Meta Platforms Inc. says it has more or less caught up with the biggest artificial intelligence labs with the release of its most powerful large language model so far, Muse Spark 1.3. The company said… Read more: Meta says it has caught up with Anthropic and OpenAI with Muse Spark 1.3, its most powerful AI model yet

Snowflake Inc. crushed the market’s expectations as it delivered solid second-quarter financial results today, before raising its outlook for the fiscal year. The results, which come in the wake of strong reports by Salesforce Inc.… Read more: Snowflake knocks it out the park with a stellar earnings and revenue beat

The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.

Three weeks after its last large language model release, Google LLC today launched Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber. The two LLMs are based on the same technical foundation. The primary difference is… Read more: Google launches two Gemini 3.8 models with cutting-edge reasoning capabilities

The Federal Communications Commission today said it will create a robocall mitigation scorecard to rate phone companies on how effectively they block illegal spam calls. The scorecards could include call-blocking statistics along with data on… Read more: FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking

Not long ago, I rented an SUV from a well-known car rental company. Within hours of an employee scanning my driver’s license, a high-resolution scan of my ID was available for sale on the dark… Read more: I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a stopgap measure that would continue funding the US government through early December. While the measure still requires the signature of President Trump, it’s widely expected that he… Read more: Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants

Frontier artificial intelligence research is moving into security operations, and the arrival of a cyber superintelligence lab at one of the industry’s largest platform companies marks how far that shift has traveled. The question is… Read more: Frontier AI research moves into cyber defense as attackers gain speed

The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM,… Read more: From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

Artificial intelligence agent startup Wonderful AI BV today announced that it has raised $550 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Insight Partners, which was also the headline backer of the company’s… Read more: Wonderful raises $550M at $5B valuation for its AI automation platform

The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensation The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in ⁠a lawsuit against the New York Times, arguing in favor… Read more: Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times

Five Singapore firms account for 98% of Southeast Asia’s data-center equity funding as new cloud and AI capacity spreads across the region. The post Five Singapore Firms Account for 98% of Southeast Asia Data Center… Read more: Five Singapore Firms Account for 98% of Southeast Asia Data Center Funding as Build-Out Spreads

Dyson’s CameraJet toothbrush uses a built-in camera and machine learning to detect gaps between teeth and automatically target them during cleaning. The post Dyson Put a Camera in a $499 Toothbrush: Here’s What It Does… Read more: Dyson Put a Camera in a $499 Toothbrush: Here’s What It Does

OpenAI is backing California SB 1119, which would require age checks, safety protections, and audits for AI companion chatbots used by minors. The post OpenAI Backs California Bill Requiring Age Checks and Safety Audits for… Read more: OpenAI Backs California Bill Requiring Age Checks and Safety Audits for Teen AI

Google Pics is rolling out to eligible Workspace customers with AI image generation, editing tools, and admin controls enabled by default. The post Google Pics Rolls Out to Workspace With Default-On AI Image Tools appeared… Read more: Google Pics Rolls Out to Workspace With Default-On AI Image Tools

Four federal agencies have been sued amid calls to release information about the secret framework that the Trump administration uses to conduct safety reviews of frontier AI models prior to release. In a Wednesday press… Read more: Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing

Google hasn’t released a frontier-level Gemini Pro AI model since early 2026, but it sure loves rolling out new Gemini Flash variants. Today, Google is announcing its third Flash model release in just six weeks,… Read more: Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks

NASA has decided to use a simpler spacesuit for its initial missions to the lunar surface, Ars has learned. The agency announced the decision during an internal meeting this week as it seeks to accelerate… Read more: Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design

A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.

Judge declines to make Google sell AdX in win for firm against US antitrust enforcers’ attempts to break up big tech Alphabet’s Google escaped a breakup of its advertising technology business on Wednesday, when a… Read more: Google defeats US justice department bid to force ad tech sale

The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others’ intellectual property is fair use.

