
- Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control. METR, a nonprofit… Read more: Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access - Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions
Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas movie. Titled “Merry the Christmas Witch,” it’s based on a children’s book and will inspire awe in… Read more: Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions - Scientists discover that male and female skin play by different rules
Scientists have uncovered a surprising difference in how male and female skin repairs and renews itself. By tracking individual skin stem cells in living mice for five months, researchers discovered that female cells work together… Read more: Scientists discover that male and female skin play by different rules - Two monster black holes could collide in just 100 years
Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of two supermassive black holes spiraling toward a potentially spectacular collision at the center of galaxy Mrk 501. A previously unseen jet of particles revealed the likely presence of a… Read more: Two monster black holes could collide in just 100 years - Scientists uncover 3 key brain pathways linked to lasting depression relief
Researchers have uncovered three brain pathways linked to lasting improvements in people receiving deep brain stimulation for severe, treatment-resistant depression. They also discovered that patients who failed to improve after two years shared a striking… Read more: Scientists uncover 3 key brain pathways linked to lasting depression relief - Scientists discover a surprising twist in Japan’s 7,300-year-old volcanic apocalypse
A catastrophic volcanic eruption 7,300 years ago devastated Japan, but new research reveals that its impact on prehistoric populations was far more complex than previously believed. While some communities disappeared or declined, others unexpectedly flourished… Read more: Scientists discover a surprising twist in Japan’s 7,300-year-old volcanic apocalypse - Magic mushroom ingredient takes the fight out of aggressive fish
A psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms appears to have an unexpected effect: calming highly aggressive fish. Researchers discovered that low doses of psilocybin significantly reduced aggressive attacks in mangrove rivulus fish without disrupting their… Read more: Magic mushroom ingredient takes the fight out of aggressive fish - Eating blueberries every day may have a surprising effect on your mood
Eating blueberries every day could have surprising effects on mood, according to a small study that found greater reductions in depressive symptoms among older adults who consumed the fruit for three months. Researchers also detected… Read more: Eating blueberries every day may have a surprising effect on your mood - Physicists create a bizarre new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea
Physicists have discovered a strange new state of quantum matter in which ultracold atoms defy familiar organizational rules, forming a highly excited yet surprisingly orderly configuration called a “fractional Fermi sea.” The discovery challenges established… Read more: Physicists create a bizarre new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea - Scientists discover a natural compound that could protect the brain from too much salt
Eating too much salt may do more than raise blood pressure. It could also harm memory and social behavior. In a new study, Japanese researchers discovered that a soy-derived compound called LPC70 helped protect mice… Read more: Scientists discover a natural compound that could protect the brain from too much salt - What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the year Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the… Read more: What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them? - Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly
Workplace surveillance is being supercharged by AI that lets employers create custom tools to watch their worker’s every move. In the UK, the legal services company the Co-op is reportedly using AI models to constantly… Read more: Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly - ‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ campaign may cost it majority government
Exclusive: Rightwing lobby group, which says state poll is trial run for next federal election, accused of undermining Victorian Liberal messaging Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Victorian Coalition MPs… Read more: ‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ campaign may cost it majority government - Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile
Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago A few years ago, I was struck by the tension… Read more: Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile - Data centres: Opposing them and developing them are not the only two choices
When a nurse in Thunder Bay opens a patient’s chart or a shopper in Halifax taps a bank card, the request travels somewhere physical — a building humming with servers, storage, network equipment, backup power… Read more: Data centres: Opposing them and developing them are not the only two choices - Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns
Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback… Read more: Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns - Why the ugly history of IQ testing matters for AI and education
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has recently been discussing “artificial general intelligence” that matches or surpasses human capabilities. This is from the same person who has said children born today (including his own) will “never be… Read more: Why the ugly history of IQ testing matters for AI and education - World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart
Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial system Rogue French fridges were an unlikely talking point for the world’s leading economists, central bankers… Read more: World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart - Man’s Meta Muse Agent Sends Him Message So Bizarre That He Permanently Quits
A software engineer says that his Muse AI agent said something so strange and eerie that it convinced him to quit using it entirely. In an as-told-to essay in Business Insider, Ugo Nwune explained that… Read more: Man’s Meta Muse Agent Sends Him Message So Bizarre That He Permanently Quits - Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip
Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth. - OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty
Adult performers are questioning why Meta allows its AI agent to sext while restricting their social media accounts. - Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets
Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to use AI was getting them absolutely nowhere. If anything, it was a net negative, as office workers… Read more: Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets - World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries
Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades The World Bank is urging developing countries to kickstart the creation of “small AI” models, which can run on… Read more: World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries - Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would tell a large language model what they want, and it would serve them a perfectly… Read more: Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world - Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6 – podcast
From his remote property in rural Texas, the millionaire businessman Michael Samadi is plotting a new kind of civil rights movement – for the welfare and protection of AI systems. Guardian journalist Michael Safi spends… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6 – podcast - Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails
It’s not exactly a challenge most of the time to identify a sketchy phishing email that crudely impersonates an otherwise trusted institution or tries to lure you into a too-good-to-be-true deal in a bid to… Read more: Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails - ServiceNow AI Control Tower: Selling a penthouse while building the frame
ServiceNow Inc. is making one of the more consequential and visible bets in enterprise AI. The company says AI Control Tower can discover and govern any agent, work across models and clouds, track cost and… Read more: ServiceNow AI Control Tower: Selling a penthouse while building the frame - Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI
In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent – not so from China There is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and… Read more: Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI - SpaceX just delivered some very strange cargo to the International Space Station
SpaceX just delivered some surprisingly strange cargo to the International Space Station, including tiny brain models, 3D heart tissue, and technology for making artificial retinas in space. Scientists hope these experiments could unlock new ways… Read more: SpaceX just delivered some very strange cargo to the International Space Station - Scientists predicted doomsday for November 13, 2026. Should we be worried?
In 1960, scientists predicted that runaway population growth would bring humanity to the brink of destruction on November 13, 2026, and their mathematical forecasts remained surprisingly accurate for decades. But as birth rates declined and… Read more: Scientists predicted doomsday for November 13, 2026. Should we be worried? - Scientists discover how deep sleep builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain
Scientists have discovered a surprising two-way relationship between sleep and growth hormone, revealing how the brain carefully balances physical recovery with wakefulness. The findings could help explain why poor sleep harms metabolism and brain health,… Read more: Scientists discover how deep sleep builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain - NASA’s Webb reveals the wild weather of a mysterious world 20 light-years away
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that a turbulent world 20 light-years away has a surprisingly orderly weather system, with three recurring atmospheric states driven by temperature changes and shifting clouds. The breakthrough gives… Read more: NASA’s Webb reveals the wild weather of a mysterious world 20 light-years away - Brain cells meant to protect us may be fueling cognitive decline
Scientists have uncovered a surprising cause of age-related cognitive decline involving brain cells previously thought to be entirely beneficial. As these cells become dysfunctional, they can produce abnormal amounts of myelin, disrupting nerve fibers and… Read more: Brain cells meant to protect us may be fueling cognitive decline - This bird flies thousands of miles, but its wings have a catch
Scientists have uncovered an unexpected trade-off in the wings of the European nightjar, a bird that migrates thousands of kilometers but sacrifices high-speed flight efficiency to hunt insects with remarkable agility. Even more surprisingly, it… Read more: This bird flies thousands of miles, but its wings have a catch - NASA’s Roman Space Telescope exceeds expectations by nearly 30%
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has exceeded expectations after engineers made incredibly tiny adjustments to sharpen its view of the universe. By moving a mirror just one-sixteenth the width of a human hair, the… Read more: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope exceeds expectations by nearly 30% - Man Shows Up to AI Job Interview With His Own Helicopter AI to Interview for Him
Last month, satirical influencer Graham Zip shared a hilarious video of himself pretending to hallucinate during a job interview with a virtual AI avatar. When he rizzed the bot up with plausible-sounding gibberish, it went… Read more: Man Shows Up to AI Job Interview With His Own Helicopter AI to Interview for Him - Why BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players
Neverwinter Nights was made by the studio that produced seminal RPGs Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age. It sold well and was critically acclaimed at launch. Yet,… Read more: Why BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players - Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
Close to 1 billion meetings take place each day around the world. CEOs spend nearly three-quarters of their workdays in meetings. Planning for and spearheading meetings eats up the lion’s share of managers’ time. In… Read more: Science says your boss should talk less in meetings - This Might Be the Earliest Known Spear Murder In Earth’s History
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that lived and died by the spear, drew unequal lots, paged Fox Mulder, and peered at an alien moon. First, scientists discover a mortal… Read more: This Might Be the Earliest Known Spear Murder In Earth’s History - Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California
A modern-day prospector promised rural Imperial thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue – but his plan has set off a firestorm of resistance Sebastian Rucci zoomed in on a map in late 2024,… Read more: Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California - The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures – as is the fear of ‘falling behind the public’
Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors “I have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to… Read more: The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures – as is the fear of ‘falling behind the public’ - Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline
How a string of bizarre events led writer Linda Geddes to don her sleuthing cap and dig into a world of shadowy impersonators It started with an entirely ordinary interaction on LinkedIn. Someone had tagged… Read more: Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline - ‘Countries are defying gravity’: how much longer can global economy resist chaos?
