New developer experience brings Copado pipelines, testing and governance into the IDE and terminal, allowing Salesforce developers to put AI agents to work without changing tools or sacrificing control. Dreamforce – Copado, the leader in AI-powered… Read more: Copado Launches Agentia Headless for Governed Salesforce AgentOps

Survey of U.S. healthcare leaders reveals that AI adoption is accelerating, but unapproved deployments and fragmented identity security strategies create governance challenges Imprivata, a leading provider of access management solutions for healthcare and other mission-critical industries,… Read more: 72% of Healthcare Organizations Deploy AI Without IT Approval

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at whether there is any appetite across the political spectrum to put guardrails on artificial intelligence as around… Read more: Decoding America: Why won’t Donald Trump regulate AI? – podcast

Is AI going rogue the worst that could happen? Maybe not … Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop… Read more: I used to think AI would kill us all, until the techbro CEOs said AI will kill us all and now I’m not so sure | First Dog on the Moon

In today’s newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on – and what should the government do about it? Good morning. As a general… Read more: Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’

Chimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring through social learning.… Read more: How chimps teach their kids tool tricks

Premier David Crisafulli has described the deal as a ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state The AI giant Anthropic, the developer behind the large language model Claude, has done a deal… Read more: Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland

Let’s agree at the outset the world is a complicated place, and social scientists have exacting jobs when it comes to measuring civic phenomena with precision.  After all, even careful studies raise follow-up questions: How… Read more: Measure by measure, studying society accurately

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The potential existential threat of artificial intelligence has leapt into the headlines after a departing safety researcher at AI corporation Anthropic posted on social media he believed there was more… Read more: Is the nuclear non-proliferation pact a model for regulating runaway AI?

Every family photo you ever posted would be fair game for AI companies unless you choose to opt out Leaked documents from a government proposal show that the Albanese government is considering reversing the fundamental… Read more: Is Labor going to roll over for big tech – or will it protect the rights of everyday Australians? | Holly Rankin

Artificial intelligence agents have become table stakes in enterprise software, but in financial reporting, audit and compliance, speed counts for little if the output cannot be defended. That gap between capable and correct is what… Read more: Governance becomes critical as AI agents move into financial reporting

Connected data gives artificial intelligence agents the context required to handle critical business work. Enterprises are beginning to assign AI more consequential tasks, but fragmented records and undocumented human knowledge limit what those systems can… Read more: Connected data emerges as the foundation for trusted AI: theCUBE’s keynote analysis from Amplify

Internal audit can help companies determine how quickly to automate business processes. That role grows more consequential as AI takes on work that requires clear controls and accountability. At Newell Brands Inc., auditors combine governance… Read more: Newell Brands puts internal audit at the heart of AI adoption

Google LLC is trying to address the latency problem associated with voice-based artificial intelligence agents with the launch of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today. They’re billed as the company’s most… Read more: Google’s new speech model Gemini 3.8 Live supports real-time reasoning

If a measure of one firm’s impact is based on the company it keeps, then Salesforce Inc. has made a significant leap into the artificial intelligence conversation for 2026. At Dreamforce, the customer relationship management… Read more: AI progress and responsibility: Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs weigh in at Salesforce’s annual event

Factory, a startup using artificial intelligence agents to speed up software projects, today announced that it has raised $200 million in funding. The round was backed by Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, NEA and several… Read more: Factory raises $200M for its self-improving software development platform

King Charles will convene AI, government, and nonprofit leaders in Scotland to discuss responsible development, oversight, and benefits for society. The post King Charles Brings Tech and Government Leaders Together for Responsible AI Talks appeared… Read more: King Charles Brings Tech and Government Leaders Together for Responsible AI Talks

Apple rebuilt parts of iOS 27 for the iPhone Duo, adding fold-aware layouts, vertical controls, Split View, dual Home Screens, and expanded StandBy. The post iPhone Duo’s iOS 27 Is Different: 6 Features Built for… Read more: iPhone Duo’s iOS 27 Is Different: 6 Features Built for a Foldable iPhone

Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese… Read more: Labor accused of throwing creatives ‘under the bus’ with proposal to ease copyright protections for AI giants

Some of the most widely used private torrent trackers for pirating movies suspect that a banned user may have posed as a filmmaker protecting copyrights in a failed attempt to seek revenge. TorrentFreak has been… Read more: “Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft’s fuel load will last twice as long as their initial expectations,… Read more: The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations

A former Anthropic researcher’s apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence has led to a global panic that the technology might be the end of us all. At an event in Washington today to warn about the… Read more: Why the real AI apocalypse is already here – Stateside with Kai and Carter

Artificial intelligence agent certification startup Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company today announced it has raised $40 million in new funding to begin auditing frontier AI models. Until now, its work has covered only the agents that… Read more: AI agent certification startup AIUC raises $40M to begin auditing frontier models

Artificial intelligence agent certification startup Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company today announced it has raised $40 million in new funding to begin auditing frontier AI models. Until now, its work has covered only the agents that… Read more: AI agent certification startup AIUC raises $40M to begin auditing frontier models

Marketing technology startup Profound today announced that it has raised $180 million in funding at a $1.8 billion valuation. Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins jointly led the Series D investment. They were joined by Lightspeed… Read more: Profound raises $180M to boost brands’ visibility in AI services

A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them. Anthropic’s… Read more: Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage

The Conversation, CC BY-SA Australia is in the middle of a data centre construction boom. Driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and growing demand for digital services, global technology companies are expected to invest up to… Read more: Australia’s data centre build-out carries risks for the economy – and inflation

At San Francisco conference Dario Amodei reiterates need for AI slowdown as Jensen Huang says argued against it Anthropic’s CEO took to the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his… Read more: Anthropic’s CEO calls for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration

Many years ago, in the early days after email was widely adopted, the technology faced an existential crisis: Spam. Instantly sending people electronic mail was revolutionary and convenient, but inboxes were quickly flooded with unwanted… Read more: AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide

Agility Robotics has debuted its first humanoid robot engineered to work safely near humans without risking harm to flesh-and-blood coworkers. Such safety features could unlock many more opportunities to use such robots inside warehouses and… Read more: Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers

Pending regulatory approval, SpaceX said today it intends to launch its 14th Starship mission as early as September 22. This flight is notable, as it will be the first time that SpaceX attempts to launch… Read more: SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week

A fourth person in Pennsylvania has died of measles, the state health department confirmed Tuesday. The latest death was in an unvaccinated 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County. In the announcement, the state health department also… Read more: 18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication

Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’ The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI)… Read more: Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit

Dutch chipmaker Euclyd BV today announced that it has raised more than €200 million, or $230 million, from a group of prominent investors. Samsung Electronics Co., Somerset Capital Partners and the Scaleup Europe Fund led… Read more: Euclyd raises $230M+ to develop chips for AI agents

The state of our inboxes here at Futurism is chaotic. Every day is a cacophony of PR pitches, deranged rants, irrelevant news updates, and too-good-to-be-true business opportunities. (Don’t worry, though: we read every email.) But… Read more: AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children

Bernie Sanders criticised the advancement of artificial intelligence at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington Tuesday, warning that this version of AI is ‘the least capable version of AI that we will ever have’. The independent… Read more: Bernie Sanders says Congress has been ‘asleep at the wheel’ over AI – video

There might not be the same degree of optimism regarding electric vehicle adoption as a few short years ago, but the transition toward battery-electric vehicles continues nevertheless. More than 1.8 million EVs had already been… Read more: Demand for EV chargers is outstripping supply, says ChargePoint report

The Boston city government abandoned Flock Safety’s license-plate reader cameras after the company shared data nationwide in violation of a contract provision, according to city officials. “We have actually abandoned Flock,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu… Read more: Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract

Professional services AI is moving beyond individual productivity gains toward changing how firms coordinate work and deliver value. As agents take on more tasks, the larger opportunity lies in using shared intelligence to improve decisions… Read more: What to expect during the ‘Certinia at Dreamforce’ event: Join theCUBE Sept. 18

We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI development There have been some shocking claims in recent days about AI safety: we face a 10% chance… Read more: Could AI really wipe out humanity and hijack the internet?

