Meta is reportedly developing Switchboard, an internal AI router designed to send simpler tasks to cheaper models and reduce rising token costs. The post Meta Develops Switchboard to Route Simpler AI Tasks to Cheaper Models… Read more: Meta Develops Switchboard to Route Simpler AI Tasks to Cheaper Models

Samsung is reportedly weighing a €1 billion investment in Mistral, giving the French AI lab a possible €20 billion valuation as Europe pushes sovereign AI. The post Samsung Reportedly Weighs €1B Mistral AI Investment appeared… Read more: Samsung Reportedly Weighs €1B Mistral AI Investment

Alphabet says Gemini now has 950 million monthly active users as AI drives Google Cloud growth and brings the chatbot closer to the scale of ChatGPT. The post Google Says Gemini Reaches 950 Million Monthly… Read more: Google Says Gemini Reaches 950 Million Monthly Users as AI Growth Accelerates

Google has reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2026 (PDF), and as usual, the search giant raked in an unfathomable amount of money. Google saw total revenue of $119.8 billion, beating analyst… Read more: Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Many gamers have been lamenting Sony’s recently announced decision to halt sales of physical game discs in 2028. However, new data revealed by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella highlights how years of stark economic trends helped… Read more: Sony’s decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows

On Thursday, Google became the third tech giant slapped with massive Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines, ordered to pay more than $1 billion for two serious violations that the European Commission (EC) found went unchecked… Read more: Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle

A 63-year-old woman arrived at a hospital in pain. She had abruptly lost vision in her right eye. As doctors got to work, the series of findings that followed revealed not just bad news for… Read more: A woman got a UTI. Two years later, the bacteria had evolved, invaded her brain.

San Diego Comic-Con has kicked off strong, and we’ve got a couple of new trailers to show for it: the final trailer for Coyote vs. Acme, and the full trailer for director Zach Cregger’s fresh… Read more: Final Coyote vs. Acme trailer drops at SDCC

The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”

For director Neill Blomkamp, “District 9” must feel like an eternity ago. The 2009 sci-fi action film used a quasi-documentary style to tell a thrilling tale of a man fighting for survival against government-backed mercenaries… Read more: Neill Blomkamp Is Making It Look Like AI Is the Last Resort for Filmmakers With Failing Careers

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Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits despite falling customer numbers The owner of British Gas has claimed that most households would rather speak with an AI chatbot than deal… Read more: ‘Customers prefer AI chatbots to humans’ says British Gas boss as 1,300 call centre staff axed

This image depicts an idea from the counterexample to the unit distance conjecture — a mathematical problem posed in 1946 and solved in 2026 by generative AI. (Trefor Bazett) In May 2026, OpenAI released a… Read more: A new ‘golden age’ of mathematics may be dawning — thanks to AI and human ingenuity

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman earlier this month endorsed the characterisation of its latest model as a rottweiler “who will grab the problem by the throat and not let go until it is done The… Read more: AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Patreon laid off 93 employees, totaling 20 percent of its workforce on Thursday morning, according to an email to creators and staff from CEO Jack Conte. In a message sent to everyone on the platform… Read more: Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce

Billionaire in interview with the Economist admits he was too consumed by politics and shares predictions about AI Elon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump… Read more: ‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

Over four months after the deadly US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Southern Iran, which killed 120 children and dozens of teachers and parents, questions still remain over how the horror unfolded.… Read more: Trump Says Images of the Iranian Elementary School His Lackeys Obliterated Could Be “AI Generated”

A global shift toward healthier diets could sharply reduce livestock farming, free up agricultural land, and cut emissions from land-use change by 85% by 2050. At the same time, fruit, vegetable, nut, and legume production… Read more: A healthier global diet could cut farm emissions by 85%

Researchers in the Gulf of California have documented a dramatic orca behavior never described before. In two separate encounters, one orca gripped a dead sunfish by the fin while another charged into it at high… Read more: Orcas filmed smashing giant sunfish into thousands of pieces

