
- Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids
Despite making changes last fall to help block adults from messaging unknown children, Roblox is still failing to stop adults from creeping on kids in other ways, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said on… Read more: Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids - Supermicro alliance tackles the storage bottlenecks holding back enterprise AI
The conversation around storage modernization used to revolve around capacity. Today, the dialogue centers on the role of storage as a strategic requirement for AI readiness. This doesn’t mean that storage’s transformation is simple. Many organizations… Read more: Supermicro alliance tackles the storage bottlenecks holding back enterprise AI - OpenAI Halts AI Training on Advanced Model as It Detects Dark Signs Emerging
OpenAI says that it’s slowing down development and release of new models due to security and alignment concerns. The ChatGPT maker announced the decision in a Tuesday blog post, citing two events as drivers of… Read more: OpenAI Halts AI Training on Advanced Model as It Detects Dark Signs Emerging - Paving the way for greener ammonia production
Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential… Read more: Paving the way for greener ammonia production - Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Why You Hate AI
Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it. - ‘Darth Vader’ Wants Flock in San Diego
During the public comment portion of a recent San Diego city council meeting, the council called for the next comment to take the podium: “Darth Vader?” As he approached the microphone in his black helmet… Read more: ‘Darth Vader’ Wants Flock in San Diego - Bulletproof Achieves Microsoft 365 Copilot Advanced Specialization
Distinction reinforces Bulletproof’s leadership in helping organizations securely adopt and scale AI with Microsoft technologies. Bulletproof today announced it has attained the Copilot Advanced Specialization in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, further differentiating Bulletproof among… Read more: Bulletproof Achieves Microsoft 365 Copilot Advanced Specialization - Artizent Earns AWS AI Services Competency
Artizent, a global enterprise engineering company focused on cloud, data, software, quality engineering, and AI-enabled transformation for enterprises, announced that it has achieved the AWS AI Services Competency in the Agentic AI Consulting Services category.… Read more: Artizent Earns AWS AI Services Competency - Adobe expands generative AI audio with Firefly music, speech and sound effects
Adobe Inc. today announced the general availability of audio capabilities in Firefly, the company’s all-in-one creative AI tool suite, allowing users to produce music, speech, and sound effects for their projects. In June, the company… Read more: Adobe expands generative AI audio with Firefly music, speech and sound effects - Salesforce introduces Slack Code to bring agentic team coding into the open
Salesforce Inc. today introduced Slack Code, a new way to interact with coding agents in chat, with the whole team in the loop so everyone can see what’s happening at the conversational level. Coding agents… Read more: Salesforce introduces Slack Code to bring agentic team coding into the open - Flock Says It’s “Taking a Break” From Responding to Media Requests
Flock is starting to feel the heat — or at least its PR team is. Last week, its CEO Garrett Langley offered a simpering public apology for abuses of its mass surveillance network after a… Read more: Flock Says It’s “Taking a Break” From Responding to Media Requests - Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private and secure.” New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image… Read more: Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces - SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
Elon Musk’s talk about maintaining a million-strong AI data center satellite megaconstellation may not exactly be practical or economical, but it might be unique. It’s about the closest we’ve come to confronting a scheme that… Read more: SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste - Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90
A couple of years ago, Genesis showed us its unique take on the luxury electric SUV with the Neolum concept. The brand’s designers know how to draw a handsome shape, particularly using an SUV’s proportions,… Read more: Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90 - Your AI agent’s skills are lying to you about why they work
Every team that ships agent “skills” has the same story. Drop in a folder of structured knowledge, watch the success rate climb, and assume the agent finally learned something. But a new paper suggests that… Read more: Your AI agent’s skills are lying to you about why they work - Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on Fire TV — No Prime Required
Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ at no additional cost to eligible US Fire TV owners, even without Prime. The move expands access to Amazon’s AI assistant while reserving some advanced features and Echo device access… Read more: Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on Fire TV — No Prime Required - One Tool Lets You Manage Every Reply, Post, and DM on X for Life, $50
One browser extension drafts your X replies and posts, tracks the accounts you follow, and schedules them. The post One Tool Lets You Manage Every Reply, Post, and DM on X for Life, $50 appeared… Read more: One Tool Lets You Manage Every Reply, Post, and DM on X for Life, $50 - How to Quiz Yourself With ChatGPT and Check the Answers
A better ChatGPT quiz starts with a tighter prompt, a clear difficulty level, and independent checks when the answer actually matters. The post How to Quiz Yourself With ChatGPT and Check the Answers appeared first… Read more: How to Quiz Yourself With ChatGPT and Check the Answers - Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-out amounts to six times the number of locations Prime… Read more: Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities - Piracy fears prompt calls for ban on Meta smart glasses in UK cinemas
Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits provided by AI-enabled technology Cinemas across the UK are considering banning customers from wearing Meta’s smart glasses, amid fears they could be… Read more: Piracy fears prompt calls for ban on Meta smart glasses in UK cinemas - Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in the user’s inbox. Now, a… Read more: Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted - Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” on Tuesday night. The moratorium is a delaying tactic, the latest in the Township’s long fight to stop the construction of… Read more: Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure - Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X
I can clearly remember the first time I saw a deepfake. I was waiting for the train on my way to the Vice office in 2017 when I got a Twitter DM from someone who… Read more: Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X - Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety
A massive trial is underway in California, where state attorneys general are holding Meta’s feet to the fire for its role in fueling a children’s mental health crisis. According to the testimony of former Meta… Read more: Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety - This total solar eclipse looked strangely golden — here’s why
Spain’s total solar eclipse delivered an unexpected sight: a corona glowing gold instead of its usual pearly white. Because the Sun was setting, its light passed through more atmosphere, while smoke from nearby wildfires filtered… Read more: This total solar eclipse looked strangely golden — here’s why - A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater
A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing bright and dark streaks… Read more: A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater - Scientists crushed diamond beyond Neptune-like pressures—and solved a 20-year mystery
Extreme experiments have revealed how diamond behaves at crushing pressures beyond those inside Neptune and Uranus, resolving a decades-old conflict between theory and observation. The results could help scientists boost fusion energy output while revealing… Read more: Scientists crushed diamond beyond Neptune-like pressures—and solved a 20-year mystery - Scientists say the human family tree may need a major rewrite
The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be folded into the genus Homo because new fossils have blurred many of the traits once used… Read more: Scientists say the human family tree may need a major rewrite - Schizophrenia’s lost brain connections follow a surprising pattern
Specialized brain scans reveal that schizophrenia is linked to widespread loss of the synapses that connect brain cells, with the left side of the brain hit especially hard. The damage follows a surprisingly organized pattern… Read more: Schizophrenia’s lost brain connections follow a surprising pattern - 10 questions every AI leader should be able to answer in 2027
Ask any AI leader for their roadmap and the slides arrive within minutes, usually with a slide titled “vision” and a logo cloud nobody quite remembers approving. Ask what happens the moment an agent makes… Read more: 10 questions every AI leader should be able to answer in 2027 - AI Agents Advance Faster Than Enterprise Data Is Ready for Them
Interim findings from the third annual Modern Data Survey show nearly 6 in 10 organizations are piloting or running AI agents, while fewer than 1 in 10 say the data feeding their AI is production-ready.… Read more: AI Agents Advance Faster Than Enterprise Data Is Ready for Them - Weaver Announced the Launch of Free AI ROI Index
New benchmark draws on 3 million enterprise users and 100,000 deployed agents to compare orgs with more than 1,500 peers, finding major gap between having an AI plan and having the people capable of executing… Read more: Weaver Announced the Launch of Free AI ROI Index - Patients in Yorkshire complain AI GP receptionist cannot understand accent
Healthwatch Rotherham says Emma AI system’s failure to grasp local ‘twangs’ is leaving people frustrated Patients in a South Yorkshire town are frustrated by AI GP receptionists not understanding their “broad accents”, a health watchdog… Read more: Patients in Yorkshire complain AI GP receptionist cannot understand accent - UiPath Announced the Introduction of UiPath Maestro Flow
New orchestration capability lets builders use any coding agent to build, run, and govern complete business processes—no rewrite required to ship UiPath, Inc. (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in business orchestration and automation, today announced… Read more: UiPath Announced the Introduction of UiPath Maestro Flow - Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single interface. The deal adds model selection and routing to Stripe’s existing work around AI… Read more: Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands - Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in October 2017 and, days later, created a ministerial post to run it, making… Read more: Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide - A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations
Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been the case. Searchable, the AI visibility platform, analysed more than 11,000 ads served… Read more: A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations - HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector
Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to bring that same capability to independent businesses with the launch of HoneyBook MCP, recently released as a… Read more: HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector - AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law
AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit file, that developer has to sign a contract accepting a fixed set of… Read more: AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law - Oakley Capital Invests in Graphwise to Advance Trusted Enterprise AI
The investment will accelerate the growth of the leading provider of AI knowledge platforms as companies seek to scale up AI cost-effectively Graphwise, the leading Graph AI provider, today announced that Oakley Capital (“Oakley”), a… Read more: Oakley Capital Invests in Graphwise to Advance Trusted Enterprise AI - It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well
