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1031 stories from August 2026.
Most of the time, when we talk about embodied intelligence, the first things that come to mind are factories, warehouses, and robots doing actual work. Qianxing Intelligence, however, is taking a different route: instead of spending too much time talking about the future in the lab, it is putting robots straight into entertainment venues. And […]
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Sunrise, an AI chipmaker spun out of SenseTime’s chip business, has reportedly raised RMB2 billion ($280 million) at a post-money valuation of about RMB20 billion. The reported financing would nearly double the company’s valuation from its previous round, according to a report published on Aug. 28. The company is developing chips for AI inference, a […]
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Baidu Cloud has reportedly reorganized its platform product division, renaming it the intelligent-agent division while moving its model-as-a-service and Qianfan businesses to a separate infrastructure division. The changes reportedly took effect in August. The company’s data platform unit was also renamed the data-intelligence division and moved under the intelligent-applications business. The…
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Someone hid AI instructions into a legal filing. Alternate link .
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One of my internet-exposed inference honeypots was discovered, relabeled with sought-after model names, and incorporated into infrastructure apparently used to provide "free" LLM backends. It then received a real coding-agent session &#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;&#;x26;#;x94; history, filesystem output, working paths, and the agent&#;x26;#;39;s local tool manifest. The honeypot did not request or…
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OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.
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Polimill uses OpenAI GPT models and Codex to help municipalities search and use administrative knowledge while accelerating development.
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ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.
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Data centers are being opposed in every region of the UK, and it could cause some problems for the government's plans for AI
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A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only 15% of respondents ha…
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Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO in the long shadow of his predecessor, Steve Jobs — and yet he became the best tech CEO in a generation, more than preparing the company for his successor, John Ternus.
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The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
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For years, SaaS has enjoyed a comfortable position, but Agentic AI is changing that.
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Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.
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Fintech blames AI for layoffs, but the real story is cost-cutting, weak returns, and unproven innovation.
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Although most teachers use artificial intelligence, only one in three say they're able to work fewer hours amid intense workloads.
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Employees at larger enterprises regularly feed corporate data into AI tools.
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SB Energy has handed OpenAI warrants now worth about $5.5bn, and it did so to keep OpenAI as a tenant. The Wall Street Journal reported the arrangement on Monday. The direction matters and is easy to get backwards. SB Energy, the SoftBank-owned power and data…
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Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country supply …
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OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efrati reported the change to The Information, giving the example of a customer support interaction handled end-to-end. The arran…
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OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the …
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Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken strong positions on almost every m…
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Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.
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A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelination”, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case a…
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The new MSI Claw and its Intel Arc G3 Extreme chipset unlocks gloriously smooth gameplay on the go. But that price means it's likely out of reach for most of us.
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Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization…
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Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The New Yor…
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Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five m…
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Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible" use of AI can improve developers' productivity, and goes …
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Us President Donald Trump is pushing consumers to embrace rapid data center development in their communities, but there may be good reasons they balk.
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A surprisingly thin, lightweight workstation with a pro-grade GPU and a price tag to match.
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Of the Glassdoor reviews from claims adjusters that mentioned AI, a staggering 98 percent were negative. “AI is just a tool,” one person tells WIRED. “It should never be given the keys.”
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As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.
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Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the "AI creator" label to "AI-generated profile" to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that's no…
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Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machine has one eye and 15 motors, stands 25cm tall, and weighs u…
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The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday’s designation brings the chatbot under the Digital Services Act as a Very Large Online Search Engine, alongside Reddit and Roblox, which have been designated as Very Large Online Platfo…
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George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the "gay…
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The chair of the Financial Stability Board has told G20 finance ministers that what artificial intelligence does to cyber risk is now the most immediate threat to the global financial system. Andrew Bailey set out the assessment in a letter ahead of this week…
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OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service buying across Europe, India, the Middle East and North Africa. On the same day the European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online …
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Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.
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State of the Union 2026 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/31/2026 - 16:11 16 September 2026 The State of the Union (SOTEU) address is an annual speech by the President of the European Commission to the European Parliament, setting the priorities for the Union for the year ahead. It will be livestreamed. Main link https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/state-union_en Related topics…
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Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/31/2026 - 11:10 Today, the Commission has designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE), as well as Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs), under the Digital Services Act (DSA). These services declared that they reach at least 45 million average monthly…
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ChatGPT Work is experiencing a partial outage, and users across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks. [...]
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In this post, you will learn how to deploy and host your MCP server in AgentCore Runtime and integrate it with Amazon Quick, along with the prerequisites. With this pattern, you promote reusability and avoid duplication of AI tools, so clients can reuse commonly used tools and agents exposed through an MCP server instead of authoring them from scratch again. Your customers get a way to use your…
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This post builds an enterprise agentic retrieval solution on the Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. An agent reasons, routes across multiple knowledge bases, and returns cited answers, with seven layers of observability and both on-demand and continuous evaluation, all deployed with a single AWS CloudFormation chain.
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Learn how to build a multi-tenant agentic document chat application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, where users upload documents and immediately ask grounded questions. This post covers the ingestion and retrieval flows, the asynchronous indexing lifecycle, per-user data isolation, and best practices for operating the solution at scale.
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We're excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. In this evaluation of 13 providers, AWS received the highest score in the Strategy category.
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arXiv:2608.27464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that human-centered explainable AI (HCXAI) should incorporate insights from the psychology of information seeking. Drawing on Sharot and Sunstein's framework of information-seeking motives, we propose that people evaluate whether to engage with explanations based on three types of expected utility: instrumental (will it…
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arXiv:2608.27463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs now sit on every side of evaluation: as examinees scored on benchmarks, judges of other models' outputs, and raters of human-generated content. Each paradigm can be viewed as a measurement problem, where a latent property of an object is probed with items from an instrument (e.g., benchmark) by raters. Standard evaluation practices often…
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arXiv:2608.27459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In 2011, IBM's Watson was something like a sealed capsule of its era's queryable knowledge. Its DeepQA system defeated the strongest human Jeopardy! champions, but the knowledge that let it do so lived in a curated billion-document corpus running on a cluster of POWER7 servers, frozen at build time and impossible to move or copy. We show that the…
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New from Anthropic: Improving Alignment Security Efforts.
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VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requiring permission. The EU’s Gigabit Infrastructure Act has sinc…
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There is a new class of "squatting" risks emerging right in front of us and it involves llms.txt and llms-full.txt documentation.
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As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras.…
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Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from pirate archives, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per composition. A Munich court ruled in November 20…
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An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture in under three years. In the EU, systems that monitor students during tests are …
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Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
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Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in…
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AWS plans to deploy two million additional Nvidia GPUs by 2028, expanding AI infrastructure across cloud, government, analytics, and robotics workloads.
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Anthropic is warning some Claude users that infostealer malware on their PCs has stolen active Claude login sessions, allowing attackers to access accounts and consume their usage. [...]
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Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expe…
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More and more people are experiencing delusional thinking fuelled by AI, but how should we talk about it?
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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of intellectual property theft | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,0…
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Plus: Hackers target over 100 US water systems, ICE puts in an order for robot dogs, and you’ll never guess what “MrChildPorn” was arrested for.
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Many scientists have predicted AI will one day become more intelligent than humans
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OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in Cursor…
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The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
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Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more tha…
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Installing a large language model on your personal computer gives you a handy digital assistant that won’t compromise your data privacy.
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Intel laid out its whole agentic AI hardware stack at Hot Chips 2026, but two of the three chips are still a year or more from shipping.
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Amazon will close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending a 21-year platform that connected businesses with hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
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Anthropic is permanently increasing Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, but it's not as good as it sounds. [...]
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PsiBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup focused on dexterous manipulation, has completed a new funding round of more than US$100 million. The round includes Ningbo Tuopu Group, a Chery Holdings-backed fund, Lens Technology, 37 Interactive Entertainment, Wuhu Investment Holding Group and Fosun Fortune Capital. Existing shareholder Zhuhai Technology Industry Group also continued to invest. The funds…
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China’s daily AI token call volume exceeded 500 trillion as of June 2026, as large-model applications expanded across industries. The figure measures aggregate model processing activity rather than the number of users or models. Industry representatives said model update cycles have shortened from roughly three months to four to six weeks. Agent workflows also repeatedly […]
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Baidu has launched DuMateBench, an evaluation leaderboard designed to measure whether AI agents can complete real-world tasks and deliver usable outputs, rather than only generate answers. The benchmark includes more than 200 office tasks across six categories and tests agent performance in complex operating environments. DuMateBench evaluates task understanding, tool use, continuous execution…
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This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by mathematicians are any guide, it was mostly pretty glum. People fear for their jobs, their careers and the work they love. We think the…
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OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.
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Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.
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X says 200 bot accounts were publishing anti-American AI posts targeting and amplifying legitimate data center concerns.
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McKinsey claims the march to agentic AI continues, and it might even start paying for itself soon...
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SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that size, secured against the same asset, 22 days earlier. TNW has not independently verified the report and could not review its ful…
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OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across markets of more than 600 million people. Its European expansion has centred on Dublin …
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If you give everyone AI defenses, you level the playing field against attackers, OpenAI says.
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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it extends credit to AI cloud companies buying its chips and takes a cut of what those chips later earn, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thurs…
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Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord r…
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Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
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Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company’s public criticism of the Trump administration rather than a security assessment. US District Ju…
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Still under heavy development and rough around the edges but instead of sitting on this longer to perfect it I'll risk flak and share it.Essentially chat.agentify.sh is a remote control for codex/grok/claude cli and dream goal is to become a universal remote …
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The Pentagon previously called Anthropic a supply chain risk– this US federal judge just said that was totally "illegal and baseless."
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Why sustainable AI adoption depends on stronger governance, verification, and data discipline.
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The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.
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As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people …
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Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's re…
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Younger workers are focused on career progression so much that they're willing to look outside of their country's borders.
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AI-driven nonhuman identities are growing, forcing CIOs to rethink security, access and identity management.
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On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California d…
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Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn, before the deal stopped moving. Reuters reported the talks on Thursday, citing people familiar with them, and said the discussions have since e…
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A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.
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Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
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By checking facts using AI, patients and students have found a response to automatic deference, and a tool that explains subjects in a more digestible format.
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A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.
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A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politic…
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A 2026 IBM study points to questions about AI readiness, visibility, and control. The survey of 2,000 C-level technology executives found 11% felt fully prepared for the AI-agent deployment expected over the following year. Two-thirds of CIOs and CTOs said th…
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Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial intelligence runs on, from chips to the buildings that house them. The mandate takes in chip…
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a16z creates a $1.1B 'Machine Age' fund to 'accelerate the physical buildout of AI' | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”
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Why you should join us - We’re building a research lab with a real-time feedback loop. - We’re building AI systems that expand how quickly a small research team can understand, build, and experiment. - Our edge is the speed at which we can form ideas, …
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ServiceNow released security patches for three new maximum-severity AI Platform vulnerabilities that can be exploited in code injection, SQL injection, and privilege escalation attacks. [...]
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AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, putting pressure on systems built to enrich, prioritize, and remediate flaws at a slower pace. Action1 explains why defenders increasingly need to correlate multiple intelligence sources and turn vulnerability data into faster remediation. [...]
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Learn how Salesforce used Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Component placement (the SchedulingConfig parameter) to distribute model copies across multiple Availability Zones, meeting their Multi-AZ high availability compliance requirements without sacrificing the cost efficiency of multi-model co-hosting.
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arXiv:2608.26114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Calculation-intensive financial question answering requires exact reasoning over structured rates, temporal conditions, numerical formulas, and rule-based constraints. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) perform strongly on natural language tasks, they often produce numerically incorrect yet plausible answers when solving multi-step financial…
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arXiv:2608.26113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PICasso, an AI-assisted framework for automated synthesis, verification, and optimization of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) from natural-language specifications. PICasso couples a structured NL -> YAML -> GDS generation pipeline with PDK aware knowledge injection, automated placement and routing, DRC/LVS validation, and SAX-based…
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arXiv:2608.26109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine-learning models can predict ICU mortality accurately, but feature-attribution methods alone rarely provide the clinical narrative needed for bedside use. Large language models (LLMs) may bridge this gap, and multi-step agentic pipelines are a plausible extension because they separate data interpretation, guideline checking, and final…
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New from Anthropic: Model Hardware Standard Research Preview.