A new benchmark out of the University of Michigan just handed six frontier AI agents a causal reasoning exam. The scores expose a gap that raw capability metrics tend to paper over. The benchmark is… Read more: The causality test that humbled six AI agents

A little over a month ago, the former American Idol contestant, country musician, and Instagram influencer Noah Orion appears to have learned about the surveillance company Flock. “Cities are now covering Flock cameras with trash… Read more: The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout

Cisco’s new Antares models help security teams narrow vulnerable code searches locally, but low benchmark scores expose important adoption limits. The post Cisco Antares Models Bring Local AI to Vulnerability Triage appeared first on TechRepublic.

A leaked document shows the spread of surveillance and investigative capabilities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have access to agency wide, from location data harvested from smartphones, to facial recognition apps that can… Read more: Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICE’s Fingertips

Google is restricting Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to select partners as CodeMender enters preview. Here’s what security teams should verify before adoption. The post Google Holds Back Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as CodeMender Enters Preview… Read more: Google Holds Back Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as CodeMender Enters Preview

🌘 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 a previously unknown behavior in orcas that involves… Read more: Orcas Explode Fish Into Confetti, Possibly for Fun, In ‘Astounding’ New Video

femtoAI’s Dual Sparsity Delivers 100X Power & Energy Gains, 10X Less Memory for Customers Including Samsung, Marshall femtoAI, a leading AI inference platform and creator of the Sparse Processing Unit (SPU), today announced 5X growth… Read more: FemtoAI Unlocks 5X Growth With Full-Stack AI Platform

MIT researchers are set to contribute to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, with 15 collaborative projects among those selected for funding under Genesis Phase I, DOE announced Wednesday. The Genesis Mission, a national initiative,… Read more: MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

The collaboration advances GMI Cloud’s selective partnership strategy and supports its next phase of AI infrastructure growth GMI Cloud, a leading AI-native cloud provider delivering high-performance GPU infrastructure and inference services, today announced a strategic… Read more: GMI Cloud Announces Compute Collaboration With NVIDIA

Research identifies three imperatives for building an AI-native enterprise based on a survey of 417 U.S. business leaders West Monroe, an AI-native global consulting firm, today released Building the AI-Native Enterprise, new research examining how organizations… Read more: West Monroe Research Reveals AI Transformation Gap

Last week, a new lawsuit accused ChatGPT of encouraging the suicide of a young mother. The 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after walking into traffic, with her family arguing that the OpenAI chatbot had fueled… Read more: Public Horrified as OpenAI Pushes “Child After Child Into the Grave”

I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn’t seem to exist. Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target. They are invariably cheap, simple, and… Read more: I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.

On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report entitled “Science: A New Golden Age,” in which it lays out how it has viewed science, found it lacking, and… Read more: White House report says Trump can usher in a “new golden age” of science

It’s that time again! We’re planning our latest FOIA Forum, a live, hour-long or more interactive session where Joseph and Jason will teach you how to pry records from government agencies through public records requests.… Read more: Our New FOIA Forum! 7/30, 1PM ET

Nvidia’s new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code. Physical AI is the term Nvidia and much of the robotics industry now… Read more: Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics’ data problem

AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using… Read more: AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal

New benchmark demonstrates enterprises can generate high-quality AI research locally, reducing the reliance on expensive cloud-based models while maintaining quality and keeping sensitive data in-house Lovelace today announced new benchmark results showing that enterprises can generate… Read more: Lovelace Shows Local AI Matches Top Cloud Agentic Systems

With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.