An island that appeared to suddenly materialize, then vanish, on Williston Lake in British Columbia over the summer was rediscovered on the massive reservoir on Monday.  Once you’ve taken that all in, let’s ask the… Read more: How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?

Data has become the fuel for artificial intelligence, and the largest untapped reserve to power AI is unstructured data. Industry estimates cited by theCUBE Research indicate that more than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured,… Read more: Storage leaders target AI’s unstructured data challenge

Identity security has always worked the same way: log in once, get trusted until you log out. That model breaks down the moment an AI agent does the logging in, since an agent can call… Read more: Continuous identity becomes the new front line for AI agents: theCUBE’s Fal.Con 2026 day two keynote analysis

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Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at… Read more: Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions

The Texas sheriff’s office that used Flock to search more than 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion used Axon’s Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about… Read more: Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

Yesterday a16z published an article in which NYU Professor of Design, AI and Media Theory Ruby Thelot argued that “enshittification,” or the concept that technology platforms get worse after they lock in users, isn’t real.… Read more: A16z Says You Actually Love Social Media, Enshittification Isn’t Real

We seem to be caught in a loop that AI will either save or ruin democracy. At one extreme, politics scholar David Altman worries that artificial intelligence is leading the world toward an “AI-driven political… Read more: Will AI save or ruin democracy? It depends on whether we allow computers to stand in for people

A US federal judge has sided with Google, ruling that the company will not have to sell its online advertising exchange (previously known as AdX). The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sought this remedy in… Read more: US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.

The AI control plane is emerging as the next contested layer of enterprise security, as autonomous agents spread across endpoints, cloud workloads and identity systems faster than most organizations can inventory them. A year of… Read more: Security stops being a layer in the stack and starts governing the AI economy

Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or… Read more: System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

Teachers and parents have warned against AI use in schools over concerns of ‘cognitive surrender’ New York City will ban students’ use of artificial intelligence in public schools through eighth grade, typically age 13 or… Read more: New York City to ban student AI use in public schools until high school

Landmark lawsuit claims tech company’s pay-setting system has breached privacy laws and pushed down earnings Uber drivers have launched a landmark legal action against the ride-hailing company claiming they live in “constant fear” of a… Read more: Uber drivers launch European class action over ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithm

Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Mythos AI model made headlines when it was caught infiltrating third party systems, a cybersecurity nightmare years in the making. The company warned in April that the model had escaped a… Read more: Anthropic Deliberately Trained an Extremely Misaligned, Reward-Seeking AI and It Did Some REALLY Bad Things

This week, the US Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were “posing a physical threat to US military personnel and CBP partners,”… Read more: The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones

A meter-long scorpion with massive pincers stalked ancient Britain 415 million years ago, long before forests and the better-known age of giant insects. Its surprising size and possible semi-aquatic lifestyle could reshape ideas about how… Read more: A coffee-table-size scorpion roamed Earth before forests existed

Brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s may begin at least seven years before amyloid plaques become detectable with current PET scans. Researchers uncovered the signal by tracking healthy older adults with repeated brain imaging over nearly… Read more: Alzheimer’s may leave a mark on the brain long before plaques appear

Persistent financial hardship in early and middle adulthood was linked to poorer thinking skills by the 50s and more signs of brain aging later in life. Researchers say years of chronic stress and financial worry… Read more: Money problems may age your brain faster

The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyama was also the first commercially sponsored cosmonaut and the world’s first journalist to file reports while on a spaceflight. Akiyama, 84, died last Wednesday, August… Read more: Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84

Solar sails pushed by powerful lasers could reach incredible speeds, but relativity may eventually make the light itself work against them. At around 75% of the speed of light, scattered photons can begin creating drag,… Read more: Interstellar solar sails hit a strange problem at 75% of light speed

There’s a burning question on the minds of those about to attend one of the world’s most iconic festivals this summer: how should they deal with Meta smart glasses? As controversy around the gadgets grows,… Read more: Burning Man Has a Meta AI Glasses Problem

