
- US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
The US has arrested another suspect accused of smuggling high-end computer servers containing export-controlled Nvidia chips into China. In a press release on Thursday, the Department of Justice accused 38-year-old Greg Lui of using false… Read more: US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China - The 2008 economic crisis changed the US’s relationship with energy
One argument that often comes up about climate change is that fossil fuels are good because they powered economic growth that has left most people better off overall. And, to an extent, that has been… Read more: The 2008 economic crisis changed the US’s relationship with energy - Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
California’s attorney general and three city attorneys announced a $272.5 million settlement with Lyft after allegations that the company “committed wage theft by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees” between 2016 and 2020,… Read more: Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M - Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
COVID-19 made the weaknesses in our pandemic preparedness at national and global levels painfully clear. But a new study highlights that even at the first, local steps of an outbreak with pandemic-potential, we are worryingly… Read more: Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed - NetApp hands storage operations to AI agents, but humans still draw the boundaries
Artificial intelligence is turning nearly every enterprise workload into a data workload, and data governance is becoming the test of whether companies can trust autonomous systems with the infrastructure underneath. The question is no longer… Read more: NetApp hands storage operations to AI agents, but humans still draw the boundaries - Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers. In a press release, Amazon Web Services’ CEO Matt Garman said that communities would decide… Read more: Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash - CrowdStrike and CoreWeave bring AI security to machine speed
AI-native cybersecurity requires defenses that can keep pace with attackers while protecting infrastructure that never stops running. That challenge is bringing security expertise and specialized computing closer together, with automation embedded throughout the systems enterprises… Read more: CrowdStrike and CoreWeave bring AI security to machine speed - Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Thursday that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a woman accused of meth trafficking when he searched her license plate in Flock’s automated license plate reader… Read more: Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional - IBM and CoreWeave co-design controls for agent workloads
Agent workload isolation is becoming a practical infrastructure challenge as research teams move beyond training models to running code and testing agents. Systems built for intensive computation must now accommodate workloads that interact with tools,… Read more: IBM and CoreWeave co-design controls for agent workloads - Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges
As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to improve people’s lives. Her parents were Taiwanese immigrants, and her father had a long commute… Read more: Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges - Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project
As the AI race reaches white-hot temperatures, big tech companies are caught up in a heated race to build as many pollution-belching and power-sucking data centers as they can. And while the Trump administration is… Read more: Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project - Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That’s a 2.1 percent decrease on the same quarter in 2025, when the company found homes for 497,099 EVs, and one might think that… Read more: Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3 - How I kept cool with NYC’s free battery program for window AC units
My family has spent four summers participating in demand response programs whereby utility companies pay customers to reduce energy use on the hottest summer days. Most summers have involved carefully precooling our New York City… Read more: How I kept cool with NYC’s free battery program for window AC units - US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
In late 1970, a Titan IIIC rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at what was then called Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It carried a top-secret payload for the US military. Much has changed… Read more: US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches - Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through… Read more: Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed - AI could expose how Georgia voters cast their ballot, researchers warn
A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots When voters cast their ballots, their votes are supposed to remain secret: from their family,… Read more: AI could expose how Georgia voters cast their ballot, researchers warn - US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China
Greg Lui allegedly used false paperwork to smuggle export-controlled gear from US to third countries and then China US authorities have arrested a man accused of smuggling more than $300m worth of computer servers to… Read more: US arrests California man for allegedly smuggling $300m worth of computer servers to China - Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
It’s hardly a secret that president Donald Trump is addicted to AI slop, but his proclivity for being wooed by the tech apparently doesn’t end there. Trump is also, according to new reporting from TIME… Read more: Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok - AI in customer experience has an orchestration problem, not an adoption problem
Every information technology leader I talk to has an artificial intelligence story about customer experience. Almost none has an outcome story. That gap is now measurable. Talkdesk Inc., in partnership with NewtonX, surveyed 252 director-level-and-above… Read more: AI in customer experience has an orchestration problem, not an adoption problem - Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
