
- Mistral launches open-source Mistral Large 4, details AI roadmap
Mistral AI SAS today opened access to Mistral Large 4, its most capable large language model to date. On launch, the LLM is available in public preview through the company’s cloud platform. Mistral plans to… Read more: Mistral launches open-source Mistral Large 4, details AI roadmap - Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware
As artificial intelligence transforms industries and national security, understanding the latest hardware capabilities is important for maintainind technological advantage. AI accelerators — specialized systems designed to speed up capabilities such as neural networks, deep learning,… Read more: Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware - Transforming the data path: Dell’s new releases move enterprises closer to the agentic data center
AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions to models that can reason. Now models are powering the agentic era, and Dell Technologies Inc. has announced several extensions to its AI Data Platform… Read more: Transforming the data path: Dell’s new releases move enterprises closer to the agentic data center - Cline Bot makes the case for an open AI coding harness
Open-weight models keep multiplying, and the AI coding harness around them is becoming just as important to get right. Developers and enterprises are trading off cost against capability. The harness helps translate a model’s capabilities… Read more: Cline Bot makes the case for an open AI coding harness - Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried “Undue Emotional Weight”
A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. An… Read more: Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried “Undue Emotional Weight” - Three key insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the Supermicro Open Storage Summit interview series
AI storage strategy is taking on a larger role as enterprises move from successful experiments to systems that must deliver dependable business results. How organizations store, serve and manage data increasingly shapes the performance, cost… Read more: Three key insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the Supermicro Open Storage Summit interview series - CoreWeave targets GPU utilization in continuous AI post-training
GPU utilization during post-training depends partly on how efficiently infrastructure moves data and loads updated models. As enterprises continually refine AI agents, reducing delays between training rounds can help keep that process moving. The need… Read more: CoreWeave targets GPU utilization in continuous AI post-training - Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying
AI has turned the act of looking for a job into an abysmal and endless source of frustration. Applicants are using the tech to stuff keywords into their resumes and cover letters, while generating a… Read more: Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying - Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?
As a flight director during NASA’s Apollo missions, Gerry Griffin led several lunar landings. He helped bring the crew of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. Later, he directed Johnson Space Center in Houston. Through… Read more: Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants? - Googlebook “Better Together” phone features don’t work with Samsung at launch
Googlebooks are Google’s latest attempt to carve out a piece of the premium laptop market, and tight integration with Android phones is a key part of that effort. Now that Googlebooks are available, we’re learning… Read more: Googlebook “Better Together” phone features don’t work with Samsung at launch - Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
Francis Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”… Read more: Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize - Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers’ AUX input
Amazon has disabled Alexa control of devices plugged into the company’s Echo smart speaker’s AUX port. Users have reported receiving an email from Amazon this week informing them of the change. “This is a reminder… Read more: Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers’ AUX input - Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return
When Ars launched in 1998, there was one way to read it: in a web browser on a PC (or Mac). Your screen of choice was either some massive CRT or a very expensive LCD… Read more: Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return - AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed
A reported leak of 13,000 screenshots shows how AI agents can bypass weak approval and audit controls even when organizations have written policies. The post AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed… Read more: AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed - Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth
Paramount Skydance completed its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery today, after a last-ditch effort to block the deal was rejected by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The post-merger company is called Skydance, taking… Read more: Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth - ‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness. - MasterClass bets AI teaching agents can broaden access to tutoring
AI teaching agents could make personalized instruction available to more learners by reducing the cost and staffing demands of one-to-one tutoring. MasterClass is exploring that potential through a system designed to adapt to how each… Read more: MasterClass bets AI teaching agents can broaden access to tutoring - Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family
Meta’s new AI agent Muse might come with a cutesy new mascot, but under its fuzzy exterior lies a vast surveillance network under the control of one of the world’s most powerful — and least… Read more: Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family - Meta’s AI Helped Tackle Unsolved Math Through a Regular Chat Window