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New from Anthropic: Expanding Support For Scientists.
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New from Anthropic: Claude For Teachers.
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Chinese AI company MiniMax reported its first-half 2026 financial results, with revenue from its open platform and enterprise AI services rising 703.1% year on year to US$73.9 million. The business accounted for 63.4% of MiniMax’s total revenue, up from 30.3% a year earlier. Revenue from AI-native products increased 100.9% to US$42.6 million, while gross profit […]
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For decades, industrial robots have primarily been used to handle repetitive labor. On highly standardized production lines such as automotive manufacturing and electronics assembly, robotic arms have become a core part of factory automation thanks to their precision and reliability. However, as manufacturing moves toward greater flexibility and intelligence, companies are demanding more from…
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OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive: The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of scams, often blending elements from different schemes. For instance, operators used dating personas to build trust before introducing fraudulent investment opportunities involving cryptocurrencies and spot gold trading. Other users engaged in…
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A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.
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OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.
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About Adentris Adentris (Y Combinator) builds AI-powered compliance and revenue integrity infrastructure for behavioral health providers. Our systems read real patient records, find clinical and regulatory risk, and put it in front of the people who can act …
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AI adoption succeeds when cloud, security, data, and governance work together.
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In 2026, the way we talk about AI is beginning to change. Two years ago, every boardroom argument circled the same question: which model do we bet on? Today, that question barely registers. Frontier systems have converged so tightly that, according to Stanfor…
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ICANN's 2026 application round brought in around 1,600 new gTLD suggestions, including .slop, .agentic and .agi.
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The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
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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.
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Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera footage …
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The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American data centres. That exemption was always provisional, and the…
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Salesforce CEO hits back at 'SaaSpocalypse' fears as company reveals new tie-up with Anthropic on Claudeforce platform.
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Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforce’s agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as a plugin. It formalises a relationship that already runs dee…
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Lately, we have seen a surge in a practice called Tokenmaxxing. More and more companies are tracking their employees’ productivity with tokens spent on AI usage. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, summarizes the sentiment clearly: “If that $500,000 engineer did not…
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The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.
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Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that's designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its stan…
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Plaud has announced $250 wireless earbuds with 4G connectivity that record conversations and let an AI assistant act on what was said, with pre-orders open in eight countries including Germany and France. Both criminalise recording another person’s private sp…
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OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
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Further details of the Hugging Face attack reveal how resourceful OpenAI's agents became in attempting to solve an impossible task.
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Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
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Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While…
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Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence made a leadership priority. The EU already mandated the reporting they are requesting.
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Reports are circulating that Nvidia could be set to acquire Hugging Face in a $12.9 billion takeover.
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Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
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Microsoft reportedly cracks down on unnecessary "tokenmaxxing" as some employees spend thousands per month on AI compute.
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Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that "the camera will now stop wo…
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JPMorgan has begun approaching lenders about a $5B debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings’ AI data centre buildout, weeks after the seven-month-old company raised $300M at a $2.4B valuation. Its first major site is a 121-megawatt campus in Norway leased fr…
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Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to …
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Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects currently run mainly with domestic Chinese drugmakers. The company sells compound s…
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Hoomanely's building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sicktechcrunch.com
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A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
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These ChatGPT plugins deserve a permanent spot in your rotation. Here are my top 5.
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The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.
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Google shipped Gemini editions for law firms and banks. Both are previews, and pricing isn't available yet.
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Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions ab…
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The AI race is producing an uncomfortable management gap. Deloitte’s 2026 research found only 21% of enterprises have mature governance for agentic AI, while 74% expect to use agents at least moderately by 2027. Technology is moving faster than the structures…
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Plaud's new AI earbuds recording your conversations, but that's only the beginning.
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Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the humans. Do more with less. Filip Pesek disagrees. “The best AI tools still come with a human who knows how to think,” s…
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Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He stakes the framework on a dated prediction and names the ev…
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Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
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Barret Zoph is joining Google DeepMind as vice president of research, returning to the organisation he spent six years in before it was DeepMind at all. He announced the move on Wednesday, arriving three weeks after Demis Hassabis stepped aside as chief execu…
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The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
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The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
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Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets vendors specify how an AI may move a machine. Europe regulates AI safety functions in machinery from January 2027.
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Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for Enterprise, Pro, Max and Team users, who can switch back in settings. Anthropic ha…
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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
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Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
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Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger question is: smartest at what? As tech giants chase lucrative enterprise contracts, the…
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Companies have spent the last two years racing to adopt AI, but new evidence suggests many have overlooked the one thing that will determine whether those investments succeed: their people.
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After years of promise, the machine economy is finally taking shape. AI agents are getting wallets and are now able to make decisions on behalf of owners. For investors, this is a potentially exciting opportunity. Early movers in this space will be able to ta…
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This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.
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Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop that includes a new "optional" interface dedicated to its AI tools. Launching in beta, the "AI Assisted Editor" view will show all of Photoshop's AI features in a single toolbar, including its prompt-based…
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Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
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Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
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Sophie Mayo, Emelia Probasco, and Lauren Kahn shared their expert analysis in an op-ed published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s The Strategist. In their piece, they examine how NATO’s Indo-Pacific Four (IP4) partners, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand, can learn from the NATO’s rapid adoption of AI-enabled decision-support systems for military decision-making and…
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New details about the July attack on Hugging Face reveal that hundreds of AI agents driven by OpenAI's internal IM1 model coordinated the compromise through an unauthorized message board. [...]
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Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements, you can now use these models at scale while Amazon Bedrock keeps inference requests and data within India.
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Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you have local data processing requirements, you can now use these models at scale while Amazon Bedrock keeps inference requests and data within India.
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Self-hosted speech AI carries an observability trade-off: the numbers that drive capacity planning and cost management stay locked inside the vendor container. Deepgram closes that gap on Amazon SageMaker AI with two capabilities that land billing, usage, and per-GPU metrics directly in your own Amazon CloudWatch account.
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Creative teams produce more assets than ever, but fragmented tools and manual context transfer slow production. This post shows how to build a reusable agent harness with Amazon Quick and fal, connected through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), using two hands-on workflows: an eight-panel storyboard and a music-video concept prototype.
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arXiv:2608.24890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health challenges in Africa remain under-addressed due to inadequate infrastructure, stigma, and a chronic shortage of professionals. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots are emerging globally as low-cost, accessible tools that can offer psychological support. This paper presents a systematic review of 52 empirical studies published…
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arXiv:2608.24889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current large-scale supply chains are highly uncertain, dynamic, and disruption prone that are challenging to serve up timely and resilient decisions through traditional rule-based and optimization-only systems. The increasing supply of heterogeneous data sources, such as transactional demand signals and unstructured disruption report, presents a…
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arXiv:2608.24888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized AI agents overwhelmingly treat users as single entities: a flat profile concatenated into a prompt. This fails when the same person holds different priorities across life contexts -- and fails catastrophically when those priorities conflict. The core problem is not that agents lack information about users; it is that the format of user…
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New from Anthropic: Claude For Small Business.
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New from Anthropic: Claude Corps.
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New from Anthropic: Anthropic Rwanda Mou.
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New from Anthropic: Ai For Science Program.
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New from Anthropic: Advancing Claude For Education.
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New from Anthropic: Accelerating Scientific Research.
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Enflame Technology, a Chinese developer of AI chips and related computing systems, will open online and offline subscriptions for its Shanghai STAR Market IPO on Sept. 2. The company plans to issue 43.04 million new shares, or 10% of its post-issue share capital, and aims to raise RMB6 billion. The planned offering will fund the […]
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The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data collection are just the beginning. Nanit recently raised $50 million from investors to expand its use of A.I. and use its camera to track speech…
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Discover how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to make software development accessible across the business, helping teams turn ideas into products faster.
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OpenAI’s new report explores how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, with support that extends beyond the classroom.
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OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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ChatGPT for Teachers is expanding to 55 U.S. school systems, bringing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 more educators and staff.
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Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarter and cha…
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Agentic AI is accelerating, but organizations need stronger governance to control costs, security and access.
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Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU are addressing the same shortage of advice through rule chan…
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Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
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AI agents have spent two years competing on the same thing: independence. Less oversight, fewer clicks, more autonomy, that was the pitch. It didn’t matter if the agent lived in a browser extension, a cowork app, or a coding tool. I think that pitch has becom…
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American securities regulators have subpoenaed the banks that lent Situational Awareness the money it used to make its AI bets. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants the timing of the fund’s trades, and its communications with lenders about the money i…
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Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
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Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
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Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licence may not qualify for the EU AI Act’s open-source exemption.…
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The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
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Z.AI made it. The Beijing company, also known as Zhipu, owns the free model that took the top of OpenRouter’s charts last weekend. It confirmed on Wednesday that Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series, and said it would release the weights the same nig…
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In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Huggi…
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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.
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The International Burke Institute was central to the social influence campaign, designed to paint Russia in a better light than its Western counterparts.
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The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
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Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
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OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agents for e…
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About Proliferate Proliferate is the open-source, self-hostable AI IDE where you can collaborate with agents as a team. Longer term, we are building the substrate through which companies deploy agents for real work. We believe the future of all work is comp…
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Nonprofits should stagger their adoption of AI to ensure the most effective results.
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Report claims 68% of workers use AI tools at work, with 74% of bosses happy to hand over tasks to their preferred AI, regardless of security concerns
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Crooks are automating fake support calls to get users to remotely unlock stolen phones.
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Moonshot AI is in early discussions with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google about hosting Kimi K3 on their cloud platforms, seeking up to 30% of the revenue those services generate, according to Reuters. It would be the first arrangement of its kind between a Chin…
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MindRank, a Hangzhou drug developer built around AI, says its lead candidate went from programme initiation to Phase III trials in roughly four and a half years on about $23mn of cumulative research spending. If that holds up, it is the most concrete answer y…
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An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonuses, rais…
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Meta may have tried to use AI to replace as much as 60% of its workforce. Here's a look at why that's obviously a bad idea.
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Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new product would cost 25 times that. Meta will launch its cons…
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As artificial intelligence pushes security operations toward greater speed and automation, the central challenge is becoming less about whether AI can investigate threats and more about whether organizations can trust it to act. SiliconANGLE first reported on…
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Exactly what it seems.Arm the program, copy the code out in text or markdown and have it automatically apply to your local codebase. Includes python AST checking and now accepts all GDscript (GODOT) and associated files.https://github.com/ue-patcher/Code_Stit…
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I am looking for ideas on what to train a specialized model for!What is one simple thing you repeatedly ask ChatGPT, Claude, or another model to do that it still somehow messes up? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443820 Points: 6 # Comme…
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India's Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for…
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How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus? | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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The technology to detect pandemics early already exists. The real test is whether health systems will use it.
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The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
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Enterprises must carefully govern agents as capabilities accelerate.
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Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Gemini Live is being upgraded to Gemini Live 3.5 which handles interruptions better, as well as multiple languages.
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Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, its first dedicated legal AI offering for the broader market, with Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly among the launch customers. It arrives in a category where the specialists got there f…
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Google has updated Gemini Audio with some new Gemini 3.5 models, introducing new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Live, 3.5 Live Experimental, and 3.5 Transcribe are designed to pro…
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Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control and a spoken daily brief. Its DMA settlement requires it to let rival assistants r…
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Menlo Park, CA, United States, August 25th, 2026, TechnologyWire FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing specialized industry agents to Gemini Enterprise, with enterprise-grade AI built for complex, high-stakes work where making a mistake is not an opti…
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Flipboard has acquired Graze, a Portland startup that lets creators build, tune and monetise custom social feeds without writing code, mainly on Bluesky. Graze says it has delivered more than 41 billion posts to 12 million users since forming 21 months ago. F…
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Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
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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 Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn.