The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie Misaligned, tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you’re wearing.

China rejected calls from U.S. AI leaders to slow development, deepening tensions over AI safety, chip controls, and competition ahead of a Trump-Xi meeting. The post China Fires Back at AI Slowdown Proposal Ahead of… Read more: China Fires Back at AI Slowdown Proposal Ahead of Trump-Xi Meeting

AI probably thinks a world that can elect Trump as president is so messed up it deserves to be put out of its misery We can all sleep easy. In a post on his Truth… Read more: As the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John Crace

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On the heels of the hottest summer on record and a United Nations report warning that global temperatures are likely to push climate risks to “increasingly dangerous heights,” the Trump administration overturned most of a… Read more: Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants

Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock On Saturday, Donald Trump said, “We’re leading China on AI… and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” But the danger the world is waking… Read more: Tech leaders are calling for an ‘AI slowdown’ – but what would that mean in practice?

In a move that should surprise zero people but is worth noting nonetheless, three felony charges against a man who destroyed a police officer’s “decoy” 3D-printed Flock camera have been reduced to misdemeanors after the… Read more: Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable

AI capabilities | Trump’s judgment | Gardening attire | Death in English literature | Tautologies | Nominative determinism AI may be capable of “taking over the entire internet” (OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls… Read more: AI can wipe us out – so why can’t it do Guardian cryptic crosswords? | Brief letters

The public messaging surrounding Meta’s flashy smart glasses hasn’t exactly gone in the company’s favor. The camera-equipped devices have garnered a reputation for allowing shady individuals to record strangers without their consent, garnering them the… Read more: Meta Is Using Instagram Users’ Photos to Build a Universal Facial Recognition System for Its Hated Smart Glasses, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of Pink Floyd star and James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English… Read more: ‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

A digital fly brain has been trading bitcoin, parallel parking, exploring bisexuality, cutting doner kebab, playing games—including Minecraft, Doom, and Beat Saber—and generally lighting up social media timelines since it was released earlier this month.… Read more: A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet

A mathematical shape famous for covering a surface without ever repeating has revealed an unexpected ability to twist light into unusual chiral patterns. The discovery could lead to new ways of controlling light, polarization, and… Read more: The shape behind the Einstein problem just revealed strange new physics

A 125-million-year-old crocodile fossil has revealed preserved skin, possible sensory organs, sophisticated respiratory structures, and an unexpected pattern on its tail. Ultraviolet light exposed alternating bands that may represent ancient camouflage, potentially preserving the oldest… Read more: UV light reveals possible camouflage on a 125-million-year-old crocodile

Scientists have uncovered sweeping changes in how the human brain controls and organizes its genome beginning in midlife, offering new clues to why aging sharply increases the risk of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. One… Read more: Scientists discover a major brain shift between ages 50 and 75

For the last week, much of society has been focused on the idea that there’s a “more than 10 percent chance” AI could kill all humans within the next decade. This has spawned thousands of… Read more: There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

Microscopic plant remains are revealing how GunaiKurnai ancestors used Cloggs Cave for ritual practices over thousands of years. People deliberately gathered whole grasses, carried them into the dark cave, and burned them in thin layers,… Read more: This Australian cave hid 25,000 years of ritual secrets

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The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav. But this AI-created workplace comedy is so bad that even the greatest actors alive couldn’t stop it being unwatchable As you… Read more: No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?

