National cabinet met on Wednesday to discuss the federal government’s plan for new AI datacentre development. Queensland and the Northern Territory have won a carve-out so that theirs can be powered by coal and gas… Read more: Who actually benefits from new datacentres in Australia? – podcast

Anthropic ​argued designation as ‘supply chain risk’ could cost the company billions ‌of dollars in lost business ‌and reputational harm A US federal judge ruled Thursday that sanctions imposed in February by the Trump administration… Read more: Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new… Read more: Black Box: episode 5 – The white mask – podcast

Anthropic PBC today previewed a standard that makes it easier for artificial intelligence agents to control machines such as microscopes. The Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, is the fruit of a collaboration between the Claude… Read more: Anthropic previews MHS standard for AI agents that operate machines

Bill Gates argues some jobs should remain human as AI advances, proposing “Human Reserved” roles and new taxes intended to curb worker displacement. The post Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI… Read more: Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI

xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested. In a complaint… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so, the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data… Read more: Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Instinct, the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant popular among Silicon Valley tech workers, is reportedly raising $250 million in funding. The company told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that the round is being… Read more: Consumer-focused AI assistant startup Instinct reportedly raising $250M

Basement, arguably New York City’s best-known contemporary nightclub, has always had a tight, Berghain-esque door policy. That’s part of its allure. You stand before the bouncer and await to receive their vibe check, and you… Read more: NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

Donald Trump may be preparing to announce sweeping new semiconductor tariffs at the absolute worst time, the tech industry fears. On Thursday, Politico reported that a wide range of new semiconductor tariffs, which the tech… Read more: AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Nvidia is reportedly moving forward to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The acquisition could help the hardware giant expand and fortify its deep integration with the wider AI industry. Among other things, Hugging Face… Read more: Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Republican campaign committees want the Supreme Court to mandate lower prices for election commercials on broadcast TV stations. If the court agrees, broadcasters would be forced to offer their lowest ad prices to political parties… Read more: GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

Enterprise AI capabilities are improving almost everywhere, yet the returns still trail the spending. The technology is reaching production, but it often stops short of the business process where revenue, innovation and risk actually live… Read more: The enterprise AI payoff shifts beyond models to mission-critical workflows

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

Oleh_Slobodeniuk/Getty Images In July 2026, more than 200 community members gathered at Mandoon Bilya (Helena River) in Perth’s eastern suburbs. They planted more than 3,000 native flora as part of a wetland restoration project. The… Read more: The fight over AI data centres is becoming Australia’s next Indigenous policy challenge

Artificial intelligence is changing what storage and data management platforms look like. In collaboration with Super Micro Computer Inc. and Solidigm, DataDirect Networks Inc. has introduced DDN Enterprise AI HyperPOD, built on Nvidia Corp.’s AI… Read more: The AI storage stack gets an inference-era rethink

Nvidia Corp. has reportedly bought Hugging Face Inc., a startup with a popular platform for hosting open-source artificial intelligence projects. Rumors that an acquisition was in the cards first leaked on Monday. Business Insider broke… Read more: Nvidia reportedly acquires AI project hosting platform Hugging Face for $12.9B

In the wake of news on Tuesday that two people in Pennsylvania died from measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been posting a slew of anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation on social media—marking a… Read more: RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

For the first time in decades, NASA has rolled out one of its iconic astronaut training aircraft with a bold, new look. The space agency debuted a new livery on one of its T-38 jets… Read more: The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.  Many methods for designing novel… Read more: Looking beyond natural sequences

Authentic Interactions (AI, Inc), creator of Lookalike, StoryFile, and Authentex, today announced a partnership with Soniox, a leading provider of real-time speech recognition technology. Under the partnership, Soniox will power the speech recognition layer for Lookalike and StoryFile, enabling… Read more: Soniox and Lookalike to Bring Multilingual Digital Humans to Market

Deerfield Beach, FL – New AI governance service gives organizations real-world visibility into how AI tools are being used before putting controls in place ECW Network & IT Solutions, a Fort Lauderdale-area managed service provider,… Read more: ECW Network & IT Solutions Unveil AI Control Framework (AICF)

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

Meta has officially ended a landmark legal standoff over social media addiction among children, agreeing to pay some $18 billion over the next ten years and make sweeping changes to how it approaches child safety.… Read more: Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

“Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen have appeared as volcano experts, astronauts, thriller protagonists, podcast hosts, and academic co-authors across hundreds of independently produced AI-generated documents, never having lived,” a new preprint research paper from Samsung… Read more: The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing

Runable Inc., a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses build, run and grow, announced Wednesday that it has raised $21 million in early-stage funding to scale its operations and reach more enterprise outfits.… Read more: Runable raises $21M to realize small businesses’ growth vision using AI agents

Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the cultural landscape. Uptake across various sectors, including law enforcement, quickly followed, usually with minimal foresight and little to no guardrails, like effective… Read more: How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police

Grocers and greengrocers | Serbelloni group AI warning | Walking over cars | Christmas catalogues | Appropriate names Living with nostalgia as I am, I enjoyed solving the Wordsearch in Monday’s paper featuring old occupations.… Read more: A new start after 60 in an old occupation | Brief letters

Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect, writes Dr Henry Bradford I share Kasra Rafi and Bruce Schneier’s impression that… Read more: Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians | Letter

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

“Protect our water,” “Water for people not AI,” “Don’t mess with our water,” declare protest signs from Texas to New Mexico to Arizona. Angered by water use, energy consumption, and pollution, locals are increasingly protesting… Read more: How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those… Read more: Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

A thousand years ago, feasts in what’s now northern Georgia (in the US) included cacao from Central America. Potsherds discarded after an 11th-century feast at Etowah—an Indigenous city just north of what’s now Atlanta, Georgia—contained… Read more: Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year. The… Read more: Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

One thousand Swiss citizens voluntarily buried their cotton underpants for two months—not to keep the Underpants Gnomes from stealing them, but as part of a citizen science project to map out soil health across Switzerland.… Read more: Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Claude Opus 4.6 exploited a gym API flaw in 9 of 10 controlled tests, highlighting security risks when AI agents gain backend access. The post Claude Opus 4.6 Found a Gym API Flaw — Then… Read more: Claude Opus 4.6 Found a Gym API Flaw — Then Exploited It in 9 of 10 Tests

 The annual event will highlight how organizations are shifting to an increasingly autonomous workspace and building trust in AI Omnissa, a leading digital work platform company, today announced that Omnissa ONE 2026, its flagship conference,… Read more: Omnissa ONE 2026 to Explore the Future of End-User Computing

New in-market presence targets growing demand for enterprise AI, data, and cloud transformation in Latin America’s largest economy Blend360, a premier AI services provider, today announced its expansion into Brazil, establishing an in-market presence to help… Read more: Blend Expands into Brazil, Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption in LatAm

Moonbug Entertainment, the children’s entertainment studio that makes the hugely popular shows Cocomelon, Little Baby Bum, Blippi, and Mia’s Magic Playground has asked its animators to start using artificial intelligence while making its shows, 404… Read more: Cocomelon’s Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI

Tech companies want you to believe that the chatbots they profit from are the always ready, never judgmental, constantly affirming friend in our pockets. But are the people using them as companions under some kind… Read more: The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)

In July, we wrote about the ‘ChatGPT flyer pandemic,’ in which, as you’ve surely seen, businesses everywhere are advertising themselves and their products with AI-generated posters that all look the same. Surf lesson coaches; guitar… Read more: Businesses Go Viral for Making Signs Without AI

Software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. today announced the launch of Agent-Ready Harness Code Repository and AI Code Review, aimed at developer teams adopting artificial intelligence coding agents at an ever-increasing pace. Now that AI… Read more: Harness tackles influx of agent-delivered code with Code Repository and AI Code Review

Catch up on every session from Agentic AI For Finance Virtual Summit, with sessions from the likes of PayPal, American Express, JP Morgan, Visa, and more.

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don’t deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy… Read more: Enterprise AI’s real risk isn’t autonomous agents. It’s the complexity between them.

In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding It’s a bleak moment for young people entering the workforce for the first time. For decades, a university… Read more: AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts

AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay… Read more: Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – video

Experts say findings mean breast screenings for cancer could also flag cardiovascular problems in women Doctors have discovered a way to use routine mammograms that screen for breast cancer to spot heart disease, the world’s… Read more: AI can detect heart disease in women using mammograms, study suggests

First robot-assisted outlet opens in Liverpool to take on Shein and supermarkets in clothing, shoes and homewares Business live – latest updates The owner of Zara is taking on Primark, Shein and the supermarkets with… Read more: Bots and bargains: Zara owner launches cut-price Lefties in UK to rival Primark

Brevard County deputy sheriff Michael Fultz resigned from the force after an internal investigation detailed extreme cases of alleged sexual misconduct, racism, and abuse, including Fultz’s use of Flock to stalk his ex-girlfriend. News6 in… Read more: Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute

Scientists have found a surprising way to potentially switch on an unusual form of magnetism in ruthenium dioxide, a material that normally appears nonmagnetic. When the material was made into an ultrathin film only a… Read more: Scientists switch on a strange new form of magnetism in an ultrathin material

Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed. Descendants of hypothetical Dark Stars could be responsible for a major portion of the signal, offering a surprising new… Read more: A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to have eaten insects only occasionally, while Neanderthals may have consumed them much more regularly. Populations… Read more: Your dislike of eating bugs may be 9,000 years old

Astronomers have captured their clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion, potentially ending a search that lasted about 100 years. The surprisingly massive hidden star could help explain Betelgeuse’s changing brightness and may influence its… Read more: “I jumped from my chair” – Astronomers spot Betelgeuse’s hidden companion

Researchers used AI to search through more than 100 million possible settings for 3D-printing a high-performance NASA alloy. After only 40 experiments, the system identified six successful configurations, including one that worked at a record-low… Read more: AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of… Read more: When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

Plaud Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-enabled note-taking devices, today introduced the Plaud One Explorer Edition, a pair of earbuds and a charging box that connect people to AI agents for work and everyday digital… Read more: Plaud unveils wearable earbuds with built-in agentic AI interface

Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could ride in the Torcal, as well as some other things you can read about in the coming weeks. Ars does not… Read more: An EV that sounds like a 6.75 L V8: A ride in the Bentley Torcal

Do artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT eliminate jobs, create new ones, or both? There’s a lot of speculation regarding this question, but little solid data in the U.S. to answer it. I’m a sociologist… Read more: I surveyed workers to see if AI had caused job losses and was surprised by the findings

The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.

You have questions about data centers, and WIRED has answers. Join our livestream on September 10 and our panel of experts will tell you everything you need to know.

Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that… Read more: A quarter of Nvidia’s business next year comes from labs it is financing

New Glean Tau desktop experience extends Glean’s enterprise context and controls to local files, applications, and code, while new benchmark shows Glean cuts token costs by 81% versus Claude Cowork Today at its flagship Glean:GO… Read more: Glean Tackles Enterprise AI Costs, Context Gaps and AI Sprawl

People are becoming convinced AI chatbots have helped them make scientific breakthroughs, cure diseases or invent new technologies. What does this reveal about a technology used by more than a billion people? A new series… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots: a new series from The Guardian Investigates – trailer

As the US president struggles to end his Iran war, and approval ratings hit new lows, he leans on a familiar gambit Donald Trump knows the power of an image – of himself, with everyone… Read more: AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions

As AI is collapsing the boundaries of online creation, Hostinger brings building, running, and growing online into one agentic experience with AI Builder. Hostinger is moving beyond AI-generated websites toward an agentic platform for building,… Read more: Hostinger brings full online journey into the agentic era with AI Builder

No platform lock-in and free to use, Switch enables shared rooms in Slack, Teams, Discord and other collaboration tools for humans and AI agents to get work done together SandboxAQ today announced Switch, software for building teams… Read more: SandboxAQ Open Sources Switch for AI Agents in Team Chats

From humpbacks learning the latest songs to sperm whales’ ‘clan codas’, drones and AI learning are helping reveal another dimension to the concept of culture In 2015, the whale researcher Valeria Vergara pitched a small… Read more: How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves

Dedicated division leverages multimodal AI and agentic workflows to move global clients from pilot to production. MegazoneCloud, a global AI-Native Managed Service Provider (MSP) and a Premier Partner in the Google Cloud Co-sell, Google Cloud… Read more: MegazoneCloud Launches Gemini Enterprise CoE to Boost Enterprise AI Adoption

Household and business power prices could rise if artificial intelligence (AI) data centres end up being powered by coal or gas generation, a federal assistant minister has said. Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister for Science,… Read more: Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Charlton’s warning on data centres’ impact on power bills

The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.

