
- Taylor Farms’ connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response
As Americans cook their vegetables to at least 158°F to kill a diarrheal parasite that has sickened over 24,000 people and killed two this summer, one US Senator is turning up the heat on Health… Read more: Taylor Farms’ connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response - R-rated director’s cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter’s original horror vision
There is a lot of excitement and some trepidation among The X-Files fans about Ryan Coogler’s reboot for Hulu, currently in production. While we’re waiting, Hulu just released Chris Carter’s revamped (and R-rated) director’s cut… Read more: R-rated director’s cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter’s original horror vision - Judge gives Google one week to fix “anticompetitive” app store download in Google Play
Google began offering third-party app store downloads in the Play Store earlier this week, but US District Judge James Donato says the company isn’t doing enough. After reviewing the process for accessing the first non-Google… Read more: Judge gives Google one week to fix “anticompetitive” app store download in Google Play - Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
Video Game Preservation: Saving Yesterday’s Games for Tomorrow’s Players | Ars Live This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop Killing Games movement and its ongoing efforts to ensure that… Read more: Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games? - Behind the Blog: Endless Scam Parade
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: Endless Scam Parade - AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds
The impact artificial intelligence has had on the environment has been nothing short of devastating. The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered… Read more: AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds - OpenAI Reports Goldman Sachs Analyst to FBI for Horrifying ChatGPT Conversations
Content warning: this story includes discussion of sexual assault and other disturbing topics. A 25-year-old Goldman Sachs financial analyst had extremely troubling conversations with ChatGPT — and when the interactions were detected by the Sam Altman-led… Read more: OpenAI Reports Goldman Sachs Analyst to FBI for Horrifying ChatGPT Conversations - How to build AI in the age of collaborative coding
We’re in one of the most competitive markets any of us have ever seen. AI is accelerating everything, and the pressure to innovate faster has gone from being a nice-to-have to being a survival requirement. … Read more: How to build AI in the age of collaborative coding - Scottish police expect ‘great deal of public opposition’ to planned Larbert datacentre
Planning consultation told ‘robust security measures’ will be needed amid growing resistance to such developments Scottish police have warned that a proposed datacentre will require “robust security measures” to prevent “incursion” amid growing public resistance… Read more: Scottish police expect ‘great deal of public opposition’ to planned Larbert datacentre - Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
Meta has filed a patent for its AI smartglasses that uses facial recognition to automatically detect who is in the frame, creates a video clip whenever one of those people does something — like picking… Read more: Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party - OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
Leading US AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing cheaper models as they fight to retain cost-conscious customers who are switching to cut-price alternatives from Chinese rivals. The price war comes as rising… Read more: OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground - Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source. - A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Then his money started disappearing
The administrative work required to run an effective investment scam has been drastically cut by using merging technology Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Within days of clicking on an… Read more: A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Then his money started disappearing - Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data
Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company… Read more: Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data - Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones
Researchers have found strong evidence that original collagen can survive inside dinosaur fossils for tens of millions of years, overturning a long-standing assumption about fossilization. The discovery could unlock hidden molecular clues about dinosaur biology,… Read more: Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones - Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains