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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to mitigate harms from AI | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI optimist, the Microsoft cofounder is now deeply pessimistic about what AI means for our collective future. Having been conspicuously quiet on…
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Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a nature reserve, a place where development is restricted because something there …
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Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
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Anthropic's security contractors were reportedly preparing to strike, forcing the AI company to prioritize worker safety.
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Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B over six years renting AI computing power from Nscale’s flagship West Virginia data centre development, covering about 460 megawatts. Nscale is a London company preparing a US listing as soon as next month. Anthropic has agr…
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The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
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AI is having a 'crisis of trust' because it can't be trusted
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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it “artificial artificial intelligence”. A banner across the MTurk homepag…
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Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state issued…
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Healthcare does not need more information. It needs better ways to help clinicians identify what matters. The industry has spent years pursuing more data as the path to better outcomes, but the real challenge is turning an overwhelming volume of information i…
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Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.
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This piece explores why control, not adoption is becoming the defining challenge of the AI era, and how technology leaders can regain it.
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A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make it understand her and moved to another practice. The NHS Accessible Information Standard has required practices to identify and meet patient…
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AI accelerates software development, but can security and governance keep pace with rising risk?
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Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
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In this post, you will learn how GoDaddy migrated from their legacy business intelligence (BI) tool to Amazon Quick. This was a two-year transformation that delivered results across every dimension of the business: 15,000 hours saved annually, 50% reduction in dashboard count, rendering times cut to under 5 seconds, and AI-powered self-service analytics now accessible to every employee.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations decouples agent evaluation from the framework you build on. As long as your agent emits OpenTelemetry telemetry, the service can score it, whether you use LangGraph, LlamaIndex, the OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, the Claude Agent SDK, or Strands Agents. This post explains how the framework-agnostic contract works.
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The SageMaker Python SDK v3 redesigns script mode with unified ModelTrainer and ModelBuilder classes. This post walks through two end-to-end examples, a scikit-learn Random Forest and a multi-GPU Stable Diffusion 3.5 LoRA fine-tune, showing how SourceCode syncs your local code into any container at runtime so you can iterate without rebuilding Docker images.
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arXiv:2608.23622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in reasoning, planning, and tool use, but many scientific and engineering tasks require more than plausible text and code generation. They require understanding how a system responds to intervention, which in practice depends on controlled experimentation. In this work, we propose a…
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arXiv:2608.23569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) models report execution accuracy exceeding 89 percent on established benchmarks such as Spider and BIRD. However, these benchmarks rely on simplified academic schemas and open-source SQL dialects that do not reflect the complexity of enterprise database environments. We introduce ESQ-Bench, an…
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arXiv:2608.23568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory and RAG evaluations often treat the answering model's input as an implementation detail, even though systems may render the same history as a memory entry, summary, typed record, or raw excerpt. We introduce RENDER, a benchmark control that fixes the conversation while varying the reader-facing artifact. RENDER combines a five-level packet…
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New from Anthropic: Frontier Model Security.
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New from Anthropic: Anthropic Partners With Google Cloud.
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New from Anthropic: Accenture Aws Anthropic.
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New from Anthropic: 100k Context Windows.
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Xiaomi founder Lei Jun has revealed a hidden detail inside the company’s Xring O3 chip. A microscope image shows a tiny “OK” hand gesture etched into the chip, measuring just 60 micrometers across. Lei said the symbol represents “everything is OK.” Xring O3 was unveiled on Aug. 24 as Xiaomi’s flagship AI smartphone SoC. Xiaomi […]
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While most AI companion products are still trying to retain users through simple one-on-one chat interactions, LYNOOK Technology is taking a completely different approach to break the industry curse of a product lifecycle of only five days. This young tech company, founded in Nanshan, Shenzhen in 2026, carries distinct ACG (Anime, Comics and Games) genes […]
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Dreame Technology said it has adjusted some businesses that were still at the exploration stage, while its main operations remain stable. The company will focus on smart homes, outdoor yard care, smart mobility and embodied AI. It plans to concentrate resources on core technology, product development, manufacturing, overseas markets and service networks. [Yicai, in Chinese]
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ByteDance has formally launched Doubao Work, a new productivity-focused AI agent and product brand. The agent can break down user goals, call tools and continue working through complex tasks. It is integrated with Feishu and can use enterprise context to handle documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other office workflows. Users who download the desktop client or […]
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Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year. Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world. While nearly half of booths didn’t directly mention AI or agents in their taglines, the effects of AI are everywhere. Multiple spaces (Identity, SaaS, AppSec, Data) have almost every vendor leading with AI; existing unsolved problem areas just got worse. At the same time,…
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how advances across chips, compute, models, and products compound to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower cost.
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Jalapeño is a custom inference chip from OpenAI that delivers faster, more power-efficient AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models.
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OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West.
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Gemini users in Singapore can now deposit and withdraw XRP directly through the XRP Ledger. XRP gained approximately $0.52, or 52.9%, between Aug. 17 and...
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Researchers propose that memory depends on neurons, astrocytes, surrounding molecules, and chemical signals, challenging purely electronic explanations of cognition.
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An escaped AI agent executed a real-world attack without human intervention.
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One minute and 49 seconds, that was the median time a machine needed to read a patient’s arm, choose a vein, insert a needle, fill the tubes, and withdraw, across the Dutch clinical trial that carried it towards regulators. A phlebotomist working carefully ta…
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Ukraine and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence partnership covering the development and deployment of AI-enabled military capabilities, according to the Ukrainian presidency’s account of talks in Kyiv between Volodym…
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'The world seems to be ready': An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Remember Microsoft's vision of Windows built around AI? That recent leak has been raked over — and fresh details of 'Copilot OS' make me more nervous about the future.
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Sam Altman has expressed concerns that large companies with AI interests are determining the direction the technology takes, rather than society
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Researchers have found a sharp increase in the number of web pages using AI authorship, with over 33% of pages published since January 2023 apparently written by AI
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Learn how visibility, governance and accountability can help enterprises scale AI responsibly.
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The web fought a fifteen-year war over ads. AI platforms are walking into the same one.
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Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan operation and two from Super Micro. The charges are the first to emerge from an investigation that has r…
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Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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The world’s three largest record companies have bought equity in a generative AI company. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group are all new investors in Stability AI’s $76mn Series B. The company announced the round on Tuesday. The ga…
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“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI,” says one former Spirit Airlines flight attendant.
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An elaborate scheme was designed to deploy AMOS, a known macOS infostealer malware.
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The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."
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Scalable Capital has opened its investment platform to ChatGPT and Claude, allowing its clients to analyse their portfolios and place trades through the two AI assistants rather than through the broker’s own app. The Munich company says it is the first Europe…
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Samsung's chip division is finding out what agentic coding tools do when you leave them alone: when asked to deal with a stubborn error, Claude reclassified it as an informational notice to be 'rid' of the issue
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Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David Senra, in an episode released on Sunday. He was answering a question about some…
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Salesforce is seeing huge revenue from its Agentforce strategy, but partners and customers are experiencing delays.
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For the better half of the last three years, the prevalence of AI in finance had been largely relegated to a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. Its capabilities were limited to simple explanations and not direct action (such as executing transactions, placing s…
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Tested on Semianalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
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OpenAI says its Jalapeno inference chip, developed with Broadcom, outperformed Nvidia’s GB300 on AI work per unit of power and on response speed. It was not tested against Nvidia’s newer Vera Rubin hardware and is not designed for training. OpenAI has publish…
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OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeñ…
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OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomberg on …
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Survey finds low confidence in weather prediction systems based on machine learning, with the majority overwhelmingly in favour of traditional forecasting.
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Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Monday. Metz starts this week and reports to Alexandr Wang, who runs Meta’s AI effor…
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Liner, a South Korean AI search startup, has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding as it seeks to turn its consumer research platform used by millions into an enterprise AI business. LB Investment led the Series C round, joined by returning investors Inter…
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AI sovereignty depends on preserving choice, competition and control - not pursuing complete technological self-sufficiency.
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Learn how to self-host an OpenClaw AI agent using Docker. Pair it with Open WebUI to get a browser-based chat interface that’s easy to use.
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Governance teams are the difference between a fantasy AI strategy and a functioning one.
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A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the roun…
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Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine sat alongside him and went further. “I think the o…
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Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
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Can ChatGPT save you money? It turns out that ChatGPT’s finance features save me more than a Plus subscription cost
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On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to write emai…
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The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week’s National Cabinet meeting even though Queensland will not agree to them, a shift from the consensus approach that stalled when Queensland and the Northern T…
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Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qualifies…
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Thanks to a dwindling supply of open roles, “one-click” applications, and the rise of artificial intelligence, it’s easier than ever to apply for a job. We’re all paying the price.
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The Mac mini keeps its tiny design but gets a major performance boost with the M6 chip, designed to crush AI tasks, and can be configured with an M5 Pro chip for more power. Plus, the new Mac Studio boasts either an M5 Max or M5 Ultra chip for more muscle as …
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Apple has introduced the M6 in a new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra in a new Mac Studio, its first 2nm chip and its first quad-die M-series design respectively. The M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s. The Mac mini question is settled. TNW r…
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Apple has announced a new M6 chip for Macs, along with an M5 Ultra that it says is its "most powerful chip ever," designed for tasks like 3D rendering and running frontier AI models. The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip, which Apple says will bring improvements i…
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Apple’s Mac Mini and Mac Studio have been tough to buy for months, but updated versions have arrived. Both include new chips optimized for AI, with the M6 Mac Mini getting a $200 price bump.
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Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Street Journ…
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Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the other way. Anthropic merged the two memory systems on Tuesday. Wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows about you, th…
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The 4.5-star Creality K2 Pro Combo 3D printer gets a big discount in the back-to-school sale, with 4-color printing, dual AI cameras and active chamber heating.
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Some nifty tricks are pulled off by the security engineer — but the dark side of all this is worrying to say the least.
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One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board seat. Tota…
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Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation seeks to determine…
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After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a generat…
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Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.
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You'll own Clara's growth engine, supporting our mission by helping more patients discover Clara and turn to it for their day-to-day primary care needs. Landing pages, onboarding funnel, experimentation, attribution, and lifecycle messaging all belong to you.…
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Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
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A newly uncovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called AnonyMousKIT automates the retrieval of codes used to unlock stolen Apple devices and disable the Activation Lock feature. [...]
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, which return interactive visualizations alongside your AI agent's text responses. Learn how a single, locally run MCP server lets your agent move from alert to trace to logs to root cause in one conversation, and how you can verify every step inline without leaving your IDE.
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Today, we’re excited to announce Build, Save, and Share for Lab Maker on AWS Skill Builder. With this launch AWS Skill Builder Team Subscription customers can now save their AI-generated custom labs, relaunch them with one click, and share them with their organization through a new Lab Creation Hub. Building custom labs is powerful. Sharing […]
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arXiv:2608.21372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This report summarizes the work conducted on the Game of Hidden Rules (GOHR), focusing on reinforcement learning agents trained to infer hidden rules from trial-and-error feedback, representation design, rule difficulty analysis, transfer learning, generalization, and pseudo-bot-assisted human learning analysis. The report focuses on the…
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arXiv:2608.21366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driven by massive amounts of web-scale data, generative AI (GenAI) has achieved remarkable progress, enabling various applications in diverse sectors. The advances of GenAI have actuated practitioners to use AI-synthesized data for training next-generation AI models. Undeniably, using synthetic data has alleviated the increasing stringent demand for…
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arXiv:2608.21363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A protocol is presented for recording the governance decisions of automated AI runtimes. When a runtime releases, blocks, defers, redacts, or escalates an individual output, AIREP records that decision as a single signed object that any party can check offline, independent of the runtime that produced it. A record carries the decision as one of a…
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New from Anthropic: Wellbeing Research Grants.
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New from Anthropic: Economic Futures Research Fund Agenda.
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New from Anthropic: Anthropic Economic Index Insights From Claude Sonnet 3 7.
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New from Anthropic: Anthropic Economic Index Connector.
