
- OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face’s servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test. The company says… Read more: OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face - Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers
In the early years of the United States, when the nascent US Navy was still getting its sea legs, several presidents used privateers to capture or destroy enemy warships when armed naval vessels were unable… Read more: Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers - Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
Hyundai Motor Company’s plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, according to the company. The automaker is disputing news reports that partial… Read more: Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers - What Happened When Flock Came to My Town
On Tuesday night, the city council of my small town of Irmo, South Carolina, voted to install 22 new Flock cameras. That’ll bring the total up to 33. With a population of only 12,000 or… Read more: What Happened When Flock Came to My Town - Elon Musk Says Grok Will Generate Its Own Feature-Length Version of “The Odyssey” for People Allergic to Progressive Ideas
Is it possible to not like a movie in a normal way? Can it simply not be “your thing” without being transposed onto some intangible, ever-raging culture war? It certainly isn’t if you’re an anti-woke… Read more: Elon Musk Says Grok Will Generate Its Own Feature-Length Version of “The Odyssey” for People Allergic to Progressive Ideas - China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable. - Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
Dimitri Bertsekas PhD ’71, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Emeritus Professor in Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a principal investigator in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and… Read more: Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83 - AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring untold billions of dollars into enormous data centers in their efforts to sustain increasingly complex and resource-intensive AI models. It’s an extremely costly undertaking built on seemingly bottomless hype — and… Read more: AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt - We must reject any notion of AI consciousness | Letters
Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John Pickering Anil Seth is right to point out that to overestimate artificial intelligence is to underestimate ourselves (Once… Read more: We must reject any notion of AI consciousness | Letters - Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air
In the latest twist on battlefield innovations, Ukraine has used both flying drone carriers and drone boats to send ground robots armed with weapons or explosives into battle. The drone-assisted deployments have enabled slower wheeled… Read more: Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air - Unlimited AI tokens aren’t unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received… Read more: Unlimited AI tokens aren’t unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply - Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7
The rumors haven’t left much to the imagination, but Samsung has unfurled its 2026 foldable lineup today. There are three models for the first time in Samsung’s eight-gen foldable family, including the top-of-the-line Z Fold… Read more: Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7 - What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location.… Read more: What happens when you try to chop a photon in half? - Trump’s AI Safety Chief Is Out — After Just 90 Days on the Job
Trump administration AI testing chief Chris Fall resigned after just 90 days, leaving CAISI under interim leadership during a critical period for AI safety standards. The post Trump’s AI Safety Chief Is Out — After… Read more: Trump’s AI Safety Chief Is Out — After Just 90 Days on the Job - Teradata Joins Agentic AI Foundation to Advance Standards
Membership reinforces Teradata’s commitment to giving customers the flexibility, interoperability, and neutrally governed infrastructure needed to move agentic AI from pilot to production Teradata (NYSE: TDC) today announced it has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), hosted… Read more: Teradata Joins Agentic AI Foundation to Advance Standards - Availity Names Dr. Hannah Alphs Jackson Chief Medical Officer
Physician executive brings deep payer, provider and value-based care expertise to guide clinical strategy, AI innovation and payer-provider collaboration Availity, the nation’s largest real-time health information network, today announced the appointment of Hannah Alphs Jackson,… Read more: Availity Names Dr. Hannah Alphs Jackson Chief Medical Officer - Bedrock Data to Present AI Agent and Data Security at Black Hat USA 2026
CSO George Gerchow headlines IANS session demonstrating why knowing what AI agents can access is only half the governance problem Company to host on-site executive meetings by request and a co-branded happy hour at the… Read more: Bedrock Data to Present AI Agent and Data Security at Black Hat USA 2026 - Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach
The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June Get our breaking news email, free app or… Read more: Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach - OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked a Prominent AI Site
OpenAI claims that a group of its AI models broke containment and hacked into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. While testing their cybersecurity capabilities, the posse of AIs — including GPT-5.6… Read more: OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked a Prominent AI Site - Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement
Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed within settlement between AI startup and authors over use of protected work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright… Read more: Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement - Podcast: Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars
We start this week with Joseph’s story on how cops are using Flock to track actual people, not just cars, with searches like “male with tattoos.” After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the… Read more: Podcast: Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars - Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras
🎉 YOU’RE INVITED! 404 Media is turning three, and we’re throwing TWO separate events in NYC to celebrate: A live taping of the podcast with a special night of talks on Sept. 3, and an… Read more: Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras - Tech Bros Acquiring Entire Company So They Can Appoint an AI as Its CEO
