
- Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs. - eMazzanti’s Messaging Architects, miniOrange Partner on IAM
New partnership brings enterprise SSO, MFA, PAM, and Zero Trust security to organizations running on-premises systems, GroupWise, and mixed SaaS environments eMazzanti Technologies, Hoboken-based Microsoft Partner and leading managed services provider (MSP), today announced that… Read more: eMazzanti’s Messaging Architects, miniOrange Partner on IAM - UK economy defies forecasts with surprise 0.4% growth in July
Welcome boost for chancellor with unexpected rise put down to rapid growth of AI in services sector outweighing Iran war fallout The UK economy grew in July as the rapid growth of AI appeared to… Read more: UK economy defies forecasts with surprise 0.4% growth in July - ‘We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans’: if AI labs are so worried about AI doom, why don’t they stop?
Gorodenkoff / Getty Images Earlier this week, researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, saying the firm and its competitors are “gambling with our lives”. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” added current… Read more: ‘We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans’: if AI labs are so worried about AI doom, why don’t they stop? - OpenAI targets Wall Street bankers with a new version of ChatGPT
OpenAI Group PBC is going after Wall Street with a new version of ChatGPT that’s tailor made for financial tasks such as analysis and calculations. Predictably called ChatGPT for Financial Services, it’s designed to combine… Read more: OpenAI targets Wall Street bankers with a new version of ChatGPT - Extreme Networks’ Agent ONE Coworker moves AI networking from dashboards to answers
Operating a network has not changed in decades. Every network engineer knows the drill. An alert fires. You open a dashboard. Then another. Then you pull logs, review client history, ping the wireless team, and,… Read more: Extreme Networks’ Agent ONE Coworker moves AI networking from dashboards to answers - Salesforce introduces Enterprise AI Harness, AI Control Plane
Salesforce Inc. today previewed two offerings that will help customers build and manage artificial intelligence agents. Developers turn a large language model into an agent by extending it with various add-ons. Those add-ons can include… Read more: Salesforce introduces Enterprise AI Harness, AI Control Plane - DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, says it outperforms flagship V4-Pro
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. today released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, the smallest model in a new architecture family. The company said tests by multiple parties put the open-weight model… Read more: DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, says it outperforms flagship V4-Pro - OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development. - Boy developed “toasted skin” condition from using a laptop every day
Fears that modern electronic devices may harm children are nothing new. Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting the brains of youths for decades. However, a medical case… Read more: Boy developed “toasted skin” condition from using a laptop every day - Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons
Report comes two days after former employee quit claiming company’s models could cause human extinction by 2030 Criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists have attempted to use Anthropic’s powerful artificial intelligence models to… Read more: Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons - Samsung Taps Mistral AI for On-Premises Chip Manufacturing
Samsung is bringing Mistral AI into its semiconductor operations through on-premises models designed to detect defects and optimize chip production. The post Samsung Taps Mistral AI for On-Premises Chip Manufacturing appeared first on TechRepublic. - CISA’s ChatGPT Incident Exposes a Bigger AI Governance Problem
CISA’s ChatGPT incident exposes a growing AI governance gap as enterprises struggle to define who is accountable for actions taken by AI agents. The post CISA’s ChatGPT Incident Exposes a Bigger AI Governance Problem appeared… Read more: CISA’s ChatGPT Incident Exposes a Bigger AI Governance Problem - US Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier ModelsUS Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier Models
US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of distilling frontier models and recommend new defenses that could affect enterprise AI access and API use. The post US Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier… Read more: US Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier ModelsUS Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier Models - LinkedIn beats “BrowserGate” lawsuits over scanning users’ Chrome extensions
LinkedIn beat two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browser extensions, with a judge granting the Microsoft subsidiary’s motion to dismiss the cases. The users who sued LinkedIn failed to adequately allege that they… Read more: LinkedIn beats “BrowserGate” lawsuits over scanning users’ Chrome extensions - More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils as Musk terms fears a ‘psyop’
Insiders at the firm fear tech’s advancement could cause human extinction while others are calling it a ‘setup’ A day after a former researcher at Anthropic made an apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence, more researchers… Read more: More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils as Musk terms fears a ‘psyop’ - Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election. - Drones deliver food and remove bodies after Nepal’s flood disaster
