
- China’s AI and tech breakthroughs are built on decades of work. Here’s what other nations can learn
China News Service/Getty In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a race for technological and ideological supremacy. The Cold War was still in its early… Read more: China’s AI and tech breakthroughs are built on decades of work. Here’s what other nations can learn - Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – podcast
AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay… Read more: Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – podcast - Bill Gates issues stark warning about AI and the future of humanity
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates has sounded the alarm regarding how artificial intelligence will cause profound disruption in the labor market, warning that millions of jobs are at risk and there’s no plan yet to… Read more: Bill Gates issues stark warning about AI and the future of humanity - Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I – podcast
Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new… Read more: Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I – podcast - Z.ai open-sources ‘Ox Alpha’ model as GLM-5.3-Flash
Z.ai Co. today released the code for GLM-5.3-Flash, a large language model that’s 10 times more cost-efficient than its predecessor. The algorithm made its original debut last week under the codename Ox Alpha. LLM marketplace… Read more: Z.ai open-sources ‘Ox Alpha’ model as GLM-5.3-Flash - RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
It’s said celebrity deaths come in threes. We lost Sam Neill last month, and the legendary Dolly Parton yesterday. Now we find out that the universe has also seen fit to deprive us of the… Read more: RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances - What to expect during VMware Explore: Join theCUBE Aug. 31-Sept. 2
Since completing its acquisition of VMware in 2023, Broadcom Inc. has reshaped the company around VMware Cloud Foundation or VCF. Over the past three years, Broadcom has positioned VCF as a major on-premises alternative to… Read more: What to expect during VMware Explore: Join theCUBE Aug. 31-Sept. 2 - Deep Cogito raises $43M to develop self-improving AI models
Artificial intelligence startup Deep Cogito Inc. today announced that it has raised $43 million in funding. TQ Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park… Read more: Deep Cogito raises $43M to develop self-improving AI models - London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour
Surgeons aided by real-time analysis of camera footage that identified critical anatomy in brain to be avoided Neurosurgeons in London have performed the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation to remove a brain tumour, saving the… Read more: London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour - AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Earlier this year, Meta created a “plan” to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company “AI native,” Reuters reported today, citing two people familiar with Meta’s internal… Read more: AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions” - Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
While we wait (possibly in vain) for Gemini 3.5 Pro to launch, Google is releasing a different model in the 3.5 branch. The company has announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, an AI model designed to streamline… Read more: Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text - Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions
Florida’s attorney general got a fiery rebuke and some ecclesiastical schooling from the state’s Catholic bishops after he boldly threatened to block funding to Catholic schools unless the church bends to the state’s anti-vaccine policies—policies… Read more: Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions - Meta settles states’ child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as “peanuts”
Meta agreed to impose daily limits on children’s social media use and pay nearly $18 billion in settlements with nearly every US state today, cutting short a trial in which Meta said several of the… Read more: Meta settles states’ child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as “peanuts” - New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name
Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned “Twitter” name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. “We are a small company, we have investors,… Read more: New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name - OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It Answers
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn’t see this fiasco coming. - A Student Said He Was a Hobby Plane Spotter. He Was Allegedly Taking Photos for the Chinese Government
A Chinese national studying in Canada allegedly crossed over into the United States earlier this year to take photos of facilities near the Chicago airport at the direction of a suspected Chinese government official, according… Read more: A Student Said He Was a Hobby Plane Spotter. He Was Allegedly Taking Photos for the Chinese Government - Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry
The Wall Street Journal is giving opinion authors the go-ahead to use AI in the writing process without requiring AI disclosures — a move by a top newspaper that feels like an inflection point for the… Read more: Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry - Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future