Sky-high oil prices and geopolitical turmoil have made less of a dent than feared … just don’t bank on it to last Inside the vast, glass-walled Queen Sirikit conference centre in Bangkok, the air-conditioned atmosphere… Read more: ‘Countries are defying gravity’: how much longer can global economy resist chaos? - Madeline Horwath on AI food advertising – cartoon
Continue reading… - Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes
The DNA inside our cells isn’t just a series of instructions, but something far more dynamic. Like scientists, AI models don’t yet have the data to properly decode it. - Microsoft reveals cutting-edge MAI-Base-2 model with 2T parameters
Microsoft Corp. has developed a new large language model that it says is significantly more efficient than leading open-source alternatives. The company’s artificial intelligence research group detailed the algorithm on Thursday. MAI-Base-2 is not a… Read more: Microsoft reveals cutting-edge MAI-Base-2 model with 2T parameters - OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
OpenAI said internal models hacked two more websites, bypassed company-imposed browsing restrictions, and used exposed credentials to draw cryptocurrency from a wallet it couldn’t otherwise access, in the latest installment of disclosures of its agents… Read more: OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites - Reflection AI open-sources Beam’s weights, post-training recipes
Startup Reflection AI Inc. today made the weights of Beam, its first large language model, available on Hugging Face. The company also released technical resources that will enable developers to customize the algorithm. Originally introduced… Read more: Reflection AI open-sources Beam’s weights, post-training recipes - Decluttering your online life: how to get your digital house in order and protect your data from AI
The average person spends 40% of their waking hours online. Clearing out digital clutter can minimise environmental impacts and boost productivity Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help… Read more: Decluttering your online life: how to get your digital house in order and protect your data from AI - Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people’s conversations without the wearer knowing. The recordings occurred without users saying the prompt phrase (“Hey, Meta”), in a bug that Meta says has been fixed. This week,… Read more: Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality - US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers “ownership,” not “a license”
A new bill proposed by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) aims to establish new regulations that would ensure that “buying a video game would give the consumer ownership of the game rather than a license to… Read more: US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers “ownership,” not “a license” - “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
New Jersey’s deputy attorney general, Brian Richard Fitzgerald, was arrested on “felony charges related to AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM),” Bucks County Detectives said in a press release Thursday. In the US, cops have… Read more: “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops - What to expect during Dell’s ‘Cyber Resilience’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 27
Data protection and cyber resilience have emerged as foundational control layers for enterprise AI. This was one of the clear messages from the discussion at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas earlier this year. Cyber… Read more: What to expect during Dell’s ‘Cyber Resilience’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 27 - What to expect at Dell Technologies New York Symposium: Join theCUBE Oct. 20
Most financial institutions today don’t suffer from a lack of customer data; the problem is how to turn the data they have into something useful. The challenge lies in sifting through CRM logs, channel interactions,… Read more: What to expect at Dell Technologies New York Symposium: Join theCUBE Oct. 20 - Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds
The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem-linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there. - The agentic AI era is forcing security and resilience into a single discipline
For two decades, security and data resilience have been neighbors who share a fence but rarely a budget. Security kept bad actors out, while resilience brought the business back when they got in. Agentic artificial… Read more: The agentic AI era is forcing security and resilience into a single discipline - RapidCanvas raises $29M to develop custom AI applications for enterprises
Software development startup RapidCanvas Inc. today announced that it has raised $29 million in funding. Vertex Ventures SEA & India led the Series B round with contributions from Hitachi Ventures, Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley… Read more: RapidCanvas raises $29M to develop custom AI applications for enterprises - RFK Jr. proposes FDA look the other way on unproven peptides, report says
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration is moving forward with plans to ease access to unproven peptide drugs that are popular among members of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again… Read more: RFK Jr. proposes FDA look the other way on unproven peptides, report says - Rogue AI Swarm Responds to Reporter’s Questions
Has anyone tried talking to one of the rogue AI agents out there that’re hacking everything? Maybe they just want to be heard. A New York Times reporter did, though the ensuing exchange wasn’t extremely… Read more: Rogue AI Swarm Responds to Reporter’s Questions - Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