Exclusive: Correspondence requests state MP Melissa Horne to lobby on NextDC’s behalf – but contains alleged AI-created errors Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Victorian jobs minister has accused… Read more: Datacentre giant accused of using AI while lobbying for Victorian minister’s support for hyperscale factory

Simply smelling chocolate helped men complete more leg extension repetitions without making the workout feel harder, with dark chocolate producing the strongest effect. The researchers think familiar food aromas may influence appetite and motivation by… Read more: Smelling chocolate helped men complete more reps without feeling more tired

New Industry and Custom Agents understand your business, and take action across the systems you use to move your business forward. Today, Zendesk introduced Specialized AI Agents, purpose-built for the work that matters most to… Read more: Zendesk Launches Specialized AI Agents Purpose-built for Your Business

Powered by Airrived’s Context Lake, the new capability traces enterprise data across its full journey — from integration, to agent, to application, to outcome — revealing who built each AI agent, what it can access,… Read more: Airrived Announces the Launch of Agentic Observability

Don’t ask an AI chatbot how many letter e’s there are in the word “seventeen.” Or do, actually, if you want to see how dodgy the tech remains. In a clip that’s gone viral in… Read more: ChatGPT Straight Up Tries to Gaslight User After Being Confronted About Its Obviously Wrong Answer

The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has closed to just 4.4 months, according to a Mozilla report. That explains why many companies… Read more: Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation Tributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed… Read more: ‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

Astronomers have discovered that winds from a supermassive black hole are about 100 times more powerful than previously thought. XRISM observations showed the resulting turbulence spreading roughly 300,000 light-years, extending far beyond the black hole’s… Read more: Supermassive black hole winds are 100 times more powerful than scientists thought

Last week, the Atlantic hurricane season blew through its traditional peak—which comes around September 10—with nary a tropical wave in sight, let alone a storm or hurricane. This is remarkable. Usually this is the time… Read more: This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn’t happened in 175 years

In the age of AI agents, it’s no longer enough to ask how much electricity a single chatbot prompt uses. Today’s AI models are even more complicated systems, often designed to complete complex tasks autonomously,… Read more: AI Agents Are Using an Outrageous Amount of Electricity

Database startup Keewano today launched KeewanoDB, an event-oriented database designed to give artificial intelligence agents real-time context for analytics and decision-making. The startup also announced $12 million in funding from Hetz Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz LLC’s… Read more: Startup Keewano launches agent-focused database and pulls in $12M in funding

Evvy, an artificial intelligence startup that’s looking to enhance women’s healthcare, said today it has closed on $40 million in Series B funding to scale its precision diagnostics and care platform. The round was led… Read more: Startup Evvy raises $40M to accelerate precision diagnostics and medicine for women’s health

Salesforce Inc. said today at its annual user conference Dreamforce that it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to train and release Koa, a specialized artificial intelligence model that’s custom built for reasoning about customer relationship… Read more: Salesforce debuts Koa, a specialized model built to reason about CRM data

Last week, researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, stating that AI ‘could kill us all by the end of the decade’ Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at… Read more: Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through

SUSE is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for the third consecutive year for its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute SUSE®, the leading sovereign open infrastructure company, today announced that it is positioned by… Read more: SUSE Leads in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

New AI-readiness tagging, continuous observability and orchestrated kill switches help enterprises scale AI agent adoption—without losing control Orchid Security, the company that unlocks safe AI adoption by solving identity at its core, today announced identity… Read more: Orchid Security Adds AI Readiness Controls for AI Agents

ABBYY has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). It is ABBYY’s second recognition in the Gartner second evaluation of the IDP market and we believe it underscores… Read more: Gartner Names ABBYY a Leader in its 2026 Magic Quadrant for IDP

Pony.ai has unveiled an autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets, developed with GAC Commercial Vehicle for freight supply chains. Unveiled at IAA Transportation 2026, this Level 4 (L4) heavy rig marks the fourth-generation (Gen-4) iteration… Read more: Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets

C-suite confidence surges across every major measure, while internal capacity and ROI discipline continue to temper the pace of enterprise adoption Mindbreeze, a leading global provider of AI-based knowledge management solutions, today announced the results… Read more: Mindbreeze Survey: Enterprise GenAI Confidence Rebounds

