Chirantan Desai to run a new division pushing Meta’s AI onto… Read more: It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide - As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry
A year or two ago, a few Canadian launch companies were trying to develop small rockets, but if we’re being frank, the industry was not particularly notable. Sure, something interesting might eventually happen, but no… Read more: As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry - Launchpad.io from Pega Announced the Introduction of AI Assistant
New AI Assistant enables software teams to build enterprise applications using natural language while preserving security, governance, and control Launchpad.io from Pega today announced its AI Assistant, delivering conversational development that enables organizations to design,… Read more: Launchpad.io from Pega Announced the Introduction of AI Assistant - With most information hidden, the game Stratego
Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years. But one classic game called Stratego held out.… Read more: With most information hidden, the game Stratego - A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
In recent weeks, two narratives about AI safety have emerged: either AI existential risk is real and imminent, or AI leaders’ and whistleblowers’ claims to that effect are insincere — a “psyop” or hype or… Read more: A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? - Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns
Tech company releases Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public… Read more: Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns - AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Strands Labs team has been playing around with an emerging class of lightweight artificial intelligence systems known as “decision models,” and it’s now making the fruits of that work available to… Read more: AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows - Nvidia ties AI factory economics to tokens and power efficiency
AI factory economics increasingly depend on more than access to high-performance graphics processing units. As agentic systems draw on multiple models, databases and tools, the entire data center must work as one computing system. That… Read more: Nvidia ties AI factory economics to tokens and power efficiency - How deep do AI relationships really go? An expert in attachment theory explains
SvetaZi/Shutterstock Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together. But what makes an attachment relationship different from all others? According to the pioneering American-Canadian developmental psychologist Mary… Read more: How deep do AI relationships really go? An expert in attachment theory explains - These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre
Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who kicked the AI safety movement into overdrive with his sensational claim that the tech “could kill… Read more: These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre - Made in China AI: new tech, same old story?
When Beijing-based AI firm Zhipu released its open-source General Language Model (GLM) and it began competing with Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT at a fraction of the price, a familiar question resurfaced. Are we watching… Read more: Made in China AI: new tech, same old story? - Apple Smart-Home Hub Reportedly Set for Oct. 13 Launch With New HomePod Mini
Apple reportedly plans to launch a Siri-powered smart-home hub on Oct. 13 alongside refreshed HomePod mini and Apple TV models. The post Apple Smart-Home Hub Reportedly Set for Oct. 13 Launch With New HomePod Mini… Read more: Apple Smart-Home Hub Reportedly Set for Oct. 13 Launch With New HomePod Mini - Google DeepMind Adds Watermarks to AI-Designed Proteins Without Breaking Them
Google DeepMind’s SynthID Bio embeds detectable watermarks in AI-designed proteins while preserving their function in early laboratory tests. The post Google DeepMind Adds Watermarks to AI-Designed Proteins Without Breaking Them appeared first on TechRepublic. - ‘Everything but censorship’
Student journalists meet the moment, as we’ve seen most recently this week. As the Cornell University sexual abuse case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news… Read more: ‘Everything but censorship’ - Metaview Raises $60M for AI Agents That Source, Screen and Schedule Candidates
Metaview raised $60 million to expand its AI recruiting platform and autonomous agent fillmore across sourcing, screening and hiring workflows. The post Metaview Raises $60M for AI Agents That Source, Screen and Schedule Candidates appeared… Read more: Metaview Raises $60M for AI Agents That Source, Screen and Schedule Candidates - AI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work
Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised $17 million in funding to expand beyond the commercial contract work it started with. Arceus provides legal services to fast-growing companies at a… Read more: AI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work - Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news
Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulations Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast AI giant Anthropic… Read more: Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news - DoorDash Is Testing a Way to Order Food Without Opening the App