We start this week with Joseph’s stories on the massive FBI hack. 404 Media broke this news and continued to cover the breach of data on all FBI employees and their spouses. After the break,… Read more: Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data - Ai2 releases Olmo-core 3 to make developing large mixture-of-experts LLMs more efficient
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research firm Allen Institute for AI announced a development framework for large language models Thursday that significantly improves how mixture-of-experts large language models are trained. The new framework, Olmo-core 3, allows MoE… Read more: Ai2 releases Olmo-core 3 to make developing large mixture-of-experts LLMs more efficient - Documenting the tech worker movement
Despite the “dot-com crash” in 2000, the tech industry remained an attractive career destination for many who believed technology represented the future. The digital age — defined by global connectivity and computers — had firmly… Read more: Documenting the tech worker movement - Can AI Feel Pain? A Developer’s Experiment Raises Ethical Questions
A developer’s AI pain experiment produced distress-like responses and sparked ethical debate, but it does not establish that models consciously suffer. The post Can AI Feel Pain? A Developer’s Experiment Raises Ethical Questions appeared first… Read more: Can AI Feel Pain? A Developer’s Experiment Raises Ethical Questions - OpenAI Launches Virtual Try-On for Clothes and Accessories in ChatGPT
ChatGPT adds virtual clothing try-ons and product Favorites. Learn how the tools work, what the previews cannot confirm, and how to manage photo privacy. The post OpenAI Launches Virtual Try-On for Clothes and Accessories in… Read more: OpenAI Launches Virtual Try-On for Clothes and Accessories in ChatGPT - Japan Court Recognizes Voice Protection in TikTok AI Dispute
A Tokyo court recognized voice protection in an AI cloning case. Learn what the ruling means for businesses using synthetic voices and digital identities. The post Japan Court Recognizes Voice Protection in TikTok AI Dispute… Read more: Japan Court Recognizes Voice Protection in TikTok AI Dispute - These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior. - Behind the Blog: Freaking Out
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 inbox slop, Claude cults, and more. JOSEPH:… Read more: Behind the Blog: Freaking Out - US Army Evaluates Armored Humanoid Robot Alex for Dangerous Tasks
The US Army evaluated armored humanoid Alex for dangerous tasks. Explore its capabilities, supporting technologies and limits before field deployment. The post US Army Evaluates Armored Humanoid Robot Alex for Dangerous Tasks appeared first on… Read more: US Army Evaluates Armored Humanoid Robot Alex for Dangerous Tasks - Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon, Gives Cyber Defenders First Access
Google launched Gemini 4 Argon with trusted cyber defenders first in line as it tests vulnerability hunting, patching, and new AI safeguards. The post Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon, Gives Cyber Defenders First Access appeared… Read more: Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon, Gives Cyber Defenders First Access - Claude for Government Adds Spending Controls, Audit Logs, and FedRAMP High
Anthropic has made Claude for Government generally available with FedRAMP High authorization, spending controls, audit logs and early Microsoft 365 access. The post Claude for Government Adds Spending Controls, Audit Logs, and FedRAMP High appeared… Read more: Claude for Government Adds Spending Controls, Audit Logs, and FedRAMP High - Micron Warns Memory Shortage Will Get Worse Through 2028
Micron warns memory and storage supply will remain tight through 2028 as AI demand absorbs capacity, putting pressure on PC and server costs. The post Micron Warns Memory Shortage Will Get Worse Through 2028 appeared… Read more: Micron Warns Memory Shortage Will Get Worse Through 2028 - Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract
Welcome to Edition 9.13 of the Rocket Report! This week, SpaceX celebrated the first orbital launch of its new Starship rocket. I’m not sure many people, at least those outside of SpaceX, expected it to… Read more: Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract - Despite IPO jitters and AI safety worries, Anthropic sticks to a 2026 offering
How quickly things change in the artificial intelligence era. Just a few months after everyone was scrambling to infuse AI into every enterprise operation — and frankly they still are, as agents have captured the… Read more: Despite IPO jitters and AI safety worries, Anthropic sticks to a 2026 offering - The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive thanks to AI
The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it’s getting more expensive. Even devices with years-old tech inside are… Read more: The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive thanks to AI - Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked
For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term. - ‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash
‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news… Read more: ‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash - OpenAI’s Medicare attack has exposed Australia’s ‘tech debt’. Fixing it could bring a big bill for taxpayers
Home affairs department orders all federal government agencies to conduct review of ‘legacy technology’ amid fallout from AI agent hacks Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian government faces… Read more: OpenAI’s Medicare attack has exposed Australia’s ‘tech debt’. Fixing it could bring a big bill for taxpayers - AI threatens to destroy so much of our culture. Our greatest loss might be our ability to listen | Shirleene Robinson
Australians are conversing less every year, with a recent study showing we lost an average of 338 spoken words each day between 2005 and 2019 We talk a lot about losing our ability to write… Read more: AI threatens to destroy so much of our culture. Our greatest loss might be our ability to listen | Shirleene Robinson - Trump Launched an America.org “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election