For most of modern history, technology sought to imitate humans. Humans increasingly seek to imitate technology Two faces that appeared on my Instagram feed in recent months gave me pause. One belonged to John Travolta… Read more: It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well - Researchers reveal deeper workings of brain’s information hub
The brain has a remarkably flexible system for handling uncertainty and changing situations. Researchers found that the frontoparietal cortex constantly shifts how it communicates with other brain regions depending on what information is needed to… Read more: Researchers reveal deeper workings of brain’s information hub - MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material
MIT physicists found that two electronic phases inside the same quantum material emerge through surprisingly different mechanisms—one smoothly and the other in expanding pockets resembling growing ice crystals. The discovery could help explain how exotic… Read more: MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material - GOP urges top AI firms to do something about the toxic image of data centers
As artificial intelligence data centers continue to proliferate across Ohio and public opposition grows, Axios reported today that the GOP’s Senate campaign arm has privately warned AI companies that they need to do something about… Read more: GOP urges top AI firms to do something about the toxic image of data centers - AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions
SDI Productions/Getty In the United States, leading HR software company Workday is currently facing a lawsuit over its use of job screening tools powered by AI which allegedly discriminated against applicants based on factors such… Read more: AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions - Sanja Fidler’s world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding
Veeda AI, a startup led by a team of former Nvidia Corp. researcher and renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has taken its bow on the main stage after raising $90 million in a seed funding… Read more: Sanja Fidler’s world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding - NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced Wednesday they are giving up on a robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray telescope before it falls out of orbit. The rescue satellite, named Link, launched July 3… Read more: NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory - UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students’ math skills
Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behind A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math… Read more: UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students’ math skills - Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
Amazon wants to grow its Prime Air delivery drone service sixfold to reach nearly 500 cities and towns across the United States by the end of 2026. The planned expansions from Amazon and its rivals… Read more: Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026 - Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal
Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at $7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reported numbers do not… Read more: Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal - The AI inference race moves beyond GPUs to reshape data center infrastructure
AI inference infrastructure is becoming a system-level challenge as organizations move generative and agentic applications into production. Graphics processing unit performance remains essential, but storage latency, network bandwidth, data movement and power consumption increasingly determine… Read more: The AI inference race moves beyond GPUs to reshape data center infrastructure - Layered data architecture turns enterprise data into a system of intelligence
The knowledge graph is fast becoming a foundational layer for enterprise AI, as organizations race to turn scattered data into answers that leaders can trust. As IT stacks that went cloud-native now go AI-native, a… Read more: Layered data architecture turns enterprise data into a system of intelligence - The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
It has been a little more than a month since China recovered an orbital-class rocket booster for the first time. A second launch operator accomplished a similar feat Tuesday in another sign of China’s growing… Read more: The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket - FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though fiber networks have routinely offered… Read more: FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies - Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
Last Friday, Google won an auction to acquire a huge amount of Spirit Airlines data. The data doesn’t include personal information or customer data, but instead nearly covers the airline’s entire employment and workplace record.… Read more: Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data - Some parents want to see primary schools go ‘device free’. There could be unintended consequences
RDNE Stock Project/ Pexels Some Australian parents are pushing for a return to “pen-and-paper learning” amid concerns about children’s attention spans and academic achievement. An online petition calling for primary schools to be “device free”… Read more: Some parents want to see primary schools go ‘device free’. There could be unintended consequences - Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
A BIOS update for the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series processors is bricking the systems, multiple users have reported online. Framework started shipping pre-built Ryzen 7040-based Framework Laptop 13 computers and compatible motherboards… Read more: Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops - European Central Bank Warns That AI Crash Is Looming
While talk of an AI investment bubble usually centers around the designs of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the implications reach far beyond the borders of the United States. On Monday, an analysis published by… Read more: European Central Bank Warns That AI Crash Is Looming - Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?