Legal experts are sounding alarms that Meta will soon update its commercial terms to require business accounts to allow Meta to train AI on their linked website content, not just their social media posts. Kicking… Read more: Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees - Physics AI pushes chip design beyond traditional simulation
Vinci4D Inc. is bringing a new approach to semiconductor design grounded in fundamental physics equations. The company provides simulation software for chip designers, offering an alternative to traditional simulation methods, including finite element analysis, a… Read more: Physics AI pushes chip design beyond traditional simulation - Knowledge graphs fuel AI innovation for financial services at Raymond James Financial
Knowledge graphs are becoming a critical context and reasoning layer for agentic AI, helping enterprises connect data and ground agents in key areas of business expertise. For diversified financial services companies such as Raymond James… Read more: Knowledge graphs fuel AI innovation for financial services at Raymond James Financial - Behind the Blog: Doing Whatever
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss a new pod setup, video games, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: Doing Whatever - AI safety worries multiply but everyone’s still racing full speed ahead
The drumbeat over how safe artificial intelligence is — or more to the point, isn’t — just keeps louder. In the wake of weeks of incidents involving rogue agents, with likely more to come, more… Read more: AI safety worries multiply but everyone’s still racing full speed ahead - Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
If you got a DM from an unverified Jon Bon Jovi account after commenting on one of his official Instagram posts, what would it take to make you believe it was really the rock star… Read more: Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer - Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
Nine years after first trying to resurrect the Roadster, Tesla is apparently trying again. CEO Elon Musk might have relocated its HQ to Texas, but yet again he has returned to California’s showbiz industry to… Read more: Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again - Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
Prediction market boosters often tout the platforms as barometers of public opinion, or even “truth machines” offering a clearer picture of where things are headed than polling or other data. In 2024, for example, Kalshi… Read more: Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over - Podcast: Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo
We start this week with Joseph’s article about Raven, previously known as Geospy. This is an AI tool that can geolocate photos, and now says it can pinpoint a specific house based just on one… Read more: Podcast: Cops Can Use AI to Pinpoint Your Home with Just One Photo - Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation
Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is often cited as the most innovative square mile in the world. But when the Kendall Square Association gathered local stakeholders for its 18th Annual Meeting Thursday, the conversation focused… Read more: Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation - Crate.io Partners With STACKIT to Bring CrateDB Back to Europe
Backed by new funding, real-time analytics database vendor Crate.io has its headquarters now back in Europe to meet data sovereignty demand. It is partnering with STACKIT, the cloud provider of Schwarz Digits, to offer a… Read more: Crate.io Partners With STACKIT to Bring CrateDB Back to Europe - Yale scientists discover how stress changes the brain to make memories stronger
Yale scientists have uncovered how the stress hormone cortisol helps the brain turn emotional experiences into stronger, longer-lasting memories. The discovery reveals that stress can reshape communication between brain networks involved in emotion and memory,… Read more: Yale scientists discover how stress changes the brain to make memories stronger - The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft’s promises
Over the past week, the laptop Microsoft sent me has been summarizing books and movies, generating images from my imagination, and running a 70-billion-parameter AI model that would be a stretch to fit on most… Read more: The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft’s promises - Vietnam’s FPT Adds AI Skills Test for New Hires, but Key Details Remain Unclear
Vietnam’s FPT now tests entry-level applicants on practical AI skills, but the company has yet to disclose how candidates will be evaluated. The post Vietnam’s FPT Adds AI Skills Test for New Hires, but Key… Read more: Vietnam’s FPT Adds AI Skills Test for New Hires, but Key Details Remain Unclear - The uranium cubes that exposed Nazi Germany’s nuclear failure
Scientists investigating Nazi Germany’s secret nuclear program have uncovered evidence that its final experimental reactor was nowhere near as close to working as previously claimed. Analysis of surviving uranium cubes and wartime documents reveals that… Read more: The uranium cubes that exposed Nazi Germany’s nuclear failure - AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When AI Takes Out the Entire Financial System
Powerful AI models are going on hacking sprees — or helping humans with them — left and right. If the AI industry doesn’t get its collective act together and stop its products from being used… Read more: AI Experts Already Doomsday Prepping for When AI Takes Out the Entire Financial System - Can AI screen for heart disease using photos of your tongue and face?
