Funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners comes as increasingly sophisticated AI requires more oversight and control Onyx Security, the AI control company, announced a $113 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners,… Read more: Onyx Security Secures $113M Series B Funding

With fingers in various highly lucrative pies, maybe the firm becoming LSE’s most valuable isn’t as fanciful as it seems Tufan Erginbilgiç, the chief executive of Rolls-Royce, seemed to be getting ahead himself when he… Read more: The outlook gets better and better at Rolls-Royce

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would take a classical computer an unreasonable amount of time to generate. Unfortunately, today’s quantum computers… Read more: Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust

Protera, a leading SAP-focused cloud modernization and AI-enabled managed services provider, today announced it has achieved the Expert competency in SAP Business AI Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Cloud ERP Private. SAP’s Competency… Read more: Protera Earns Three Expert Competencies for SAP Solutions

The seed round, led by Madrona, backs the top-performing AI browser, capable of running long, multi-step web tasks end to end Polar, the AI browser that automates the tedious parts of knowledge work, today announced… Read more: Polar, the AI Browser That Does Real Work, Secures $5.7M in Funding

Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content. It has become the AI slop “punching bag,” a repository of painful engagement bait being spewed out… Read more: LinkedIn Adds Button on Every Post to Report “Seems Like AI Slop,” Which Is Definitely Going to Get a Real Workout

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

A single toggle adds a certified BreachLock penetration testing expert as the final checkpoint on any autonomous pentesting engagement, giving teams that run their own assessments an optional layer of expert assurance. BreachLock, a global… Read more: BreachLock Adds Human Verification to Autonomous Pen Testing

Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today announced the appointment of Chandu Thota to its Board of Directors effective July 27, 2026. Mr. Thota brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling… Read more: Dynatrace Appoints AI and Technology Leader Chandu Thota to its BOD

Stairwell analysis finds 2.4 related malware variants for each sample named in public threat reports; confirms security teams lack true depth of malicious files across their environment Stairwell, the AI SOC that stops breaches no… Read more: Stairwell Announced the Launch of Backstory

Researchers found that seven of nine tested Hugging Face image-editing tools produced sexualized alterations, highlighting gaps in model oversight, provenance, and enterprise vendor controls. The post Hugging Face Deepfake Tests Raise New Risks for AI… Read more: Hugging Face Deepfake Tests Raise New Risks for AI Procurement

Releases CopyScore V2 for AI-Generated Video as Demand Grows for Pre-Production Copyright and Likeness Risk Review CopySight, an AI IP governance company, today announced a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital, with participation… Read more: CopySight Raises $3 Million to Build the IP Clearance Layer for Gen AI

LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post “seems like AI slop,” according to… Read more: LinkedIn Introduces a ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ Button

ChatSee’s study of 10,000+ AI failure events finds less than 10% were hallucination-related, 31.1% involved resolution or escalation breakdowns, and execution and action failures rose 62% relative to the Q2 2024 baseline New research from ChatSee.ai,… Read more: Study: Enterprise AI Failures Extend Beyond Hallucinations

In February, a content creator from New Zealand named Harry Chang posted a YouTube video called “This AI TikTok Shop Video Made Me $67,420 (Here’s How).” In the video, Chang and another YouTuber, Jimmy Farley,… Read more: Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA

This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP’s protocol core is… Read more: New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media scandals in history. Back in March 2018, journalists at The Observer and The New… Read more: Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm

The latest version of Google DeepMind’s AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

We’d like to hear from Black Americans who are using artificial intelligence for health or spiritual guidance Artificial intelligence is growing in influence in the healthcare space, and more people are seeking guidance from AI… Read more: Black people in the US: have you used AI for health-related questions?

Apple is reportedly preparing new smart home devices centered on a revamped Siri, signaling a renewed push into AI-powered home automation. The post Apple Reportedly Plans Biggest Smart Home Push in Years With New Siri… Read more: Apple Reportedly Plans Biggest Smart Home Push in Years With New Siri

More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisies repeatedly developed similar heat-tolerant leaf shapes, but each lineage used a different combination of genes. Researchers… Read more: Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands

Public Claude chats surfaced in Google search just as New Zealand agencies are ordered to adopt AI faster. Privacy Act obligations don’t disappear when a share link goes public. The post Claude Chat Leak Tests… Read more: Claude Chat Leak Tests New Zealand’s AI Rules as Agencies Race Ahead

Learn what an AI-ready workplace needs beyond AI PCs, including secure endpoints and compatible software for responsible deployment. The post AI-Ready Workplaces Need More Than AI PCs appeared first on TechRepublic.