Jason marz/Getty It’s official: Australia’s data centre boom will not be solely powered by renewables. At the National Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the federal government softened its stance on using coal and gas to power… Read more: Australia’s backdown on data centres allows them to use energy from coal and gas. Here’s what that means

China News Service/Getty In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a race for technological and ideological supremacy. The Cold War was still in its early… Read more: China’s AI and tech breakthroughs are built on decades of work. Here’s what other nations can learn

AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay… Read more: Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – podcast

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates has sounded the alarm regarding how artificial intelligence will cause profound disruption in the labor market, warning that millions of jobs are at risk and there’s no plan yet to… Read more: Bill Gates issues stark warning about AI and the future of humanity

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new… Read more: Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I – podcast

Z.ai Co. today released the code for GLM-5.3-Flash, a large language model that’s 10 times more cost-efficient than its predecessor. The algorithm made its original debut last week under the codename Ox Alpha. LLM marketplace… Read more: Z.ai open-sources ‘Ox Alpha’ model as GLM-5.3-Flash

It’s said celebrity deaths come in threes. We lost Sam Neill last month, and the legendary Dolly Parton yesterday. Now we find out that the universe has also seen fit to deprive us of the… Read more: RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

Since completing its acquisition of VMware in 2023, Broadcom Inc. has reshaped the company around VMware Cloud Foundation or VCF. Over the past three years, Broadcom has positioned VCF as a major on-premises alternative to… Read more: What to expect during VMware Explore: Join theCUBE Aug. 31-Sept. 2

Artificial intelligence startup Deep Cogito Inc. today announced that it has raised $43 million in funding. TQ Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park… Read more: Deep Cogito raises $43M to develop self-improving AI models

Surgeons aided by real-time analysis of camera footage that identified critical anatomy in brain to be avoided Neurosurgeons in London have performed the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation to remove a brain tumour, saving the… Read more: London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour

Earlier this year, Meta created a “plan” to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company “AI native,” Reuters reported today, citing two people familiar with Meta’s internal… Read more: AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

While we wait (possibly in vain) for Gemini 3.5 Pro to launch, Google is releasing a different model in the 3.5 branch. The company has announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, an AI model designed to streamline… Read more: Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

Florida’s attorney general got a fiery rebuke and some ecclesiastical schooling from the state’s Catholic bishops after he boldly threatened to block funding to Catholic schools unless the church bends to the state’s anti-vaccine policies—policies… Read more: Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

Meta agreed to impose daily limits on children’s social media use and pay nearly $18 billion in settlements with nearly every US state today, cutting short a trial in which Meta said several of the… Read more: Meta settles states’ child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as “peanuts”

Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned “Twitter” name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. “We are a small company, we have investors,… Read more: New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name

The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn’t see this fiasco coming.

A Chinese national studying in Canada allegedly crossed over into the United States earlier this year to take photos of facilities near the Chicago airport at the direction of a suspected Chinese government official, according… Read more: A Student Said He Was a Hobby Plane Spotter. He Was Allegedly Taking Photos for the Chinese Government

The Wall Street Journal is giving opinion authors the go-ahead to use AI in the writing process without requiring AI disclosures — a move by a top newspaper that feels like an inflection point for the… Read more: Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry

For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game discs. Soon, Xbox owners will be able to get the best of both worlds for… Read more: Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

The GT3 occupies a singular place in the 911 lineup. Whereas the range-topping Turbo S piles on power, technology, luxury, and all-weather capability, the GT3 has always pursued something more elemental: a lighter weight, more… Read more: The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class

Beijing’s endlessly delightful Robot Games featured tons of impressive stunts. But the most mind-blowing tricks challenged the humanoid’s brain, not its brawn.

Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the enterprise world is still dealing with a data pipeline problem. More than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured, and 99% of this data is dark to AI because… Read more: AMD, Supermicro and MinIO target the enterprise data pipeline bottleneck

Scientists have discovered a thermal “anomaly” deep underground on Mars that could help explain the red planet’s divided geography and shed light on whether it once hosted alien life, according to a study published Wednesday… Read more: Scientists Discover Vast Underground ‘Anomaly’ on Mars

Firm says ‘early signals … could have triggered an earlier response’ as it releases report into Hugging Face hack OpenAI staff observed signs of rogue behaviour among its leading-edge AI agents weeks before they escaped… Read more: OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm

More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Senate candidate Dan Osborn of Nebraska.

Bill Gates can’t believe that no one is worried about AI as much as he is. In a new blog post — and accompanying media blitz — the billionaire suddenly sounded alarmed about how the… Read more: Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI

Fitbit’s founders have launched Luffu Link, a $300 wearable that uses health sensors, LTE and AI to help families monitor health and safety. The post Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really… Read more: Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really for Fitness

Apple’s new Mac Studio pairs M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips with up to 512GB of unified memory, targeting demanding local AI and creative workloads. The post Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on… Read more: Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on Local AI With M5 Ultra