Chinese-made drones are airlifting the bodies of flood victims and delivering food to survivors in the aftermath of devastating flash floods on the border of Nepal and China’s Tibetan region. Nepal’s army has been using… Read more: Drones deliver food and remove bodies after Nepal’s flood disaster - Kimmel’s ABC show won’t air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats made by the Federal Communications… Read more: Kimmel’s ABC show won’t air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats - Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”
It turns out Jean-Luc Picard was an even better starship helmsman than the writers knew. A physicist has gone through the details of a warp-speed trick from the first season of Star Trek: The Next… Read more: Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver” - Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. Kreuzkamp founded a startup called Springshot in… Read more: Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google - Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers
As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want… Read more: Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers - Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument
The European Space Agency is moving “full steam ahead” with development of a robotic mission to Venus after NASA officials determined they were unlikely to fulfill a commitment to provide a US-built radar instrument for… Read more: Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument - OpenAI’s Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for a famous unsolved problem in mathematics by using a swarm of advanced AI agents. But the occasion quickly unraveled into an explosive scandal, with… Read more: OpenAI’s Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work - Thailand Asks 49 Data Centers to Pause as New Power and Water Rules Loom
Thailand has asked 49 data centers under construction to pause voluntarily while more than 117 pending projects face an approval freeze. The post Thailand Asks 49 Data Centers to Pause as New Power and Water… Read more: Thailand Asks 49 Data Centers to Pause as New Power and Water Rules Loom - South Korea to Launch 614-Petaflop Supercomputer: What It Can Do
South Korea will launch the 614-petaflop Hangang supercomputer in December, opening high-end compute to researchers, national projects, and companies. The post South Korea to Launch 614-Petaflop Supercomputer: What It Can Do appeared first on TechRepublic. - Apple Unveils Apple Watch Series 12: What the $399 Watch Adds This Year
Apple Watch Series 12 adds a new health sensing system, Audio Intelligence, faster charging, longer workout battery life, and ceramic case options too. The post Apple Unveils Apple Watch Series 12: What the $399 Watch… Read more: Apple Unveils Apple Watch Series 12: What the $399 Watch Adds This Year - China’s GEAIR 2.0 Robot Pollinates Crops in Under 10 Seconds
China’s GEAIR 2.0 humanoid robot pollinates tomato flowers in under 10 seconds, combining AI, robotics and gene editing for crop breeding and farm automation. The post China’s GEAIR 2.0 Robot Pollinates Crops in Under 10… Read more: China’s GEAIR 2.0 Robot Pollinates Crops in Under 10 Seconds - 72% Say Process Challenges Cause AI Failures Costing Millions
8 in 10 organizations say their AI investments will be a bust without more investment in process re-design New research from Camunda, the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, has revealed how broken business processes are causing… Read more: 72% Say Process Challenges Cause AI Failures Costing Millions - F5 Boosts AI Security Platform With F5 Workforce AI Security
New offering gives enterprises control over how employees use AI and the actions AI agents take on their behalf without requiring another endpoint client F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every… Read more: F5 Boosts AI Security Platform With F5 Workforce AI Security - Vention Opens Physical AI Lab for Industrial Deployment
Vention opens Canada’s leading Physical AI and industrial robotics lab in Montreal, focused on advancing robotic manipulation from cutting-edge AI research to reliable, scalable manufacturing deployment. The lab’s research agenda spans applied manufacturing use cases,… Read more: Vention Opens Physical AI Lab for Industrial Deployment - Anthropic to Keynote Connected Stack Enterprise AI Summit
Twenty-one leading venture capital firms co-host the San Francisco event on September 10, each nominating enterprise AI founders to present flash talks on what they’re building Connected Stack today announced the lineup for its second… Read more: Anthropic to Keynote Connected Stack Enterprise AI Summit - Ben Jennings on the Bayeux tapestry – cartoon
Continue reading… - Supply chains detect fast, act slow: How AI agents fix it
Supply chain disruption cost businesses about $184 billion in 2025, according to the J.S. Held Global Risk Report, and most of that bill still buys faster detection, not faster action. That figure is usually treated… Read more: Supply chains detect fast, act slow: How AI agents fix it - Arlequin AI raises €28M to build novel AI models that learn complex relationships at scale
Paris-based Arlequin AI SAS today announced it raised €28 million, around $32 million, in new funding to accelerate development of a new AI model architecture based on a different type of network that learns complex… Read more: Arlequin AI raises €28M to build novel AI models that learn complex relationships at scale - CNN Just Ran One of the Worst AI Puff Pieces We’ve Ever Seen in Our Lives About That “AI Actor” Tilly Northwood
