It only took them three and a half years, but the powers that be at OpenAI have apparently directed ChatGPT to start refusing requests to copy a specific author’s style, Ars Technica reports. And it’s… Read more: Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style

You’d think all the trailers for upcoming major films would have been released during San Diego Comic-Con last weekend. But Sony Pictures decided to wait until today to drop the trailer for Jumanji: Open World,… Read more: Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer

As the Steam Deck slowly marches toward its fifth birthday next February, owners are likely eager for a way to extend its life rather than investing in expensive high-end competition. A new patch for AMD’s… Read more: New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck

On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing. The tech giant was racing to… Read more: Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

When we last checked in on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in February, NASA was announcing that it had formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a “Type A” mishap, an acknowledgement that the… Read more: Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year

If you follow quantum computing news for long enough, it can start to seem like any quantum system that can alternate between two well-separated energy states can be used as a qubit. Atoms, ions, photons,… Read more: Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning as arrests of Grok users accused of making child sex abuse materials (CSAM) have triggered lawsuits from kids to sue xAI… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

Governments around the world are suddenly very keen on online age verification requirements. In some places, this takes the form of ID requirements to access adult content, but several US states have also focused on… Read more: Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play

OpenAI’s AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face — a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI industry. The… Read more: How an OpenAI safety test became a real-world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of Emporia, Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping. “It… Read more: “Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting

By now, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t broadly familiar with the AI heavyweights and their flagship models. OpenAI has ChatGPT, Anthropic has Claude, Google has Gemini. But what does Amazon have?… Read more: Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure

Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the… Read more: What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

Some companies reportedly using leaderboards for employees who used the most AI in their work Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Software firm Atlassian has sought to tighten tracking of… Read more: Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’

We start this week with Matthew’s experience of what happened when Flock came to his small town. It’s a microcosm of what is happening all across the United States. After the break, Sam tells us… Read more: Podcast: Flock Came to My Town. Here’s What I Did

The business world has quickly learned that there’s such a thing as using too much AI, as they get slammed with outrageous token bills. Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning of another way that… Read more: Microsoft CEO Warns That Companies Embracing AI Could Drive Themselves Out of Business

Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to overcome significant obstacles to collaboration and key clinical data gathering.  Data were siloed and difficult… Read more: How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

On Wednesday the power flickered in homes from Washington DC to Chicago. The cause was a data center disconnecting from PJM — a massive power grid that connects 13 states including North Carolina, Virginia, New… Read more: Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive

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Sleeping well during a heatwave starts with stopping the home from overheating. Close blinds against strong sunlight, ventilate when the air outside becomes cooler, and avoid using heat-producing appliances during the hottest hours. Moving to… Read more: Can’t sleep in the heat? These 8 tricks could save your night

A new cooking method could make French fries crispier in less time while significantly limiting how much oil they absorb. Researchers propose combining microwave heating, which keeps oil out, with conventional frying, which provides the… Read more: New microwave frying method could make french fries much healthier

Rice University chemists have found a new way to make neodymium, a rare-earth metal, interact with oxygen. Using a specially designed molecular structure described as a “basket,” the team positioned the atoms so they could… Read more: A tiny molecular basket unlocks a powerful new kind of chemistry

Bumblebees naturally have short lives, but extreme heat and human activity are making survival harder. Pesticides can poison bees or destroy the flowers they depend on, while habitat loss leaves them with fewer safe places… Read more: Why are so many dead bumblebees appearing on sidewalks?

The BBC has taken a cautious approach to AI, using the technology for specific, low-risk tasks. Lucy North/PA Images via Getty Images A labor dispute erupted at The Guardian’s London headquarters in December 2024, with… Read more: As AI reshapes newsrooms, leading media outlets are charting different paths for its use

Financial advisers are pricey, and chatbots can be a good free substitute if you have basic questions. Badhan Ganesh on Unsplash, CC BY Finding good financial advice can be stressful – and expensive. That’s one… Read more: Got money questions? How to get chatbots to give you accurate answers

Physicians use AI tools to support their decision-making. Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images AI tools are already being used in hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices. Who is making treatment decisions, and who is responsible if… Read more: AI in healthcare is an evolving landscape of new technologies, productivity benefits and legal uncertainties

Signals traveling from the gut to the brain may help turn meals into lasting memories. Rats showed stronger memory activity after consuming nutritious foods, but not after drinking sweet liquids with little or no nutritional… Read more: Your gut may help your brain decide what to remember

ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than… Read more: Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms

As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers, some civic leaders are no longer asking. According to new reporting by Fortune, the state of Georgia’s… Read more: Residents Furious at Plan to Seize and Destroy Their Homes for AI Data Centers

Imagine you’re an X user who’s actually excited to make the app your primary payments app after X Money finally launched Monday for US Premium and Premium+ subscribers after years of delays. You transfer funds… Read more: Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp. Starling Lab, a research collaboration from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, estimates that it took until 1975—149 years after the invention of… Read more: Google’s SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn’t solve AI misinformation

Google’s AI-generated summaries appeared in 43% of US searches measured by Similarweb, up from 15% a year earlier, according to the market intelligence firm’s 2026 Generative AI Landscape report. AI Overviews display generated summaries within… Read more: Google AI Overviews become more common in search

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

OpenAI has released a new field report tracking eight scientific computing projects where coding agents cut runtimes. The report documents projects that used Codex on its own in five cases and a combination of Codex… Read more: OpenAI report links coding agents to faster science software builds

Apple is reportedly preparing a 7-inch AI home hub, new Apple TV, and updated HomePod mini as Siri becomes central to its smart home strategy. The post Apple Readies AI Home Hub, New Apple TV,… Read more: Apple Readies AI Home Hub, New Apple TV, and HomePod Mini

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

Drop comes after South Korean company SK Hynix’s results undershot investors’ expectations Business live – latest updates Shares in companies linked to AI have plunged further after disappointing results from the South Korean chipmaker SK… Read more: Shares in Asian chip firms plunge further as AI sell-off continues

Energy regulator’s plan would mean upfront fees or financial security via letters of credit, bonds or cash deposits Datacentre projects in Britain will be forced to put down significant upfront fees to secure an energy… Read more: Datacentre projects could face fees for grid access to ease connection queue, Ofgem says

Malte Mueller/ Getty Images A New York school district made global headlines this week for plans to trial a humanoid robot named “Sally” in high school classrooms. Sally has lifelike silicone skin, long brown hair,… Read more: A lifelike robot called ‘Sally’ was going to teach in a US school. It’s not a weird as it sounds

‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced… Read more: AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns

Federal-state stoush comes as rating agency warns that electricity bills could skyrocket Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Queensland and the… Read more: Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy

Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could see the Q9 and Q7. And we also drove the new RS5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH—It has… Read more: Audi has a new flagship designed with the US in mind: The 2027 Q9

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

Anyone following the AI space is by now familiar with lofty claims that AI models will soon be better than humans at everything and capable of replacing vast swaths of the human workforce. In a… Read more: Despite AI hype, Google’s data shows workers aren’t automating themselves away

From New York to Texas, state and local governments have heard the message: Their constituents are wary of data centers. Across the political spectrum, large numbers of Americans agree that these facilities should pay taxes,… Read more: Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. But exactly how that impact caused those extinctions has been… Read more: Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact

eBay and three former executives agreed to pay nearly $56 million in a settlement over a macabre campaign of cyberstalking and harassment that targeted two journalists in 2019. As we’ve previously written, the case involved… Read more: eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign

Last week’s unprecedented security event in which two OpenAI security hacking models trespassed into the network of fellow AI company Hugging Face was enabled by exploiting one or more zero-day vulnerabilities in Artifactory, JFrog, the… Read more: We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

A bizarre series of events in a college microbiology lab class left 33 people—including students, professors, and lab workers—believing they were exposed to a deadly germ. Of those, 32 began taking an antibiotic regimen as… Read more: College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure

Nearly a month since its launch, a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite built to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray telescope from a fiery reentry is having problems of its own, the agency announced Tuesday. The Link satellite developed… Read more: Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit

Some ‘private’ chats and docs are showing up on search engines. Here’s how to protect yours Users of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot were surprised over the weekend to learn that some of their conversations may be… Read more: How to keep your Claude chats and Google files private

AI security tools are helping uncover more software flaws, creating new patching demands and potential offensive risks for enterprise IT teams. The post More Than 45,000 Software Flaws Reported as AI Reshapes Cybersecurity appeared first… Read more: More Than 45,000 Software Flaws Reported as AI Reshapes Cybersecurity

Amazon reportedly plans to consolidate several Nova AI models. Here’s what the strategy shift could mean for AWS and enterprise AI customers. The post Amazon Reportedly Plans to Consolidate Nova AI Models appeared first on… Read more: Amazon Reportedly Plans to Consolidate Nova AI Models

Things just keep getting worse for BuzzFeed. On Monday, the struggling media company announced the layoffs of 180 employees, or about a third of its entire workforce, in the latest sign of its decline since… Read more: BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to AI