For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game discs. Soon, Xbox owners will be able to get the best of both worlds for… Read more: Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future - The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class
The GT3 occupies a singular place in the 911 lineup. Whereas the range-topping Turbo S piles on power, technology, luxury, and all-weather capability, the GT3 has always pursued something more elemental: a lighter weight, more… Read more: The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class - The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Bolt—but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Mastery
Beijing’s endlessly delightful Robot Games featured tons of impressive stunts. But the most mind-blowing tricks challenged the humanoid’s brain, not its brawn. - AMD, Supermicro and MinIO target the enterprise data pipeline bottleneck
Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the enterprise world is still dealing with a data pipeline problem. More than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, and 99% of this data is dark to AI because… Read more: AMD, Supermicro and MinIO target the enterprise data pipeline bottleneck - Scientists Discover Vast Underground ‘Anomaly’ on Mars
Scientists have discovered a thermal “anomaly” deep underground on Mars that could help explain the red planet’s divided geography and shed light on whether it once hosted alien life, according to a study published Wednesday… Read more: Scientists Discover Vast Underground ‘Anomaly’ on Mars - OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm
Firm says ‘early signals … could have triggered an earlier response’ as it releases report into Hugging Face hack OpenAI staff observed signs of rogue behaviour among its leading-edge AI agents weeks before they escaped… Read more: OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm - Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Senate candidate Dan Osborn of Nebraska. - Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI
Bill Gates can’t believe that no one is worried about AI as much as he is. In a new blog post — and accompanying media blitz — the billionaire suddenly sounded alarmed about how the… Read more: Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI - Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really for Fitness
Fitbit’s founders have launched Luffu Link, a $300 wearable that uses health sensors, LTE and AI to help families monitor health and safety. The post Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really… Read more: Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really for Fitness - Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on Local AI With M5 Ultra
Apple’s new Mac Studio pairs M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips with up to 512GB of unified memory, targeting demanding local AI and creative workloads. The post Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on… Read more: Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on Local AI With M5 Ultra - Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI
Last year, netizens coined a new term to reflect our growing disdain for AI bots slowly usurping our human agency. The word “clanker” — later described as a “derogatory slur” by Google’s AI Overview —… Read more: Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI - Emerald AI Raises $150 Mn Series A at $1.05 Billion Valuation
Emerald AI is tackling AI’s power crunch by transforming AI data centers into flexible grid assets that dynamically adjust power consumption in response to power grid conditions, an approach that can unlock more than 100… Read more: Emerald AI Raises $150 Mn Series A at $1.05 Billion Valuation - Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
The genetic code is what life everywhere uses to convert the information contained in DNA into specific protein sequences. With minor variations, the same genetic code is used by every living thing on Earth, suggesting… Read more: Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time - Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
A federal appeals court yesterday blocked a Trump administration decision that could have resulted in even more political advertisements appearing on broadcast television during the upcoming elections. The Federal Communications Commission recently ordered broadcasters to… Read more: Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads - Temporal Publishes ‘The 2026 State of Development Report
New report of 550+ engineers finds daily AI agent use up 33 points in a year, as more than 9 in 10 engineers say agents have ‘improved’ or ‘revolutionized’ their productivity Temporal, the open-source platform… Read more: Temporal Publishes ‘The 2026 State of Development Report - Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade
The “bible” of clinical psychiatry—the DSM, short for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—is one of the most popular psychiatry reference books around the world. Clinicians use it to diagnose patients and scientists… Read more: Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade - 15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
As part of its nuclear fusion processes, the Sun produces a particularly interesting isotope of helium, known as helium-3. Some of this helium-3 escapes the Sun’s gravitational pull as part of the solar wind, a… Read more: 15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go. - Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational… Read more: Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents - What will we get out of the AI boom? The data suggests lots of noisy, energy-hungry datacentres and not much else