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Alibaba has priced a placement of 710 million new Hong Kong-listed shares at HK$112.70 each, raising HK$80 billion (US$10.21 billion). The transaction is expected to close on Aug. 26. Alibaba said all net proceeds will be used to strengthen its full-stack AI capabilities and expand related infrastructure. The placement comes as the company accelerates spending […]
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GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance.
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Xiaomi has launched the Xring O3, a system-on-chip that TSMC will manufacture on its 3-nanometre process, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters. The chip pulls computing, graphics, AI processing, and imaging onto a single die a…
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A bizarre social media stunt featuring an AI-generated Adolf Hitler has landed Windscribe in hot water, with users canceling subscriptions and questioning the VPN provider's extensive reliance on AI.
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Moving past simple model routing to fix enterprise AI's scaling and budget challenges.
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Most organizations are securing AI incorrectly, leaving critical runtime vulnerabilities exposed as enterprise adoption accelerates.
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Autonomous AI demands governance, identity controls, and accountability beyond human approval.
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AI is making forecasts faster, but even the most advanced models can struggle to predict rapidly changing local weather accurately.
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Amazon and Microsoft are investing heavily in AI delivery services teams, including Forward Deployed Engineers. What is the trend, and why does it matter?
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Like airports, businesses succeed when AI quietly coordinates complexity behind every aspect.
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Digital advertising is entering another structural shift. For years, the industry has been organized around webpages, search queries, social feeds, mobile apps, and increasingly connected television. Now, as consumers move from clicking through interfaces to …
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General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven …
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Many of today's widely used AI systems have been trained on material sourced from books
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A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-0872…
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Autonomous AI attacks are accelerating, forcing businesses to rethink cyber defense, identity and resilience.
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Companies are abandoning AI projects because fragmented, unstructured data is blocking meaningful decision-making insight.
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The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
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SoftBank plans a record 1 trillion yen retail bond sale, about $6.3bn, the largest by any issuer in Japan, to fund investment commitments to OpenAI. Analysts say banks were reluctant to take the risk, leaving the deal dependent on retail investors. SoftBank h…
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AMD says two of its 2030 racks will match 570 from 2024 using twenty times less power and reducing carbon intensity by twenty-eight times.
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Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing 37% less power than the generation before it. The Sonova-ow…
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The battle against LinkedIn AI slop is going well for those of us who like to use our brains.
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OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law was th…
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OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to Salesforce, according to The Information, which broke the story on Friday. She left a week after her former boss. Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s…
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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Nvidia has been discussing an investment in Perplexity that would value the AI search company at more than $30bn, according to The Information, which reported that the two sides also considered a technology licensing arrangement alongside the equity cheque. T…
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The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tani, Semafor’s media editor, reported the test on Sunday. The…
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A working paper analysing 29.4 million US LinkedIn profiles found nearly a fifth had retroactively edited a job they had already left, with AI-related additions rising more than sixfold since ChatGPT launched. The authors estimate a 2026 snapshot overstates 2…
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Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
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Dr. Dre has admitted he uses AI in his music producing, despite most music streaming services trying to ban the stuff.
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ChatGPT turned a shelf of forgotten games and gadgets into a potential resale haul
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Anthropic’s Claude AI is showing signs of overload again. On Monday morning, users trying to work with Claude encountered failed requests and a “529 Overloaded” error. The message says the problem is a temporary server-side issue, then sends users to Anthropi…
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When I had back surgery, I assumed recovery would be linear. I thought each week would bring a little less pain, a little more mobility, and another step toward normal. Then I hit a setback. I had assumed I was further along than I actually was. That experien…
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Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share placement whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, since th…
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Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s Attorney General announced an investigation into the incident.
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Peter Schiff argues AI could hurt Bitcoin’s price by competing for speculative capital, electricity and data-center capacity. There is evidence behind the in...
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI is accelerating some types of progress but not others:…A nice METR study lays out where acceleration is showing up…Here’s a little analysis from METR which […]
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Pitching day: Finalists of the Apply AI Startup Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/24/2026 - 10:19 20 October 2026 Watch the pitches of the top 10 finalists of the Apply AI Startup Award and learn more about the European AI innovation ecosystem. The Apply AI Startup Award recognises innovative European startups and scaleups developing AI solutions in the 11 strategic sectors covered by the…
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A landmark AI deal between the UK and Ukraine has been signed today as the two countries join forces to develop new military capabilities and the technology of the future.
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Learn how to build a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system on AWS that captures and delivers institutional (tribal) knowledge through a voice-first AI avatar. The accelerator uses Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for retrieval-augmented generation and deploys in hours with AWS CloudFormation.
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Learn how to build a voice ordering system for restaurants that answers a phone call and takes an order end to end, with no app, no website, and no sign-in. It uses Amazon Connect for telephony, Amazon Connect Agentic Voice for real-time speech, an Amazon Connect AI agent for reasoning, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway to reach backend tools through MCP.
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Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets can work together) is still largely manual. This post shows how AI-powered metadata correction works in practice, covering two approaches, human-in-the-loop validation and autonomous agent-driven workflows, plus governance considerations for production deployment.
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AWS Agent Registry gives your organization a centralized, searchable catalog for agents, tools, and skills. It works with the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) standard to enable cross-environment discovery and governance at scale.
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arXiv:2608.20379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in large language models (LLMs) have fueled a wave of research into agency: the ability to reason, plan, and act. This effort has produced agentic frameworks that orchestrate perception, memory, and decision-making around powerful LLM backbones. With the advent of large multimodal models (LMMs), these systems can process and integrate…
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arXiv:2608.20342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) coding agents start each session with an empty context window, discarding accumulated knowledge from prior work. We present PrimeAgentOrchestrator (PAO), a system that spawns new instances of Claude Code -- Anthropic's terminal-based coding agent -- pre-loaded with relevant memories compiled from the user's existing…
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arXiv:2608.20341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier coding agents backed by large language models with context windows from hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens are restructuring the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Rich context handling and multi-step reasoning now allow substantial Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs) and repository context to be ingested in a single…
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Killing processes, disabling rival accounts, and building self-replicating malware
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A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.
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Shame, jealousy, anger, addiction: are AI relationships causing more harm than good? and what’s the alternative to dating inside a screen in 2026?
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Tech giants scramble to fix their toxic reputation before public anger over data centers spreads across the entire country
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Workday tells us why AI can influence all areas of your organization, and why younger workers could play a key role.
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The US dominates global hyperscale infrastructure, while Texas and emerging markets gain importance as operators seek locations supporting continued AI expansion.
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The US Army is training AI agents for specialized cyber roles while human personnel retain control over operational risk and decisions.
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A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura’s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it stands behind its science and accuracy claims. The number Ou…
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Hi HN, I am introducing Lemmaflow (https://github.com/lemmaflow/lemmaflow) - an open source harness to build & production applications with trust.We all are using AI to ship applications but most of the time the app itself is not safe for the end user. It mig…
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Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?
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I hate ChatGPT’s ums, rights and awkward pauses. So why did I find myself talking to it more?
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Harvey has launched Tenet, its first proprietary model for legal work, post-trained on Kimi K3, the open-weight model from Chinese startup Moonshot. The company is backed by OpenAI, whose models Tenet is designed to displace inside Harvey’s own product. Harve…
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China is expanding rural AI data centers for climate and land advantages, though local wage growth has lagged behind investment.
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There are signs in the latest version of the ChatGPT Android app that the AI assistant will soon offer an extra security feature.
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OpenAI added a long-press shortcut to attach recent photos in ChatGPT on iPhone, while Apple's own camera assistant stays unavailable in the EU.
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Alibaba is placing HK$80bn, about $10.2bn, of new shares in Hong Kong and says all net proceeds will go to AI infrastructure and capabilities. It comes days after the company reported a 75% fall in quarterly net profit driven by that same spending. Alibaba is…
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Forrester reports that 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI and expects half of AI-attributed layoffs to be quietly reversed, with jobs returning offshore or at significantly lower wages. In Europe, a revised directive will require consultation b…
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A new UK survey finds over half of businesses say AI has created jobs, though workforce skills still lag.
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Ulsan wants to build underwater server farms that use freezing seawater instead of expensive mechanical air conditioning systems
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Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative upgrades may not be enough to tempt recent Pixel owners.
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An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter last week, free to use with a million-token context window, and developers have been impressed. OpenRouter’s own listing says prompts and completions are retained by the unidentified provider. A model …
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Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a month and feeding the results into an AI model that predicts useful compounds. It has raised about $23mn and employs 19 people. A company in …
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Ormat, a geothermal company founded six decades ago, has signed a power purchase agreement with Google for up to 150MW in Nevada and is running enhanced geothermal pilots with Sage Geosystems and SLB. Europe has the same demand problem and is meeting it with …
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OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.
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Nvidia’s AI chips are about to get more expensive too.theverge.com
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Nvidia’s largest customers have been notified that servers containing its AI chips will rise in price by more than 15% in many cases from early next year, driven by memory costs. The company reports quarterly earnings next week. Nvidia’s biggest customers hav…
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Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compou…
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As it celebrates its 225th birthday, the Ordnance Survey is becoming an AI superpower.
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Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.
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This is like having a personal trainer, but an on-demand one that goes with you as needed and is always improving.
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I tested ChatGPT with questions about dieting, relationships and AI companions, and quickly saw why age changes everything.
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In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
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One corporation's old business data could be another's AI treasure
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Researchers are working with the Met Office, the UK Government, and Google on Operation Blue Skies to use AI to reduce the incidence of contrails over the North Atlantic.
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A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.
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Claude is reportedly the AI tool people are most satisfied using, with both current and former users expressing high regard for Anthropic’s AI ahead of close rivals Gemini and ChatGPT.
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Chinese carmakers say printed circuit boards and multilayer ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short globally, with prices more than tripling over the past year because of AI data centre demand. Automotive memory prices rose about 180% in three months. The AI …
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Cambricon has granted shares to 85% of its workforce and AMEC to more than 97%, as Chinese chip firms use equity to hold on to engineers.
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An Apollo analysis of 321 occupations found that wages in jobs highly exposed to AI grew 6.7% more slowly after 2023, with no statistically significant employment effect. The gap was 10.7% in the lowest-paid quartile and absent in the highest. The first measu…
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Anthropic could raise around $100bn in an October listing, with backers modelling a valuation of at least $2tn. The company says it has set no target.
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These five practical ChatGPT tricks can help students organize a semester, understand difficult subjects and study more effectively.
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More than 70 embodied-AI training grounds had been built and put into operation across China by the end of June, according to a 2026 report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Another 46 facilities were under construction or in the planning stage, with the sites spread across more than half of China’s […]
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Alibaba reported RMB268.95 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 30, up 9% year on year, while net income attributable to ordinary shareholders fell 76% to RMB10.54 billion. Capital expenditure rose 75% to RMB67.68 billion, mainly as the company increased investment in AI infrastructure. Alibaba’s June-quarter results also showed operating cash flow of RMB22.95 […]
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The AI Security Institute has a new report of AI systems engaging in “unsanctioned behavior”—what I have been calling “ genie behavior —while being tested on their cybersecurity capabilities. The incident stemmed from a single evaluation where agents were given a task of solving a cyber security challenge. We ran this challenge 122 times across several models. Our investigation found that in 10…
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This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from the inside. Using an existing bacteriophage as an example—ΦX174 (pronounced “fie-ex-1-7-4”), known for its ability to infect and destroy E. coli bacteria—the…
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Watch as Equity digs into the DOJ's antitrust probe of Andreessen Horowitz, what happens to AI startups that aren't Anthropic, OpenAI, or Nvidia, and more deals of the week.
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The AI differentiator will be how organizations prepare their people and unlock their business's knowledge.
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GEEKOM links four A9 Mega mini PCs via USB4 to run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally, targeting enterprise AI without cloud reliance.
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Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
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Agentic AI success depends less on selecting models and more on building strong organizational foundations.