People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy? “I’ve had one person who told… Read more: Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure? - Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
We start this week with Emanuel’s big story about Amazon buying, and destroying, masses of books to train AI. After the break we talk about a couple of wild cases where people are using AI.… Read more: Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI - I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool. - Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Microbes from Earth could survive on parts of the Moon for… Read more: Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds - ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure
After years of horrendous scandals, OpenAI has seemingly admitted that ChatGPT wasn’t safe for teenage users. On Tuesday, the Sam Altman-led company rolled out an alternate version of the bot called “ChatGPT for Teens,” which… Read more: ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure - Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA
President Trump is expected to nominate Heidi Overton, a top conservative policy aide, as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, according to multiple media reports. Overton is currently the deputy director of… Read more: Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA - Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material. It’s the latest in… Read more: Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians - Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way’s central black hole
Sgr A* is the name we’ve given to the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way. We’ve known about its presence since the 1970s but only managed to image it… Read more: Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way’s central black hole - Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading?
Google’s approach to making smartphones has changed a lot over the years. It started with Nexus phones aimed at the tinkerer and enthusiast niche back when there were countless companies making smartphones. Today, there are… Read more: Google Pixel 11 series review: Is the magic fading? - mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say
Pharmaceutical partners Moderna and Merck announced on Wednesday that their novel mRNA-based vaccine—individually tailored to target a patient’s unique cancer mutations—was effective in a late-stage clinical trial of patients with melanoma, one of the deadliest… Read more: mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say - F5 Launches Agentic AI Gateway to Optimize Enterprise AI Costs
Now part of the F5 AI Security Platform, new capabilities provide a unified control point for AI tokenomics, policy enforcement, and security across models, agents, and tools F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering… Read more: F5 Launches Agentic AI Gateway to Optimize Enterprise AI Costs - A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer
In June, we highlighted a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of Wildwood, director Travis Knight’s forthcoming stop-motion animated fantasy film. Laika Studios released an extended teaser in May, which racked up over 90 million views. And… Read more: A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer - Tesla Robotaxi With No Driver Spotted Smashing Through Traffic Barriers
Like a klutz on an obstacle course, a Tesla Robotaxi with no safety driver seemingly panicked after taking a wrong turn and plowed through a row of bollards, those springy traffic barriers that you are… Read more: Tesla Robotaxi With No Driver Spotted Smashing Through Traffic Barriers - ‘I Saw a Shiny Thing’: Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set… Read more: ‘I Saw a Shiny Thing’: Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman - Seeing Through AI: How ScribeMe Describes the World for Blind Users
ScribeMe uses AI, computer vision, and Meta smart glasses to describe surroundings for blind users, turning cameras into spoken accessibility tools. The post Seeing Through AI: How ScribeMe Describes the World for Blind Users appeared… Read more: Seeing Through AI: How ScribeMe Describes the World for Blind Users - Build Practical AI Skills for $20 With This Claude and ChatGPT Bundle
Six courses teach practical AI workflows for planning, scheduling, risk management, documentation, and team communication. The post Build Practical AI Skills for $20 With This Claude and ChatGPT Bundle appeared first on TechRepublic. - Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online. - Snowflake Improves AI Economics With Dynamic Model Routing
