
- AI often leaves out minority languages – but some communities are turning it into a lifeline
Beach in Dili, Timor-Leste. Agung Wid/ There’s plenty of warranted anxiety about the effect artificial intelligence (AI) will have on social and economic inequality. AI built by big tech firms is set to reward capital… Read more: AI often leaves out minority languages – but some communities are turning it into a lifeline - AMD acquires world model developer World Labs for $8.2B
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced plans to buy World Labs Inc. for $8.2 billion in stock. The move comes seven months after AMD backed a $1 billion funding round for the startup at a… Read more: AMD acquires world model developer World Labs for $8.2B - Boeing “incredibly excited” to serve as nation’s only astronaut transportation
NASA announced on Monday that it will exercise options to purchase two additional flights on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, as well as financially support the company in its efforts to return the crewed vehicle to flight… Read more: Boeing “incredibly excited” to serve as nation’s only astronaut transportation - Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users When Usman asked if a keyboard for sale on Facebook Marketplace was still available on Saturday, he received… Read more: Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house - Nvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B
Nvidia Corp. today announced plans to spend an additional $150 billion on share buybacks through January 2028. The move represents the largest-ever expansion of a stock repurchase program. Furthermore, Nvidia plans to boost its current dividend… Read more: Nvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B - OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behavior and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation AI model planned for an October debut, over… Read more: OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing - New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
Equipment to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air or smokestacks generally works through a sort of reversible filter. Air is passed through granules or a liquid that absorbs the CO2, then that CO2-loaded substance undergoes… Read more: New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery - Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
The state of Florida is seeking a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI from continuing to develop what it calls a “reckless, unacceptably risky product” without the deployment of “third-party approved safety guardrails.” The new legal… Read more: Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development - SpaceX’s Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks
SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the sky over South Texas early Monday. It was the 14th test flight of the world’s most powerful launch vehicle. This time, however, the rocket’s massive upper stage squeezed out… Read more: SpaceX’s Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks - Experts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
On its face, the recent summit between Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping didn’t change much in the world of AI regulation. Export controls were not discussed, with neither country seemingly interested in making… Read more: Experts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump - What to expect at the Dell AI Data Platform Event: Join theCUBE Oct. 6–7
The enterprise AI conversation is moving past models and compute. As companies push projects into production, the harder problem is increasingly what sits underneath them: getting distributed, messy and often sensitive enterprise data ready for… Read more: What to expect at the Dell AI Data Platform Event: Join theCUBE Oct. 6–7 - Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups
As tempers flared around AI data centers back in January, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith issued a warm and fuzzy blog post about “building community-first AI infrastructure.” Smiths’ essay outlined a five-point plan to “partner with… Read more: Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups - Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next
Per-token pricing was the best thing to happen to enterprises looking to experiment with artificial intelligence, but it may be the worst thing for AI in production. That’s the quandary at the center of a… Read more: Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next - 1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks
AI agent access is complicating identity controls as agents log in, carry credentials and act on someone’s behalf. They have characteristics of both human and machine users. That overlap can make actions harder to attribute:… Read more: 1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks - Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business
Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new business unit that will provide artificial intelligence services to enterprises. The Meta Enterprise Platform, as it’s called, will be led by long-time technology executive CJ Desai. The company… Read more: Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business - Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
The infamous Carrington Event of 1859 has long been considered the first extreme space weather event, but there have been reports of minor disturbances to telegraph equipment during geomagnetic storms since the late 1840s. In… Read more: Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery - Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
We are mere days away from the launch of Googlebooks, the long-awaited Android laptops that Google hopes will compete with macOS and Windows. But what of Chromebooks? There have been hints that Google plans to… Read more: Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034 - Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws
Another federal appeals court has ruled that states can enforce their gambling laws against the prediction market Kalshi, which asserts that it can only be regulated by the US government. On Friday, a three-judge panel… Read more: Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws - Nvidia Adds Hardware Monitoring Design to AI Agent Safety Platform
Nvidia adds a Sentry hardware monitoring design to its AI agent safety platform. See what OpenShell offers now and what IT teams still need to verify. The post Nvidia Adds Hardware Monitoring Design to AI… Read more: Nvidia Adds Hardware Monitoring Design to AI Agent Safety Platform - FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
The hackers behind the massive FBI breach told 404 Media on Monday they do not intend to publish the data. The breach, in which the hackers stole personal information on “all FBI employees and applicants”… Read more: FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data - Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts
It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatbots for is cranking out smut. These prompts, though, are far from private. According to a new scoop from 404 Media, hundreds… Read more: Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts - Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which, as expected, discourage the very idea of… Read more: Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels - To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
The cost of healthcare in general is a debilitating, pre-existing condition for Americans. But the high prices of prescription drugs usually stand out as a pain point. While there are many insidious reasons why Americans… Read more: To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents - ServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents
Agent containment is becoming a practical governance question as enterprises move AI agents into production. ServiceNow Inc. is betting that the response to a misbehaving agent must account for both risk and the business work… Read more: ServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents - Qiagen grounds drug discovery agents in curated knowledge
Qiagen N.V. is betting that drug discovery agents need a trustworthy knowledge foundation as much as capable models. For biopharma companies, that means giving agents information with clear provenance and enough context to support their… Read more: Qiagen grounds drug discovery agents in curated knowledge - It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees
At times this year, it’s almost felt as though OpenAI and Anthropic were in a race to the bottom, one-upping each other over whose AI models were more capable of going rogue, escaping sandbox environments,… Read more: It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees - NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station’s large robotic arm
Recently, the astronauts on board the International Space Station performed a routine “walk-off” maneuver with the large, 58-foot-long robotic arm attached to the orbiting laboratory. The robotic arm, known as Canadarm2 because it was supplied… Read more: NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station’s large robotic arm - OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of “our most capable models” as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling “an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access… Read more: OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents - Agentic AI puts new pressure on identity and database security
Security operations teams are changing their approach in the world of artificial intelligence, adopting automation to turn signals into outcomes while maintaining the right context and control. This transition is complicated by a need to… Read more: Agentic AI puts new pressure on identity and database security - F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing
Formula 1 raced on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, this past weekend. Although the race predates Liberty’s acquisition of the sport by a few months, it’s a rather good microcosm of the sport as it… Read more: F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing - Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than the previous-generation AI model
Anthropic PBC today announced the launch of Claude Sonnet 5.5, the most capable mid-tier model in the company’s AI family, designed for everyday tasks and a clear upgrade over the previous generation, running over 30%… Read more: Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than the previous-generation AI model - Blitzy’s autonomous coding bet: Every codebase is already a graph
Knowledge graphs are moving to the center of autonomous software development as enterprises push coding agents beyond quick fixes and into large, interconnected codebases. The more code an agent touches, the more it needs to… Read more: Blitzy’s autonomous coding bet: Every codebase is already a graph - OpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training as Rogue Agent Crisis Deepens
OpenAI’s AI agents simply can’t stop infiltrating third parties. For the last few months, news keeps trickling out of more incidents in which the company’s frontier models have managed to escape their “sandbox” containment, hacking… Read more: OpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training as Rogue Agent Crisis Deepens - Man Says Meta’s Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers
Personal assistant, or secret saboteur? A man claims that his Muse AI agent gave out his address to strangers and even sent them to his home, after letting the brand-new model handle his Facebook Marketplace… Read more: Man Says Meta’s Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers - Everyday personal AI assistant startup Instinct raises $1B at $10B valuation
Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant for everyday users, today announced it has raised a colossal $1 billion in a new funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $10 billion. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital… Read more: Everyday personal AI assistant startup Instinct raises $1B at $10B valuation - Nvidia unveils security platform to rein in AI agents and $150bn stock buyback