DoorDash is testing an AI agent that can turn text messages into food orders, using account history and preferences to handle routine purchases. The post DoorDash Is Testing a Way to Order Food Without Opening… Read more: DoorDash Is Testing a Way to Order Food Without Opening the App - How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
Student journalists, their advisors, and legal advocates say colleagues and administrators are attempting to undermine student reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, and other issues that public institutions would rather not have their reputations connected to.… Read more: How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists - This diet may slow brain aging by 2.5 years
People who followed the MIND diet more closely showed slower brain shrinkage and less grey matter loss over time, with the strongest differences equivalent to about 2.5 years of delayed brain aging. Berries and poultry… Read more: This diet may slow brain aging by 2.5 years - This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy
UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. Its speed, low energy demands, and resistance to attacks could make it… Read more: This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy - This new qubit could be 100 times less error-prone in superfluid quantum computer breakthrough
A proposed qubit made with superfluid helium could cut quantum computing error rates by around 100 times by shielding quantum information from common forms of electromagnetic noise. If experiments confirm the predictions, the technology could… Read more: This new qubit could be 100 times less error-prone in superfluid quantum computer breakthrough - New “plant armor” more than triples strawberry yields
A new protective fabric boosted strawberry yields by as much as 3.56 times while blocking insects and still allowing sunlight, rain, and airflow to reach the plants. Originally inspired by research on military clothing, Plant… Read more: New “plant armor” more than triples strawberry yields - This giant stick insect fooled scientists for decades
Scientists have identified two new species of large Australian stick insects, including one that lays extraordinary “lidded” eggs never before recorded in the group. The discovery also revealed that a familiar stick insect had been… Read more: This giant stick insect fooled scientists for decades - Top BBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good”
Slipping ratings, a revolving door of lead actors, and nothing quite hitting like that old school David Tennant run. It’s dog days for “Doctor Who” fans, whose lives aren’t likely to be made any better… Read more: Top BBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good” - NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
An attempt to save NASA’s $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from dropping out of orbit fell short, but the behind-the-scenes machinations required just to make a rescue possible deserve recognition, government and commercial space… Read more: NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift - PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
For a long time, PC gamers could access many PlayStation 5 games only if the publisher invested in a bespoke port (something Sony has recently said it will be scaling back). Now, though, rapid advancements… Read more: PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC - Cloudflare moves into analytics workloads with a serverless alternative to dedicated data infrastructure
Cloudflare Inc. is moving beyond its bread-and-butter content delivery networks and cybersecurity offerings with the launch of a new serverless data platform called Cloudflare Basin, which aims to make advanced data analytics cheaper and easier… Read more: Cloudflare moves into analytics workloads with a serverless alternative to dedicated data infrastructure - Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
A company that makes phone hacking devices claims to have developed a solution that freezes iPhones in a state that lets cops more easily access sensitive data inside them, according to a video obtained by… Read more: Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims - ServiceNow launches conversational interface to its service desk
ServiceNow Inc. is enhancing the artificial intelligence features in its service desk offering with Flow, a feature that handles employee requests via a natural language interface with extensive automation. The company said it’s targeting organizations… Read more: ServiceNow launches conversational interface to its service desk - Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn
Last year, hedge fund whisperer and founder of the firm Praetorian Capital, Harris Kupperman, issued a blistering financial analysis on the data center frenzy sweeping across the United States. Kupperman’s diagnosis was blunt: because data… Read more: Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn - Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra clash in testy California governor’s race debate
The candidates running to replace Gavin Newsom sparred over taxes, immigration and regulating AI Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, the candidates running to be California’s next governor, clashed on Wednesday over taxes, immigration and regulating… Read more: Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra clash in testy California governor’s race debate - JAAM Automation Launches AI Platform for Complex Business Processes