Better AI Economics for Every Task: Cortex AI Gateway automatically selects the best model based on quality, speed, customer preferences, and cost, helping enterprises optimize inference performance and reduce unnecessary AI spend Expanding Model Choice: Snowflake will… Read more: Snowflake Improves AI Economics With Dynamic Model Routing - Whistic Announced the Launch of Automation Orchestrator
Roughly 90% of legacy TPRM effort goes to workflow administration. Full AutoAssess hands that work to the agents and keeps every risk decision human. Whistic, the Agentic Risk Operations Platform, today announced the general availability of Automation Orchestrator,… Read more: Whistic Announced the Launch of Automation Orchestrator - Cloudera Anywhere Cloud gives AI agents safe, secure access to sensitive data wherever it lives
Big-data company Cloudera Inc. says it’s going to eliminate the headaches and hassles that have slowed enterprise’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence with today’s launch of its new Cloudera Anywhere Cloud platform. It’s targeted at… Read more: Cloudera Anywhere Cloud gives AI agents safe, secure access to sensitive data wherever it lives - Globant Names Sarab Narang as CEO of Glob.AI
Sarab Narang brings more than 23 years of experience in Enterprise AI products and go-to-market strategies He will report directly to Martín Migoya, Globant CEO & Co-Founder Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a global company focused on driving enterprise… Read more: Globant Names Sarab Narang as CEO of Glob.AI - Rundoo raises $30M to expand its AI-native operating system for small supply stores
Rundoo Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, said today it has closed on a $30 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total amount raised so far to… Read more: Rundoo raises $30M to expand its AI-native operating system for small supply stores - Adronite launches Codistry AI coding platform, claims half the token cost
Adronite Inc. today launched Codistry, an artificial intelligence coding platform for large enterprise codebases. The platform runs on Adronite’s Context Engine, or ACE, which the company has patented. ACE builds a relational map of a… Read more: Adronite launches Codistry AI coding platform, claims half the token cost - Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
A TikTok video shows a teenage girl walking through the front doors of a large high school. It’s filmed point-of-view style using smart glasses, and a hashtag in the caption reads “#metaglasses.” “Excuse me, could… Read more: Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools - VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a… Read more: VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push - Rundoo raises $30M to expand its AI-native operating system for small supply storesRundoo Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, said today it has closed on a $30 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total amount raised so far to… Read more: Rundoo raises $30M to expand its AI-native operating system for small supply stores
- Teachers Warn That Students Are Losing the Ability to Think as They Lean on AI for Everything
Students across the country are using AI models to complete assignments and write entire essays. Some of this constitutes cheating, but in many cases schools are allowing students to make some use of AI tools.… Read more: Teachers Warn That Students Are Losing the Ability to Think as They Lean on AI for Everything - Pollen has a surprising problem — and honeybees have found a way around it
Honeybees can apparently detect when their food has the wrong balance of essential nutrients and adjust how much they eat to avoid potentially harmful excesses. They also transform pollen into remarkably well-balanced “baby food” for… Read more: Pollen has a surprising problem — and honeybees have found a way around it - Tiny quantum engines reveal useful energy hiding in “waste heat”
A tiny machine made from just an atom and particles of light may sound impossibly simple, but it raises a surprisingly difficult question: what counts as heat, and what energy can still do useful work?… Read more: Tiny quantum engines reveal useful energy hiding in “waste heat” - Salesforce expands Headless Data 360 for MCP so developers can bring insights to agents
Agentic artificial intelligence runs on data, so Salesforce Inc. today announced it is launching Headless Data 360 for Model Context Protocol to provide that data directly to agents, allowing them access to relevant, governed customer… Read more: Salesforce expands Headless Data 360 for MCP so developers can bring insights to agents - Coffee drinkers have less fat, more muscle, and surprising hormone differences