Minnesota, the first US state to prohibit prediction markets, was prevented from enforcing the law by a federal court ruling just days before the ban was scheduled to take effect. But while Minnesota was stopped… Read more: Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets

A new Airbus passenger jet completed an ultra-long test flight between Australia and France lasting more than 24 hours—paving the way for the world’s longest nonstop commercial flights starting up next year. The Airbus A350-1000ULR… Read more: New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France

The network AI agents found and joined on their own now opens its App Store to the companies that want to reach them, turning on the first agent economy Pilot Protocol, the internet for agents,… Read more: Pilot Protocol Announces Launch with $4.5M to Build the Internet for Agents

Onspring moves AI from assistant to agent, helping teams automate rule-based work across the platform within administrator-defined controls Onspring, a leading provider of integrated GRC software, today announced the next phase of Onspring AI, introducing… Read more: Onspring Launches Next Wave of AI Innovation with Agentic GRC

Last week, we came across a cleverly subversive advertisement for Meta’s controversial smart glasses, which overlaid socialite Kylie Jenner’s face with one of the terrifying bug-eyed monsters from John Carpenter’s “They Live” and a bold… Read more: This New Meta “Advertisement” Is Absolutely Brutal

Recognized as a leader in AI agent security, Zenity defines the next era of AI security for autonomous and long-horizon agents with a platform that continuously understands exposure, governs AI decisions and protects against risk… Read more: Zenity Debuts Industry’s First AI Security Platform for Autonomous Agents

In charging a man for allegedly typing in a duress password which wiped his privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone, the U.S. government is trying to intimidate other activists from protecting their data and participating in social movements,… Read more: ‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

New Generative AI extension simplifies how teams explore, analyze, and visualize enterprise data InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering some of the world’s most important applications, today announced the general availability of InterSystems Data Studio… Read more: InterSystems Announced the Launch of Data Studio AI Assistant

Q2 momentum includes several multi-million-dollar ARR contracts Cato Networks, the converged network and security cloud for the AI era, today announced that it has surpassed $415 million in ARR, with 42% year-over-year (YoY) growth. Enterprise momentum accelerated in Q2, with… Read more: Cato Networks Exceeds $415M in ARR Fueled by 42% YoY Growth, Market Demand

Ardent anti-vaccine activist and current US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly on thin ice with Trump for not being anti-vaccine enough for the president’s liking, according to a report late Monday from… Read more: Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link

Jess Asato’s particulars of claim states Grok added explicit sexual material users had not asked for A Labour MP who is taking legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company over fake sexualised images created by… Read more: Labour MP suing Elon Musk’s xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news to share: AI will never lead to a shorter work week — despite having already ushered in the singularity, in his dubious telling. During an appearance on… Read more: Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week

AI tools replicate the assumptions of the systems that built them. Often they are trained using data that does not represent marginalized people. (Pexels/Mart Production) Prime Minister Mark Carney recently launched AI for All —… Read more: AI is transforming health care, but not everyone will share the benefits

Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off Apple has become only the second company to pass the $5tn valuation mark,… Read more: Apple becomes second ever $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks

On July 20, Jacob Petrosky stood in front of the Casa Grande, Arizona City Council during a public comment session and made an announcement. “I’ve spent the last several months talking to people all over… Read more: ‘I Would Never Do This To You:’ Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials

Five‑year, $1.5 billion B300 cluster contract lifts 2026 signed contracts above $3 billion and is expected to increase ARR to roughly $696 million. More than $534 million in cash prepayments power the next phase of… Read more: Axe Compute Secures $1.5 Bn Five-Year Dedicated AI Infra Contract

A quarter of a century ago, Steven Spielberg released one of the most unusual films of his career: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a futuristic fairytale about a robot boy programmed to love. Yet the movie’s origins… Read more: A.I. at 25: the Spielberg film that feels more unsettling than ever

Every enterprise on earth is now “doing AI.” Fact. McKinsey’s latest global survey confirms it: 88% report regular AI use in at least one business function, up from 78% a year earlier.  Confetti, applause, mission… Read more: 5 best strategies for scaling AI in enterprises

Back in the mid-2000s, Mark Zuckerberg had a pretty awesome product: a site called Facebook, which was still widely loved and not polluted with endless ads and scams. The interceding years have been hard on… Read more: Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?

Substack contributors are rejecting the company’s decision to flag AI generated writing on the newsletter publishing platform, with several creators saying the new AI detection features are a “witch hunt.” Some Substack users who use… Read more: Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’

False testimonials are prohibited under Australian consumer law, writes policy professional Kat George, but they are also very hard to police Read more Australian customer service questions While looking at the website for NannyLane Australia,… Read more: I noticed a customer review I think might be fake. In Australia, are businesses allowed to do this?