Women who used estrogen-only hormone therapy later in life were less likely to develop dementia and showed fewer signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brains, according to a large study of more than 21,000 participants.… Read more: Women taking estrogen had fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains - A stress hormone may help the brain repair itself
A surprising stress-related signal may help the brain repair itself after injury. Researchers found that myelin-producing precursor cells rapidly release the stress hormone CRH near damaged brain tissue, helping control how those cells mature and… Read more: A stress hormone may help the brain repair itself - World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers
A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine of its kind. Future versions could operate autonomously inside quantum computers, potentially eliminating huge… Read more: World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers - Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time
Nuclear reactors may go dark, but their fuel continues producing a faint antineutrino “glow” long after shutdown. Researchers have now detected that residual signal for the first time, finding it closely matched predictions of radioactive… Read more: Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time - Man Arrested in Texas For Cussing at a County Meeting
Police arrested a man in Texas early Wednesday morning for saying “bullshit” at a public city meeting a week earlier. Police in Fort Worth, Texas pulled over local radio host and political activist EJ Carrion… Read more: Man Arrested in Texas For Cussing at a County Meeting - Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover
Scientists have discovered that the aging human brain may be far less isolated from the rest of the body than once believed. Stanford researchers found that large numbers of immune cells from the blood begin… Read more: Immune cells flood into the aging brain, Stanford scientists discover - Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia
Elon Musk’s “maximum truth-seeking” AI Grok is dropping some nuclear takes about its creator. “ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN,” the notoriously foul-mouthed chatbot raged on X this Tuesday. Shortly afterwards, as if hyping up a… Read more: Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia - OnePlus 15 Cheat Sheet: Features, OxygenOS, Pricing, and More
Get the key details on the OnePlus 15, including OxygenOS 16, AI tools, cameras, battery and charging, pricing, availability, and future software plans. The post OnePlus 15 Cheat Sheet: Features, OxygenOS, Pricing, and More appeared… Read more: OnePlus 15 Cheat Sheet: Features, OxygenOS, Pricing, and More - Agentic AI Foundation Adds 57 Members as Enterprises Push for Open Standards
The Agentic AI Foundation added 57 members as enterprises seek open standards for interoperable AI agents, tools, and data systems. The post Agentic AI Foundation Adds 57 Members as Enterprises Push for Open Standards appeared… Read more: Agentic AI Foundation Adds 57 Members as Enterprises Push for Open Standards - Anthropic Reportedly Eyes $6 Billion Decart Acquisition to Boost AI Efficiency
Anthropic is reportedly considering a $6 billion acquisition of Decart, potentially expanding its AI portfolio while targeting greater compute efficiency. The post Anthropic Reportedly Eyes $6 Billion Decart Acquisition to Boost AI Efficiency appeared first… Read more: Anthropic Reportedly Eyes $6 Billion Decart Acquisition to Boost AI Efficiency - Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price
Samsung has largely defined the foldable phone category, but it’s no longer alone in releasing flexible devices. Google, Motorola, and a raft of Chinese OEMs have their own take on this form factor. Is the… Read more: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price - Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin’s two-pad plan
Welcome to Edition 9.06 of the Rocket Report! Rocket Lab made a lot of news this week with its quarterly update, and it is clear the company is making impressive progress as it becomes much… Read more: Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin’s two-pad plan - Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps as Features Disappear Starting Aug. 18
Microsoft is consolidating its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into one experience, with several feature retirements beginning Aug. 18 and a broader desktop rollout following in September. The post Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps… Read more: Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps as Features Disappear Starting Aug. 18 - As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?
Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows Bumble was supposed to be different. When it launched in 2014, it offered women a simple proposition: if you matched with a man,… Read more: As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems? - People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way. - These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.” - SelectHub Announced the Launch of Research Lab DataGrout
New enterprise AI cost optimization platform delivers transformative LLM payload-level visibility, granular token tracking, and automated optimization for chatbots and agentic workflows for CIOs and CFOs Technology analyst firm SelectHub today announced the launch of DataGrout,… Read more: SelectHub Announced the Launch of Research Lab DataGrout - Google AI health coach to use Abbott glucose data
Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the Gemini-powered service access to another source of personal health information. Under a multiyear agreement, data from Abbott’s Lingo… Read more: Google AI health coach to use Abbott glucose data - Skan AI Raises $63M to Bring Business Context to Enterprise AI
Trusted by a quarter of the Fortune 50, Skan AI delivers sustainable, reliable, and measurable AI outcomes across the most complex, regulated workflows in banking, insurance, and healthcare Skan AI, the context graph of work… Read more: Skan AI Raises $63M to Bring Business Context to Enterprise AI - Alloy Robotics Secures $8M for Engineers Debug Robot Fleets With AI Agents
Alloy Robotics, which builds AI agents that analyze robot data to identify the root causes of failures, has raised $8 million at an $80 million valuation, just over a year after its founding. “When a… Read more: Alloy Robotics Secures $8M for Engineers Debug Robot Fleets With AI Agents - Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder
Across California, it’s time for Monterey Car Week, a cluster of events I once called “Comic-Con and the Oscars but with wheels.” For the last however many years, though, it’s mostly felt like an accumulation… Read more: Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder - Lloyd Allen Joins StructureFlow as Chief Technology Officer
Former Eigen Technologies engineering leader will accelerate StructureFlow’s AI-first product delivery and the development of its Structural Intelligence Platform StructureFlow, the Structural Intelligence Platform, today announced that Lloyd Allen has joined its senior leadership team as Chief… Read more: Lloyd Allen Joins StructureFlow as Chief Technology Officer - EdgeMode and BlackBerry AIF Sign MoU to Create BLACK AI
Combined power of the two companies will create a single integrated platform to meet global demand for AI-ready digital infrastructure, from land and power, to engineering, connectivity, and partnerships Initial focus across Spain and Panama,… Read more: EdgeMode and BlackBerry AIF Sign MoU to Create BLACK AI - DeepLumen Takes Agentic Page from Vision to Revenue, Reaches 1,000+ Merchants
Commercial milestone demonstrates how brands can capture demand as AI becomes a new discovery and commerce layer Agentic Commerce, where AI agents increasingly discover, evaluate, recommend and transact on behalf of consumers, is moving from… Read more: DeepLumen Takes Agentic Page from Vision to Revenue, Reaches 1,000+ Merchants - US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
As cancer treatments have advanced and outcomes have improved, one aspect of cancer care in the US has consistently worsened over the last decade: the wait time for surgery. According to a study in JAMA Surgery,… Read more: US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer - Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready
Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisis Young people out of work or at risk of unemployment in the UK are to join… Read more: Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready - The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it. - Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything
AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley. - Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT
District attorney says Arjun Aravind, 17, used internet and AI to search for fantasy stories regarding killing of his family A Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his mother and younger brother is being held without… Read more: Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT - Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an AI Company
The Arena Group — the media company which, in 2023, allowed a contractor called AdVon Commerce to publish AI-generated fake writers in the pages of Sports Illustrated and multiple other brands — has rebranded as an… Read more: Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an AI Company - Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release
Google is announcing a new Gemini model today, but it’s not the long-awaited 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash is now rolling out to replace 3.6 Flash, which itself was released only three weeks ago. This… Read more: Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release - The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Today, Instagram unveiled a refresh of its wordmark, accompanied by the usual bland corporate platitudes these kinds of announcements are always packaged with. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri called it “leaner and more modern, with… Read more: The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop - Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed
Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices. Petlibro makes pet feeders that connect to Wi-Fi and, for setup with Petlibro’s… Read more: Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed - Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say
On Thursday, Flock announced plans to require all agencies with access to license plate reader data to use a safety tool that automatically detects abnormal activity and locks out cops who abuse their access to… Read more: Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say - Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year—but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get “respawn” attempts while learning from the… Read more: Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game - Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship
As Virgin Galactic nears christening the first of its next-generation spaceship designed to launch customers on suborbital flights, it still is missing a key component—a name. The self-described “commercial spaceline,” which was founded by British… Read more: Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship - Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyber attacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities. In a National Security Presidential… Read more: Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals - Game Dev CEO Accused of Replacing Writers With AI is Now Completely Crashing Out
Saber, the developer behind the upcoming Rideshare “Stimulator” video game, is being accused of replacing its writers with AI. The accusation was made Tuesday by Stella Sacco, who says she was fired back in December… Read more: Game Dev CEO Accused of Replacing Writers With AI is Now Completely Crashing Out - IDZ Announced the Launch of MetaCortex
New AI workspace searches ZCloud and ZChat, cites the exact source, turns answers into actions and provides a signed receipt for every result IDZ today announced the launch of MetaCortex, a privacy-first AI workspace built… Read more: IDZ Announced the Launch of MetaCortex - Zettabyte Announced the Launch of Model-as-a-Service on zCLOUD
zCLOUD delivers Model-as-a-Service (MaaS), hosting open-weight and open-source models such as Kimi, GLM, Llama, GPT-OSS, Gemma, and Qwen on Zettabyte’s GPUs and making them available through a single API. Offers open-weight and open-source models through… Read more: Zettabyte Announced the Launch of Model-as-a-Service on zCLOUD - Atomicwork and New Measure Launch ITSMBench
Open-source benchmark shows that even the best-performing model completes only 50.56% of requests typically encountered by Enterprise IT service teams. Atomicwork, the enterprise ITSM and ESM platform with an AI workforce to run it, and New… Read more: Atomicwork and New Measure Launch ITSMBench - 1842 Studio Announced the Launch of Suvi Health
Experienced digital health executive Kelly Benning joins as CEO and Co-Founder Suvi Health announced today the launch of their Ambient AI Care Coordination Platform to bring clarity, compassion and continuity to patients’ hospital stays. The company… Read more: 1842 Studio Announced the Launch of Suvi Health - Ubie Smart Support Now Qualified on Leading Healthcare Platform
The qualified patient access solution for US health systems applies clinical reasoning at the front door to assess, route, and resolve interactions across calls, web chat, and patient portal messages Ubie, a healthcare AI company… Read more: Ubie Smart Support Now Qualified on Leading Healthcare Platform - Everspin Technologies Appoints Vikas Choudhary to BOD
Semiconductor executive brings more than 30 years of experience and a buyer-side perspective on data center and AI infrastructure Everspin Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory… Read more: Everspin Technologies Appoints Vikas Choudhary to BOD - Mindgard Raises $30M Series A to Advance AI Cybersecurity
The AI security startup’s technology has discovered over 150 publicly disclosed high-impact vulnerabilities in popular AI applications including OpenAI, Google, and Cursor Mindgard, the leader in AI security, announced today that it has closed a… Read more: Mindgard Raises $30M Series A to Advance AI Cybersecurity - Deepgram Announed the Launch of Conversation-Native Speech
Flux TTS, the newest model in Deepgram’s Flux family, brings conversation-native speech to enterprise voice agents in production as voice becomes the preferred interface for AI and the company surpasses $100M in ARR As voice… Read more: Deepgram Announed the Launch of Conversation-Native Speech - Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In
Behold the final boss of tech-brained overprotective dads. Worried about his son talking to strangers on Roblox, he used AI to create a clone of the game so he could construct a false reality where… Read more: Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In - Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them
A person representing themselves in a Connecticut court hid a series of instructions designed to manipulate artificial intelligence in an official court filing. These “prompt injections” told the hypothetical LLM to side with them, and… Read more: Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them - Why AI training can backfire for older workers
Employers are increasingly investing in training to prepare their employees for artificial intelligence (AI). Training budgets are growing, and “upskilling” has become a common response to rapid technological change. AI adoption has moved quickly. In… Read more: Why AI training can backfire for older workers - An AI agent for all? Try using your brain, Mark Zuckerberg | Brief letters