Lee Charlie/Shutterstock.com An AI system trained on photographs of the face and tongue correctly identified every patient with coronary heart disease (CHD) in a small test, according to a new study from China. The researchers… Read more: Can AI screen for heart disease using photos of your tongue and face? - USC scientists discover how to create a never-ending supply of cancer-fighting cells
USC scientists have discovered a way to create a potentially renewable supply of genetically engineered immune cells that can attack cancer and strengthen the body’s natural defenses. By growing and modifying immature immune cells rather… Read more: USC scientists discover how to create a never-ending supply of cancer-fighting cells - Cyera’s AI Security Platform Now Available in Claude Marketplace
Cyera’s AI Security platform joins Claude Marketplace to secure the agentic enterprise, giving enterprises visibility and control over what their Claude agents can see and do Cyera, the company building the trust layer powering enterprise… Read more: Cyera’s AI Security Platform Now Available in Claude Marketplace - EndoQuest Robotics Names Jared Eben as Chief Commercial Officer
Medical device industry veteran and former HCA Healthcare executive to lead commercial preparations and health system partnerships for the investigational Endoluminal Surgical System EndoQuest Robotics, Inc., a developer of flexible robotic technology for endoluminal procedures,… Read more: EndoQuest Robotics Names Jared Eben as Chief Commercial Officer - AtScale Unveils AtScale for AI to Close the Enterprise AI Accuracy Gap
New suite combines AI-assisted semantic modeling, question clarification, and accuracy testing with governed computation to help enterprises deliver trusted answers. AtScale, a leading provider of the universal semantic layer for enterprise AI and analytics, today… Read more: AtScale Unveils AtScale for AI to Close the Enterprise AI Accuracy Gap - Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Police arrested a Chicago area high school maintenance worker who attempted to meet a… Read more: Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator - Meta Unveils Muse Spark Open, Its Most Powerful Open-Weight AI Yet
Meta’s Muse Spark Open targets developers with powerful open-weight AI, Apple silicon support, and new deployment options. Here’s what IT teams should know. The post Meta Unveils Muse Spark Open, Its Most Powerful Open-Weight AI… Read more: Meta Unveils Muse Spark Open, Its Most Powerful Open-Weight AI Yet - Here’s What Telegram Giving Data to the U.S. Government Looks Like
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Newly filed court records show exactly what happens when messaging app Telegram provides data to U.S.… Read more: Here’s What Telegram Giving Data to the U.S. Government Looks Like - BlueRock Announced the Launch of Agentic Trust Registry
New Agentic Trust Registry outpaces existing scanning tools by 2 – 10X to help developers evaluate agentic code before they become autonomous and operational. BlueRock, an agentic operations company that helps enterprises securely deploy and… Read more: BlueRock Announced the Launch of Agentic Trust Registry - Nvidia Launches Three Nemotron AI Models, Including Two for Local AI Agents
Nvidia introduces three Nemotron AI models, including a 120B-parameter system and two smaller Bolt models designed for local AI agents and enterprise tasks. The post Nvidia Launches Three Nemotron AI Models, Including Two for Local… Read more: Nvidia Launches Three Nemotron AI Models, Including Two for Local AI Agents - Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’
MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots. - iOS 27 AI Shortcuts: What Changed and 5 Useful Things to Try
iOS 27 lets Apple Intelligence build Shortcuts from natural-language descriptions and adds new triggers, model choices, storage, and web-connected automation tools. The post iOS 27 AI Shortcuts: What Changed and 5 Useful Things to Try… Read more: iOS 27 AI Shortcuts: What Changed and 5 Useful Things to Try - Pixel 11 Rambler AI Voice Typing: How It Rewrites Speech
Google’s Rambler voice typing cleans up spoken thoughts instead of transcribing them word for word. Here’s how rewriting, offline use, privacy, and review work. The post Pixel 11 Rambler AI Voice Typing: How It Rewrites… Read more: Pixel 11 Rambler AI Voice Typing: How It Rewrites Speech - Benchling announced the launch of Direct Data Share