Sitting US head of state Donald Trump still insists that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him, his supposed defeat a con job by scheming Democrats. His flagship chatbot, though, has other ideas. This… Read more: Trump Launched an America.org “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election - Want to use AI to improve your work? Have it disagree with you
Prompting an AI model to fight with your point of view can raise novel solutions. wassam siddique/iStock via Getty Images Knowledge workers such as scientists, teachers, lawyers and business leaders are increasingly using generative artificial… Read more: Want to use AI to improve your work? Have it disagree with you - The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds
A recent paper found that the extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to “severe negative outcomes.” According to the research, which was published in the journal JMIR Mental Health by a team of… Read more: The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds - TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
What makes a display a Mini LED display? It’s a question that sounds like it should have a simple answer. But it’s now at the center of a lawsuit between two of the biggest names… Read more: TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED” - Enterprise storage becomes AI memory as privately run models close in on the frontier
As open-weight models close in on the performance of proprietary frontier systems, enterprises are gaining a credible way to run generative AI on hardware they own. That shift puts the data already sitting in corporate… Read more: Enterprise storage becomes AI memory as privately run models close in on the frontier - A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target. - AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions As tech leaders warn about the threats of artificial intelligence, most conjure up images… Read more: AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth - Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration. - Why a decade of AI safety promises keep failing to bite
Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Earlier this week, United States president Donald Trump and representatives of six of the world’s most powerful tech companies signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. The statement begins:… Read more: Why a decade of AI safety promises keep failing to bite - 3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs
The book “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” by Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management, walks readers through… Read more: 3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs - Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model
Microsoft Corp. has expanded its MAI artificial intelligence model family with its first streaming transcription model, debuting alongside two others focused on text-to-speech. They’re designed for developers who want to build voice agents that can… Read more: Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model - Australia’s Medicare breach reveals a new kind of cyber threat. How must NZ respond?
Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images Last week, New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner ordered Manage My Health and Health NZ to make further security improvements following last December’s major data breach. In that incident, a ransomware group stole more… Read more: Australia’s Medicare breach reveals a new kind of cyber threat. How must NZ respond? - We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin
If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code The recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer security by… Read more: We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin - Report: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI’s ‘existential risks’
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC is reportedly forging ahead with its plans to go public and has set a new target date of Nov. 9, according to a report from Bloomberg that cited anonymous sources… Read more: Report: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI’s ‘existential risks’ - SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission
A four-person crew rocketed into orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, heading for a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. Riding a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, the four crew… Read more: SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission - Venus’ mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust
Venus is shrouded in a veil of mystery. The yellowish “lower haze” at the bottom of its atmosphere was discovered by the Venera and Pioneer Venus probes in the 1970s. These spacecraft were some of… Read more: Venus’ mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust - OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material
OpenAI Group PBC today confirmed it has dismissed three researchers it says mishandled sensitive company information. According to The Wall Street Journal, the three were safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential material with a third-party… Read more: OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material - New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
“What you see is what you get” is a guiding principle for many software engineers — create programs where the content you’re editing looks the same as the final product. But when you’re using generative artificial… Read more: New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want - The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
Meta’s fuzzy Muse AI personal assistant overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the US after launching earlier this month, surpassing 3.4 million downloads last week. But whether the agent will be able… Read more: The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life - Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something. - Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?