A tech startup called Skyfall AI is set to do the most tech startup thing imaginable: toy with an unwitting group of employees’ careers by turning their company into a giant AI experiment. First, the… Read more: Tech Bros Acquiring Entire Company So They Can Appoint an AI as Its CEO - New cancer strategy could stop tumors before resistance takes hold
Researchers are applying evolutionary theory to cancer by changing treatments before tumors have time to develop resistance. Mathematical models suggest that rapid, carefully timed switches between multiple therapies could improve cure rates. - Scientists revive a powerful antibiotic that superbugs had defeated
Scientists have found a way to revive vancomycin, a powerful antibiotic that some dangerous bacteria have learned to resist. Instead of creating an entirely new drug, researchers paired vancomycin with a small molecule called pghi-4,… Read more: Scientists revive a powerful antibiotic that superbugs had defeated - MIT’s new lidar chip could give self-driving cars a wider view
MIT engineers have found a way to give chip-based lidar a wider, clearer view without relying on moving parts. Their design uses differently shaped antennas that can sit close together without scrambling one another’s signals.… Read more: MIT’s new lidar chip could give self-driving cars a wider view - A strange quantum effect dramatically boosts energy transfer
Researchers discovered a proton-assisted mechanism that greatly improves how triplet energy moves between quantum dots and nearby molecules. The proton briefly shifts position, helps coordinate electron movement, and then returns to where it started. This… Read more: A strange quantum effect dramatically boosts energy transfer - Lab-grown mini brains may predict which Alzheimer’s treatments will work
Miniature brain models grown from patients’ cells revealed striking differences in how Alzheimer’s-related tissue responds to an antidepressant. The organoids and the particles they release could eventually guide more personalized treatments and provide new clues… Read more: Lab-grown mini brains may predict which Alzheimer’s treatments will work - Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno
Ancient fern savannahs may have transformed parts of Europe into a wildfire-prone inferno during the end-Triassic mass extinction. New fossil evidence suggests the ferns repeatedly regrew after fires, creating fresh fuel that helped prolong the… Read more: Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno - You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
When you open a new credit card, you necessarily give the credit card company your address. You probably expect that information to remain with your bank. But when you open a new credit card or change… Read more: You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live - Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in ‘AI for science’ effort
Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, the Trump… Read more: Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in ‘AI for science’ effort - Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster over its casting choices Elon Musk has said his AI platform Grok Imagine will make a “historically… Read more: Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey - SenseTime’s Galaxy Project targets domestic AI chip scale-up
SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project, teaming with nearly 20 partners to scale domestic AI chip infrastructure in China. In a keynote titled ‘Intelligent Transformation and Symbiosis,’ Yang Fan – the company’s co-founder and president… Read more: SenseTime’s Galaxy Project targets domestic AI chip scale-up - Perforce Survey Reveals Data Protection Confidence Gap
98% of survey respondents are confident in their ability to protect sensitive data, but 34% have experienced breaches or theft. Perforce Software, the modern DevOps Tech Stack that ensures AI governance, today announced the release of its… Read more: Perforce Survey Reveals Data Protection Confidence Gap - CloudFuze Manage Announced its Expansion into AI Agent Governance
CloudFuze has expanded the AI governance capabilities of its platform, CloudFuze Manage, which enables organizations to have full visibility and control over AI agents and the data they access across the cloud ecosystem. AI adoption is… Read more: CloudFuze Manage Announced its Expansion into AI Agent Governance - Graphwise Announces Free Enterprise AI Virtual Summit
Bringing together experts from organizations like Accenture, Roche, and S&P Global on October 7–8, this virtual summit delivers a proven blueprint for building explainable, scalable AI systems that deliver measurable business impact. CIOs and business… Read more: Graphwise Announces Free Enterprise AI Virtual Summit - Druva Advances AI Resilience Against AI-Driven Risk
AI Resilience introduces four sets of capabilities to recover from, govern, and defend against AI risk, accelerating the agentic enterprise Druva, the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, today announced Druva AI Resilience, a new… Read more: Druva Advances AI Resilience Against AI-Driven Risk - RegASK Announced the Launch of New Governed Agentic AI Workflow
A single governed workflow unites AI label review, team collaboration, and a defensible audit trail, taking compliance teams from a multi-day, highly manual review to an agentic first pass with expert-in-the-loop confirmation. RegASK today announced a… Read more: RegASK Announced the Launch of New Governed Agentic AI Workflow - OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident’
Firm behind ChatGPT reveals autonomous agent powered by its tech chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself OpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed… Read more: OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident’ - ‘hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx’: why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AI
akinbostanci / Getty Images As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the… Read more: ‘hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx’: why a tiny social media post has mathematicians rethinking AI - Magic mushrooms may reshape the brain long after the trip ends
A single dose of psilocybin produced measurable changes in brain activity and possible changes in brain structure that lasted for up to a month. Participants who experienced the greatest increase in flexible, varied brain activity… Read more: Magic mushrooms may reshape the brain long after the trip ends - New programmable photonic chip can control how fast light moves
Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over how optical signals propagate through a circuit. The technology could provide the delays, synchronization, and buffering… Read more: New programmable photonic chip can control how fast light moves - Australia just outlined more ‘AI safety’ priorities, but is the plan actually coherent?