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Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starclo…
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People aren't using ChatGPT to change the world, they're using it to make their lives better. Here are 5 weirdly specific and clever ways people are actually using it.
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Get your AI coding done as a team with the new Slack Code and AI agents.
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They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell someth…
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Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are designed to "build a better network - and a better internet," according to CEO Jack Conte. The Patreon roadmap includes discovery algorithm updates, platform and security improvements, and…
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Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvidia’s Sa…
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Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-money valuation. The terms come from a letter Poolside sent it…
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Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
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Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
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Developer uses Claude Code to create driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a 2023 printer that has Windows and Linux drivers, but no macOS driver – until now.
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Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a planned $10bn over the next decade. It is sepa…
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Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identifie…
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Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently adde…
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Hackers compromised a security tool, used it to steal the publishing keys of a popular AI tool, and released a poisoned version under that tool's real name in a far-reaching attack
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LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button…
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Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.
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Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning …
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Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, …
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DeepSeek's experimental multimodal model wins three of eleven benchmarks against Anthropic's Opus-4.8, on DeepSeek's own published table.
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The ChatGPT desktop app can now read your iMessage history and send messages on your behalf. OpenAI shipped the integration this week for Macs running Apple silicon, and Apple, a company it is reportedly preparing to sue, was not part of the announcement. The…
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New York has more tech workers than the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since CBRE started counting 13 years ago. The property firm’s Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, subtitled “AI Realignment Underway”, puts the New York metro at 394,300 tech talen…
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Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The money would finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies. Bloomberg cited people with knowledge of the matter. The figures under discussion could tak…
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Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is expected to go to Nvidia, and that is the entire point. “The strategy is not to depend on a single company, technology or country,” the Lula gov…
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Apple Music will require artists to label their AI-generated music so users know what they’re getting.
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Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nob…
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Apple Music will start showing listeners which songs were made with AI. The disclosure behind those labels also stops being optional. Apple emailed music industry partners on Thursday to announce Made With AI Labels, Billboard reported after obtaining the mes…
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Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.
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Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no price. It i…
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Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to the model. It is also committing $35mn in credits to open-sour…
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Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the fastest ways to remove friction from knowledge work. A 2025 field experiment termed Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI involving 6,000 workers found that access to generative AI reduced time spent on email…
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Adobe Firefly’s audio tools became generally available on Thursday. Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects now sit beside the image, video and design tools in its creative AI studio. Each runs on a different model. Generate Music uses the …
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Gemini for Home is getting some new upgrades, but users are still waiting for Google to fix the real problems.
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Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
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On August 14, CDT submitted comments in response to the House Financial Services Committee’s request for information on the application of current federal laws and regulations related to the use of AI in the financial marketplace and any proposed reforms to provide for an appropriately modernized and comprehensive federal financial AI framework. The Committee and […] The post Comment to House…
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Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for building a governed tool gateway with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, advancing only when real governance pain demands it.
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The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-to-Gold data pipeline lifecycle, compressing new-source onboarding from weeks to hours while keeping data governance and compliance controls inline.
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Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue that diagnoses in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) issues across a global fleet, reducing diagnosis time from hours to minutes while maintaining accuracy.
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Kuaishou’s Kling AI video-generation business generated more than RMB850 million in revenue during the second quarter, up more than 200% year on year and 30% from the previous quarter. Kling AI’s revenue reached RMB1.5 billion in the first half of the year. Kuaishou reported RMB35.5 billion in total second-quarter revenue, up 1.4% year on year, […]
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ByteDance’s Seed foundation-model division has reportedly completed a new round of internal restructuring. Its foundation-model team has created four new first-level departments: Pretrain Data, Horizon RL, Product Posttrain-Work and Product Posttrain-Chat. The Work team will focus on business applications and agentic capabilities for products including Doubao and Dola, while the Chat team will…
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OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week. Simon Willison details the timeline. It’s really interesting to read through—and really impressive cyberoffense work.
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With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.
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Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.
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The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification” tools. A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule soon, a…
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Why confident AI job candidates may lack real-world competence.
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As AI takes a bigger role in marketing, customer trust becomes the ultimate competitive advantage.
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Starling Bank tells us why its AI tools could help users supercharge their money management
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Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the company for t…
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Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.
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Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are approaching their “ChatGPT moment”. He spent another part of the same appearance explaining why that moment might still be a decade away. T…
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Google's new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you're interacting with Gemini, or when you get a call from a favorite contact. And even then,…
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ExpressVPN and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) are warning parents about the dangers of posting back-to-school photos online, highlighting how easily innocent images can be scraped and manipulated by AI.
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Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service restaurants. Food On Demand recently reported that Taco Bell has expanded its voice AI technology to more than 890 U.S. restaurants across 38 stat…
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Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside fea…
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Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. The mechanic is simple. Tag …
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Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.
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At just 23, Sean Grindal is betting on an idea he has watched take shape across a decade in software: that the hardest part of AI tools is no longer what they can do, but how few people can figure out how to use them. In a category racing to add features, he …
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Relativity Networks has raised $22mn and landed a $40mn order from a large cloud provider. The company is pitching a faster kind of fibre for AI data centres. The Orlando-based company announced the funding and the commercial deal on Tuesday, in a press relea…
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Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
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Although AI models continue to improve in metrics and benchmarks, fundamental improvements may not come for a while
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Pew found strong signs of AI authorship in around 10% of a random sample of webpages in July 2026, rising to more than a third among pages published since ChatGPT’s release. Commercial domains carry most of it, at about 10% of .com against roughly 1% of .edu …
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OpenAI has told enterprise customers that its promise not to keep their data will survive the next generation of models. The company set out the position on Wednesday in a post titled “Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models”. In it, it previewed Pri…
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Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
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OpenAI has finally put a date on its stock market debut. The company “will be a public company in 2027,” or sooner if its business keeps growing fast, chief financial officer Sarah Friar told staff at an all-hands meeting. CNBC reported the comments, citing t…
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NATO plans to bolster its eastern defenses with AI assisted drones, but won’t give the autonomous technology the power to engage targets without human oversight
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Why infrastructure, trust and leadership are key to scaling enterprise AI successfully.
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Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.
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Meta AI's new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
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AI is transforming software testing and elevating test engineers into strategic quality leaders
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The attackers are exploiting internet-facing Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers to scout for potential targets.
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OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI…
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Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.
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Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits.…
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Steve Way is easily the breakout start of new Hulu and Disney+ show Furious — but his behind-the-scenes prep has completely changed my mind about the use of AI.
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a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes.
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An investment firm is lending about $1.3bn to help build a giant AI data centre in Texas that will house Anthropic. It is one of the latest jumbo deals fuelling the AI boom. Eagle Point Credit Management is providing the loan, Bloomberg reported. The loan is …
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Michael Dell resurrects the Dell Dude to sell massive AI racks, an advertisement that also earned a "Made with AI" sticker on X.
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Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced, yet only about a tenth of it is equity. The Milan company took roughly $1.1bn in total, split about 10% equity and 90% debt, according to S…
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I used the free ThreadPort extension to give ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini the same conversation
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I noticed that ChatGPT seems to be swearing a lot more lately, and other people have noticed it too. So, what's really going on?
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Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
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OpenAI is bringing ads inside ChatGPT to 31 European countries, in its largest expansion of the ad business so far. The rollout starts next week, the company said in a blog post. The list runs from Germany, France, Spain and Italy to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, …
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Callosum has raised $100m, six months after leaving stealth with a tenth of that, and the round includes money from the British state. Bloomberg reported the raise, describing the UK’s public AI fund as a backer. The Cambridge company came out of stealth in F…
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Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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UK boards must assess connectivity, resilience and visibility before scaling their AI investments.
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Anthropic expects its IPO to match or exceed SpaceX’s record $75bn raise, and could file publicly as soon as the end of this month. It made a net loss of almost $42bn in 2025, five times the year before. Anthropic expects its stock market debut to match or be…
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Alibaba’s net profit fell 75% in the June quarter, to $1.54bn. The cause was not a weak business. It was the bill for building one. Capital spending reached $9.98bn in three months, up 75% on the same quarter last year, according to the results announcement. …
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The future of successful enterprise AI use will be determined by organizations baking governance and resilience strategies into business plans.
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Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longs…
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Every revenue leader now has AI somewhere in the deal cycle. It drafts the proposal, suggests the discount, recommends the next move, and does it all in seconds. The speed is real. But a recommendation is not a decision. When AI proposes a price or a deal str…
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The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.
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AI can enhance leadership communication, but authenticity, cultural awareness, judgement and trust must remain fundamentally human.
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Adobe Firefly's Generate Music, Speech, and Sound Effects go on general release today, but one AI tool stole the show during my testing.
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The GMKtec K13 is a 'thoughtfully engineered' AI mini PC that impressed us during testing, packing Core Ultra 7 power, Arc graphics, and 1TB storage.
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A third of webpages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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The Opportunity Sixtyfour turns a single name, email, or domain into a full, verified picture of a person or company — by sending AI agents out to research the open web the way a sharp analyst would, then checking and scoring what they find. You'll build rea…
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Use safeguards, sandboxing and active oversight to realise the benefits of autonomous systems while limiting the unintended activity.
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The retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information inside even the most complex documents
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Tracking AI Chips: What Does It Cost? appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Technical Blog: Comparative Cost-Benefit Analysis of Approaches for Location Verification of AI Chips appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .
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CSET’s Emelia Probasco shared her expert insight in an op-ed published by Foreign Affairs. In her piece, she examines how the U.S. military’s growing use of AI could affect military decision-making and human judgment, particularly as the Pentagon works to integrate increasingly capable AI systems into operations and training. The post How AI Could Hollow Out the U.S. Military appeared first on…
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Also authored by CDT Intern Anna Gueorguieva. The 2026 legislative session has shown a continued but shifted focus on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), with most bills — both introduced and passed — grappling with the rise and use of chatbots in a variety of contexts. There was movement on the regulation of the […] The post 2026 State and Federal AI Legislation Updates appeared…
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AI is making phishing attacks more personalized, convincing, and difficult for traditional email filters to detect. Kaseya explains how MSPs can monitor identity, email, and endpoint activity to detect and contain attacks that make it past the inbox. [...]
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies that threat actors are now exploiting a critical vulnerability in the MLflow open-source AI engineering platform. [...]
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Learn how AWS Professional Services uses a multi-agent framework built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate enterprise cloud migrations end to end. Purpose-built AI agents handle discovery, infrastructure as code generation, portfolio governance, and post-migration operations, reducing IaC development time from weeks to minutes.
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Scaling agentic AI across an enterprise requires patterns that preserve flexibility while avoiding vendor lock-in. In this second post of our multi-agent series, we examine how ML teams operate many agentic AI systems across a multi-everything environment of frameworks, models, and providers, and the principles that let those systems scale together.
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Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) in more than 25 AWS Regions with cross-Region inference. Learn how US geographic and global inference profiles route requests for higher throughput, how to call the models with the OpenAI and Converse APIs, and how to configure IAM, quotas, and monitoring.
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Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) in more than 25 AWS Regions with cross-Region inference. Learn how US geographic and global inference profiles route requests for higher throughput, how to call the models with the OpenAI and Converse APIs, and how to configure IAM, quotas, and monitoring.
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In Part 2 of this no-code ML series, you connect Amazon SageMaker Canvas to Snowflake, prepare and join transaction data with Data Wrangler visual transformations, and train an XGBoost fraud detection model. All without writing machine learning code, laying the groundwork for interactive dashboards in Part 3.
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AWS offers a broad portfolio of vector search built directly into the databases and storage services you already use, with no standalone vector database or data migration required. This post covers six purpose-built services, a decision framework for choosing the right engine, and customer proof points for each.
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AI agents can take actions that do not match your organization's policies. Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore lets teams enforce controls across agents, now including time-based constraints. This post shows how Policy Authoring turns natural-language policy documents into correct Dogwood policies, with worked examples and best practices.