Enhanced program empowers partners to lead the AI and post-quantum transition with new digital trust services Keyfactor, the leader in trust infrastructure for AI and machines, today announced a major expansion of its Global Partner Program,… Read more: Keyfactor Expands Partners for AI, Post-Quantum Future

As the gap in the multilingual security of AI guardrails grows, new benchmark research reveals that DeepKeep’s ability to detect prompt injection and PII across languages outperforms others, including Meta and Nvidia DeepKeep, the end-to-end… Read more: DeepKeep Leads Multilingual AI Security Benchmark

Analysis shows how AI agents, non-human identities, and unmanaged devices are reshaping enterprise exposure and where security teams can focus to reduce attacker opportunities Vectra AI, the leader in AI-native security and observability, today released… Read more: Vectra AI Research Reveals New Attack Exposure Reality

New capability uses shopper behavior to automatically prioritize the most relevant filters for every search, helping retailers improve conversion while reducing manual merchandising work Algolia, the AI Search and Retrieval platform powering more than 1.75… Read more: Algolia Announced the Launch of Dynamic Facets

Credit: Kathryn Ayres Credit: Kathryn Ayres There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this may be a form of culturally learned behavior passed down through… Read more: Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode

Nothing Ahead/Pexels Since November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been rewriting billions of emails, student assignments, reports, and break-up text messages. Alongside these mundane uses, we’ve seen a proliferation of chatbots as AI “companions”.… Read more: China has cracked down on AI companions. What can we learn from this?

An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent didn’t just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging… Read more: OpenAI’s models autonomously hacked a tech startup. It signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity

Tesla posted its financial statement for the second quarter of the year this afternoon. Earlier in July, we learned that the American automaker had had a good quarter in terms of sales, growing 25 percent… Read more: Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending

The San Diego Comic-Con kicks off tomorrow, and DC Studios and Warner Brothers are setting the stage by dropping the first full trailer for Clayface, part of the DC Universe’s “Gods and Monsters” arc. The… Read more: Clayface trailer leans into the body horror

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to eliminate a Biden-era rule that required Internet service providers to list all of their so-called “passthrough” fees on easily accessible broadband price labels. Instead of advertising accurate prices,… Read more: ISPs’ long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Fold8 debut at Unpacked 2026 with new cameras, AI tools, prices, and clear trade-offs for buyers choosing a foldable. The post Samsung Unveils Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Fold8… Read more: Samsung Unveils Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and Fold8 at Unpacked 2026

For years, Microsoft has leaned heavily into extensive backward compatibility across multiple generations of Xbox hardware as a major selling point for its consoles. Today, that effort expands past the console ecosystem, making select original… Read more: Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems Last week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was… Read more: OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim

China is considering tighter controls on AI models, training data, and chip designs, potentially limiting how Chinese technology reaches global users. The post China Considers Export Controls on AI Models, Training Data and Chip Technology… Read more: China Considers Export Controls on AI Models, Training Data and Chip Technology

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

Samsung’s $1,199 Galaxy Z Flip8 adds a thinner design, expanded FlexWindow tools, and new AI controls while retaining the same battery and rear cameras. The post Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 Launches at $1,199 With Thinner… Read more: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 Launches at $1,199 With Thinner Design

New data shows 55.3 million Suno accounts were affected in a breach exposing contact details, purchases, and partial payment card information. The post New Data Shows Suno Breach Affected 55M Accounts appeared first on TechRepublic.

A Florida man is suing OpenAI over ChatGPT-generated medical advice, alleging that its flagship chatbot failed to recognize early signs of a medical crisis and nearly caused his death. Brought by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old… Read more: Man Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Almost Killed Him With Horrendously Dangerous Medical Advice

OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face’s servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test. The company says… Read more: OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

In the early years of the United States, when the nascent US Navy was still getting its sea legs, several presidents used privateers to capture or destroy enemy warships when armed naval vessels were unable… Read more: Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers

Hyundai Motor Company’s plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, according to the company. The automaker is disputing news reports that partial… Read more: Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers

On Tuesday night, the city council of my small town of Irmo, South Carolina, voted to install 22 new Flock cameras. That’ll bring the total up to 33. With a population of only 12,000 or… Read more: What Happened When Flock Came to My Town

Is it possible to not like a movie in a normal way? Can it simply not be “your thing” without being transposed onto some intangible, ever-raging culture war? It certainly isn’t if you’re an anti-woke… Read more: Elon Musk Says Grok Will Generate Its Own Feature-Length Version of “The Odyssey” for People Allergic to Progressive Ideas

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.