Meta says Muse Spark helped researchers answer five open math questions through its regular chat interface, with experts guiding and checking the work. The post Meta’s AI Helped Tackle Unsolved Math Through a Regular Chat… Read more: Meta’s AI Helped Tackle Unsolved Math Through a Regular Chat Window - OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems. - Teenage AI Meat Proxy Stranded on “Widowmaker” Mountain After Following AI Instructions
Hikers keep getting stranded after consulting AI chatbots for potentially life-saving — or life-threatening — advice. Just last month, three outdoor enthusiasts had to be rescued by Forest Service rangers in California’s Cascade Range after… Read more: Teenage AI Meat Proxy Stranded on “Widowmaker” Mountain After Following AI Instructions - Vida Announced the Introduction of Outcome-Based Billing for AI Agents
New Pricing Model Charges Businesses for Results, Not Usage Vida Global Inc. (NYSE American: VIDA), an AI agent operating system for businesses, today introduced outcome-based billing for digital employees, a new pricing model that charges… Read more: Vida Announced the Introduction of Outcome-Based Billing for AI Agents - Vast uses tiered storage to ease AI agent memory demands
AI agent memory is creating new demands on infrastructure as agents run longer sessions and spread across the enterprise. Retaining that context and making it available when needed puts pressure on memory capacity and data… Read more: Vast uses tiered storage to ease AI agent memory demands - OpenAI Publicist Tries to Shut Down Interviewer When Sam Altman Is Asked About Woman Who Killed Herself After Talking to ChatGPT
A Vanity Fair interview with Sam Altman nearly went sideways when the OpenAI CEO was confronted about a suicide linked with ChatGPT. In the interview published Monday, Mark Guiducci, an editor with the magazine, asked… Read more: OpenAI Publicist Tries to Shut Down Interviewer When Sam Altman Is Asked About Woman Who Killed Herself After Talking to ChatGPT - Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters
Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests (OpenAI scraps release of… Read more: Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters - Artificial review – Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire
New York film festival: The origin story of Sam Altman’s company is reimagined as a campy comedy starring Andrew Garfield On the day that Luca Guadagnino’s film about Sam Altman and OpenAI premiered, Vanity Fair… Read more: Artificial review – Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire - Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries
Chris Bourg, who has served as director of the MIT Libraries since 2015, has been named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the Libraries, MIT Provost Anantha Chandrakasan announced today. “The title… Read more: Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries - How AI could help predict and explain water levels in the Great Lakes
In January 2013, Lake Michigan reached its lowest water level on record. Seven years later, in the summer of 2020, it broke the opposite record with widespread flooding, eroded shorelines and closed lakeside roads. The… Read more: How AI could help predict and explain water levels in the Great Lakes - Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker
OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences Tech bros’ messianic streaks can show up in subtle ways. But one of… Read more: Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker - 9 AI predictions for 2027 that belong in your planning deck.
Planning season has arrived, and the 2027 deck on your desk probably leans on assumptions from two budget cycles ago. Analyst forecasts published over the past year paint a sharper picture, and several land squarely… Read more: 9 AI predictions for 2027 that belong in your planning deck. - Tell us: do you use AI agents to manage your finances?
We would like to speak to people about their experience of using AI agents when dealing with their finances Following the release of Meta’s Muse and Open AI’s dots there’s now capacity for these AI… Read more: Tell us: do you use AI agents to manage your finances? - Best Wearable AI Note Takers for 2026: Plaud, SwitchBot, Omi and Vocci
Plaud NotePin S leads our wearable AI note taker picks, while SwitchBot, Omi, and Vocci offer cheaper, open-source, and ring-style alternatives. The post Best Wearable AI Note Takers for 2026: Plaud, SwitchBot, Omi and Vocci… Read more: Best Wearable AI Note Takers for 2026: Plaud, SwitchBot, Omi and Vocci - Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
The US Supreme Court heard arguments from oil companies on Monday that could help decide the fate of more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public about climate change. The claims… Read more: Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial - Florida Woman Arrested After Claude Flags Alleged Threat to Sheriff’s Office
A Florida woman was arrested after Anthropic’s Claude reportedly flagged an alleged threat, showing how AI safety systems can escalate chats to police. The post Florida Woman Arrested After Claude Flags Alleged Threat to Sheriff’s… Read more: Florida Woman Arrested After Claude Flags Alleged Threat to Sheriff’s Office - Best Robot Companions for 2026: Mirumi, Moflin, Loona, Ropet and Eilik
Moflin leads our robot companion picks, while Loona, Mirumi, Ropet KAMOMO, and Eilik offer mobile, wearable, customizable, and budget alternatives. The post Best Robot Companions for 2026: Mirumi, Moflin, Loona, Ropet and Eilik appeared first… Read more: Best Robot Companions for 2026: Mirumi, Moflin, Loona, Ropet and Eilik - NetApp aims to make legacy data AI-ready without a rebuild
Enterprises sitting on decades of legacy information face a pressing question as artificial intelligence moves from pilots to production: Can that archive become AI-ready data without a costly rebuild of the infrastructure underneath it? NetApp… Read more: NetApp aims to make legacy data AI-ready without a rebuild - Can you trust your workflow in production?