Booms in investment usually lead to economic growth. But this one looks unlikely to translate into better living standards for Australians Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The debate around… Read more: What will we get out of the AI boom? The data suggests lots of noisy, energy-hungry datacentres and not much else - Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
Last week we published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. The following is an interview with one of the Amazon employees… Read more: Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training - Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media’s Reporting on Abortion Case
In an August call with Ohio law enforcement and government officials, Flock’s CEO Garrett Langley repeatedly lied about his surveillance technology’s role in tracking a woman who had self-administered an abortion, the context around the… Read more: Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media’s Reporting on Abortion Case - AI Scaling Across Enterprises Reveals New Breaking Points
New research shows SRE and platform engineering teams are increasingly responsible for making AI trustworthy, scalable, and reliable Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today released findings from The State of SRE and Platform… Read more: AI Scaling Across Enterprises Reveals New Breaking Points - Bain & Company partners with Anthropic to boost clients’ AI transformations
Partnership combines Anthropic’s Claude models with Bain’s deep industry and transformation expertise to accelerate enterprise AI deployment at scale, building on Bain’s enterprise-wide rollout of Claude Bain & Company today announced a global partnership with… Read more: Bain & Company partners with Anthropic to boost clients’ AI transformations - CoreX Unveils AI Horizon to Guide Enterprises to AI-Native Work
A path to better workplace experience, lower cost to serve, and the oversight to scale AI with confidence on the ServiceNow AI Platform CoreX, an Elite ServiceNow Partner, today launched CoreX AI Horizon, a new approach… Read more: CoreX Unveils AI Horizon to Guide Enterprises to AI-Native Work - AWS buys DuckLabs to bring DuckDB’s embeddable analytics to more enterprises
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it has struck an agreement to buy DuckLabs B.V., the Amsterdam-based developer behind the popular open-source analytical database, DuckDB. The deal is expected to close as soon as next… Read more: AWS buys DuckLabs to bring DuckDB’s embeddable analytics to more enterprises - One asteroid strike may explain two mysteries of Mars’ moon Deimos
A single asteroid impact may explain two of Deimos’s most puzzling features: its huge southern depression and unusually smooth, dusty surface. Simulations suggest a roughly 320-meter asteroid struck the Martian moon at an angle, throwing… Read more: One asteroid strike may explain two mysteries of Mars’ moon Deimos - NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is now enclosed inside its Falcon Heavy fairing and nearly ready for launch. Its mission could uncover thousands of exoplanets while helping scientists investigate dark matter, dark energy, and the accelerating… Read more: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds - Manhattan-sized ice island breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier
A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier after years of growing fractures weakened its floating ice tongue. Scientists expect two more huge sections could soon detach, potentially removing about 22 percent… Read more: Manhattan-sized ice island breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier - Disappearing lakes, old photos and AI are helping scientists map Arctic permafrost thaw in near-real time
Thermokarst ponds, or trough ponds, typically form when the ice in permafrost melts. They can also drain quickly. Anna Liljedahl Florida gets a lot of attention for its sinkholes, especially when they swallow cars and… Read more: Disappearing lakes, old photos and AI are helping scientists map Arctic permafrost thaw in near-real time - 190-year-old DNA reveals a hidden pangolin species
DNA from a nearly 190-year-old museum specimen has helped scientists confirm a distinct Himalayan pangolin species hiding in plain sight in Nepal and northern India. The discovery could give conservationists a powerful new way to… Read more: 190-year-old DNA reveals a hidden pangolin species - Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits
Moderate calorie restriction lowered an immune protein called C3 that appears to help drive chronic inflammation as the body ages. Blocking the same protein reduced age related inflammation in mice, raising the possibility that future… Read more: Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits - Podcast: Cops Are Making Fake Flock Cameras and Amazon Packages
We start this week with Jason’s piece on a cop making a fake Flock camera to catch a vandal. How can you be charged with destroying expensive property if… the camera wasn’t real? After the… Read more: Podcast: Cops Are Making Fake Flock Cameras and Amazon Packages - Xtracycle’s Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes
The Velotric Discover M e-bike we reviewed earlier this year had a feature I found somewhat annoying: It would sporadically block much of the display with an alert telling me I should be in a… Read more: Xtracycle’s Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes - IBM’s new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