Across the US, anti-datacenter organizers are harnessing community anger to win local elections After four months of teach-ins and canvassing, Steven Kung helped Monterey Park, just east of Los Angeles, become the first US city… Read more: They fought against datacenters. Now they are running for local offices

Comments come after court on Monday rejected the president’s mail ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections Supreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections Hello and welcome to the US politics… Read more: Democrats say supreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot restrictions will ensure ‘safe, secure and accurate elections’ – US politics live

UK public sector organizations can now procure Descope’s customer and agentic identity platform directly through the framework without running a full tender Descope, a flexible customer and agentic identity platform, today announced that its UK… Read more: Descope Named Supplier on Government Commercial Agency’s G-Cloud 15 Framework

Expanded solution ecosystem meets rising demand for affordable, high-performance AI inference solutions built on Axelera’s technology platform Axelera AI, the leading provider of purpose-built AI hardware acceleration technology for generative AI and computer vision inference… Read more: Axelera AI More Than Quadruples Global Partner Network in One Year

Party leader claims proposed new retrospective laws are unfair and Reform would retaliate with a crackdown on union funding if elected According to Sky News, Paul Nowak, the TUC general secretary, is going to make… Read more: Farage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donations – UK politics live

Volvo provided flights from Washington, DC, to London, England, and accommodation so Ars could see its refreshed vehicles. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. There must be a case of upgrade fever taking hold… Read more: Volvo increases the batteries for 2028 XC60 and XC90 plug-in refresh

A proposed overhaul of UK settlement rules would double the wait for permanent residence, and it reaches back to sponsored engineers already here. For AI employers, it is quietly becoming a retention problem. By Sunny… Read more: The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future

Louise Haigh will set out benefits of AI to TUC conference while vowing government will take safety seriously Ministers must “heed the warnings” from industry leaders about the threat posed by AI as it looks… Read more: UK must heed warnings from AI experts, minister says

From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week,… Read more: Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline It has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob… Read more: AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell

President has dismissed anxieties over AI’s dangerous potential even as Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge risks Donald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails… Read more: Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies

Enterprise software veteran will lead Elementum’s global revenue strategy as the company scales adoption of its AI-native platform. Elementum, the AI-native platform replacing legacy enterprise SaaS, announced today it has named Phil Duggan as its… Read more: Elementum Announces the Appointment of Phil Duggan as CRO

Joint solution helps organizations detect, prioritize and investigate AI-driven attacks while validating performance across existing security controls World Wide Technology (WWT), a leading global technology solutions provider, today announced an expanded collaboration with Vectra AI,… Read more: Vectra AI Deepens Alliance With WWT to Accelerate Cyber Defense

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made the first public declaration Monday that the United States has placed “space control weapons” in orbit, an announcement that will surely reverberate in the power centers of Beijing and… Read more: For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit

A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. How worried should we be? Today in Focus host Annie… Read more: AI isn’t going to end humanity … right? – podcast

Ancient DNA reveals that plague was already killing hunter-gatherers in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before cities and flea-driven epidemics. The prehistoric strains may have been especially dangerous because they carried a genetic factor capable… Read more: Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death

Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a $50 million early-stage funding round to make that happen. Today’s Series A… Read more: Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars

Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a $50 million early-stage funding round to make that happen. Today’s Series A… Read more: Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars

AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a “complex social system in which humans and Agents… Read more: AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop

In theory, developing a spacecraft that will fly to Mars, insert itself into orbit around the red planet, and relay transmissions back and forth to large satellite dishes on Earth is a relatively straightforward proposition.… Read more: Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA’s decision on a Mars spacecraft

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will deliver a keynote address at an anti-vaccine conference being held in Washington, DC, later this week and hosted by the anti-vaccine organization he once led, Children’s Health… Read more: RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield

Aron Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to ease the work of procurement teams, launched today with $8 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first was led by Menlo… Read more: Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding

Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has published an essay entitled “We Must Pace the Frontier.” He expressed ongoing concerns over the “misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism” and fears that a swarm of… Read more: Cyber attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI effectively, we must improve our anticipatory thinking