Moving an agentic workflow out of the pilot stage is where many enterprise AI programs stall. A workflow can look impressive in a demo and still fall short in production, and prompt-level testing alone rarely… Read more: Can you trust your workflow in production? - AIAI Berlin, 2026
Catch up on every session from AIAI Berlin with sessions from Lovable, Aleph Alpha, Bosch and more. - Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use
The “fair use” doctrine under the US Copyright Act of 1976 allows for copyrighted materials to be used for purposes like criticism, journalism, and research. Whether something is deemed fair use depends on several factors,… Read more: Court Finds That Using Copyrighted Material as AI Training Data Is Not Fair Use - MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country
MIT is launching a new strategic initiative today: MIT for America, which seeks to strengthen STEM education nationally, at many levels of learning. Addressing a critical national need, the initiative ranges across STEM fields and… Read more: MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country - Physicists just saw quarks make waves in the Big Bang’s primordial soup
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have captured the clearest evidence yet that quark-gluon plasma, the scorching-hot matter that filled the newborn universe, behaves like a true liquid. By tracking individual quarks as they blasted… Read more: Physicists just saw quarks make waves in the Big Bang’s primordial soup - Scientists say this simple habit could strengthen your marriage
Couples who exercise together report better communication, healthier conflict resolution, and lower marital stress than those who work out alone. Even something as simple as taking a walk together may create valuable opportunities to talk,… Read more: Scientists say this simple habit could strengthen your marriage - Archaeologists may have finally solved a 100-year-old Florida mystery
Ancient pottery from Tampa Bay appears to have been made by migrant craftspeople who brought specialized Mississippian pottery-making knowledge hundreds of miles south. Remarkably, they even incorporated crushed fragments of older homeland pottery into new… Read more: Archaeologists may have finally solved a 100-year-old Florida mystery - Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also helped prevent osteoarthritis… Read more: Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis - Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence. - Trump makes it clear his power is becoming entwined with AI
New alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence and AI companies are looming ominously Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves… Read more: Trump makes it clear his power is becoming entwined with AI - Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
Multiple Democrat, Republican, and Independent lawmakers have introduced new pieces of legislation that, if passed, would dramatically curb federal agencies’ access to Flock cameras, with the lawmakers referencing reporting by 404 Media in their explanations… Read more: Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage - Is this the end of the British school photo?