Are AI PCs worth the investment for enterprises? Learn what CIOs should prioritize in an AI roadmap and which workloads benefit most from AI-enabled PCs. The post How CIOs Can Turn AI Device Investment Into… Read more: How CIOs Can Turn AI Device Investment Into Business Value

As Mohenjo-daro prospered, the gap between its richest and poorest households actually shrank. Its shared infrastructure, fair trade systems, and lack of powerful royal elites suggest that equality may have helped fuel the ancient city’s… Read more: This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history

Learn the differences between local AI, cloud AI, and hybrid AI for enterprise workloads, including security, cost, performance, and deployment strategies. The post Local AI vs. Cloud AI for Enterprise Workloads appeared first on TechRepublic.

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard problem” and… Read more: What if the brain does not create consciousness?

Meta knows its AI-powered camera equipped spectacles are widely seen as “pervert glasses.” And though it professes to be cracking down on creeps using them to record people without their consent, whatever measures it’s taking… Read more: Meta’s Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing

There is no point competing in isolation. There are so many benefits to be had, in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance Zheng Zeguang is the Chinese ambassador to the UK Artificial intelligence is widely regarded… Read more: The future of AI hinges on openness and cooperation. China and Britain can gain much by working together | Zheng Zeguang

Sen. Bernie Sanders frequently raises concerns about what artificial intelligence could do to American jobs. Heather Diehl/Getty Images Creating a government fund to own AI stock and benefit all Americans would require many hard choices.… Read more: A government fund of AI stocks to benefit all Americans is a good idea, but hard to pull off

Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan argues with referee François Letexier during the Argentina-Egypt World Cup match on July 7, 2026. AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser If you watched the 2026 FIFA World Cup, you probably saw… Read more: What video review controversies in sports reveal about AI and human decision-making

Simply reducing students’ screen time at school will not prepare them for a world increasingly shaped by data and AI. Klaus Vedfelt/Digital Vision via Getty Images When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to… Read more: Schools are rethinking whether every student needs a laptop

AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as co-pilot, co-worker, co-creator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily co-exist with us humans. Their inference is clear: people should always be in… Read more: Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix ‘co’ – by an expert in linguistics

Roadside safety advocates say some automated license plate readers may not meet highway safety standards Flock Safety cameras have been pilloried for facilitating the AI-powered surveillance of private citizens and for targeting immigrants for years.… Read more: Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say

With his popularity at historic lows, Friedrich Merz seeks spiritual guidance from Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI Europe live – latest updates Summer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing… Read more: Embattled German chancellor chooses papal pageturner for his beach read

Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.

Chief executive says the four-year plan will lead to greater efficiency but gives no details of potential job losses Business live – latest updates Lloyds Banking Group will cut another £2bn of costs as part… Read more: Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

Cybersecurity wasn’t really something small and mid-sized businesses worried about too much a few years back. That’s changed fast. Once your customer data, your apps, your internal tools all end up online, protecting the server… Read more: How AI is Changing Linux VPS Security for Businesses

Mark Zuckerberg has published a WSJ op-ed that argues superintelligence must reach individuals, not just a handful of institutions. The Meta chief published the piece as a statement of company philosophy rather than a product… Read more: Zuckerberg details Meta’s personal AI superintelligence strategy

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange human delusion… Read more: I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger

As enterprise AI matures, connected and trusted data is becoming the foundation for real business value. Graph technologies are helping organizations turn fragmented information into actionable intelligence. Fragmented enterprise data remains one of the biggest… Read more: CommonThread AI targets connected, trusted data as the foundation for enterprise AI

Enterprises are discovering that a scalable intelligence layer built on knowledge graphs delivers the institutional context that turns generic AI models into reliable production systems. As companies push AI from pilots into production, a new… Read more: How a scalable intelligence layer turns enterprise data into production A

Knowledge graph architecture has emerged from the concept stage, consigned to the realm of academia, to the production infrastructure stage, and the enterprises that shape it the right way will own the intelligence their AI… Read more: Knowledge graph architecture gives enterprises ownership of the AI intelligence they create

Disaggregated AI inference is proving to be more than a complementary answer to the prefill and decode bottleneck slowing enterprise AI at scale, and Cerebras and AMD just announced a partnership to build the fastest… Read more: Cerebras and AMD partner to build the world’s fastest disaggregated AI inference solution

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a program that will give 100,000 researchers free access to ChatGPT’s advanced features. ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is part of a $250 million OpenAI initiative designed to support scientific projects.… Read more: OpenAI opens new ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program to 100,000 scientists

Object storage software company MiniIO Inc. says it has cracked the persistent memory problem for artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new offering called AIStor Memory. Whereas conventional chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT… Read more: MiniIO debuts AIStor Memory, the long-term memory AI agents need to scale safely

Brings contextual, real-time enforcement across Models, Context, Tools, and Data through a single unified policy engine, so enterprises can move at the speed of AI Dymium, a secure AI infrastructure company, today unveiled GhostAI, the… Read more: Dymium Launches GhostAI to Govern Every Layer of AI Risk

A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.