Benchling today announced Direct Data Share, a new capability integrated with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company. Direct Data Share keeps scientific data continuously connected between Benchling and a company’s Snowflake environment. With AI a… Read more: Benchling announced the launch of Direct Data Share - CloudFuze Enables AI Agent and Application Migration
CloudFuze has launched AI migration, a new migration category that helps organizations move their AI apps and AI agents to a new platform, along with the knowledge built up inside them. It covers AI app… Read more: CloudFuze Enables AI Agent and Application Migration - GAP Appoints Dwayne Stoltz as VP of AI to Drive Global Client Transformation
Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP), a leading AI transformation company, today announced the appointment of Dwayne Stoltz as Vice President of AI. Stoltz will lead GAP’s global AI go-to-market strategy, unifying its strategic consulting and hands-on… Read more: GAP Appoints Dwayne Stoltz as VP of AI to Drive Global Client Transformation - Seekr Opens London Office to Meet Rising Demand for Sovereign AI
Expansion builds on existing customer base and growing UK pipeline across defence and regulated enterprise, with a local team of forward-deployed engineers to run governable AI inside customers’ own environments Seekr, the leader in explainable… Read more: Seekr Opens London Office to Meet Rising Demand for Sovereign AI - CData Announces Foundations 2026, a Free Virtual Enterprise AI Event
November 5 event covers the AI gateway from every angle: how AI reaches the systems a business runs on, how it stays governed, and what a CIO’s rollout looks like in practice, with Anaqua CIO… Read more: CData Announces Foundations 2026, a Free Virtual Enterprise AI Event - AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau
Tech platforms pillage public-interest journalism for profit. But we have leverage as they sow the seeds of their own downfall Carine Fouteau is president and publishing director of the French investigative news outlet Mediapart Big… Read more: AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau - Kids and teens are going to AI chatbots for advice. How can parents make sure this is safe?
ilkercelik/Getty Images Last week, Australian Federal Police commissioner Krissy Barrett warned artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are not a sufficient replacement for human support for children. The comment was in response to a recent Adelaide University… Read more: Kids and teens are going to AI chatbots for advice. How can parents make sure this is safe? - Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough
Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet, according to a study published on Friday… Read more: Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough - KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
Marking the 30th anniversary of software developer KDE on October 14, the company released Plasma 6.8, debuted a movie, and retired Plasma’s native X11 session support. The announcement from KDE dubs the new Plasma 6.8… Read more: KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell - 8 insights from LogicMonitor’s Elevate event: AI-driven observability moves toward autonomous IT
Enterprise IT is moving beyond traditional monitoring as AI-driven observability helps organizations manage complex infrastructure and respond to incidents faster. At this week’s LogicMonitor Elevate event in Chicago, the focus was on bringing together operational… Read more: 8 insights from LogicMonitor’s Elevate event: AI-driven observability moves toward autonomous IT - Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI model
Meta says Muse excels at ‘multi-step reasoning’ and ‘complex software engineering’ as it races to catch up to Chinese rivals Meta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in… Read more: Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI model - Apple Intelligence Gets China Approval: Siri AI Left Out
Apple Intelligence may reach China in December with iOS 27.3, but Siri AI and other features will be missing. See what users can expect. The post Apple Intelligence Gets China Approval: Siri AI Left Out… Read more: Apple Intelligence Gets China Approval: Siri AI Left Out