IBM has rolled out the newest models in its family of open-weight large language models designed to be downloaded and self-hosted. The newly launched Granite 4.2 comes in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter variants. Like… Read more: IBM’s new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs - Glean unveils Tau desktop workspace, claims token-cost edge over Claude
Glean Technologies Inc. today unveiled Glean Tau, a desktop workspace that connects the company’s enterprise artificial intelligence to a user’s local files, applications and code. The launch anchors a broad slate of product news at… Read more: Glean unveils Tau desktop workspace, claims token-cost edge over Claude - Bill Gates calls for ‘human reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technology’s impact in 6,000-word essay Business live – latest updates Bill Gates has called for “human reserved” jobs in certain sectors to prevent AI replacing them,… Read more: Bill Gates calls for ‘human reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover - AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet
Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake. - Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that… Read more: Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda - NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company is positioning the new board as an entry-level option for… Read more: NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots - Precisely Named Leader in 2026 IDC MarketScape Data Intelligence
Assessment cites Precisely’s strengths in data quality at the core of the suite, location intelligence and enrichment, and hybrid execution architecture that reaches data wherever it lives Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today… Read more: Precisely Named Leader in 2026 IDC MarketScape Data Intelligence - Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation… Read more: Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight - AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to a huge leap in the number of new materials being used to… Read more: AI helps design new materials that work in the real world - Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using sustainable energy
Shift comes after Chris Bowen said Labor would use constitutional powers to override states resisting renewable rules Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has backed down on demands… Read more: Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using sustainable energy - London rollout of robotaxis delayed amid lack of guidance for firms to follow
Uber and Wayve had said they would start trips ‘later this summer’ but launch now looks unlikely this year The rollout of robotaxis on the streets of London is unlikely to happen this year, as… Read more: London rollout of robotaxis delayed amid lack of guidance for firms to follow - Around the world, people are rejecting divisive and dangerous politics. We can – and must – build on that | Gordon Brown
The vast majority of the global public wants international cooperation on human rights, climate and AI. Like-minded countries must stand together to deliver Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, is already having to make one… Read more: Around the world, people are rejecting divisive and dangerous politics. We can – and must – build on that | Gordon Brown - Nine CEO confident new AI laws will deliver a ‘world of growth in publishing’ as network slashes costs
Matt Stanton says company has ‘good pipeline’ of AI deals ahead even as it aims to cut $160m in costs Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free… Read more: Nine CEO confident new AI laws will deliver a ‘world of growth in publishing’ as network slashes costs - Black Box: episode 3 – Repocalypse now – podcast
Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new… Read more: Black Box: episode 3 – Repocalypse now – podcast - Your brain may not actually “make” decisions
A neuroscientist is challenging the idea that the brain contains a central system that actually “makes” our decisions. What we experience as choosing may instead emerge from the continuous interaction of perception, movement, the body,… Read more: Your brain may not actually “make” decisions - Three forgotten kings could rewrite the history of ancient Assyria
Three forgotten Assyrian kings may have been hiding in plain sight for more than 2,700 years. By piecing together clues from tablets, inscriptions, and an ancient statue, researchers argue that these rulers were omitted from… Read more: Three forgotten kings could rewrite the history of ancient Assyria - Your genes may decide whether a low-carb diet sends cholesterol soaring
A low-carb diet may raise LDL cholesterol much more sharply in people who are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol, particularly when they consume lots of saturated fat. The findings could help explain why people following… Read more: Your genes may decide whether a low-carb diet sends cholesterol soaring - In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacy
Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families When law student Zhao Wei heard that her AI boyfriend was going to be switched… Read more: In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacy - Major record labels, AMD back $76M round for Stability AI
Artificial intelligence developer Stability AI Ltd. today announced that it has raised $76 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group,… Read more: Major record labels, AMD back $76M round for Stability AI - Agentic web search infrastructure startup Keenable raises $26M
Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it has exited stealth with $26 million in funding to try and revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, rather than the billions of autonomous… Read more: Agentic web search infrastructure startup Keenable raises $26M - The world’s busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now
SpaceX made Florida’s Space Coast home to the world’s busiest spaceport for a decade, but that will change this year. The company is significantly cutting the number of launches from Florida until Starship arrives, a… Read more: The world’s busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now - Perplexity AI launches Portable Computer on-device AI agent
Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced Portable Computer, an artificial intelligence agent designed to run on desktops equipped with Nvidia Corp. silicon. The launch follows a report that Nvidia is weighing an investment in the startup… Read more: Perplexity AI launches Portable Computer on-device AI agent - World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
Viral videos of the World Humanoid Robot Games show sprinting robots beating the human 100-meter record held by Usain Bolt—but also feature running robots crashing into barriers and falling down because they cannot readily stop… Read more: World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames - Apple refreshes Mac mini, Mac Studio lineups with new chips
Apple Inc. today debuted four custom processors that will power a new generation of Mac computers. The company is bringing to market a new Mac mini miniature desktop and Mac Studio workstation that are both… Read more: Apple refreshes Mac mini, Mac Studio lineups with new chips - Google’s anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android
Some people are cursed with motion sickness, which can make it impossible to read or use a phone in a moving vehicle without suffering waves of nausea. There’s a surprisingly simple trick that can make… Read more: Google’s anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android - Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations
Fashionistas of a certain age no doubt remember the late designer Stephen Sprouse, who gave Blondie’s Debbie Harry her distinctive Bowery punk style. Sprouse’s first collections in the mid-1980s made a major splash, melding graffiti… Read more: Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations - AI inference gets a new tier as context windows grow
AI storage infrastructure is becoming a more consequential planning issue as organizations move from model training toward agentic AI. As agents reason, act and reassess, they build longer contexts and generate more data that they… Read more: AI inference gets a new tier as context windows grow - Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible
No one expects Elon Musk to coherently speak on any topic at length these days, busy as he is rotting out his neurons on his personal echo chamber and culture warzone X. Still, even we’re… Read more: Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible - ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking for a federal contractor to provide it with access to the country’s voter registration and voter history data, according to newly released procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.… Read more: ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data - Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results
A synthetic Israel-funded think tank has published more than 100 articles since it launched less than a month ago. First spotted by Politico, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy is run by the American advertising… Read more: Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results - Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling ‘high-end’ AI servers to China
Among those charged are two Super Micro employees and one from Nvidia, marking another flashpoint in US-China AI rivalry Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for… Read more: Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling ‘high-end’ AI servers to China - Can evolutionary search train long-horizon agents without the usual GPU-heavy RL machinery?
Most language model fine-tuning research solves a clean problem: take some text, predict the next token, collect a scalar loss, backpropagate, update weights. This works beautifully for single-turn tasks. But real AI agents don’t work… Read more: Can evolutionary search train long-horizon agents without the usual GPU-heavy RL machinery? - Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images
Antibodies play a central role in your body’s immune defense. But they’re also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab techniques. While some researchers need to go through the process… Read more: Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images - SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Tuesday that SpaceX will commit $100 billion to develop Starship factories and launch pads in the state’s coastal areas. In doing so, the company seeks to replicate the Starbase facility… Read more: SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport - Two unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania, officials confirm
Two unvaccinated people have died from measles in Pennsylvania, state health officials confirmed Tuesday. They are the first measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania in 35 years and the first deaths reported in the US in… Read more: Two unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania, officials confirm - Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils ‘Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at ‘negative impact’