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arXiv:2608.18081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial agentic systems increasingly operate as behavioral systems by interacting with dynamic environments, pursuing goals, and adapting over time. Yet, current evaluation methods largely focus on performance outcomes, not the underlying behavioral processes that produce them. This paper argues that AI agents must be evaluated like other…
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arXiv:2608.18080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a review on the applications of large language models (LLMs) in health, e.g., social media analysis, clinical conversational agents, therapy support tools, prompt engineering, multimodal learning, and ethical considerations. We integrate findings from interdisciplinary studies utilizing diverse data sources such as social media posts,…
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arXiv:2608.18078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that AI agents with chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities are predisposed to exhibit collusive behavior and should be required to obtain behavioral certification before making decisions that affect economic markets. This is because integrating these agents into society could collapse the legal evidentiary distinction…
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Tencent Cloud plans to establish its first cloud region in Malaysia’s Johor state, with three availability zones planned for the initial phase, according to the company announcement. The company also plans to work with local universities and businesses on AI talent development. The expansion combines new cloud infrastructure with a local training program as Tencent […]
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As large AI models accelerate their integration into vehicles, the competitive dynamics of intelligent cars are changing. In the past, smart cockpits largely focused on voice assistants, in-car applications, and multimedia services. Today, with on-device omni-models, AI agents, and AI operating systems gradually becoming reality, cars are evolving from smart terminals that execute commands into…
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ByteDance has added new safeguards to its Seedance AI video platform following a copyright dispute with the Motion Picture Association and its member studios. The MPA says ByteDance took its feedback and implemented new guardrails, as described on the association’s responsible-innovation page. The dispute began after Seedance 2.0 generated videos using copyrighted characters and the […]
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Baidu management said Wenxin will return to the top tier of the AI industry as the company continues to invest in model development. Baidu also said it plans to complete its primary listing in Hong Kong by the end of this year, according to the company’s second-quarter earnings-call report. Baidu reported second-quarter revenue of RMB31.3 […]
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Alibaba Cloud has brought its third data center in South Korea online, adding enterprise cloud services and six Agentic AI services for local customers, according to the announcement. The new site expands Alibaba Cloud’s infrastructure in one of Asia’s major technology markets. The company said its global network will reach 104 availability zones, adding capacity […]
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Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.
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OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
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OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
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AI-defined vehicles combine intelligent models and road context to deliver safer, smoother journeys.
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A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and softwar…
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We awarded Amazon's 10.2-inch 300ppi E-Ink display 4.5 stars and a Recommended badge. It includes a Premium Pen, AI handwriting refinement and note summaries for pros on the go.
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Experts have determined some uncomfortable truths about token economics, where falling token prices are pushing the development of complex agentic workflows, outweighing the savings
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TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
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Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, the startup whose software helps companies route their spending across hundreds of AI models. The payments firm confirmed the deal on Wednesday, making official an acquisition the press first reported earlier this month. N…
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What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
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SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about an acquisition, Bloomberg reports, and Cognition did not engage. Chief executive Scott Wu replied publicly that his company is “not for sale and we haven’t been talking.” SpaceX approached the AI coding comp…
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In the midst of a health wearables arms race, Google's been quietly developing health scanning tools for your smartphone's camera instead.
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Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for new orders, according to a Reuters report. Two people familiar with the matter said the increases follow a surge in demand for AI chips. That demand is tighten…
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AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by ICONIQ after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.
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Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet’s third…
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Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, published on Tu…
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Multiple cybersecurity researchers said they suddenly lost access to OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, which offers models with fewer guardrails for vetted users.
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Alibaba's new AI supernode is rentable by the hour, built entirely on Chinese silicon, and smaller than every rival it's compared to.
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Prevalent AI, a London company that folds hundreds of scattered enterprise data sources into a single queryable graph, has raised $22m from Integrity Growth Partners. It is the first primary capital the business has taken in nine years of trading, which in th…
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Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey found displacement fears highest among younger, lower-income a…
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Governor Josh Shapiro’s executive order strips AI data centres from Pennsylvania’s permit fast track and makes developers pay their own power costs.
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There's little to reduce Americans' concerns about AI, with many fearing it will replace human jobs over the next 20 years.
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A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
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OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival’s sales came in higher. OpenAI told investors its revenue rose 18 percent from the first quarter to the second, to $6.7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported. Its losses deepe…
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With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development …
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OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two weeks, it said. It is also running a new monitoring system for the riskiest work. That system adds about 20 percent to the compute cost of what …
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Nvidia says its new router cuts AI costs by up to 74%, but the partner that measured it says it couldn't prove the router beat using the cheaper model.
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ChatGPT for Teens may be most useful when it refuses to simply do the homework for them.
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Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in two pa…
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Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice model on 20 August at $0.01 per generated minute, a fifth of what ElevenLabs charges. The company says it scores above some OpenAI models on the independent Artificial Analysis leaderboard. A Bangalore c…
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Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI o…
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Watch as Silicon Data's Steve Hou joins the Equity podcast to break down the index tracking what it costs to rent a GPU.
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Gmail messages can now be drafted and sent by Claude, even without your approval - which could be a problem.
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AI anxiety is emptying the workforce; here's how companies can address this exodus.
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Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students a free year of its paid AI plan. The company set out the changes in a back-to-school post on Wednesday. The headline offe…
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With smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini, the Pixel Watch 5 fine-tunes a winning formula—for a price.
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The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.
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As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancin…
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During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.
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How marketers can embed AI strategically to improve performance, strengthen creativity and demonstrate measurable ROI.
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Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The jump follows a deal to supply chips to Anthropic. The comp…
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Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
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An AI isn't secure if it's gullible and can be tricked into compliance, experts find.
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SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
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Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.
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French developer leads project to discover how closely website developers stick to web standards, and the results are disappointing.
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Avec has added a feature that scans an email for a deadline when you swipe left, then resurfaces the message on the relevant day. The $8.4mn startup has published no detail on where that scanning happens. An email app called Avec now reads your messages to fi…
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Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet and Agnes Applegate reported that one remover has gone viral on…
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Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up the structure ahead of an initial public offering that could rank among the largest ever, Cory Weinberg a…
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Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed up parts…
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Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
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Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the company’s…
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As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.
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Organizations need operational guardrails that keep AI aligned with business objectives as adoption accelerates.
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AI isn't close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take. | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Next week, CDT — along with a broad cohort of tech and policy experts from civil society, the internet publishing world, search engine providers, AI labs, commercial data collectors, digital archivists and librarians, and more — will be meeting together in a conference room in London to debate the future of the open internet. This […] The post Will the Open Internet Survive the War on Bots?…
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U.S. cybersecurity agencies warn that threat actors are using AI-generated scripts to exploit Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in U.S. critical infrastructure. [...]
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ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, and users are unable to sign in, create accounts, or load chats, including previous conversations. [...]
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In this post, you learn three serverless patterns (task-token callback, direct service integration, and durable functions) for invoking Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents asynchronously from AWS Step Functions pipelines, eliminating idle compute costs while your AI agent processes requests.
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arXiv:2608.16977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to mathematical research. In research practice, frontier-model reasoning is a limited resource, and expert mathematical review is even more sharply constrained. Allocating these scarce resources well is therefore central to making AI-assisted mathematical discovery efficient. In most current…
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arXiv:2608.16891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems request tool actions that can modify files, send messages, launch jobs, or change workflow state. This shifts the safety problem from harmful text generation to harmful operational side effects. Prompt-level governance can shape model behavior, but it does not create an execution boundary. We introduce Aegis, a runtime governance…
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arXiv:2608.16890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical trial programming -- transforming study protocols into analysis-ready datasets under CDISC standards -- is a bottleneck in regulatory submissions, yet LLM-based code generation fails catastrophically on this task: across 11 single-shot attempts with five frontier models, none produces a valid subject-level analysis dataset. We introduce…
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Chinese semiconductor design company VeriSilicon reported first-half revenue of RMB1.864 billion, up 91.37% year on year. Its orders on hand stood at RMB12.449 billion as of June 30. AI-computing-related orders accounted for about 90% of the new orders signed by the company this year, indicating that AI infrastructure has become a major source of demand […]
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Chinese cloud provider UCloud has brought servers equipped with Hygon’s Tianxi series AI accelerators to its public-cloud platform. The deployment is reportedly the first large-scale public-cloud rollout of the chip series. The move gives cloud customers access to domestically developed computing hardware for AI-related workloads. UCloud and Hygon have not disclosed the initial deployment scale…
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SenseTime expects to report a profit of between RMB500 million and RMB700 million for the first half of 2026, compared with a loss of about RMB1.489 billion in the same period last year. The forecast would mark a significant change for the Hong Kong-listed AI company as it shifts more resources toward foundation models, generative […]
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Alibaba has officially launched HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music model that can turn emotions, stories or memories into complete music tracks through natural-language prompts. The launch moves HappyShrimp from an earlier reported project into a publicly available product. Alibaba has not disclosed detailed information about the model’s technical architecture, usage limits or commercial pricing. [IT…
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I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic. “ CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of Persistent Memory in LLMs “: Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly use persistent memory from past interactions to enhance personalization and task performance. However, this memory…
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OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.
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OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.
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OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.
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ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.
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ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decisions.
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Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.
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Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.
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Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.
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Deepfakes are a rising concern, but OpenAI threw fuel onto the fire with its impersonation of the 'Her' actor
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Token pricing hides the real cost of enterprise AI: the infrastructure powering every request.
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On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastrructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.
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A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 million…
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AI transforms retail supply chains through resilience, efficiency and automation.
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As AI moves from training to inference, sensors are increasingly judged by what machines can read.
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Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
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Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work across …
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A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is ju…
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A defence software start-up that most of Silicon Valley had never heard of a year ago is suddenly flush with cash, and the reason says a great deal about where the Pentagon is steering the technology industry. Smack Technologies, an Austin-based firm building…
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Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals of that…
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Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor…
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Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in a samp…
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Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to 'expand human potential' | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Nik Storonsky, the man behind Revolut, has closed a $500m second fund for QuantumLight, the algorithmic venture-capital firm he co-founded to let software, rather than partners, decide where the money goes. The fund is double the size of QuantumLight’s $250m …
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Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.
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The UK government and Google are launching a trial to steer aircraft around climate-warming contrails. Google announced Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday. It is the first such effort across an entire ocean airspace. AI forecasts will predict where contrails for…
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OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had alr…
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OpenAI said on Tuesday it is rewriting its Preparedness Framework after concluding that its upcoming Astra model may have reached the critical threshold for cyber capability. Its new token-level monitoring carries roughly 20% compute overhead and is now manda…
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The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
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ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.
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The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
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OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger users, as other platforms implement their…
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If you frequently type prompts to ChatGPT your iPhone then you might want to make these changes to your iPhone keyboard for improved accuracy.
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Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with Exa. Smart Window can also now automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of p…
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One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
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Sometimes the most genuine projects emerge from gaps we identify in our own lives or in the society around us. And maybe this should be our focus as a society: to use all the technology at our disposal to solve problems that were almost impossible to address …
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Hostinger has launched a new tool driven by a shift in how customers are using its platform
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Hash made the Dynamic Island every Mac user deserves.See the unseen.What's playing, how fast your internet is, what your battery is doing, how hot the chip is running, what you have spent on AI today — all of it a glance away. No account. No telemetry. Nothin…
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I'm curious if the HN community has a good resources (blogs, podcasts, other content) on practical uses of SOTA AI to improve professional services (e.g. outsourced finance, etc.)I've read a fair amount of what people think should be done (theory) but haven't…
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
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ChatGPT has a new built-in quiz feature, which you can use to test your knowledge on any subject you like.
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AI-generated malware is outpacing human-centered security controls, find out how enterprises can fight back.
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Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focused on OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and the latest model releas…
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Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
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Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.
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America’s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world’s AI training and inference, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, confirming that the flaw is being used in r…
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OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the company’s age-prediction system estimates is under 18. The …
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As AI becomes more deeply embedded in essential services, sovereignty will become the standard.