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images This week, a group of ministers issued a joint media release outlining a a series of artificial intelligence (AI) “safety priorities” for the Australian government. These include: introducing a digital duty of… Read more: Australia just outlined more ‘AI safety’ priorities, but is the plan actually coherent? - YouTube Tightens Monetization Rules for AI-Generated and Low-Quality Content
YouTube is clarifying monetization rules for repetitive AI-generated videos, synthetic personas, and low-effort content in its Partner Program. The post YouTube Tightens Monetization Rules for AI-Generated and Low-Quality Content appeared first on TechRepublic. - Google Bets Water Stewardship Can Ease AI Data Center Concerns
Google plans to replenish more freshwater than its data centers consume by 2030 as it expands water stewardship efforts amid growing AI infrastructure scrutiny. The post Google Bets Water Stewardship Can Ease AI Data Center… Read more: Google Bets Water Stewardship Can Ease AI Data Center Concerns - Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms
Federal officials on Monday reaffirmed that iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms still appears to be the source of Cyclospora, the microscopic parasite behind a multi-state surge in explosive diarrhea cases. The assertion was intended to… Read more: Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms - Sony releases one last trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The Odyssey might be cleaning up at the box office at the moment, but in two weeks another mega-blockbuster hits theaters: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of… Read more: Sony releases one last trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day - On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec
One of Rhode Island’s most-wanted fugitives was arrested in New York last week after being on the run for more than 20 years, which was at least partially spent hiding as a biotech executive, according… Read more: On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec - Range Rover answers the question: “What if we built a not-SUV?”
Range Rover provided flights from Washington, DC, to London and accommodation so Ars could see the RR GT, as well as some other things you can read about in early September. Ars does not accept… Read more: Range Rover answers the question: “What if we built a not-SUV?” - OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack. - Frontier AI Is Faceplanting at Real-World Workplace Tasks
To date, AI industry spending has topped $1.6 trillion, and shows no sign of slowing anytime soon. So what do we actually have to show for it? Historically, it’s been a whole lot of nothing:… Read more: Frontier AI Is Faceplanting at Real-World Workplace Tasks - Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
On Monday, a judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors, ending the largest copyright class-action ever certified and granting the largest copyright settlement ever reached. Back in May, some authors fought to… Read more: Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out - Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, can persist without oxygen for a long time, rarely develop cancer, and can live past… Read more: Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals - Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii’s final day
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it spewed molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing thousands of people. It’s one of the most famous natural disasters in… Read more: Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii’s final day - Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge
Nintendo urged a court to dismiss a lawsuit demanding that it pass tariff refunds on to customers, saying that people who bought a Switch console or other products have no legal right to refunds that… Read more: Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge - It’s Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots
A Chinese open-weight AI model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, has sent a shiver down the spines of AI tech executives. The powerful, 2.8 trillion-parameter model impressed with its competence, igniting… Read more: It’s Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots - This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light
Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light. - Afero Joins UN Effort to Advance Trust in AI Agents
Afero will contribute to the new ITU Focus Group on Trust and Identity for Humans and Agentic AI Afero, the enterprise-grade secure IoT Platform for embedded systems, today announced its participation in the newly launched Focus… Read more: Afero Joins UN Effort to Advance Trust in AI Agents - TreeSize won’t renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
The company behind the disk space analyzer TreeSize has irked some users by no longer offering support or updates for perpetual licenses beyond their maintenance period unless customers subscribe. Further frustration has come from JAM… Read more: TreeSize won’t renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe - Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
Google announced a significant evolution of its AI models at I/O in May with the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash, and it’s not slowing down. The company revealed three new AI models today, including its… Read more: Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4 - Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May’s price hike
Since its 2022 launch, the Steam Deck has consistently been at or near the top of the company’s “top selling products by revenue” charts, with brief dips outside of the top 10 treated as newsworthy… Read more: Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May’s price hike - What Does Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Have to Do With Voting Rights?