Coffee drinkers may be getting more than an energy boost. A Finnish study found that people who drank more coffee tended to have less total and abdominal fat, more muscle, and healthier metabolic markers despite… Read more: Coffee drinkers have less fat, more muscle, and surprising hormone differences - Foxglove Launches Agentic Data Platform for Physical AI
Foxglove launches Agent, Semantic Search powered by NVIDIA Cosmos, Comparison Mode, and Remote Access, enabling robotics teams to accelerate the path from data collection to improved models and more reliable fleets. Foxglove, the agentic data platform… Read more: Foxglove Launches Agentic Data Platform for Physical AI - 55% of Business Professionals Lose Deals Due to Legal Delays
New benchmark report finds legal delays are slowing business operations, reducing visibility, and contributing to lost revenue Streamline AI, the leading AI operating platform for in-house legal teams, today announced the release of The True Business… Read more: 55% of Business Professionals Lose Deals Due to Legal Delays - Alterion Unveils Aquila to Close the AI Blind Spot on Employee Devices
Aquila extends Alterion’s runtime control plane from cloud systems to employee endpoints, offering security, risk, compliance, and engineering teams unified AI oversight across the enterprise. Alterion, the runtime control platform for enterprise AI, today announced… Read more: Alterion Unveils Aquila to Close the AI Blind Spot on Employee Devices - Perforce Survey Finds AI Gains Shadowed by Compliance and Job Concerns
Perforce’s 2026 State of Real-Time Workflows Survey examines how real-time technology and generative AI are reshaping developer workflows across industries and geographical regions. Perforce Software, the modern DevOps Tech Stack that ensures AI governance, today… Read more: Perforce Survey Finds AI Gains Shadowed by Compliance and Job Concerns - There’s a better way to cool data centres that cuts their huge thirst for water
Water is an amazing substance. The human body is made up of more than 50% water. Approximately 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water. We drink it, bathe in it, cook with it,… Read more: There’s a better way to cool data centres that cuts their huge thirst for water - Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits
A rise in lawsuits over AI use in employment decisions is raising questions about how companies hire and fire For the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like… Read more: Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits - Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria
Researchers have built microscopic, light-driven robots that can rapidly navigate through liquid, collect bacteria, and deposit them in chosen locations. These tiny “cleaners” could open new possibilities for manipulating cells and microbes with remarkable precision. - Japanese scientists use tiny silver particles to make DNA assembly up to 5x more efficient
Silver nanoparticles can precisely slice DNA and create longer “sticky ends,” helping genetic fragments join up to five times more efficiently than conventional methods. The breakthrough could eventually simplify the construction of large DNA sequences… Read more: Japanese scientists use tiny silver particles to make DNA assembly up to 5x more efficient - 16 mummies and a dog reveal a hidden order inside an ancient Egyptian tomb
A tomb in Egypt’s Theban Necropolis reveals a surprisingly organized story of burial, reuse, and changing beliefs spanning hundreds of years. Researchers found 16 mummified people, the remains of at least four more, and a… Read more: 16 mummies and a dog reveal a hidden order inside an ancient Egyptian tomb - This 23-foot crocodylian may have ruled South America’s food chain
Miocene South America was packed with giant prey—and the predators hunting them were just as spectacular. Fossil bite marks suggest crocodylians, especially the enormous Purussaurus neivensis, were more important predators than mammals in this ancient… Read more: This 23-foot crocodylian may have ruled South America’s food chain - 91% of eDiscovery Buyers Demand Private AI Deployment, Reveal Finds
Survey of 200 senior legal technology decision-makers shows nearly half of all matters already require private deployment, with 100% demand for AI model independence Reveal, the provider of integrated AI-native platforms spanning the eDiscovery lifecycle,… Read more: 91% of eDiscovery Buyers Demand Private AI Deployment, Reveal Finds