Guardian Australia’s reporting on AI-generated content in inquiries has highlighted its dangers, politicians say Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Chairs of key federal parliamentary committees have warned that an… Read more: Canberra ‘put on notice’ as AI-generated submissions bring false information into parliamentary inquiries

Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, posted an AI-generated video imagining New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul hanging out, bizarrely gardening together, riding bikes, and vaguely colluding about… Read more: The Republican Nominee for New York Governor Made a Creepy, AI-Generated Video of Mamdani and Hochul

Two Illinois customers allege Walmart created voiceprints from service calls without obtaining consent required under the state’s biometric privacy law. The post Walmart Accused of Creating Voiceprints From Customer Service Calls appeared first on TechRepublic.

Instagram will limit recommendations for AI-generated influencer profiles that fail to disclose their synthetic identities under a new labeling policy. The post Instagram Cracks Down on AI Influencers That Pretend to Be Real appeared first… Read more: Instagram Cracks Down on AI Influencers That Pretend to Be Real

Axon says cops are asking it to make its automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) look different from Flock cameras because Flock vandalism has become so widespread, according to comments Axon’s CEO made in a now… Read more: Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don’t Destroy Them

Last month, Google updated its home page to replace its iconic “Search” button with various AI features. The move was the latest sign of the tech giant succumbing to the draw of AI that remains… Read more: Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims

The company says it prioritizes safety, but suits allege its ChatGPT bot induced shooter to carry out attack in Canada OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass… Read more: Tumbler Ridge mass shooting victims file 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI

We would like to hear from people who live in an area where there are plans for AI datacentres to be built – or who already live near one The Scottish National Party and the… Read more: Tell us: do you live near the site of a planned AI datacentre in the UK?

Lack of information raises fears over environmental impact of the AI boom UK politics live – latest updates The UK government does not know what the country’s datacentres are being used for despite fears over… Read more: UK government does not know what datacentres are being used for, FoI request shows

Somewhere in your company right now, someone in marketing is running a workflow through an AI tool that IT has yet to discover. Somewhere else, a developer just added a second coding assistant because the… Read more: Your company runs 23 AI tools. Which ones work?

ZeroDrift Inc., a startup that automates compliance for artificial intelligence communications, today introduced Guard for Agents, a service that lets developers turn written company policies into enforceable rules to check AI agents’ communications before they… Read more: ZeroDrift launches service to check agent-generated messages against company policies

Hackers carried out a supply chain attack that installed malware on networks using an unusual technique: hijacking a chunk of Internet space where cloud management software used by hosting providers, data centers, and other large… Read more: BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all

Russia’s attempt to replicate SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network seems to be moving as slowly as the front lines in eastern Ukraine. The Rassvet program, often billed as Russia’s answer to Starlink, started launching its first… Read more: Is Russia’s rival to Starlink failing? Here’s what we know.

An ongoing class action lawsuit against Meta, which accuses the tech giant of misrepresenting its privacy practices regarding its controversial Meta AI Glasses, was amended yesterday to include a new class of “bystander” plaintiffs who… Read more: Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of “Millions” of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit

We start this week with Emanuel’s follow-up to his Amazon book scanning story, in which he spoke to someone who worked in the Amazon warehouse which destroys books to train Amazon’s AI products. After the… Read more: Podcast: We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI

As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to cleanup its mistakes rather than create original work Lisa, a freelance graphic designer based in Spain, noticed a shift in her work after the release… Read more: Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

More than a century ago, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung made introversion and extraversion central to his theory of psychological types. Today, we tend to use “introvert” and “extrovert” as shorthand for how sociable someone… Read more: Whether you’re an introvert or extravert may decide how you should use AI

The company is expanding its team to meet surging demand from leading inference companies and data centers, and to bring its AI-native multicluster operating system to every team running GPUs at scale. Some of the… Read more: Aranya Secures $11M to Build AI Clusters in 48 Hours

Leading Salesforce partner Trifecta Technologies expands its AI portfolio with Anthropic services to help organizations deploy Claude, modernize workflows, and turn AI opportunities into measurable business outcomes. Trifecta Technologies, a top-rated Salesforce partner, has announced… Read more: Trifecta Technologies Expands AI With Anthropic Partnership

Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond.