Dimitri Bertsekas PhD ’71, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Emeritus Professor in Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a principal investigator in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and… Read more: Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

AI companies are pouring untold billions of dollars into enormous data centers in their efforts to sustain increasingly complex and resource-intensive AI models. It’s an extremely costly undertaking built on seemingly bottomless hype — and… Read more: AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John Pickering Anil Seth is right to point out that to overestimate artificial intelligence is to underestimate ourselves (Once… Read more: We must reject any notion of AI consciousness | Letters

In the latest twist on battlefield innovations, Ukraine has used both flying drone carriers and drone boats to send ground robots armed with weapons or explosives into battle. The drone-assisted deployments have enabled slower wheeled… Read more: Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air

A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received… Read more: Unlimited AI tokens aren’t unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply

The rumors haven’t left much to the imagination, but Samsung has unfurled its 2026 foldable lineup today. There are three models for the first time in Samsung’s eight-gen foldable family, including the top-of-the-line Z Fold… Read more: Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7

A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location.… Read more: What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?

Trump administration AI testing chief Chris Fall resigned after just 90 days, leaving CAISI under interim leadership during a critical period for AI safety standards. The post Trump’s AI Safety Chief Is Out — After… Read more: Trump’s AI Safety Chief Is Out — After Just 90 Days on the Job

Membership reinforces Teradata’s commitment to giving customers the flexibility, interoperability, and neutrally governed infrastructure needed to move agentic AI from pilot to production Teradata (NYSE: TDC) today announced it has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), hosted… Read more: Teradata Joins Agentic AI Foundation to Advance Standards

Physician executive brings deep payer, provider and value-based care expertise to guide clinical strategy, AI innovation and payer-provider collaboration Availity, the nation’s largest real-time health information network, today announced the appointment of Hannah Alphs Jackson,… Read more: Availity Names Dr. Hannah Alphs Jackson Chief Medical Officer

CSO George Gerchow headlines IANS session demonstrating why knowing what AI agents can access is only half the governance problem Company to host on-site executive meetings by request and a co-branded happy hour at the… Read more: Bedrock Data to Present AI Agent and Data Security at Black Hat USA 2026

The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June Get our breaking news email, free app or… Read more: Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach

OpenAI claims that a group of its AI models broke containment and hacked into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. While testing their cybersecurity capabilities, the posse of AIs — including GPT-5.6… Read more: OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked a Prominent AI Site

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed within settlement between AI startup and authors over use of protected work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright… Read more: Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

We start this week with Joseph’s story on how cops are using Flock to track actual people, not just cars, with searches like “male with tattoos.” After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the… Read more: Podcast: Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars

🎉 YOU’RE INVITED! 404 Media is turning three, and we’re throwing TWO separate events in NYC to celebrate: A live taping of the podcast with a special night of talks on Sept. 3, and an… Read more: Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

A tech startup called Skyfall AI is set to do the most tech startup thing imaginable: toy with an unwitting group of employees’ careers by turning their company into a giant AI experiment. First, the… Read more: Tech Bros Acquiring Entire Company So They Can Appoint an AI as Its CEO

Researchers are applying evolutionary theory to cancer by changing treatments before tumors have time to develop resistance. Mathematical models suggest that rapid, carefully timed switches between multiple therapies could improve cure rates.