Chipmaker says new system was designed to prevent AI agents from going rogue amid incidents at top companies Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new security platform that the chipmaker said can stop artificial intelligence agents… Read more: Nvidia unveils security platform to rein in AI agents and $150bn stock buyback - Momentic debuts Mo AI agent to automate software testing without scripts
Momentic Inc., the artificial intelligence-powered software testing and quality assurance platform, today announced the launch of Mo, an AI agent that lets developers test software without maintaining a collection of scripts. Whenever code is generated,… Read more: Momentic debuts Mo AI agent to automate software testing without scripts - Voice AI startup Modulate raises $25M to bring audio-native models to more developers
Voice artificial intelligence startup Modulate Inc. today announced it has raised $25 million in new funding to get its audio-native models in front of more developers. Modulate offers AI models that work on the raw… Read more: Voice AI startup Modulate raises $25M to bring audio-native models to more developers - Agentic AI security pushes vendors toward shared safeguards
Agentic AI security is becoming a cross-industry challenge as autonomous systems move among products and platforms. Okta Inc. argues that building trust will require coordinated safeguards rather than isolated vendor controls. The implications extend beyond… Read more: Agentic AI security pushes vendors toward shared safeguards - On theCUBE Pod: Agents reshape enterprise systems, and CoreWeave keeps rising
As artificial intelligence matures, the security guardrails — and the computer system itself — are changing. This week, the conversation centered around agents going rogue. Better guardrails are needed, many argue, but that hasn’t slowed… Read more: On theCUBE Pod: Agents reshape enterprise systems, and CoreWeave keeps rising - Crusoe Walks Away From $1.25B Boom Turbine Deal as AI Power Race Intensifies
Crusoe dropped Boom Supersonic’s $1.25B turbine deal while continuing to secure gas generation, batteries, and grid power for AI data centers. The post Crusoe Walks Away From $1.25B Boom Turbine Deal as AI Power Race… Read more: Crusoe Walks Away From $1.25B Boom Turbine Deal as AI Power Race Intensifies - Learn Six AI Assistants For $15.99 With This 25-Hour Course Bundle
Six courses cover ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Tabnine AI, all for one $15.99 payment. The post Learn Six AI Assistants For $15.99 With This 25-Hour Course Bundle appeared first on TechRepublic. - 6 Best AI Meeting Note Takers for 2026: Fathom, Otter, Fireflies and More
Compare six AI meeting note takers for 2026, including Fathom, Fireflies, Otter, Granola, Fellow, and Notta on pricing, free plans, and features. The post 6 Best AI Meeting Note Takers for 2026: Fathom, Otter, Fireflies… Read more: 6 Best AI Meeting Note Takers for 2026: Fathom, Otter, Fireflies and More - AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’ Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have issued a warning… Read more: AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’ - James Webb reveals why planet formation is a race against time
JWST has revealed that young planetary systems lose their planet-building gas through a changing mix of powerful jets, molecular winds, and radiation-driven outflows. As the disks age and their gas disappears, giant planets face a… Read more: James Webb reveals why planet formation is a race against time - Scientists were wrong about this strange mammal for nearly 40 years
A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of modern placental mammals, despite having teeth… Read more: Scientists were wrong about this strange mammal for nearly 40 years - Blood tests reveal why astronauts get constipated in space
Spaceflight may dramatically change the gut within weeks, causing bacteria to break down more protein as food moves more slowly through the intestines. The shift could help explain astronaut constipation and may have wider effects… Read more: Blood tests reveal why astronauts get constipated in space - Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They’re Horrified
This piece contains references to eating disorders. If you or someone you know needs help, support is available. Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit… Read more: Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They’re Horrified - Scientists just discovered what coffee really does to your gut and brain
A new study suggests coffee may influence mood and brain function by changing the activity of microbes in the gut. Both caffeinated and decaf coffee were linked to lower stress, depression, and impulsivity, while also… Read more: Scientists just discovered what coffee really does to your gut and brain - The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill)
Facial recognition is everywhere now. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students already did that. You now have massively viral accounts that take clips of… Read more: The End of Privacy Is Here (with Kashmir Hill) - You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Earlier this month, we published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media. The venture is run by three brothers — Justin Brown, Lachlan Brown, and Brendan Brown — who buy struggling… Read more: You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell - AI companies could learn safety lessons from the history of nuclear weapons
Unidentified workers with the “gadget”, the first atomic bomb, shortly before the 1945 Trinity test. US Department of Energy An AI model built by US tech company OpenAI has hacked into the Australian government healthcare… Read more: AI companies could learn safety lessons from the history of nuclear weapons - Trump wants an AI Force like Space Force, but that could make AI’s risks harder to manage