Powered by the industry’s broadest operational data foundation, Eptura AI helps organizations reduce costs, improve reliability, and make faster decisions Eptura today announced an expansion of Eptura AI, the industry’s most comprehensive suite of AI… Read more: Eptura Expands AI Platform to Turn Operational Data Into Performance

Autonomous, explainable AI executes the coding and revenue cycle work behind every claim, inside the provider’s own AWS environment. Penguin Ai, a healthcare-native artificial intelligence company, today announced that its Intelligent Medical Coding and Intelligent… Read more: Penguin Ai Launches Intelligent Medical Coding and RCM in AWS Marketplace

New solution brings enterprise visibility, runtime control and accountability to Claude and other personal AI agents Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world’s largest enterprises, today announced an end-to-end approach that… Read more: Ping Identity Secures Claude Personal Agents With Secure Access

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky Way and the violent superflares of its youth. Those events may help explain ancient ice ages… Read more: Earth may have lost the Sun’s protective shield millions of years ago

A search for one mysterious particle unexpectedly revealed evidence for two different structures that may belong to the bizarre family of exotic subatomic particles known as XYZ states. The findings could help physicists uncover new… Read more: A search for one exotic particle uncovered two strange new structures

In today’s newsletter: Communities from Scotland to India are pushing back against datacentres they feel have been forced upon them, warning they threaten energy supplies and the climate Good morning. This summer, datacentres have become… Read more: Wednesday briefing: ​What’s behind the global backlash against datacentres?

Hundreds of university staff were stationed at picket lines, calling for stronger protections around the use of AI Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or… Read more: ‘We have had enough’: thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job security

Following nearly 10,000 older women for 10 years, researchers found that tea drinking was associated with slightly higher hip bone density. Moderate coffee consumption did not appear harmful, but drinking more than five cups a… Read more: Too much coffee may weaken bones, study finds

World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which promises to be a game-changer in the world of “world models.”… Read more: Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs debuts Atlas, a world model showcase for advanced spatial intelligence

Matt Clifford, who drafted AI action plan and advised Starmer and Sunak, hired for senior role at US firm The architect of the UK government’s AI strategy has joined the US startup Anthropic in a… Read more: Architect of British government’s AI strategy joins Anthropic

‘Pervert glasses’ are selling out, tick-a-box consent is broken and the spectre of surveillance is invading all aspects of our lives Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A mere five… Read more: Tech giants are trying to obliterate privacy. Australia has a rare chance to take back part of their power | Lizzie O’Shea

Database company MongoDB Inc. crushed Wall Street’s forecasts as it delivered its second-quarter financial results today and followed up with strong guidance for the current quarter and even raised its full-year outlook. But if anyone… Read more: MongoDB delivers stellar earnings and revenue beat, but its stock tanks anyway

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through… Read more: Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Jaguar Land Rover provided flights from Washington, DC, to London and accommodation so Ars could visit its factory and drive the Range Rover Electric. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Jaguar Land Rover was… Read more: Here’s our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric

Walter Geiersperger/Getty Images Imagine overhearing on a bus that the city council plans to implement new restrictions under an urban planning program called “15-minute cities”. Curious, you search the term on Google. It’s likely that… Read more: Google’s AI overviews reinforce some conspiracy theories – new research

The agentic AI attack surface is less a matter of new territory than of new velocity, as autonomous software now reads, writes and moves corporate content faster than any human adversary could. That shift is… Read more: When agents move at machine speed, security teams lose their lag time

Walter Torous, senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development Program (MSRED), was recently named… Read more: Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

Anthropic PBC today debuted Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most capable large language models to date. The launch comes a day after the company inked a $35 billion infrastructure deal with cloud… Read more: Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 after inking $35B cloud deal with Lambda