Scientists have found a way to revive vancomycin, a powerful antibiotic that some dangerous bacteria have learned to resist. Instead of creating an entirely new drug, researchers paired vancomycin with a small molecule called pghi-4,… Read more: Scientists revive a powerful antibiotic that superbugs had defeated

MIT engineers have found a way to give chip-based lidar a wider, clearer view without relying on moving parts. Their design uses differently shaped antennas that can sit close together without scrambling one another’s signals.… Read more: MIT’s new lidar chip could give self-driving cars a wider view

Researchers discovered a proton-assisted mechanism that greatly improves how triplet energy moves between quantum dots and nearby molecules. The proton briefly shifts position, helps coordinate electron movement, and then returns to where it started. This… Read more: A strange quantum effect dramatically boosts energy transfer

Miniature brain models grown from patients’ cells revealed striking differences in how Alzheimer’s-related tissue responds to an antidepressant. The organoids and the particles they release could eventually guide more personalized treatments and provide new clues… Read more: Lab-grown mini brains may predict which Alzheimer’s treatments will work

Ancient fern savannahs may have transformed parts of Europe into a wildfire-prone inferno during the end-Triassic mass extinction. New fossil evidence suggests the ferns repeatedly regrew after fires, creating fresh fuel that helped prolong the… Read more: Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno

When you open a new credit card, you necessarily give the credit card company your address. You probably expect that information to remain with your bank. But when you open a new credit card or change… Read more: You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, ⁠the Trump… Read more: Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in ‘AI for science’ effort

The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster over its casting choices Elon Musk has said his AI platform Grok Imagine will make a “historically… Read more: Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey

SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project, teaming with nearly 20 partners to scale domestic AI chip infrastructure in China. In a keynote titled ‘Intelligent Transformation and Symbiosis,’ Yang Fan – the company’s co-founder and president… Read more: SenseTime’s Galaxy Project targets domestic AI chip scale-up

98% of survey respondents are confident in their ability to protect sensitive data, but 34% have experienced breaches or theft. Perforce Software, the modern DevOps Tech Stack that ensures AI governance, today announced the release of its… Read more: Perforce Survey Reveals Data Protection Confidence Gap

 CloudFuze has expanded the AI governance capabilities of its platform, CloudFuze Manage, which enables organizations to have full visibility and control over AI agents and the data they access across the cloud ecosystem. AI adoption is… Read more: CloudFuze Manage Announced its Expansion into AI Agent Governance

Bringing together experts from organizations like Accenture, Roche, and S&P Global on October 7–8, this virtual summit delivers a proven blueprint for building explainable, scalable AI systems that deliver measurable business impact. CIOs and business… Read more: Graphwise Announces Free Enterprise AI Virtual Summit

AI Resilience introduces four sets of capabilities to recover from, govern, and defend against AI risk, accelerating the agentic enterprise Druva, the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, today announced Druva AI Resilience, a new… Read more: Druva Advances AI Resilience Against AI-Driven Risk

A single governed workflow unites AI label review, team collaboration, and a defensible audit trail, taking compliance teams from a multi-day, highly manual review to an agentic first pass with expert-in-the-loop confirmation. RegASK today announced a… Read more: RegASK Announced the Launch of New Governed Agentic AI Workflow

Firm behind ChatGPT reveals autonomous agent powered by its tech chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself OpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed… Read more: OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident’

akinbostanci / Getty Images As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the… Read more: ‘hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx’: why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AI

A single dose of psilocybin produced measurable changes in brain activity and possible changes in brain structure that lasted for up to a month. Participants who experienced the greatest increase in flexible, varied brain activity… Read more: Magic mushrooms may reshape the brain long after the trip ends

Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over how optical signals propagate through a circuit. The technology could provide the delays, synchronization, and buffering… Read more: New programmable photonic chip can control how fast light moves

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images This week, a group of ministers issued a joint media release outlining a a series of artificial intelligence (AI) “safety priorities” for the Australian government. These include: introducing a digital duty of… Read more: Australia just outlined more ‘AI safety’ priorities, but is the plan actually coherent?

YouTube is clarifying monetization rules for repetitive AI-generated videos, synthetic personas, and low-effort content in its Partner Program. The post YouTube Tightens Monetization Rules for AI-Generated and Low-Quality Content appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google plans to replenish more freshwater than its data centers consume by 2030 as it expands water stewardship efforts amid growing AI infrastructure scrutiny. The post Google Bets Water Stewardship Can Ease AI Data Center… Read more: Google Bets Water Stewardship Can Ease AI Data Center Concerns