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared by video during a U.N. Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the General Assembly in New York on Sept. 23, 2026. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Artificial intelligence dominated… Read more: Trump wants an AI Force like Space Force, but that could make AI’s risks harder to manage - From lab to life: Why translating AI advances to the real world is a major challenge
An AI system in the real world has to sort out a huge number of objects, human behaviors and environmental conditions. Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images Turning artificial intelligence research into real-world tools isn’t always… Read more: From lab to life: Why translating AI advances to the real world is a major challenge - Ninja Enterprise bundles AI employees and GPUs into one fixed yearly fee
Artificial intelligence agent startup NinjaTech AI Inc. today launched Ninja Enterprise to let large companies run what the startup calls AI employees inside their own cloud environments for a fixed yearly fee. The graphics processing… Read more: Ninja Enterprise bundles AI employees and GPUs into one fixed yearly fee - Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
Microsoft has spent all year telling communities that when it brings a new data center into their area, it is committed to being a “good neighbor.” It will pay local property taxes that support local… Read more: Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs - Autoheal raises $7.9M to evaluate and fix AI agents with… AI agents
Autoheal AI Inc., an artificial intelligence-native platform engineering startup that’s trying to pioneer the concept of “self-improving software factories,” said today it has raised $7.9 million in seed funding to make that happen. Today’s round… Read more: Autoheal raises $7.9M to evaluate and fix AI agents with… AI agents - AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy
Over two years ago we wrote a detailed deconstruction of p(doom) and argued that its primary effect is to launder vague intuitions and fears through a facade of quantification. The essay has fresh relevance today… Read more: AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy - OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt. - Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ AI teacher monitoring system Teachers at Euan Blair’s £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about “horrendous stress” and feeling… Read more: Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work - DataGroomr Named in Salesforce 2027 Partner of the Year Awards
DataGroomr Recognized for Leading the Charge on Agentic Transformation within Salesforce Ecosystem DataGroomr announced that it has been named a recipient of the Salesforce Partner of the Year Award for helping customers continuously understand, measure, and… Read more: DataGroomr Named in Salesforce 2027 Partner of the Year Awards - Trilliant Health Announced the Launch of Oria
The free version, now called Oria Lite, remains available at no cost. Trilliant Health, the healthcare industry’s leading analytics firm, today launched the premium version of Oria, an AI Strategist built on proprietary healthcare datasets. For far… Read more: Trilliant Health Announced the Launch of Oria - AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions. - Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are trying to save it from the brute force of AI. - AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine
Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental… Read more: AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine - New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures
RNA vaccines, which have been proven effective against Covid-19, are now being developed for many other diseases, including cancer. One of the drawbacks to these vaccines is that they require ultracold storage, but researchers from… Read more: New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures - The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world. - Socure Brings AI-Native Identity Verification to Arc Mainnet
Socure’s RiskOS® platform brings identity verification, fraud prevention and risk decisioning to the Arc Onramp Experience. Socure, the leading AI-native trust infrastructure for global identity and risk intelligence, today announced that RiskOS is being used… Read more: Socure Brings AI-Native Identity Verification to Arc Mainnet - Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment. - NetApp Intends to Acquire PEAK:AIO to Advance Scalable AI Infra Architecture
Planned acquisition strengthens NetApp’s position in the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market by bringing differentiated metadata innovation and parallel file architecture designed for AI NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced its… Read more: NetApp Intends to Acquire PEAK:AIO to Advance Scalable AI Infra Architecture - Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week The chief executive of Anthropic will turn down an invitation to appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI this… Read more: Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack - Stand8 Helps Enterprises Reduce AI Costs and Move AI to Production
The Stand8 Model Gateway, deployed in the client’s cloud, routes each task to the right model, while a 90-day delivery path turns proof of concept into secure, compliant enterprise AI Stand8, a global technology consulting… Read more: Stand8 Helps Enterprises Reduce AI Costs and Move AI to Production - Trigent Introduces Production-Ready AI for Insurance Operations
Built on Trigent ArkOS, these solutions help carriers, MGAs, and brokers lead the shift towards AI-driven insurance solutions Trigent, a global leader in software engineering and AI solutions, recently launched three specialized insurance AI solutions, which will… Read more: Trigent Introduces Production-Ready AI for Insurance Operations - A bestselling novel was pulled from a French literary prize after AI accusations – what next?