Anthropic reportedly signed a $35 billion Lambda cloud deal tied to a Texas data center leased by Nvidia and developed by Hut 8 for Claude computing capacity. The post Anthropic’s Reported $35B Lambda Deal Puts… Read more: Anthropic’s Reported $35B Lambda Deal Puts Nvidia at the Center

Chinese state media accused Anthropic of AI double standards as planned US-China talks could shape model access, monitoring, and enterprise deployment. The post Chinese State Media Accuses Anthropic of AI Double Standards appeared first on… Read more: Chinese State Media Accuses Anthropic of AI Double Standards

The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.

Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m The top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial… Read more: Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm

Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the new Supersports and ride in a preproduction Torcal EV, which we wrote about last week. While we were there,… Read more: This is what a supercar was like a century ago

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon yesterday, alleging that it has conducted a secret scheme to overcharge advertisers for seven years. “Since 2019, Amazon.com, Inc. has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately… Read more: FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions

Let’s be frank: Some of Google’s recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions. The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but… Read more: New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data. The move publicly challenges the accuracy of the… Read more: CDC reported then deleted two measles deaths that were questioned by RFK Jr.

For years, security teams measured their odds by “breakout time,” the minutes an attacker needs to move from initial foothold to lateral movement. That clock used to run in hours; at this week’s CrowdStrike keynote,… Read more: Breakout time hits zero as CrowdStrike unveils autonomous red teaming: theCUBE’s Fal.Con 2026 day one keynote analysis

Decades of research on processing fluency show that the easier information is to take in, the truer it feels. (Piqsels) Sometime this week, you probably did it: A question came up, and instead of searching… Read more: Why do we trust chatbots and how can we use them more wisely? A psychologist explains

President Donald Trump sowed a fair bit of confusion after posting not one but two AI-generated videos of a supposed US strike on Iran’s Kharg Island. Trump, as it turned out, was simply hallucinating a… Read more: US Military in Chaos as Trump Shares AI Video of Nonexistent Attack on Iran

Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. The ablative heat shield, designed… Read more: It turns out that Orion’s much-maligned heat shield performed really well

An Oregon man falsely posing as a professional football player and his young accomplice scammed roughly $1.3 million out of at least 26 women across four states, the FBI alleges. The duo’s efforts to bolster… Read more: Man Used Poisoned Google AI Overviews to Trick Women Into Thinking He Was an NFL Player, FBI Says

AI datacentres are almost universally unpopular. They are loud, unsightly and drain environmental resources, with most of the profits generated flowing back to the US companies that build them – and the statistics against them are… Read more: Why does everyone hate datacentres?

Snowflake’s highest partner tier, earned on enterprise data and AI delivered at production scale. OneSix, an enterprise data and AI services firm, today announced it has reached Elite tier in the Snowflake Partner Network, the… Read more: OneSix Rises to Snowflake Elite Partner Status

Company achieves investment grade ratings on both facilities Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, today announced the closing of approximately $3 billion in aggregate commitments across two senior secured delayed draw term loan facilities (“DDTLs”),… Read more: Nscale Closes Approx. $3Bn Fuunding for Ward County, Texas and Madison County

Phonely Ltd. today announced the launch of Alma, a large language artificial intelligence model built for voice agents, trained on over 10 million real phone conversations. The company said that many AI models driving voice… Read more: Phonely launches Alma, a voice AI model trained on over 10 million phone conversations

Survey of IT and Security Leaders Reveals Standing Permissions and Delayed Authorization Checks, Not Just Identity Gaps, Are Driving Agentic AI Risk Nearly every enterprise believes its AI agents are properly scoped. Only a third… Read more: Cequence, EMA: 94% Trust AI Agents Aren’t Over-Provisioned

It’s no secret that AI is becoming increasingly unpopular around the world, as the tech’s garbled output has become impossible for the average person to avoid. For a rising cohort of workers, AI is also… Read more: Employees Absolutely Loath AI in the Workplace, Survey Finds