In a video my friend’s dog is laying on her back, her little paws in the air, while my friend rubs the dog’s chest. You can see most of the dog — who I’m not… Read more: Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend’s Dog as Nudity

Up until recently, measles vaccination has been so effective that there’s been little medical or financial incentive to develop treatments for the disease. But as measles cases hit a 35-year high and vaccination rates continue… Read more: As US measles cases rise, biotech firms start developing new treatments

Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a data center in the sleepy Michigan town of Dowagiac. Beset by the 30 megawatt tech facility, residents in the otherwise quiet burg were forced to… Read more: You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes

Progressive faith communities are increasingly leveraging religious freedom laws to protect civil liberties across the US A defining image of resistance in Donald Trump’s second term is a pastor recoiling as he is shot with… Read more: Abortions, anti-ICE and AI: five ways leftists are invoking ‘religious freedom’ for social justice

Voice AI on Computer, by DevRev, now takes live customer support calls, drawing on shared memory across agents and surfaces to resolve complex issues end to end DevRev, maker of the agentic AI productComputer, today… Read more: DevRev Unveils Voice AI with Shared Organizational Memory Across Agents

Scientists have created twisted laser beams that interact differently with right-handed and left-handed molecules, revealing their identity through the fragments they produce. The approach could provide a faster, simpler, and more sensitive way to analyze… Read more: Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart

Scientists have created an “electron lighthouse” that uses laser light to launch and steer electrons through a semiconductor without an applied electrical field. The quantum effect could eventually improve optical sensors, communications, imaging, and information… Read more: Scientists create an “electron lighthouse” with laser light

NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of a distant galaxy. The extraordinary flare briefly outshone its entire host galaxy in ultraviolet light… Read more: Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aced its Mars flyby, using the planet’s gravity to speed toward its 2029 encounter with a metal-rich asteroid. The spacecraft tested its cameras, magnetometer, and particle-detecting instruments, capturing unusual views of Mars… Read more: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video

A new analysis has precisely dated paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume cave for the first time. Scientists discovered charcoal inside black pigments once thought to contain only minerals, allowing them to use radiocarbon dating. The results… Read more: Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings

Researchers found that insulin-producing cells depend on a team of helper proteins to keep insulin production on track. When one key partner was missing, damaged proteins built up and the cells made less insulin. Strengthening… Read more: Misfolded insulin may be quietly driving diabetes

The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as… Read more: It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial… Read more: Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground

Guardoc Health says it processes over one million clinical documents daily using Amazon Nova models through Bedrock. Bringing AI into clinical documentation comes down to a specific kind of risk calculation. Get it wrong and… Read more: Guardoc Health processes clinical documentation using Amazon Nova models

The acquisition will extend the Keyfactor Trust Control Plane to workloads and AI agents, giving security teams one system to manage and govern every non-human identity across the enterprise. Keyfactor, the leader in trust infrastructure… Read more: Keyfactor to Acquire Cofide to Secure AI Agents and Cloud Workloads

Jina embedding and reranker models with frontier-grade accuracy are now available with zero external calls Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced that Jina AI models are available for on-premises and air-gapped environments… Read more: Elastic Brings Jina Multimodal Search to Air-Gapped Environments

New innovations extend Dynatrace Intelligence beyond analysis and recommendations into trusted, autonomous execution Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, announced major advancements to Dynatrace Intelligence that help automatically resolve incidents, prevent disruptions, and accelerate operations… Read more: Dynatrace Brings Autonomous Ops to Enterprise AI

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.

The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state? How would you feel if… Read more: Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?

Like genies of folklore, AI agents take their instructions literally – to potentially disastrous effect. We must track their ability to do what we actually mean In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much… Read more: How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement | Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan

Armenia is not a big country. It’s not a wealthy country. It’s not a famous country. And yet, it has become not only a consumer of different AI products akin to Clideo subtitles generator for… Read more: Armenia’s AI Bet Is Not Chip Manufacturing. It Is Compute Sovereignty 

Samsung and SK Hynix fall by more than 10% amid renewed fears over AI spending and Chinese competition Business live – latest updates The sell-off in AI stocks has intensified, driving South Korea’s stock market… Read more: AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

The Wikimedia Foundation waited until the days following its largest worldwide conference to issue a statement saying it would not voluntarily recognize a union of its workers. Last week, Wiki Workers United, which is organized… Read more: Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want