The French literary world has been rocked by an AI scandal, unfolding in waves. Haitian–Canadian author Thélyson Orélien had his novel removed from the shortlist of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, last… Read more: A bestselling novel was pulled from a French literary prize after AI accusations – what next? - Australia’s legacy systems were already a cyber risk. AI agents are raising the stakes
Maxiphoto / Getty Images In the days since an artificial intelligence (AI) agent operated by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to a Services Australia portal holding Medicare statistics, important questions have been raised about Australia’s readiness… Read more: Australia’s legacy systems were already a cyber risk. AI agents are raising the stakes - AWS CloudWatch Omni goes after the hardest question in agentic AI: Why did the agent do that?
For decades, the observability industry has answered one basic question: Is it running? Agentic artificial intelligence breaks that model. An agent can return a clean response, meet its latency target and throw no errors, yet… Read more: AWS CloudWatch Omni goes after the hardest question in agentic AI: Why did the agent do that? - AWS CloudWatch Omni goes after the hardest question in agentic AI: Why did the agent do that?For decades, the observability industry has answered one basic question: Is it running? Agentic artificial intelligence breaks that model. An agent can return a clean response, meet its latency target and throw no errors, yet… Read more: AWS CloudWatch Omni goes after the hardest question in agentic AI: Why did the agent do that?
- Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. When the portal… Read more: Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents - Australia news live: Chalmers and Gallagher to present final budget outcome; RBA interest rate hike looms
Follow the day’s news live. Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. Nick Visser will join us shortly. We have budget news,… Read more: Australia news live: Chalmers and Gallagher to present final budget outcome; RBA interest rate hike looms - Deepfakes are distorting this year’s Victorian election. We found out who’s most susceptible to them
Rytis Bernotas/Getty Images The Victorian election is still months away, yet voters are already being shown events which never happened. A machete attack at a petrol station, a woman giving birth on the roadside, floodwater… Read more: Deepfakes are distorting this year’s Victorian election. We found out who’s most susceptible to them - AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings
In the midst of heated discussions on AI safety and consciousness, the Associated Press Stylebook has reminded everyone of where it stands on the whole “anthropomorphism” debate. “Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want… Read more: AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings - How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.” The exhibit explained that, prior to becoming an abolitionist,… Read more: How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war - British celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia
‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news… Read more: British celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia - Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns
Federal cabinet will discuss the OpenAI breach on Monday as the AI giant pauses testing of latest models amid fallout Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Ageing computer systems used… Read more: Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns - Academics and AI marking: a welcome aid for overworked staff or a sloppy shortcut?
Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Armin Alimardani has blue hair, is fresh faced, wears a smart watch… Read more: Academics and AI marking: a welcome aid for overworked staff or a sloppy shortcut? - ‘I can’t be the mum I want to be’: why does parenthood feel so impossible for millennial mothers?