Humans can be a frisky bunch, and it wasn’t very long after Tesla Autopilot started letting drivers go hands-free before people decided to post footage of themselves having sex from the driver’s seat. Recently, The… Read more: Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis? - Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
In a setback for publishers worried about the effects of AI search, a US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google. The companies accused Google of antitrust violations in… Read more: Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search - Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
The Pentagon is informing more than 2 million current and former military members that their personnel records storing sensitive personal information were stolen over a monthslong compromise of one of its networks. The breach is… Read more: Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data - Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic
A Malaysian man is facing up to three years in a Singaporean prison — after an ill-conceived text containing AI slop shut down the city-state’s largest reservoir for days. According to the BBC, the bizarre… Read more: Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic - NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers
Artificial intelligence has pulled data infrastructure out of the back office and into conversations with buyers who never had to think about storage before. For longtime storage providers, that shift is a rare chance to… Read more: NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers - IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform
IBM Corp. today announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob, its agentic software development platform, allowing enterprises to use artificial intelligence to build and modernize applications within their own infrastructure.. The offering supports on-premises,… Read more: IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform - Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms. - NetApp and Nvidia rethink storage for AI factories
Storage architecture is being rewritten for artificial intelligence factories. Traditional enterprise storage was designed around workloads that scaled in relatively predictable ways. AI changes that equation by combining heavy data movement with transactional metadata activity,… Read more: NetApp and Nvidia rethink storage for AI factories - Always-on AI agents turn infrastructure into a continuous learning loop
AI agent infrastructure is evolving to support systems that move continuously among inference, feedback and training. Cognition AI Inc.’s Devin now assists throughout the software development lifecycle, from planning and writing code to reviewing it… Read more: Always-on AI agents turn infrastructure into a continuous learning loop - Florida cops say they don’t know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras
Florida cops are facing questions after a mandate to remove all Flock cameras tracking cars on St. Lucie County roads led local police to uncover more than a dozen suspicious cameras operating without permits. Local… Read more: Florida cops say they don’t know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras - Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
Micron and Samsung executives this week said the memory shortage will continue for at least the next couple of years. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects demand for the firm’s memory to exceed its available supply… Read more: Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 - Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
With its premiere just two weeks away, Marvel Studios has dropped one last trailer for the limited series, VisionQuest, which will complete the trilogy begun with WandaVision and Agatha All Along. (Spoilers for WandaVision and… Read more: Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer - California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking
State attorney general issues subpoena to OpenAI as part of broader inquiry into potential security vulnerabilities California’s attorney general has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, starting an investigation into the startup as part of… Read more: California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking - Australia’s proposed laws could help regulate privacy risks from chatbots – if we get the details right
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Online privacy used to mean being careful about what you shared. You also had some control over what others shared about you, because much of that info was public. You could ask… Read more: Australia’s proposed laws could help regulate privacy risks from chatbots – if we get the details right - It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made the rash decision to double-down on massive AI spending, pushing a cutesy AI-mascot and poaching tech industry veteran Chirantan Desai to run a new division pushing Meta’s AI onto… Read more: It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide - As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry
A year or two ago, a few Canadian launch companies were trying to develop small rockets, but if we’re being frank, the industry was not particularly notable. Sure, something interesting might eventually happen, but no… Read more: As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry - Launchpad.io from Pega Announced the Introduction of AI Assistant
New AI Assistant enables software teams to build enterprise applications using natural language while preserving security, governance, and control Launchpad.io from Pega today announced its AI Assistant, delivering conversational development that enables organizations to design,… Read more: Launchpad.io from Pega Announced the Introduction of AI Assistant - With most information hidden, the game Stratego
Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years. But one classic game called Stratego held out.… Read more: With most information hidden, the game Stratego - A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
In recent weeks, two narratives about AI safety have emerged: either AI existential risk is real and imminent, or AI leaders’ and whistleblowers’ claims to that effect are insincere — a “psyop” or hype or… Read more: A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? - Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns
Tech company releases Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public… Read more: Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns - AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Strands Labs team has been playing around with an emerging class of lightweight artificial intelligence systems known as “decision models,” and it’s now making the fruits of that work available to… Read more: AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows - Nvidia ties AI factory economics to tokens and power efficiency
AI factory economics increasingly depend on more than access to high-performance graphics processing units. As agentic systems draw on multiple models, databases and tools, the entire data center must work as one computing system. That… Read more: Nvidia ties AI factory economics to tokens and power efficiency - How deep do AI relationships really go? An expert in attachment theory explains
SvetaZi/Shutterstock Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together. But what makes an attachment relationship different from all others? According to the pioneering American-Canadian developmental psychologist Mary… Read more: How deep do AI relationships really go? An expert in attachment theory explains - These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre
Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who kicked the AI safety movement into overdrive with his sensational claim that the tech “could kill… Read more: These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre - Made in China AI: new tech, same old story?