Meta AI | Future Guardian writers and Neets | Food for thought | Plants surviving the heat | Living and dying well Your article (Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model,… Read more: An AI agent for all? Try using your brain, Mark Zuckerberg | Brief letters - College Kids Are Using AI Agents to “Take” Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software
With the rise of agentic models, why stop at using chatbots to look up answers? Some students are directing AI agents to “take” entire online courses for them, letting the software run in the background… Read more: College Kids Are Using AI Agents to “Take” Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software - Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are
We bring you this dispatch from the AI slop dungeon known as Facebook: fake, AI-generated podcast bros are currently racking up views on Mark Zuckerberg’s first social network by doling out “relationship advice,” mostly in… Read more: Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are - We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Solar storms, like the one in August 1972 that hit during the gap between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions, throw bursts of protons intense enough to raise an astronaut’s cancer risk or even… Read more: We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked - Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Anthropic investors expect the AI startup to float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make the AI lab’s debut the largest-ever initial public… Read more: Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public - Rivian’s 2027 changes include its No. 1 most-requested feature
It’s time for Rivian’s changeover from model year 2026 to 2027, and the electric vehicle startup has decided to take a page from its recently released R2 SUV and apply it to the company’s larger,… Read more: Rivian’s 2027 changes include its No. 1 most-requested feature - England and Wales Courts Ban Meta Smart Glasses Over Recording Risks
Courts in England and Wales will hold Meta smart glasses at entry amid recording concerns, adding to scrutiny of camera-equipped wearables. The post England and Wales Courts Ban Meta Smart Glasses Over Recording Risks appeared… Read more: England and Wales Courts Ban Meta Smart Glasses Over Recording Risks - Nobody wants another chatbot: 7 interface architectures worth building
Ask any AI engineer what ships fastest to a demo and slowest to production, and the honest answer is almost always the interface, ahead of the model, the retrieval pipeline, or the eval harness. A… Read more: Nobody wants another chatbot: 7 interface architectures worth building - Medical Startup Selling Prescription Kit for Nuclear Disaster
A telehealth startup is selling $345 emergency kits packed with medicine that it claims could help people survive nuclear disasters. Amble Health’s “Oh Sh*T Kit” comes with iodine tablets, Prussian blue pills for removing radioactive… Read more: Medical Startup Selling Prescription Kit for Nuclear Disaster - Pixel 11 AI Features: Google’s Biggest Gemini Push Yet
Google’s Pixel 11 adds proactive Gemini tools, live translation and AI camera features. Here’s what buyers should know about limits and pricing. The post Pixel 11 AI Features: Google’s Biggest Gemini Push Yet appeared first… Read more: Pixel 11 AI Features: Google’s Biggest Gemini Push Yet - An AI agent spent your money – can anyone prove you authorized it?
What happens if your bot buys something you didn’t tell it to? mevans/E+ via Getty Images You tell an artificial intelligence agent, an AI capable of autonomous reasoning and multistep actions, “Find me a shirt… Read more: An AI agent spent your money – can anyone prove you authorized it? - A Farmer Trusted AI’s Advice. It Cost Him 25 Acres of Crops
A Chinese farmer reportedly lost nearly 25 acres of sesame after following AI pesticide advice, highlighting the risks of trusting chatbot recommendations. The post A Farmer Trusted AI’s Advice. It Cost Him 25 Acres of… Read more: A Farmer Trusted AI’s Advice. It Cost Him 25 Acres of Crops - Claude’s new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now
Anthropic has revealed that it will soon watermark content that is processed (not just generated!) by any of its models. In a support article, Anthropic explained that it was rolling out machine-readable watermarks to comply… Read more: Claude’s new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now - Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it?
It’s a nice sentiment, but all AI users should ask three questions about their preferred choice of AI platform On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay, The Future Is for Everyone. The essay came… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? - Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich
The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future? Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July,… Read more: Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich - Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping
Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI agent can include schemas, names, descriptions and parameters for every tool exposed by… Read more: Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping - There’s a Fatty Liver Epidemic. AI Could Help Get Ahead of It
Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers think AI tools can spot the condition—and help stop it—early enough to save lives. - ‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?
Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a button This year, the… Read more: ‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music? - Make announced the introduction of Maia by Make
Make, the visual automation platform, today announced the launch of Maia, a conversational co-worker for AI and automation. Maia enables users to build automations and AI agents using natural language while showing every step of… Read more: Make announced the introduction of Maia by Make - Only 5% of Employees See Productivity Gains From GenAI
NROC Security USA, an innovative AI security company focused on effectiveness of employee use of Generative AI apps, has published its latest quarterly research. It reveals that few employees in businesses are using GenAI effectively… Read more: Only 5% of Employees See Productivity Gains From GenAI - Vinh Nguyen Joins Innovation Labs Advisory Council
Appointment expands Innovation Labs’ coalition of leaders advancing durable identity as foundational infrastructure for trustworthy AI Innovation Labs, a division of Identity Digital focused on building the accountability infrastructure for AI agents, today announced that… Read more: Vinh Nguyen Joins Innovation Labs Advisory Council - Vertical AI pushes infrastructure beyond one-size-fits-all
While infrastructure requirements may be commonly shared in enterprise IT, the path for AI deployment can vary significantly depending on the organization. Healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications and public sector organizations bring unique data, governance… Read more: Vertical AI pushes infrastructure beyond one-size-fits-all - Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the Neo4j GraphTalk event
Graph intelligence is fast becoming the enterprise’s missing connective tissue — the knowledge layer that lets models move from clever prototypes to reliable, decision‑grade systems. By preserving relationships across fragmented data, it gives artificial intelligence… Read more: Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the Neo4j GraphTalk event - Google launches five new Pixel devices, array of Gemini Intelligence features
Google LLC today expanded its Pixel consumer hardware line with a foldable handset, three smartphones and a smartwatch. The devices will ship with an upgraded version of the company’s Gemini Intelligence software. It’s a set… Read more: Google launches five new Pixel devices, array of Gemini Intelligence features - Vibe coding startup Lovable doubles valuation to $13.3B with $400M raise
Lovable Labs Inc. said today it has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The Swedish artificial intelligence coding startup was worth $6.6 billion in December. The company sells a… Read more: Vibe coding startup Lovable doubles valuation to $13.3B with $400M raise - Skan AI raises $63M to give AI agents a map of enterprise work
Process intelligence company Skan AI said today it raised $63 million in a Series C round to help further develop a platform that records how enterprise work actually gets done and feeds that record to… Read more: Skan AI raises $63M to give AI agents a map of enterprise work - Nebius shares jump 34% on continued AI infrastructure demand
Shares of Nebius Group NV closed 34% higher today after it reported second-quarter earnings that topped expectations across the board. The Netherlands-based company operates a cloud platform optimized for artificial intelligence workloads. It also has… Read more: Nebius shares jump 34% on continued AI infrastructure demand - SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities
SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. SpaceXAI was known as xAI until last month. The Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence… Read more: SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities - Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack
Taiwan’s statement comes a day after reports that suspected China-linked hackers had carried out a first-of-a-kind breach Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyber-attacks on government agencies that came from overseas last month, a new kind… Read more: Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack - The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
AI companies’ penchant for scraping through large swathes of the public web in search of valuable training data has already led to lawsuits and technical fixes aimed at stopping the practice. Now, a pair of… Read more: The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font - Toddler’s tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
A healthy toddler in Washington state fell ill abruptly. It began with vomiting, lethargy, and weakness on his right side. Then it progressed to a headache, fever, and trouble swallowing. At one point, he briefly… Read more: Toddler’s tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors - San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosion
New owner is said to be involved in AI industry, as new class of multimillionaires is entering the real estate race A luxury Lake Como-inspired estate in the San Francisco Bay Area has sold to… Read more: San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosion - US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
Hundreds of US government drones have switched from border surveillance to a different surveillance mission this summer—looking for signs of screwworm infestations in wild animals and livestock herds. The flesh-eating New World Screwworm is the… Read more: US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas - Trump sued over “brazen” scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
President Trump was sued by nonprofit news groups today over Truth Social’s “Truth API” that sells real-time access to posts from Trump and other top users of the social network. Trump is profiting from selling… Read more: Trump sued over “brazen” scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month - Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content models.” The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company executive confirmed… Read more: Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now - Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons predicted by quantum theory. The results appeared… Read more: Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