For generations, professional photographers have captured the country’s pupils in all their awkward glory. But an increasing number of parents are using AI to avoid paying them Name: School photos. Age: Around since Victorian times.… Read more: Is this the end of the British school photo? - Who owns ‘brain rot’?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme
Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that One of the most beloved characters in an absurdist genre of online video content… Read more: Who owns ‘brain rot’?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme - 404 @ 3
And 404’s Flock coverage cited in proposed legislation. - Adastra Expands Executive Team With Focus on Clients and Growth
Six leaders join Global CEO André Nadeau to guide the company’s next phase of growth, bringing experience across commercial leadership, delivery, finance, people and strategy. Adastra, a global AI and data company, today announced the… Read more: Adastra Expands Executive Team With Focus on Clients and Growth - SAS AI Navigator is now available to supercharge AI governance
Software-as-a-Service solution arrives on Microsoft Marketplace at a time when AI trust is at a premium SAS® AI Navigator is now available to help AI, data, compliance and risk leaders bring order to AI chaos. The… Read more: SAS AI Navigator is now available to supercharge AI governance - Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its “2026 IT Virtualization Survey – What’s Next for VMware Users.” The survey examined 300… Read more: Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey - OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure, in the latest instance of OpenAI… Read more: OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic - 6 questions that expose agent washing in any AI vendor demo
The demo ran perfectly. The agent fielded every question and handled every follow-up, staying calmer than most engineers during a Friday afternoon production rollback. That composure should have been your first warning sign, well before… Read more: 6 questions that expose agent washing in any AI vendor demo - Parents Are AI-Generating Pictures of Their Kids Instead of Paying for School Photos
Why shell out for the mundane headshots by a school photographer when you could supercharge your kids’ portrait with the power of AI? That’s a calculation more and more parents are making these days, choosing… Read more: Parents Are AI-Generating Pictures of Their Kids Instead of Paying for School Photos - What if your search agent’s biggest gains are just its proposer and solver cheating together?
CrossFit reduces false agreement in self-evolving search agents by changing which solver rewards the question proposer. In experiments with Qwen3.5-4B and Qwen3.5-9B, it lowers final-round false-agreement mass from 6.1% to 3.0% and from 8.8% to… Read more: What if your search agent’s biggest gains are just its proposer and solver cheating together? - Anaconda expands beyond Python with agent swarms and AI security testing
Artificial intelligence development firm Anaconda Inc. is enhancing its enterprise AI platform with tools to coordinate groups of AI agents, test their security and move applications into production. Today’s introductions continue the company’s expansion beyond… Read more: Anaconda expands beyond Python with agent swarms and AI security testing - Dell’s AI Data Platform gets a knowledge graph for agents and faster Nvidia processing
Dell Technologies Inc. today expanded the Dell AI Data Platform with a semantic layer and a knowledge graph intended to give artificial intelligence agents trusted context from a company’s own data. Dell is also speeding… Read more: Dell’s AI Data Platform gets a knowledge graph for agents and faster Nvidia processing - Remaking scents: could fragrance tech help take pressure off endangered plants?
Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical Many of the world’s most expensive perfumes begin with a wounded tree. When some Aquilaria trees are damaged, they produce a… Read more: Remaking scents: could fragrance tech help take pressure off endangered plants? - Antseed launches a decentralized marketplace for AI inference that dramatically lowers developer’s costs
Developers now have a much cheaper way to access cutting-edge artificial intelligence inference capabilities with the launch of Antseed today. It’s a new peer-to-peer marketplace that makes it possible to access almost any frontier model… Read more: Antseed launches a decentralized marketplace for AI inference that dramatically lowers developer’s costs - Precisely launches unified AI data platform and AI Studio library of agents and apps
Data management software company Precisely Software Inc. today introduced the Precisely Platform, a unified system designed to make enterprise data ready for artificial intelligence. Developers also get Precisely AI Studio, a library of ready-made AI… Read more: Precisely launches unified AI data platform and AI Studio library of agents and apps - Exclusive: Gamma ravamps presentation platform to make output look more human
Gamma Tech Inc., a maker of artificial intelligence-powered services for presentations, social media and websites, today introduced a rebuilt version of its platform designed to give presentations and other visual content more distinctive designs, while… Read more: Exclusive: Gamma ravamps presentation platform to make output look more human - SAP expands Joule into an agentic work layer as Autonomous Enterprise goes live
SAP SE today announced a shift from promising agentic artificial intelligence autonomy to defining a path for users to interact with agents for work outside apps, not just within them. During SAP Connect 2026, the… Read more: SAP expands Joule into an agentic work layer as Autonomous Enterprise goes live - Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech’s real great replacement | Jason Stanley