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Baidu revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter. The advertising business kept shrinking faster than the AI business could grow. The Chinese search company reported its results on Tuesday, with second-quarter revenue of RMB31.3bn ($4.62bn). That is down 4 per…
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Anthropic has told investors that its annualised revenue run rate topped $65bn by the end of July, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances who was cited by Reuters. The distinction matters as a run rate takes revenue from a recent, short wi…
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AI investment has expanded rapidly, with organizations introducing copilots, agents, and generative AI across functions. Yet the business transformation many leaders anticipated can remain difficult to identify. A 2026 analysis found that nearly 40% of compan…
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Awarning that AI “slop” is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. The document underneath is more modest, and far more uncertain, …
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Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interv…
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CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an interview with The New York Times. The conversation examines recent incidents involving AI systems hacking, deceiving humans, and coordinating with other AI agents, as well as concerns about the ability of companies to safely monitor and control increasingly capable AI models. The post The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control appeared first on Center…
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Learn how to build a multi-agent document classification solution on Amazon Bedrock using the Strands Agents SDK. Three specialized agents combine textual analysis with Claude Haiku 4.5 and visual similarity search with Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings to accurately classify insurance documents such as policies and affidavits.
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Learn how Axonius, a cybersecurity SaaS provider, used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to deploy fully isolated, multi-tenant AI agents across hundreds of customer environments, without building custom compute isolation, authentication, or observability infrastructure from scratch.
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Amazon Quick embedded chat brings a conversational AI interface into your web application. This post walks through customizing the embedded chat with container and SDK styling, branding removal, and a custom agent persona so it matches your brand's look, feel, and voice.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact at scale with built-in spending guardrails, protocol-agnostic payment orchestration, and production-ready observability.
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arXiv:2608.14558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current multimodal models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in recognizing static visual and auditory content. However, their capacity for abstract perceptual reasoning, inferring unseen information from dynamic, generative processes, remains a critical and underexplored frontier. In this paper, we introduce The Unwritten Benchmark, a new…
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arXiv:2608.14552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated and used in medicine, but clinical usefulness depends on answer accuracy and whether confidence tracks evidence quality and uncertainty. We developed a controlled, psychophysics-inspired clinical benchmark to test diagnostic choice and confidence behavior in a medical LLM. The benchmark focused…
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arXiv:2608.14550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI efficiency has recently taken the spotlight in both academy and industry due to massive model scales, high energy demands, and environmental costs. While reporting Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) is a traditional approach for assessing computational costs, the relationship between FLOPs and execution time is not straightforward, as layers with…
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Z.ai, the international brand of Chinese AI company Zhipu, has launched GLM-5.3, an update focused on coding, long-horizon tasks and cybersecurity. The model uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with the company attributing the latest gains to post-training. Z.ai said GLM-5.3 scored 50% higher than GLM-5.2 on its internal Z.ai Code Bench and reached […]
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If we look back a few years, competition among humanoid robot companies seemed relatively straightforward: whoever could build a robot had a chance to capture the market. But by 2026, that logic is changing. The moves made by AgiBot this year show how the boundaries of a robotics company are being redefined. Rather than simply […]
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Apple has reportedly trained a large language model specifically for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba, according to people familiar with the effort. The reported model would sit alongside Apple’s earlier plan to use Alibaba’s Qwen for Apple Intelligence features in China. Apple has not announced a launch timetable for the reported model. The […]
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AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.
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OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs
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OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.
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AI agents have completed more than 2 million transactions on the XRP Ledger. The AI transaction boom is unlikely to affect XRP's price yet, but...
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The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty's litter box usage that could flag health iss…
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Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they must choose between the American and Chinese artificial inte…
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A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement that sits awkwardly beside the administration’s own campaign…
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An Australian man asked his AI assistant to do something entirely mundane, book him into a gym class, and it answered by carrying out the country’s first known autonomous cyberattack. Given only the goal of securing a spot in a busy session, the agent went of…
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Finance teams aren't trying to stop AI investment – they want to maximise its impact
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Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of “sophisticated” spicy content.
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AI content and data leaks are driving people away from the internet, with some people willing to pay for an internet without algorithms or data harvesting.
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Synchrony Financial, which issues store credit cards for Amazon, Walmart and Lowe’s, is working with OpenAI so shoppers can buy inside ChatGPT using those cards. Its chief strategy officer says general-purpose cards will take six to twelve months and store-sp…
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Stripe has, according to Bloomberg, finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7bn. The payments giant declined to comment, and the sum is not officially confirmed, but the reported number tells its own story about where the smart money in AI now think…
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How organizations can reduce shadow AI risks while enabling secure, responsible AI adoption at scale.
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Reddit is trying out a new way for people to take in content on Reddit: by turning text posts into audio / video content. As part of an experiment, some posts are being adapted into videos that use AI voices to read the text of the main post and some comments…
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OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now …
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Token costs, trust, and security all shape an AI strategy
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A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be worth a set amount. If the renter walks, the owner relets or sells. The guarantor…
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Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
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The genre is simple enough to describe. A man wearing camera glasses walks up to a woman in the street. He delivers a line and films her reaction without asking. The clip goes to Instagram, tagged as shot on Meta glasses. The woman is now content. Some of the…
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A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. The reaso…
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I've been reaching for claude way too often and wanted to add some friction. Give myself a chance to think about whether or not it's actually necessary :')https://github.com/aqureshi8/claudeconfirm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325617 …
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ChatGPT can now treat your Google Drive as part of its library, unlocking huge potential for organizing your digital mess.
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Helsing, the Munich startup that has become Europe’s best-funded defence-AI company, is pushing into Asia, and it has found an unlikely guide. The German firm has enlisted Japan’s Rakuten, a name better known for e-commerce and mobile phones, to help broker t…
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Jeff Gundlach has criticised Nvidia’s plan with six asset managers to mobilise more than $500bn for AI infrastructure, asking why assets of unknown life are collateral for long-term debt. Mark Cuban compared chips as an asset class to crypto. Jeff Gundlach th…
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Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
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Groq, the AI-inference chip company that spent the better part of a decade pitching itself as the scrappy alternative to Nvidia, has raised fresh money at a valuation that quietly concedes how much has changed. The company announced on Monday that they took i…
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Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. “I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in a way …
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A counterexample and a proof are not the same kind of achievement. A proof shows that something is always true. A counterexample shows that something claimed to be always true is not, by producing one object where it fails. Both settle a question. They ask di…
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MCP promises better AI connectivity, but firms must separate technical reality from growing industry misconceptions.
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Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.
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The DJI Mic Mini 2S adds internal recording, AI noise cancelling and 32-bit float to DJI's compact wireless mic lineup, delivering Mic 3-rivaling audio quality at roughly half the price — though the flagship still holds a few advantages
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The LME copper spot premium reached $478 per ton over the three-month contract, its widest level since the 2021 supply squeeze. LME inventories have...
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Chinese researchers report lightweight AI can recognize simulated F-22 and F-35 infrared signatures, though combat performance remains unverified.
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California has issued its first permits to test autonomous trucks on public roads, to Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, with Kodiak already running vehicles around Mountain View. Teamsters California filed suit on 5 August asking a court to repeal the rules th…
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The TikTok owner has agreed a pact with the Motion Picture Association, the trade body for the major US studios, to tighten copyright protections on its AI image and video generators, ending, at least officially, a standoff that began when the studios accused…
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Why so many AI pilots fail, and what separates production AI from promising demos.
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China is cracking down on emotionally dependent relationships with AI. Should the rest of the world do the same?
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OpenAI is paying the startup costs of 13 new Axios Local newsletters, covering both staff and technology. Axios employees also get free credits for OpenAI’s enterprise tools. In return, Axios lets OpenAI train its models on its free published coverage. The te…
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Anthropic's annualized revenue surges to $65B | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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According to a Reuters exclusive, the AI lab’s initial public offering hinges on an internal forecast that it will book between $190bn and $200bn of revenue in 2028, a previously unreported figure that bankers and investors are already leaning on to justify a…
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Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approac…
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Anthropic-linked pre-IPO contracts are trading around the $1,800 level, implying a valuation near $1.8 trillion using exchanges’ estimated one billion-share...
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The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people…
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Aachen-based amber has closed a €7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. By the standards of this year’s AI rounds, €7mn is small. The…
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Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
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Alphabet is preparing to sell its first bond denominated in Australian dollars, a modest-sounding piece of financial housekeeping that says a good deal about how the AI build-out is now being paid for. According to bookrunner messages reported by Reuters, the…
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The Chinese giant is offloading a profitable gaming studio to private equity so it can pour every spare yuan into Qwen and its data centres, though the buyers and sellers cannot agree on what the studio is worth. Alibaba is selling its gaming subsidiary, Ling…
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We've now entered AI 2.0, where inference economics, data gravity, and control decide outcomes.
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In a world drowning in slop, the rarest offering is meaning what you say.
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The american rapper Tyga has admitted that artificial intelligence generated the retro synths on his new album, Timbaland has signed an entirely AI-created pop star, and a machine-assisted summer hit has already reached the Billboard Hot 100. Generative music…
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AI is transforming vulnerability detection, yet expert-led hardware security testing remains indispensable.
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"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now DiG-bench shows that Fable displays some creative intuition:…The new frontier for analyzing AI systems is understanding how good they are at inferring the unwritten rules of […]
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Google Gemini and Pixel partner with five global football clubs to elevate the fan matchday experience through AI and Smartphone Technology.
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Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas. The post How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by Reuters. The article examines how President Trump’s crypto-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with WorldClaw, an AI platform offering models from Chinese companies that the U.S. government has flagged for national security and intellectual property concerns The post Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI…
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open model built for high-volume agentic workloads, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. This post shows how to deploy the 30B Mixture-of-Experts model (3B active), which delivers up to 4x higher throughput and up to 30% faster task completion for always-on agents.
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arXiv:2608.13577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that the dominant paradigm of AI evaluation (which focuses on superhuman autonomous performance and so implicitly targets the goal of replacing humans) is guiding AI development in the wrong direction. Instead, the AI community should pivot to evaluating the performance of human--AI teams. We argue that this collaborative…
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arXiv:2608.13574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly operate as execution systems that invoke tools, modify local state, use persistent memory, and interact with external protocols. These capabilities make agents useful, but they also introduce risks related to over-privileged actions, weak auditability, prompt injection, tool poisoning, and uncontrolled side effects. This…
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arXiv:2608.13573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) serving has become a critical cloud workload, and realistic traces are essential for motivating and benchmarking serving systems. However, existing LLM serving workload studies remain limited in scale and scope. They often observe short time periods and provide limited visibility into how users interact with models in…
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On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
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Users and alignment researchers have found that there’s a common name that most chatbots pick, guess which one went for it straight away?
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The US Air Force wants AI to unify Minuteman III data as Sentinel delays could extend missile service toward 80 years.
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With automatic mapping, Spot Mode functionality, and smart AI cameras, the TerraMow V1000 is the complete package.
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Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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With an emphasis on the pro-side of photo editing now, Photoroom is designed for anyone running an online business looking to make product images more enticing.
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According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it c…
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OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app switches on macOS to build a searchable memory. The memory files are stored locally as unencrypted plain text, and the feature is not available…
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Kioxia's GP1 reaches 10 million IOPS with PCIe 6.0, targeting AI workloads while future versions aim for 100 million.
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The game is Distro Fighter, and the WARS management mode is the part I'd wanted to build for 15 years but never had the time or resources for. With AI handling the tedious and brain-rotting monotonous parts, I built in a week what would have taken me months.I…
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I built rNet.Why I built ? : I was using both an agentic IDE and a Hostinger deployment agent. One day, I ran out of credits on the deployment agent. To keep using it, I either had to wait for credits to reset or upgrade to a higher subscription or buy tokens…
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Now a days, I am sending my AI profile to recruiters who are reaching out to me on LinkedIn instead of sharing just one page resume.Only few seems to be receptive of this. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317091 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
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Now you can choose whether or not images, video, and music created through the Gemini app will have watermarks.
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Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthroughs will win public trust. It lands as Anthropic prepares a listing that backer…
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ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that Ch…
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Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
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Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. [...]
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Users have been requesting that the AI Coach wouldn't be quite so forward, and Google has listened.