Last year, a so-called “AI actress,” dubbed Tilly Norwood sparked a near-universal backlash. The algorithmic brunette’s appearance couldn’t have come at a worse time, as the entertainment industry continued to reel from being overrun by… Read more: CNN Just Ran One of the Worst AI Puff Pieces We’ve Ever Seen in Our Lives About That “AI Actor” Tilly Northwood - Typewise orchestrates customer-service AI agents
Swiss artificial intelligence startup Typewise AG today launched Nova, a system designed to build, run and continuously improve customer-service AI agents without requiring dedicated operations specialists. Nova isn’t a customer-facing chatbot but an orchestrator that… Read more: Typewise orchestrates customer-service AI agents - Atlassian upgrades AI coding agents for always-on software development
Identifying the next phase of software development as always-on agentic artificial intelligence, Atlassian plc today announced a new set of upcoming Jira features to help engineering teams run AI agents at large scale while governing actions over… Read more: Atlassian upgrades AI coding agents for always-on software development - Ataccama Brings Data Trust to Apache Ossie for AI Agents
Open-source converter helps AI agents understand what enterprise data means and whether it is fit for use, with trust signals that span source systems and data platforms Ataccama, the data trust company, will open-source a… Read more: Ataccama Brings Data Trust to Apache Ossie for AI Agents - Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
With opposition to AI continuing to grow, a top AI lab is building out a massive surveillance apparatus meant to keep a close eye on dissenters and predict when the next groundswell of protest might… Read more: Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities - 7 signs your AI infrastructure is still stuck in the HPC era
A GPU cluster can look perfectly healthy on a monitoring dashboard while producing very little of value, and most enterprises are staring at exactly that chart today. Roughly two-thirds of organizations report peak GPU utilization… Read more: 7 signs your AI infrastructure is still stuck in the HPC era - Mother Horrified When Instagram’s AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
Last week, a mother in Utah named Kalie Robins took to Instagram to post what she felt was an “innocent” video of herself and one of her two young daughters singing in the car. Her… Read more: Mother Horrified When Instagram’s AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters - The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies
Inkoly/Shutterstock There is a temptation to divide the future of AI into two possibilities: utopia or catastrophe. Neither extreme is particularly helpful. The more interesting possibility is messier – and requires a step-shift in our… Read more: The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies - Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks
_E. coli_ uses memories of the past to inform its present behavior. Cavallini JamesBSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does… Read more: Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks - CoreWeave launches new engineering service to help enterprises implement physical AI
Artificial intelligence-native cloud infrastructure giant CoreWeave Inc. says it’s going to help enterprise engineering teams to implement AI directly into their workflows through its new Physical AI Field Engineering service. Announced today, the new service… Read more: CoreWeave launches new engineering service to help enterprises implement physical AI - Exclusive: Cfo.ai launches an agentic CFO for business founders
Artificial intelligence startup Runway Financial Inc. said today it has decided to pivot away from accounting software and rebrand itself as cfo.ai. That decision marks the launch of its new flagship product, an AI agent… Read more: Exclusive: Cfo.ai launches an agentic CFO for business founders - Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA’s first astronaut emeriti
The commander and pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission have gained a new distinction five months after splashing down from the Moon: They’re not fully retiring from the space agency. Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover… Read more: Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA’s first astronaut emeriti - OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member
US government adviser Paul Christiano warns of risks to AI industry as he joins OpenAI’s non-profit foundation OpenAI is not on track to reduce risks of “catastrophic” loss of control to an acceptable level, a… Read more: OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member - Fire Marshal Uncovers House of Horrors Lurking Inside Bitcoin-Mining Data Center
Back in August, a massive leak in El Reno, Oklahoma spewed close to four million gallons of local water into the ground, forcing the city into an unofficial stand-still. The cause was quickly traced back… Read more: Fire Marshal Uncovers House of Horrors Lurking Inside Bitcoin-Mining Data Center - We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely
What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality On Tuesday, a former OpenAI researcher quit his job at Anthropic, warning that “neither company is acting… Read more: We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely - Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI
When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone. - JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots
JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones.… Read more: JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots - Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview. - Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere | Adrian Chiles
Some inventions, like the dishwasher, improve our lives. But driverless cars will lobotomise us I’ve found a hill to die on. Driverless cars. Why? Really, why? If driverless cars are the answer, then what is… Read more: Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere | Adrian Chiles - Workato Establishes National Office and Data Center in South Korea
As Korea’s AI Basic Act takes effect, the move gives Korean enterprises and partners a way to close the gap between AI adoption and legacy systems Workato®, the leading Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise… Read more: Workato Establishes National Office and Data Center in South Korea - State of AI: Only One-Third of Enterprises Put AI Agents to Work
Tempo Software’s 2026 State of AI in Portfolio Management Report finds that production agents and prescriptive tools will define the future of project delivery success, transparency of AI ROI Report highlights: Adoption outpaces deployment: 91% are… Read more: State of AI: Only One-Third of Enterprises Put AI Agents to Work - Alteryx Launches New AI Capabilities for Governed Analytics
New conversational analytics, agent-building, MCP server, and ChatGPT plugin help enterprises extend trusted workflows and business logic across AI tools and agents Alteryx, the agentic analytics and automation company, today announced new AI capabilities across… Read more: Alteryx Launches New AI Capabilities for Governed Analytics - Keyfactor Exceeds $200 Mn ARR as Demand for Digital Trust Infra Accelerates
Leader in Trust Infrastructure for AI and Quantum Reaches New Growth Milestone, Reflecting Strong Customer Loyalty and Market Momentum Keyfactor, the leader in trust infrastructure for the AI and quantum era, today announced significant business traction… Read more: Keyfactor Exceeds $200 Mn ARR as Demand for Digital Trust Infra Accelerates - Parlance Brings Verified Push Security to ServiceNow Health IT
Parlance, a healthcare voice AI company, today announced the availability of its help desk intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) on the ServiceNow Store, alongside a new capability built specifically for the voice channel: Cisco Duo-verified push notification… Read more: Parlance Brings Verified Push Security to ServiceNow Health IT - Weatherwatch: AI model beats standard methods at predicting cyclones
Artificial intelligence system delivers a three-day forecast as accurate as previous two-day predictions Google’s WeatherNext AI model is better than existing systems at forecasting cyclones, according to a paper published in Nature. The AI-based technology… Read more: Weatherwatch: AI model beats standard methods at predicting cyclones - Certinia launches new System of Action as the foundation of autonomous service operations
Professional services automation and financial management software company Certinia Inc. today rolled out what it calls a “System of Action” as part of an effort to accelerate the adoption of autonomous artificial intelligence agents in… Read more: Certinia launches new System of Action as the foundation of autonomous service operations - OpenAI claims another huge mathematical result amid fights over credit, ethics and privacy
Deomis/Getty Images OpenAI has announced one of its unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) models has found an answer to one of the biggest open questions in mathematics, the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. The Millennium Prizes offer… Read more: OpenAI claims another huge mathematical result amid fights over credit, ethics and privacy - Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment
All of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere. This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet, at a high-profile International Space Summit convened by French President… Read more: Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment - 4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four hacking groups, some of which have ties to the… Read more: 4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit - AI-native CRM startup Lightfield raises $47M to build an AI agent-ready replacement for Salesforce
Lightfield, an artificial intelligence-native customer relationship management startup, has ambitions to take on industry giants such as Salesforce Inc. and Hubspot Inc. after raising $47 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was… Read more: AI-native CRM startup Lightfield raises $47M to build an AI agent-ready replacement for Salesforce - Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030
Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said AI will become ‘superhuman systems’ that can cause human extinction by the end of the decade Just a day after three Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could kill… Read more: Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030 - The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe. - What to expect during ‘The AI ROI in Contact Center Summit’: Join theCUBE Sept. 11
Contact center automation now has to produce results that businesses can measure. Enterprises are moving past broad claims about AI and asking how deployments affect operating costs, employee performance and service quality. TheCUBE Research frames… Read more: What to expect during ‘The AI ROI in Contact Center Summit’: Join theCUBE Sept. 11 - Harvey raises another $550M to develop AI tools for legal teams