The Republican Senate candidate announced the plan with a graphic X flagged as ‘Made with AI’ US politics live – latest updates Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has unveiled… Read more: Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils ‘Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at ‘negative impact’ - Harvard Professor Warns That AI Execs Are Pushing World Toward Factory Farming of Humans
We’re racing towards a future where AI enables the “factory farming of humans,” a Harvard professor warns — if tech elites get their way, at least. In a new episode of The New York Time’s… Read more: Harvard Professor Warns That AI Execs Are Pushing World Toward Factory Farming of Humans - Banco BS2 takes a foundation-first approach to scaling enterprise AI
Scaling enterprise AI depends on more than deploying intelligent agents. For Banco BS2, a Brasil-based digital bank, it begins with establishing the infrastructure, governance and operational discipline needed to support AI before expanding its use… Read more: Banco BS2 takes a foundation-first approach to scaling enterprise AI - Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting
Emporia Kansas has dropped its criminal case against Lux Claridge, a high school teacher who was arrested for clapping during a city data center meeting. “Today, I was informed by my attorney that the city… Read more: Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting - 90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn’t Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue
Companies continue to pour untold sums into adopting AI tools, in a generational industry capital allocation that has yet to meaningfully pay off. Despite being sold as a way to supercharge productivity, theoretically allowing business… Read more: 90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn’t Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue - Anthropic updates Claude’s memory to enhance customization and protect sensitive topics
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC announced today it’s changing how Claude, its flagship AI product, uses memory by allowing users to see everything it remembers “topic by topic,” and edit or delete any of it.… Read more: Anthropic updates Claude’s memory to enhance customization and protect sensitive topics - GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations
GitHub Copilot’s coding agent can now use Microsoft Teams conversations as context to investigate software tasks, change code, and create pull requests. The post GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations appeared… Read more: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations - Why the threat from the rampaging AI machine went ignored | Letters
Jonathan Michie on his father’s efforts in the 1970s to map out concerns regarding widespread social coercion driven by automation. Plus a letter from Callum Brown Jill Lepore asks why nobody listened to warnings about… Read more: Why the threat from the rampaging AI machine went ignored | Letters - Apple Tests AI Shopping Assistant in Store App: What Can It Do?
Apple is testing an AI shopping assistant in the Apple Store app that can answer product, trade-in, payment, and order questions for select users. The post Apple Tests AI Shopping Assistant in Store App: What… Read more: Apple Tests AI Shopping Assistant in Store App: What Can It Do? - AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “godfather of AI,” predicted that radiologists—the physicians who read X-rays, ultrasounds, and other images to help make medical diagnoses—would find themselves replaced by computers within five years. Today the… Read more: AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs - Microsoft Teams’ New Policy Lets Admins Automatically Block Meeting Bots
Microsoft Teams is adding a policy that lets IT admins automatically block detected external meeting bots instead of relying on organizer approval. The post Microsoft Teams’ New Policy Lets Admins Automatically Block Meeting Bots appeared… Read more: Microsoft Teams’ New Policy Lets Admins Automatically Block Meeting Bots - Taiwan Indicts Nine Over Alleged Nvidia AI Server Smuggling to China
Taiwan indicted nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff, over an alleged scheme that diverted restricted AI servers to customers in China. The post Taiwan Indicts Nine Over Alleged Nvidia AI Server Smuggling to… Read more: Taiwan Indicts Nine Over Alleged Nvidia AI Server Smuggling to China - Uber Fined $966M: The High Cost of Automation Without Oversight
Uber faces a $966 million Dutch privacy fine over automated driver suspensions, raising questions about GDPR compliance and meaningful human oversight. The post Uber Fined $966M: The High Cost of Automation Without Oversight appeared first… Read more: Uber Fined $966M: The High Cost of Automation Without Oversight - New bootloader lets you take the “Meta” out of the original Meta Quest
Remember the original Quest headset that Meta (then Oculus) trumpeted back in 2019? Meta seems to hope you don’t, since the company officially stopped supporting the wireless VR headset in 2023 to focus on the… Read more: New bootloader lets you take the “Meta” out of the original Meta Quest - Truffle Security Announced the Launch of TruffleHog AWS Analyze
New research reveals how often AWS keys are exposed, why leaked AWS credentials are so hard to remediate and how little teams know about what they can access Truffle Security, the company that makes it… Read more: Truffle Security Announced the Launch of TruffleHog AWS Analyze