M. by jaam brings Agentic Work Management to existing business processes, helping organisations understand how work gets done and gradually give AI more responsibility Launch comes as 88%[1] of organisations use AI, but only 7% have… Read more: JAAM Automation Launches AI Platform for Complex Business Processes - AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of… Read more: AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted - VIAVI Launches 100G Platform for AI, Security and App Testing
CyberFlood CF50 also features the industry’s lowest power consumption and highest TLS performance with native PQC support VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today introduced the CyberFlood CF50, the industry’s smallest and lightest all-in-one platform for… Read more: VIAVI Launches 100G Platform for AI, Security and App Testing - Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct,… Read more: Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender - Graphwise Upgrades AI Context Platform for Multilingual AI
New Graphwise Platform capabilities to be showcased live at the Graphwise AI Summit 2026 Graphwise, a leading provider of AI context platforms, today announced major updates to its AI Context Platform, Graphwise Platform, which include… Read more: Graphwise Upgrades AI Context Platform for Multilingual AI - SmartBear: 46% Shipped Failed AI Code, Yet 69% Trust It
SmartBear’s 2026 State of Software Quality and Testing report finds leaders’ blind trust in AI code also shows up in how they validate and govern it SmartBear, helping teams build, test, and ship quality software… Read more: SmartBear: 46% Shipped Failed AI Code, Yet 69% Trust It - CoreWeave Forge Launches to Improve AI Model and Agent Runs
One connected environment for training, inference, evaluation and agent development, open across models, frameworks and other clouds, so every version ships sooner and performs better than the last MasterClass and Canva are already building on… Read more: CoreWeave Forge Launches to Improve AI Model and Agent Runs - Nudge Security Launches Adaptive Risk Management
New capability continuously reassesses risk as employees connect integrations, expand access, and adopt AI tools, closing a gap left by one-time vendor reviews. Nudge Security, a leader in SaaS and AI security governance, today announced… Read more: Nudge Security Launches Adaptive Risk Management - Anika Wells named on Time100 list as one of ‘world’s most influential rising stars’ after social media ban
Time magazine list includes Australian communications minister after her efforts to take on big tech The federal communications minister, Anika Wells, has been named as one of Time magazine’s “world’s most influential rising stars” in… Read more: Anika Wells named on Time100 list as one of ‘world’s most influential rising stars’ after social media ban - Meta wants people to use ‘AI agents’ to do daily tasks for them. Here’s why that’s a problem
Meta Meta wants users to turn to a cute artificial intelligence (AI) “agent” throughout the day to carry out common tasks for them, such as booking flights or doing their shopping. The company’s new Muse… Read more: Meta wants people to use ‘AI agents’ to do daily tasks for them. Here’s why that’s a problem - Metaview wants to eliminate recruiting grunt work and speed up hiring after raising $60M in funding
Artificial intelligence recruiting software startup Metaview Labs Inc. said today the industry is ready for a “Claude Code moment” after it closed on $60 million in a Series C funding. The round was led by… Read more: Metaview wants to eliminate recruiting grunt work and speed up hiring after raising $60M in funding - How AI could ‘supercharge’ election risks across south-east Asia
Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations Years ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving any army of cyber troops creating… Read more: How AI could ‘supercharge’ election risks across south-east Asia - Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat
Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job… Read more: Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat - Amazon Plans 20,000+ Smart Glasses for Delivery Drivers in 2027
Amazon plans more than 20,000 Smart Delivery Glasses by the end of 2027, bringing AI navigation and new privacy questions to its delivery network. The post Amazon Plans 20,000+ Smart Glasses for Delivery Drivers in… Read more: Amazon Plans 20,000+ Smart Glasses for Delivery Drivers in 2027 - Meta AI Shares Seller’s Address: Facebook Marketplace Buyer Shows Up at His Home
Meta’s Muse AI shared a Facebook Marketplace seller’s pickup address and arranged a deal that ended with a buyer showing up unexpectedly. The post Meta AI Shares Seller’s Address: Facebook Marketplace Buyer Shows Up at… Read more: Meta AI Shares Seller’s Address: Facebook Marketplace Buyer Shows Up at His Home - Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite in an attempt to obtain email backups and authentication credentials of vulnerable organzations, Microsoft has warned. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-73570, lets attackers… Read more: Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails - A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring
Most implants like pacemakers and insulin pumps work in isolation. To help them coordinate with each other, a team of Georgia Tech researchers built a networking system that sends signals through body tissue instead of… Read more: A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring - Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.