When Beijing-based AI firm Zhipu released its open-source General Language Model (GLM) and it began competing with Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT at a fraction of the price, a familiar question resurfaced. Are we watching… Read more: Made in China AI: new tech, same old story? - Apple Smart-Home Hub Reportedly Set for Oct. 13 Launch With New HomePod Mini
Apple reportedly plans to launch a Siri-powered smart-home hub on Oct. 13 alongside refreshed HomePod mini and Apple TV models. The post Apple Smart-Home Hub Reportedly Set for Oct. 13 Launch With New HomePod Mini… Read more: Apple Smart-Home Hub Reportedly Set for Oct. 13 Launch With New HomePod Mini - Google DeepMind Adds Watermarks to AI-Designed Proteins Without Breaking Them
Google DeepMind’s SynthID Bio embeds detectable watermarks in AI-designed proteins while preserving their function in early laboratory tests. The post Google DeepMind Adds Watermarks to AI-Designed Proteins Without Breaking Them appeared first on TechRepublic. - ‘Everything but censorship’
Student journalists meet the moment, as we’ve seen most recently this week. As the Cornell University sexual abuse case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news… Read more: ‘Everything but censorship’ - Metaview Raises $60M for AI Agents That Source, Screen and Schedule Candidates
Metaview raised $60 million to expand its AI recruiting platform and autonomous agent fillmore across sourcing, screening and hiring workflows. The post Metaview Raises $60M for AI Agents That Source, Screen and Schedule Candidates appeared… Read more: Metaview Raises $60M for AI Agents That Source, Screen and Schedule Candidates - AI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work
Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised $17 million in funding to expand beyond the commercial contract work it started with. Arceus provides legal services to fast-growing companies at a… Read more: AI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work - Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news
Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulations Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast AI giant Anthropic… Read more: Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news - DoorDash Is Testing a Way to Order Food Without Opening the App
DoorDash is testing an AI agent that can turn text messages into food orders, using account history and preferences to handle routine purchases. The post DoorDash Is Testing a Way to Order Food Without Opening… Read more: DoorDash Is Testing a Way to Order Food Without Opening the App - How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
Student journalists, their advisors, and legal advocates say colleagues and administrators are attempting to undermine student reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, and other issues that public institutions would rather not have their reputations connected to.… Read more: How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists - This diet may slow brain aging by 2.5 years
People who followed the MIND diet more closely showed slower brain shrinkage and less grey matter loss over time, with the strongest differences equivalent to about 2.5 years of delayed brain aging. Berries and poultry… Read more: This diet may slow brain aging by 2.5 years - This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy
UCLA researchers built an AI system that uses light to analyze more than a dozen videos simultaneously, detecting deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy. Its speed, low energy demands, and resistance to attacks could make it… Read more: This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy - This new qubit could be 100 times less error-prone in superfluid quantum computer breakthrough
A proposed qubit made with superfluid helium could cut quantum computing error rates by around 100 times by shielding quantum information from common forms of electromagnetic noise. If experiments confirm the predictions, the technology could… Read more: This new qubit could be 100 times less error-prone in superfluid quantum computer breakthrough - New “plant armor” more than triples strawberry yields
A new protective fabric boosted strawberry yields by as much as 3.56 times while blocking insects and still allowing sunlight, rain, and airflow to reach the plants. Originally inspired by research on military clothing, Plant… Read more: New “plant armor” more than triples strawberry yields - This giant stick insect fooled scientists for decades
Scientists have identified two new species of large Australian stick insects, including one that lays extraordinary “lidded” eggs never before recorded in the group. The discovery also revealed that a familiar stick insect had been… Read more: This giant stick insect fooled scientists for decades - Top BBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good”
Slipping ratings, a revolving door of lead actors, and nothing quite hitting like that old school David Tennant run. It’s dog days for “Doctor Who” fans, whose lives aren’t likely to be made any better… Read more: Top BBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good” - NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
An attempt to save NASA’s $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from dropping out of orbit fell short, but the behind-the-scenes machinations required just to make a rescue possible deserve recognition, government and commercial space… Read more: NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift - PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
For a long time, PC gamers could access many PlayStation 5 games only if the publisher invested in a bespoke port (something Sony has recently said it will be scaling back). Now, though, rapid advancements… Read more: PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC - Cloudflare moves into analytics workloads with a serverless alternative to dedicated data infrastructure
Cloudflare Inc. is moving beyond its bread-and-butter content delivery networks and cybersecurity offerings with the launch of a new serverless data platform called Cloudflare Basin, which aims to make advanced data analytics cheaper and easier… Read more: Cloudflare moves into analytics workloads with a serverless alternative to dedicated data infrastructure