New public beta combines Burp Suite’s proven tools and project context with purpose-built pentesting skills. Pentesters decide how much work agents take on; Burp enforces the boundaries. PortSwigger, makers of Burp Suite, today announced the… Read more: PortSwigger announced the launch of Burp AT

Despite 86% AI adoption, managers lose an average of 16.5 hours each week to meetings, re-explaining work and searching for information, suggesting AI has yet to solve management’s coordination problem In Parallel, the company building… Read more: Managers using AI daily report the highest coordination burden: Study

Barndoor ties each agent’s profile, credentials, and spend to a single governed record, the first step toward governing the entire agent lifecycle Barndoor AI, the governance platform for AI agents and MCP-connected tools, today introduced AgentProfile,… Read more: Barndoor Announced the Launch of AgentProfile

Validates Performance with AMD and Launches Mango Inference to Accelerate Global AI Platform Expansion Up to 1.25× higher token throughput than industry-leading GPU platformsUp to 5.1× higher throughput and over 2× lower latency than conventional GPU clusters MangoBoost announced the commercial launch… Read more: MangoBoost Sets New AI Inference Benchmark

Snowflake establishes the foundation for trusted agent interoperability with new AI security innovations A Centralized AI Gateway for Every Agent: Snowflake’s new Cortex AI Gateway acts as the connective layer for all trusted agent activity, enabling… Read more: Snowflake Unifies AI Monitoring and Cost Management

Chinese AI platforms are paying people to license their faces for AI-generated videos, raising new questions about biometric identity, consent, and digital ownership. The post China’s New AI Side Hustle: Renting Out Your Face appeared… Read more: China’s New AI Side Hustle: Renting Out Your Face

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but new research suggests identity governance is lagging behind. Here’s why AI agent identities are becoming a critical security challenge. The post The Hidden Security Problem Holding Enterprise AI Back… Read more: The Hidden Security Problem Holding Enterprise AI Back

Jeff Bezos says Amazon’s Trainium, Graviton, and other custom chips could become a major business as AWS expands its AI infrastructure. The post Jeff Bezos Says Custom Chips Could Become Amazon’s Next Major Business appeared… Read more: Jeff Bezos Says Custom Chips Could Become Amazon’s Next Major Business

First-in-the-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology

Elon Musk has settled his lawsuit with advertisers that he once claimed should be criminally prosecuted for refusing to advertise on his social media platform, X. In a joint statement that reveals little about the… Read more: Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper

A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration to become an official US standard has been taken out of the running after an Anthropic security model helped find a flaw that rendered it broken. The… Read more: Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

Stock tumbles nearly 8% after weaker-than-expected results, despite CEO’s blitz to tout positive effects of AI Mark Zuckerberg’s media spree touting the positive effects of artificial intelligence did little to cushion the blow of Meta’s… Read more: Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI

Having it your way is one of the benefits of being an Ars Pro subscriber. You get all of the great content you come to Ars for every day, but you get to choose how… Read more: Customize Ars your way with an Ars Pro subscription

A lawsuit against Comcast’s cable division alleges that a store manager humiliated the lowest performing salesperson each month with a strange ritual in which a cream pie was smashed into the employee’s face. The lawsuit… Read more: Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers’ faces, lawsuit claims

Humanoid robots and four-legged robots made in China fall squarely under a new ban imposed by the US Federal Communications Commission on foreign-made robots. But the sweeping prohibition covers a wide variety of robots manufactured… Read more: Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

Volodymyr Dobrovolskyy/Unsplash Imagine you’ve always wanted your own app. Perhaps one that tracks your household budget, organises the family shopping list or reminds you when to water your plants. Until recently, turning that idea into… Read more: ‘Vibe coding’ is fun and easy, but there’s a major catch

Parlance 12 improves recognition and self-service on the Parlance switchboard IVR platform health systems already run — more capability, same trusted system, no replacement required. Parlance, the conversational voice AI platform trusted by leading U.S.… Read more: Parlance Nears 2 Billion Calls with the Launch of Parlance 12

The collaboration pairs OpenAI’s frontier models with EPAM’s global forward-deployed engineering force, cyber resilience and innovative customer experience expertise. EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) announced today that it has joined the OpenAI Partner Network as an OpenAI… Read more: EPAM, OpenAI Drive Enterprise Value With Applied AI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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