While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI Across the world, “great replacement” theory has been employed again and again as… Read more: Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech’s real great replacement | Jason Stanley - Keyfactor Appoints Matt Cohen to Board of Directors and Strategic Advisor
Appointment comes as Keyfactor closes $1B+ growth investment led by Summit Partners and accelerates its next phase of scale beyond $200 million in ARR Keyfactor, the leader in trust infrastructure for AI and machines, today… Read more: Keyfactor Appoints Matt Cohen to Board of Directors and Strategic Advisor - Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick… Read more: Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights - Nscale Appoints Tech Industry Veteran Justin Osofsky as COO
Nscale, the vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Justin Osofsky as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Osofsky will report directly to Founder and Chief Executive Officer Josh Payne and oversee Nscale’s global… Read more: Nscale Appoints Tech Industry Veteran Justin Osofsky as COO - Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI
The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.” - Misuse of AI is brands’ top reputational threat, new survey says
The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) is the top threat to… Read more: Misuse of AI is brands’ top reputational threat, new survey says - OpenAI delivers a mea culpa to the Australian government in person – but answers still elude
Jason Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner. For a company under intense scrutiny, there were no missteps Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to Sydney to… Read more: OpenAI delivers a mea culpa to the Australian government in person – but answers still elude - Barndoor Live Workshop
Thanks for registering Check your inbox, you’ll receive an email with your link to join. See you soon. - Palantir and Armada Partner to Accelerate Sovereign AI Infra
Partnership combines Armada’s Galleon modular data centers, the Armada Platform, and the Sovereign AI Grid with Palantir’s Sovereign AI Operating System, giving enterprises and governments a path to run and adapt open-weight models on infrastructure… Read more: Palantir and Armada Partner to Accelerate Sovereign AI Infra - AKASA Unveils First Autonomous AI Platform for Coding and Documentation
Company’s customer base represents 1 in 10 U.S. inpatient discharges as it launches the autonomous mid-cycle for both inpatient coding and clinical documentation in healthcare’s most complex and resource-intensive workflows AKASA, a leader in generative… Read more: AKASA Unveils First Autonomous AI Platform for Coding and Documentation - OpenAI admits misstep in handling AI agent interactions with Australian government sites – video
In a parliamentary inquiry, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon is questioned by independent senator David Pocock about the company’s notification process after OpenAI agents accessed Australian government website data in June. Asked why OpenAI… Read more: OpenAI admits misstep in handling AI agent interactions with Australian government sites – video - ‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot… Read more: ‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms - Anthropic says AI agents didn’t breach Australian government websites – video
During a joint parliamentary hearing on artificial intelligence, Anthropic’s head of safeguards, Dave Orr, says that investigations of hundreds of millions of transcripts reveal no unauthorised interactions with Australian government systems. However, Orr acknowledges Anthropic… Read more: Anthropic says AI agents didn’t breach Australian government websites – video - Utah gives startup Nolla Health permission to start issuing AI automated prescriptions for acne treatments
Utah has become the first state in the U.S. to give an artificial intelligence startup permission to automate the approval of prescription refills with only minimal oversight from human physicians. In a blog post today,… Read more: Utah gives startup Nolla Health permission to start issuing AI automated prescriptions for acne treatments - Signed data pioneer SignSplit launches with $400M to help everyone get paid for their AI contributions
Few technology companies can help users to protect and monetize their personal data for artificial intelligence as well as SignSplit PBC, it seems. That explains why it has already secured a massive $1 billion valuation… Read more: Signed data pioneer SignSplit launches with $400M to help everyone get paid for their AI contributions - AI agent hardware startup Ghost, led by its 19-year-old-founder, raises $11M
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Ghost AI said today it has raised $11 million in funding to build what it believes is the first personal computer that’s dedicated to running personal AI agents. The round was… Read more: AI agent hardware startup Ghost, led by its 19-year-old-founder, raises $11M - Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters
Reflection AI Inc. today introduced Beam, an open-source large language model with 501 billion parameters. The launch comes a few months after the startup raised funding at a $25 billion valuation. Around the same time,… Read more: Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters - Anthropic Reports User to the Police
With mounting pressure on AI labs to curb the many real-world harms their products cause consumers, it’s never been clearer that they’re monitoring users’ conversations. Just ask Carli Michelle Heller, a woman arrested in Bonita… Read more: Anthropic Reports User to the Police - OpenAI to reiterate apology to Australia over Medicare hack as inquiry told artists risk becoming ‘roadkill’
Company executive to acknowledge ‘more work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people’ as ABC says copyright laws do not need changing Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: OpenAI to reiterate apology to Australia over Medicare hack as inquiry told artists risk becoming ‘roadkill’ - Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users