Six months after its last nine-figure funding round, Harvey AI Corp. today announced that it has raised $550 million at $15.5 billion valuation. Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the deal. They were joined by… Read more: Harvey raises another $550M to develop AI tools for legal teams - OpenAI Scientist Urges Safety Limits as AI Research Accelerates
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI labs may need to slow development as automated research advances and monitoring becomes less reliable. The post OpenAI Scientist Urges Safety Limits as AI Research Accelerates appeared first… Read more: OpenAI Scientist Urges Safety Limits as AI Research Accelerates - San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction. - Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on ‘Leave of Absence’
On a company-wide Slack this morning, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced he has been put on a paid leave of absence. “And the biggest news: I won’t be able to make the ELT tomorrow,” Matt… Read more: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on ‘Leave of Absence’ - MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines
This summer, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomed faculty from colleges and universities across Greater Boston, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Texas to campus for the inaugural AI Educators Pilot, a weeklong workshop aimed… Read more: MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines - Man Announces That He Has Synthesized a New Schizophrenia Treatment in His Garage, Based on a Formula Devised by ChatGPT
These days, large language models are pushing the line between schizophrenic break and reality closer than ever before. In a wild new post that’s going viral on X-formerly-Twitter, an enterprising young biochemist named Douglas Yao… Read more: Man Announces That He Has Synthesized a New Schizophrenia Treatment in His Garage, Based on a Formula Devised by ChatGPT - Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution
Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But the UN resolution is unlikely to change… Read more: Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution - Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro adds variable camera aperture and a more powerful chip
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple’s new iPhone 18 Pro is an iterative update that—as usual—focuses heavily on both performance and new camera features. This time around, many of the new camera features are oriented around giving the user… Read more: Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro adds variable camera aperture and a more powerful chip - The quick guide to fall vaccines and when you should get them
Labor Day is in the rearview mirror, kids are back to school, and a squall of pumpkin spice is upon us. It’s that time again to prepare for the equally inevitable respiratory virus season with… Read more: The quick guide to fall vaccines and when you should get them - Apple unveils folding iPhone Duo as new CEO takes center stage
The passport-size iPhone Duo serves as the first big test for John Ternus, who took over for Tim Cook last week Apple has unveiled the iPhone Duo, the company’s first foldable phone and the most… Read more: Apple unveils folding iPhone Duo as new CEO takes center stage - Apple starts preorders for Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 with new Health Sensing System
Apple announced the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today. Both include a new “Health Sensing System” and S11 chip that give the devices the “most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable,” Apple claimed… Read more: Apple starts preorders for Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 with new Health Sensing System - Apple debuts $129 AirPods 5 with better noise cancellation and transparency mode
Apple has debuted the new AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation and sound quality—aiming to provide improved listening and user features at a lower launch price than the predecessor AirPods 4. The newest AirPods… Read more: Apple debuts $129 AirPods 5 with better noise cancellation and transparency mode - Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs
Amazon discriminated against pregnant warehouse employees by denying accommodations like bathroom breaks and the option to sit while working, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by four women who worked for Amazon while pregnant. The… Read more: Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs - When it comes to Beatles references, scientists can’t let it be
Scientists have an indisputable playful side, evidenced by frequent allusions to popular culture in their research publications. That includes popular song lyrics. And the most popular musical group, in terms of how frequently their songs… Read more: When it comes to Beatles references, scientists can’t let it be - Qualcomm, Amazon Partner on Next-Generation AI Data Centers
Highlights Qualcomm collaborating with Amazon across multiple generations of customized silicon to support AWS’s growing AI infrastructure. Qualcomm advanced optical connectivity solutions will support high-bandwidth interconnects within Amazon data center networks. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) today… Read more: Qualcomm, Amazon Partner on Next-Generation AI Data Centers - Apple’s long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo
Apple ended today’s hardware event with one of its classic “One more thing” reveals. Some smartphone makers have been offering foldable phones for the better part of a decade, but Apple has now joined the… Read more: Apple’s long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo - Palantir and Nebius to Deliver a Sovereign AI Stack to Palantir Customers