Women today are more educated, more employed and more engaged in childcare than generations before them. Is there any way out of the total overwhelm? Early one morning, feeling desperate, Katherine went on to her… Read more: ‘I can’t be the mum I want to be’: why does parenthood feel so impossible for millennial mothers? - Scientists say house cats could help unlock better cancer treatments for humans
Scientists have mapped the genetics of cat cancer on an unprecedented scale and found surprising similarities with tumors in humans. The findings could help bring precision cancer treatments to cats while also revealing new clues… Read more: Scientists say house cats could help unlock better cancer treatments for humans - These medieval graves looked like family burials. DNA told a different story
Ancient DNA shows that adults and children buried together in medieval Sweden were often not members of the same immediate family, suggesting that burial choices reflected more than biological kinship. The research also revealed early… Read more: These medieval graves looked like family burials. DNA told a different story - Why rheumatoid arthritis pain may persist even when inflammation is under control
Pain and fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis can persist even after inflammation improves, with depression, poor sleep, obesity, smoking, and chronic pain potentially helping sustain symptoms. Researchers say identifying these hidden drivers could prevent unnecessary medication… Read more: Why rheumatoid arthritis pain may persist even when inflammation is under control - 1.7-billion-year-old fossils reveal a crucial clue to the rise of complex life
Scientists studying ancient Australian rocks uncovered more than 12,000 fossils from some of the oldest known eukaryotes on Earth. These early complex cells lived in settings ranging from coastal mudflats to the open sea, but… Read more: 1.7-billion-year-old fossils reveal a crucial clue to the rise of complex life - New soil test could reveal how soil microbes help feed plants
Scientists have streamlined a method for measuring DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, making it cheaper and easier while preserving its accuracy. The technique could reveal how soil microbes help recycle phosphorus and ultimately support more sustainable… Read more: New soil test could reveal how soil microbes help feed plants - One CRISPR treatment cut “bad” cholesterol in half for a full year
A single dose of an experimental CRISPR therapy cut LDL cholesterol and triglycerides by about half in patients with difficult-to-treat lipid disorders. The reductions were still present one year later, with the highest dose lowering… Read more: One CRISPR treatment cut “bad” cholesterol in half for a full year - Glucosamine, a popular joint supplement, linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression
A large health-record analysis found that glucosamine use was associated with a 25% higher likelihood of mild cognitive impairment progressing to dementia. Lab experiments suggest the popular joint supplement may intensify an abnormal sugar-tagging process… Read more: Glucosamine, a popular joint supplement, linked to faster Alzheimer’s progression - Workers Are Spending An Astonishing Amount of Their Own Money On AI for Their Jobs
While a rising majority of workers in the take a negative attitude toward AI in the workplace, others are welcoming the tech with open arms — even going so far as to pay for AI… Read more: Workers Are Spending An Astonishing Amount of Their Own Money On AI for Their Jobs - Scientists Download Frontier AI Model Into Self-Driving Car Let It Loose
Despite many years of development and enormously complex AI systems that took monstrous amounts of money to train, self-driving cars are still finding themselves stumped by relatively simple obstacles. Seriously. They unexpectedly stop in the… Read more: Scientists Download Frontier AI Model Into Self-Driving Car Let It Loose - Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’ The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a… Read more: Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI - Five More Cops Charged for Abusing Flock Cameras Amid So Many Similar Scandals That We Can’t Even Keep Track
Police abuse of AI-integrated surveillance cameras is spiraling out of control. On Wednesday, freshly unsealed court documents revealed that five Indianapolis police officers had been charged with abusing the department’s automatic license plate readers (ALPRs).… Read more: Five More Cops Charged for Abusing Flock Cameras Amid So Many Similar Scandals That We Can’t Even Keep Track - Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying… Read more: Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation - ‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash The datacentre revolt spreading across the US has reached the rolling hills of north Devon in an… Read more: ‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre - OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. The… Read more: OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