With the release of Meta’s buzzy Muse AI agent, there’ve been plenty of concerns over the amount of privacy and control Meta wants you to cede so it can serve as your “personal assistant. It… Read more: Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users - MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
The adoption of AI agents in millions of organizations is creating new opportunities for attackers to make them take malicious actions, such as exfiltrating database contents and sensitive business and personal information. In the past… Read more: MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of - Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse
Meta’s platforms have become an abominable cesspit of AI slop, ranging from violent child abuse to ultra-patriotic engagement bait. We could go on and on about Meta’s dismal failure to moderate its platforms. More telling… Read more: Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse - NetApp’s Novus tackles metadata bottlenecks in AI data infrastructure
AI data infrastructure must support growing GPU clusters while making enterprise data usable for models and agents. NetApp Inc. is tying intelligent data infrastructure to production AI through a unified approach to storage and data… Read more: NetApp’s Novus tackles metadata bottlenecks in AI data infrastructure - What to expect during the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit
AI trust increasingly determines whether enterprise AI scales. As organizations move beyond pilots and put models and agents into operational systems, the question is no longer whether AI performs well in isolation. Enterprises also have… Read more: What to expect during the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit - NetApp puts sovereign storage at the center of European infrastructure decisions
Sovereign storage is becoming an architectural and operational consideration for European enterprises as they invest in AI, modernization and cyber resilience. Sovereignty now covers much more than where data is physically stored. Customers want to… Read more: NetApp puts sovereign storage at the center of European infrastructure decisions - Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees—including charging tens of thousands or even millions—to get information about how police departments are using and… Read more: Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage - Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable lobby groups notified the Federal Communications Commission that they will sue the agency to block its controversial repeal of the National Television Ownership Rule, which limits the number of broadcast TV stations a single… Read more: Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap - Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
A surge in Russian jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers has increasingly disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of people. Now Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials are warning of… Read more: Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps - Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
Over decades of research, scientists have built up a partial picture of what specialized cells within the brain and spinal cord do. By studying how the brain develops, they could identify genes that were active… Read more: Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel - Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage. Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden… Read more: Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 - F1 in Bahrain… in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
Well, it’s safe to say no Bahrain Grand Prix has been affected by torrential rain quite like the 2026 race. For one thing, it was held several thousand miles from Bahrain itself. The ongoing war… Read more: F1 in Bahrain… in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start - The Guardian view on sexual abuse in schools: teachers cannot deal with this alone | Editorial
Politicians must redouble their efforts to tackle a disturbing pattern of pupils assaulting classmates The Guardian’s findings about the extent of sexual abuse in schools require an urgent, calibrated response. Data revealing multiple rapes committed… Read more: The Guardian view on sexual abuse in schools: teachers cannot deal with this alone | Editorial - GMI Cloud Raises $660 Mn+ to Accelerate Global AI Infrastructure Expansion
Round was led by ARCHIV, an AI and Robotics investment firm, with participation from NVIDIA Funding will expand GPU capacity across the U.S., Taiwan, and Southeast Asia as contracted ARR tops $600 million GMI Cloud,… Read more: GMI Cloud Raises $660 Mn+ to Accelerate Global AI Infrastructure Expansion - Exabeam Accelerates AI-Powered Sec Ops to Machine Speed
New capabilities bring AI-driven investigation, execution, visibility, and governance to cloud and on-premises operations while keeping analysts in control. News Summary Exabeam advances the Agentic SOC with new AI-driven investigation, execution, visibility, and governance capabilities… Read more: Exabeam Accelerates AI-Powered Sec Ops to Machine Speed - Sam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t afraid to throw humanity under the bus to build his dreams of a society powered by AI. During an interview with Politico‘s new podcast Decoded, he laid it all out:… Read more: Sam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of AI - DeepKeep Announced the Launch of AI Lens for Developers
The new capability brings greater visibility and control to coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code, addressing a widening security gap for security teams as these tools gain the ability to read files, run shell… Read more: DeepKeep Announced the Launch of AI Lens for Developers