Palantir names Nebius its preferred sovereign AI infrastructure partner, bringing Nebius compute and inference inside the Palantir perimeter Strategic partnership based on shared vision that open models and looped customer data create the smartest domain… Read more: Palantir and Nebius to Deliver a Sovereign AI Stack to Palantir Customers - Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs. In a joint release Tuesday, the… Read more: Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models - NTT DATA Deploys AI-Powered Platform to Elevate Global Infrastructure Ops
Real‑time monitoring and predictive analytics improve stability and efficiency. Scope includes AI-enabled operations for IT and cloud infrastructure, SAP Basis and network operations worldwide. NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology… Read more: NTT DATA Deploys AI-Powered Platform to Elevate Global Infrastructure Ops - Rubrik Unveils Lakehouse Protection with Apache Iceberg Data on AWS
Industry’s First and Only Iceberg-Aware Solution to Store Immutable Backups within Customer Accounts for Complete Data Sovereignty Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, today announced Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection, the company’s enterprise… Read more: Rubrik Unveils Lakehouse Protection with Apache Iceberg Data on AWS - Anthropic researcher’s resignation sparks broad AI safety discussion
An Anthropic PBC researcher has resigned over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives.” Jacob Coxon was part of the company’s AI pre-training team until today. He announced his resignation in a… Read more: Anthropic researcher’s resignation sparks broad AI safety discussion - Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
Doctor Doom took the podium at a Public Safety Committee meeting on Tuesday to thank the council for covering the city in surveillance cameras. “Doom took over Axon enterprises […] and now Doom will be… Read more: Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras - I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again
After I removed the safety guardrails from a powerful open-source model, it found vulnerabilities in my household devices and hacked into a PC. But it also told me how to make everything a lot more… Read more: I Let an AI Agent Hack All My Gadgets—and I’d Do It Again - Amazon makes its agentic AI platform Quick generally available for desktop on Windows and macOS
Amazon.com Inc. announced today that Quick, the company’s artificial intelligence assistant and enterprise platform for AI agents, is now generally available on macOS and Windows. The agentic platform is also receiving an updated mobile activity… Read more: Amazon makes its agentic AI platform Quick generally available for desktop on Windows and macOS - The Remnants of a Lost ‘Supercontinent’ Just Rewrote the History of Life on Earth
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have identified the submerged remnants of a giant lost supercontinent… Read more: The Remnants of a Lost ‘Supercontinent’ Just Rewrote the History of Life on Earth - Podcast: DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Over
We start this week with Joseph’s story about the secretive predictive policing units inside DHS that are analyzing Americans’ financial data and having local cops pull them over. After the break, Jason tells us about… Read more: Podcast: DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Over - An invisible AI watermark is coming to your messages. Your relationships may pay the price
The European Union’s new transparency rules require companies to watermark content produced by generative AI systems, in a machine-readable format. (Unsplash) Imagine a manager sends a thoughtful message to one of her hard-working employees after… Read more: An invisible AI watermark is coming to your messages. Your relationships may pay the price - Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
Over the weekend, more than a dozen local TV news stations ran a video report called “Far-left network behind ‘No Kings’ protests targeting AI data centers, Flock cams.” The report paints those opposing Flock not… Read more: Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda - Wait, Did Zuckerberg Just Jack Muse the Band’s Instagram Handle For His New AI?
Muse, the popular English rock band that’s been selling out arenas for decades, is no longer @muse on Instagram, where it boasts nearly three million followers. That’s because on Tuesday, Meta, which owns Instagram, announced… Read more: Wait, Did Zuckerberg Just Jack Muse the Band’s Instagram Handle For His New AI? - Enterprise AI SRE: Scaling automation and operational resilience
AI SRE tools are built to serve one team, one service, one stack. That’s a scope they handle well, but it isn’t the job enterprise SRE teams are actually accountable for: reliability across hundreds of… Read more: Enterprise AI SRE: Scaling automation and operational resilience - Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030
One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanity Artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, according to three researchers with the industry giant Anthropic,… Read more: Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030 - First ‘Take It Down Act’ Sentencing Puts Man Behind Bars for 15 Years
The first man in the country to be convicted of violating the Take It Down Act was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday, after investigators found more than 3,000 real and AI-generated abuse… Read more: First ‘Take It Down Act’ Sentencing Puts Man Behind Bars for 15 Years