An Argentinian-American writer and immigration advocate recently sued the federal government, demanding that it delete data that he believes was copied off of his phone when he re-entered the United States earlier this month. According… Read more: Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant. - Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths
A fifth, unvaccinated person has died of measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s health department announced Wednesday. The department identified the deceased as a resident of Lancaster County, which is the epicenter of a raging outbreak… Read more: Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths - Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth, kicking up tsunamis and dropping hot debris that annihilated non-avian dinosaurs and many other species. But not everything it left in its wake was… Read more: Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life - Google’s new frontier AI model Gemini 4 Argon goes to cybersecurity defenders first
Google LLC today began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier artificial intelligence model that beats rival models from Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC on most of Google’s benchmarks, to vetted cybersecurity defenders. Outside… Read more: Google’s new frontier AI model Gemini 4 Argon goes to cybersecurity defenders first - Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization
Companies and organizations around the world would do well to accept what their new roles are in our current AI-driven paradigm: glorified target practice for rogue AI agents. The latest of such cybersecurity incidents, which… Read more: Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization - Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of… Read more: Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet - Prominent tech CEOs sign voluntary White House AI safety accord
The chief executives of five tech giants have signed a voluntary artificial intelligence safety accord backed by the White House. U.S. President Donald Trump posted the document on Truth Social late Tuesday. The White House… Read more: Prominent tech CEOs sign voluntary White House AI safety accord - Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing… Read more: Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves - The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers
There was a call to boycott Disney last fall. The owner of the ABC network had taken Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air over comments Kimmel made about responses to Charlie Kirk’s murder, sending free… Read more: The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers - RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise
At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy opened a “fireside chat” with Vice President JD Vance on the topic of artificial intelligence. While MAHA generally coalesces around things… Read more: RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise - Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
Soon, Reddit won’t let people use Old.Reddit.com unless they have used the site while logged in within the previous six months. In July, Reddit started requiring that users be logged in to access Old Reddit.… Read more: Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com - Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet
Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models. Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon. The company claims this… Read more: Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet - Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters. - RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should you, he’s using his authority as chief medical spokesperson in the US government to tell the public.… Read more: RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions - The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I’ve tried both—and I suspect you will too. - Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife. When he was caught by the judges, the lawyer blamed it on… Read more: Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal - AWS embeds DuckDB in its PostgreSQL DBMS to speed queries of live and historical data
Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding the ability to query the popular Apache Iceberg data lake directly from its Aurora PostgreSQL database management system, allowing applications to combine live transactions with historical records without copying… Read more: AWS embeds DuckDB in its PostgreSQL DBMS to speed queries of live and historical data - There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events. - Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master
The famously fact-averse president rolled out a new AI tool – but its answers don’t conform to his version of reality Donald Trump, in a development that could almost be from a Greek tragedy, appears… Read more: Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master - Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we’ve been slow to recognize potential threats. One area where we seem to be ahead of the game, however,… Read more: Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins - Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Google’s shift to AI-powered search has upended the way the world’s largest search engine generates web traffic, rankling large and small publishers alike. In recent months, the company has experimented with paying publishers when their… Read more: Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling - So what’s happening with Russia’s new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?
In what seems like an alternate universe in hindsight, Russia and the European Space Agency began discussing collaboration on next-generation crewed spacecraft two decades ago. Under the agreement, Europe would have provided a service module… Read more: So what’s happening with Russia’s new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft? - Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hack
OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 has spurred a lawsuit demanding that the company stop accessing third-party computer systems and halt AI development practices that can harm the public. The lawsuit was filed… Read more: Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hack - US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI
FTC move is first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other… Read more: US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI - People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All
Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy — a pseudo-scientific practice involving… Read more: People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All - Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill
Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacenters on consumer electricity bills, which has emerged as a top… Read more: Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill - Gong adds auto-enrichment and event-driven agents to its revenue intelligence platform
Revenue intelligence startup Gong is expanding its platform with third-party account and contact data, deeper artificial intelligence analysis and tools for building agents that automatically execute sales workflows. The company today launched Mission Callisto, a… Read more: Gong adds auto-enrichment and event-driven agents to its revenue intelligence platform