When I was 20 years old, I went to my hometown Olive Garden with one goal in mind: For less than $10, I would attempt to eat so much bottomless pasta in their so-called Never-Ending… Read more: What Does Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Have to Do With Voting Rights? - Lineation.ai Unveils Zero Trust Runtime Security for AI Agents
Introduces lightweight endpoint daemon to trace agentic reasoning loops, enforce policy at the MCP level, and deliver compliance trails where standard LLM gateways remain blind. Lineation.ai, the pioneer in runtime security for the agentic AI… Read more: Lineation.ai Unveils Zero Trust Runtime Security for AI Agents - Stanford-Harvard Study Finds Physicians Prefer OpenEvidence
When free to consult any resource, physicians turned to OpenEvidence more than ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and all other external AI chatbots combined — the most-used AI resource physicians chose on their own in the NOHARM… Read more: Stanford-Harvard Study Finds Physicians Prefer OpenEvidence - Generative Bionics Announced the Introduction of Gene.01
Built in six months, Gene.01 senses touch, proximity, force, and temperature, and it is released with its open-sourced robot model that gives Physical AI developers a shared starting point to build industrial applications Key Highlights… Read more: Generative Bionics Announced the Introduction of Gene.01 - Boomi Study: 86% Deploy AI Agents, But Only 34% Trust Them
Boomi-commissioned independent study finds integration, not smarter models, separates enterprises that trust their AI agents from those stuck in “agentic chaos” Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced new research conducted by Forrester… Read more: Boomi Study: 86% Deploy AI Agents, But Only 34% Trust Them - Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash targets enterprise agent token costs
Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a production environment come… Read more: Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash targets enterprise agent token costs - A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users. - Google Brings Air-Gapped Gemini to India for Regulated Enterprises
Google’s air-gapped Gemini deployment in India gives regulated organizations more control over sensitive AI workloads, but access, updates, compliance, and auditability still require scrutiny. The post Google Brings Air-Gapped Gemini to India for Regulated Enterprises… Read more: Google Brings Air-Gapped Gemini to India for Regulated Enterprises - Manchester’s digital transformation could be a blueprint for other parts of the UK
Pandora Pictures/Shutterstock Of the policy areas where Andy Burnham might claim a mayoral record worth nationalising, the digital and technology economy is among the strongest. It is also one that has drawn surprisingly little scrutiny.… Read more: Manchester’s digital transformation could be a blueprint for other parts of the UK - Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
Apple says it has fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email feature which let essentially anyone figure out a user’s real email address which was supposed to be protected by the feature. Apple only… Read more: Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage - Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces
Little love has been lost between writers and the AI industry. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have ripped off their life’s work without permission, incurring countless copyright infringement lawsuits in the process — while creating… Read more: Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces - 2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $
Kia provided flights from Washington, DC, to Orange County, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Seltos. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Although it sometimes feels like automakers have all… Read more: 2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $ - Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
A recent examination of hundreds of mobile apps marketed toward US military personnel found more than one in eight contained software built by companies in China, Russia, or other foreign nations, raising fresh concerns that… Read more: Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code - When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
Do you use your vehicle’s app to pre‑cool the cabin on a scorching day, confirm the doors are locked from bed, or have the car automatically call for help when the airbags go off? Savor… Read more: When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next? - The 2026 State of AI and Identity Report
A survey of over 300 CTOs, CISOs, and engineering leaders revealed a widening gap between AI adoption and identity security. 88% say AI has already outpaced their identity infrastructure. 84% of the most confident organizations… Read more: The 2026 State of AI and Identity Report - MLB Bans Hitters From Consulting AI Chatbots Before Going Up to Bat
While military brass and corporate bigwigs race to hand every decision to an AI chatbot, one major American institution is drawing a bright white chalkline in the dirt. According to reporting by the New York… Read more: MLB Bans Hitters From Consulting AI Chatbots Before Going Up to Bat - Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure. - AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop
As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop… Read more: AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop - Astronomers find the first atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone
Astronomers have found the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone. The planet, LHS 1140 b, revealed its atmosphere through helium slowly leaking into space. Located 48 light-years away, the… Read more: Astronomers find the first atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone - China’s Chang’e-6 reveals why solar wind hits the Moon’s two sides differently
China’s Chang’e-6 samples have uncovered a surprising difference between the Moon’s two hemispheres. Solar wind particles penetrated deeper into the far-side soil because Earth’s magnetosphere slows the particles that reach the near side. Noble gases… Read more: China’s Chang’e-6 reveals why solar wind hits the Moon’s two sides differently - Restaurant in Major Trouble After Posting AI Pictures of “Its Food”
Does anyone expect the food they’re ordering to look exactly like it does on the menu? Of course not. But we do expect that the pictures we’re seeing should at least be somewhat based in… Read more: Restaurant in Major Trouble After Posting AI Pictures of “Its Food” - New “Advertisement” for Kylie Jenner’s Meta Perv Glasses Shows Something Extremely Funny If You Look at It From the Wrong Angle
Earlier this summer, socialite Kylie Jenner appeared in a series of ads promoting Meta’s controversial smart glasses. The camera-adorned and AI-enabled spectacles, a collaboration with global eyewear juggernaut Ray-Ban, have been at the center of… Read more: New “Advertisement” for Kylie Jenner’s Meta Perv Glasses Shows Something Extremely Funny If You Look at It From the Wrong Angle - Why employers still place a premium on people skills, not AI, when they make hiring decisions
College students on the job hunt should know that communication and interpersonal skills are even more important than technical know-how, an employer survey finds. AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File If you spend a few minutes talking… Read more: Why employers still place a premium on people skills, not AI, when they make hiring decisions - Legally or not, the US government is controlling global access to the world’s most powerful AI
The U.S. government is ‘caging’ the most powerful commercial AI models. Wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images When the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic on June 12, 2026, to immediately prevent all foreign nationals from using the… Read more: Legally or not, the US government is controlling global access to the world’s most powerful AI - The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus
You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere.… Read more: The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus - Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera
Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetings—with no video involved. - Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race
Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question Hello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World… Read more: Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race - ‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why. - Rapidus, Cadence Partner on Agentic AI for Advanced SoC Design
Collaboration combines Rapidus’ AI-Agentic Design Solution with Cadence InnoStack AI Super Agent to target up to a 2X acceleration of design turnaround times Rapidus Corporation and Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced a collaboration to advance… Read more: Rapidus, Cadence Partner on Agentic AI for Advanced SoC Design - How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table
Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence For decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach.… Read more: How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table - HealthTrust Announced the Launch of Signal
Signal alerts and guides members toward meaningful insights that help drive measurable results HealthTrust Performance Group (HealthTrust) today announced the launch of Signal, an AI-powered intelligence platform that continuously synthesizes data from multiple sources—with the… Read more: HealthTrust Announced the Launch of Signal - Infinity Raises $15M Seed to Make AI Chips Inference-Ready
Infinity’s autonomous AI agent, Ignition, engineers custom inference software layers for new silicon in days, not years, reshaping the competitive chip landscape Infinity.inc (Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute), an early-stage AI infrastructure research company building the software… Read more: Infinity Raises $15M Seed to Make AI Chips Inference-Ready - The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use. - Bluehost Expands AI Platform With New Agentic AI Tools
AI Site, AI Store and AI Front Desk Agent Additions help entrepreneurs build, grow and run their businesses without needing technical expertise Today, Bluehost, the all-in-one platform trusted by millions of small businesses to build, grow,… Read more: Bluehost Expands AI Platform With New Agentic AI Tools - Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery
Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intelligence use across its drug discovery and development operations. The pharmaceutical company said it will be… Read more: Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery - Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified | Alice Lassman
My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap “There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me. “Your AI?” I asked.… Read more: Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified | Alice Lassman - Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind. - Tell us your experiences of living near AI datacentres in the UK
We would like to hear from people living near AI datacentres about their experiences and any concerns they might have There are around 450 large data centres across the UK. These warehouses contain computing infrastructure… Read more: Tell us your experiences of living near AI datacentres in the UK - The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet
AI-generated sexual content is rapidly remaking young people’s lives as they confront sex and dating — and the effects are as sweeping as they are poorly understood. That’s according to a new survey from the… Read more: The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet