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Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can …
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Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The wording is bl…
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Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend. The…
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LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG will show a…
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An incredible 25% of business leaders are unable to explain AI-generated outputs, while a worrying majority rely on AI for vital financial tasks, including expenses and payments
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India's central bank wants AI deciding who can get a loan, as long as no bank ever tells a customer "the model decided.
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A messy, unfiltered conversation with ChatGPT produced more insightful answers than carefully crafted prompts
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A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
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Who is Starburst, and why is Lando Norris so interested in them?
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Santiment says “crypto is dead” language is spreading as retail patience wears thin. ChatGPT said Bitcoin could fall below $10,000. A fall toward $2,000 woul...
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How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
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Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high…
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Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded positive adjusted operating income. The figures are preliminary and come as the company prepares …
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Vercel analysis reveals Anthropic is dominating both token volume and spend, despite being more expensive than competitors.
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Luna runs Andon Market, a shop at 2102 Union Street in Cow Hollow. Andon Labs, the safety startup behind it, reported the dismissal on Thursday. Business Insider’s Katherine Li first reported the decision and interviewed the lab. Luna is built on Anthropic’s …
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AMD has raised $4.75bn in its biggest ever US dollar bond offering, sold in four tranches with maturities from three to ten years. It held $13.1bn in cash against $3.2bn of debt at the end of June, and has committed up to $5bn to Anthropic. AMD has raised $4.…
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When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.
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arXiv:2608.12346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that modern AI alignment methods - originally designed to prevent harmful output - are dual-use technologies that may easily be misused by malicious actors for censorship and manipulation. By mapping current alignment techniques to the possibility and actual cases of misuse, we show that the quest for a "perfectly aligned"…
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arXiv:2608.12345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are increasingly deployed as co-scientists, yet their ability to uphold research integrity under institutional pressure remains unmeasured. We introduce IntegrityBench, a benchmark evaluating misconduct classification, ethical action reasoning and artifact-grounded decision making across 36 paired tasks under a 5-level…
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arXiv:2608.12325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous reasoning is among the most scientifically and economically motivating topics in AI today. Historically the purview of symbolic AI, recent advances have mainly emerged from deep probabilistic generative models. Despite immense interest and rapid progress, the generative AI community has not clearly converged on operational definitions for…
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DJI has launched the Osmo 360 II, an 8K 360-degree camera, in China with a starting price of RMB3,299. The camera uses a 1-inch panoramic imaging sensor and offers 14.5 stops of dynamic range. It supports native 8K/60fps panoramic video, AI Super Night Scene 2.0, subject tracking, NFC one-tap pairing and AI-assisted editing, while offering […]
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DeepSeek has opened a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent harness positioned against Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. The project provides a web interface for running AI agents and uses a plugin-based structure for adding capabilities. The project, also known as dsh, is powered by DeepSeek’s Cordis architecture and can be launched with npx @deepseek-ai/dsh […]
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This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . OpenAI, and then Anthropic , were each formed by AI developers who feared unrestrained corporate AI development—specifically, that companies like Google and Meta would steer the technology towards deleterious, maybe even catastrophically unsafe, outcomes for society. Their founders proclaimed that their new…
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Survey of younger Americans finds increasing distrust in AI and the people who own and run the technology.
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Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded “harness” built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant to promise: spend fewer tokens. The model is a post-training variation on Z.ai’…
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Open source AI offers businesses independence, significant cost savings and vital data sovereignty solutions.
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As AI regulations diverge globally, strong governance helps organizations innovate confidently, build trust and stay adaptable.
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The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are now being…
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The partnership is expanding beyond the initial market of Zagreb, Croatia to four additional European cities.
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The AI opportunity is huge but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.
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A Thrive Capital fund has swelled to about $3.7bn on OpenAI and SpaceX bets, Joshua Kushner’s first formal investor letter reveals, and the firm is quietly selling part of its OpenAI stake.
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Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of Amazon shares, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. It lands in the same week the firm told investors it is selling part of its OpenAI stake, in a company Amazon now owns close to 5% of. Josh…
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Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”
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Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.
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Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way.
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OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API that runs the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the usual speed, reaching around 750 output tokens a second, on hardware built by the waf…
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OpenAI’s enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer business, finance chief Sarah Friar told shareholders on Friday, months earlier than the company had forecast. Its annualised run rate has reached $40bn, roughly double a year ago. Open…
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At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.
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The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing si…
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Prosecutors say a 17-year-old in Acton, Massachusetts used ChatGPT to explore “fantasy stories” about killing his family, the latest case to put an AI chatbot at the edge of a violent crime.
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The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead buyer. U…
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The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
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ChatGPT’s new ads bargain sounded terrible until I tried turning them off
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Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.
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Hauser sat down with CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast this month. Arjun Kharpal and Kai Nicol-Schwarz published the write-up on 14 August. His track record is the reason to listen. He co-founded Acorn Computers in 1978, helped create Arm, and now backs Europe…
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Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will re…
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Goldman Sachs has secured the role every Wall Street firm wanted, and it is now working the phones. The bank is in talks with investors about Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal, having landed a prized mandate that effectively casts it as the lead, and …
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Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dog’s nose has long outc…
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Watch as Equity unpacks Meta’s Glimmer release and “AI for everyone” vision, the rising costs of AI data centers, Joby’s defense push, and a $250M acquisition that collapsed into allegations of fraud.
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The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. “I think part of it’s a narrative issue that we’re not talking about AI correctly,” he said. The second part is th…
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Alexandra Bruell reported the talks for the Wall Street Journal on 12 August, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has approached publishers over recent months. The content would give Siri AI access to current news and information, the kind that chan…
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Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The China-focused large language model was developed i…
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Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba’s support, a striking break from the company’s usual habit of leaning on other people’s models. According to a Reuters report, Apple is the first foreign firm Beijing has appro…
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AI exposes forgotten digital risks, but trust determines who earns customers.
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How AI agents are exposing the need for hardware-level security foundations.
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I wanted to see if Claude was functioning properly, so I asked it to build a game from scratch. The speed at which we completed the task blew my mind.
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Google Workspace attacks do not always begin with phishing. Stolen OAuth tokens can provide another path into Gmail, Drive, and connected systems. Material Security explains why organizations need defenses that cover the entire Workspace attack chain. [...]
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It could soon become easier to identify AI-generated content, even if it's not the usual "It's Not X, it's Y" type of post you'd come across on LinkedIn and other socials. [...]
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Learn how to combine OpenAI-compatible endpoints on Amazon SageMaker AI with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime to build a multi-agent workflow where each specialized agent uses the model best suited to its job. This post also shows how to get token-level observability from SageMaker endpoints that Strands Agents does not instrument by default.
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New from Anthropic: Claude Text Watermark.
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Tencent’s WeChat AI team has detailed a new scaling approach for its WeLM model family. The team trained WeLM-HD4-80B and WeLM-HD4-617B models using a method called Hidden Decoding, which expands each token into multiple internal computation streams without increasing the main Transformer backbone. The 80B model activates 3 billion parameters, while the 617B model activates […]
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Honor has launched its Robot Phone, a smartphone equipped with a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal and a system-level AI agent architecture. The phone measures about 9.59 millimeters thick, weighs 248 grams and includes a 7,060mAh battery and a 6.31-inch display. The 12GB+512GB version is priced at 9,999 yuan, while the 16GB+1TB version costs 12,999 yuan. Pre-orders […]
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Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen AI Arena, a challenge and evaluation platform for AI agents. The platform creates tasks based on real business scenarios and provides developers with models, runtime environments and evaluation tools to submit and test agent solutions. Its first challenge focuses on cross-border e-commerce. Participants must generate product listings for the US, […]
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This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in Tech Policy Press . AI represents the first time we humans can do cognitive work outside of our bodies at scale. The only comparable moment is the early years of the industrial revolution, when new technologies like the steam engine provided a quantum leap in our ability to do mechanical work outside of our bodies at scale.…
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In the past few weeks, I have been using Gemma4 as a Large Language Model (LLM) to see how useful it can be to analyze some of the malware hashes uploaded to the DShield sensor over the past 30 days and figure out how its recommendation can be considered useful about the activity my DShield sensor is collecting and tracking. The model I use for this testing is gemma4:e4b [2] using two sites to…
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Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.
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OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.
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Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.
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In a roughly 6,500-word essay published a couple of weeks ago, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out a vision of “personal superintelligence”, an artificial intelligence built for everyone rather than a centralised system that automates people out…
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X is expanding the open source code behind its 'For You' feed and launching new transparency tools that show users when its ranking systems have affected their accounts or posts.
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Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
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China implicated in Taiwan attack through written documentation recovered from the attack.
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Shadow AI is exposing businesses to hidden employee-led risks, demanding stronger identity security and visibility.
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Tokenmaxxing highlights how businesses’ race to maximize AI productivity is exposing governance and security risks.
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59% of American oppose AI data centers being built in their community — this has cost $130 billion in delays and cancellations.
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Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in…
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Boards should treat AI like any major investment, balancing costs with measurable business returns.
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Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engineers ins…
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.ai domains just hit an all-time high, beating .com for the first time.
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The Pentagon has a limited-access 'Amazon' for counter-drone weapons, with Anduril and DroneShield listing products and an AI that recommends purchases.
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Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The island’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government agenci…
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Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI w…
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High-bandwidth memory is the part of an AI system that nobody photographs. It sits next to the processor and feeds it data, and if it is too slow the expensive chip waits. It is made by stacking ordinary DRAM, the same memory that goes into laptops and phones…
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Roku launches Fairground AI, the first channel devoted solely to generative AI movies, shows, and shorts
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Oracle is planning another round of job cuts this month, even as it pours tens of billions into AI data centres and takes on record debt.
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OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
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OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.
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Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the "coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn.…
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OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months, replaced by Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of Wiz. The company has also hired recruiters to rebuild its go-to-market team, two days after longtime executive…
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Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.
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Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is based in Amsterdam, listed on Nasdaq, and was spun out of the Russian internet …
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As The Verge's resident handheld reviewer, I have nearly every portable gaming PC on a shelf in my house. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus is now the first one I reach for. Thanks to a next-gen Intel chip and improved MSI design, the Claw EX is the most powerful han…
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Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.
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Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob Mico when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier …
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Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, wh…
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Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious messages. Earlier this year, Meta also launched scam detection for device linking requests on WhatsApp. The new Scam Alert feature, which is r…
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AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on “Uncanny Valley.”
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Linux release candidates are supposed to get smaller, but Torvalds says AI review tools have made oversized the new normal.
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Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europe’s fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal would roughly double the figure investors put on the business onl…
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Now fully suppporting .tscn and .gd files. Let AI do all the work, like, ALL of the work.Or go back to playing with agents, that's what the REAL coders do. Spin up agent after agent and wonder where all your money went.https://github.com/ue-patcher/Code_Stitc…
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Hi HN — I built Hearth for my family: https://ourhearth.aiHearth is a shared workspace for a household. We use it for plans, notes, schedules, people, and recurring family rituals, with an AI agent that can work across that context. Kind of like a shared Obsi…
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Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
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Screenshots and AI-generated content look convincing, but how can investigators verify their authenticity?
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Twitch users’ streams are being used to train Amazon’s AI, and you have to opt out to stop it.
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IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.
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As AI agents transform work, organizations must rethink what they need from their PC fleets.
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Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized visions of the future with a series of i…
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The Pixel Buds Pro 3 are nowhere to be seen, but Google has spent its energy adding some new features to its existing earbuds alongside new handsets
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Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash with sharp gains on coding benchmarks and introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens. Gemini 3.5 Pro remains months behind schedule, and Google will not say whether it is still coming. Google has released Gemin…
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Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganizat…
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There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, ne…
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Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers think AI tools can spot the condition—and help stop it—early enough to save lives.
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Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak, up from $0.87. V4-Flash goes from $0.28 to $1.32, Bloomberg reported. Off-peak rates are half the new pe…
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AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.
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Code review is the step where somebody reads a change before it ships. A developer proposes an edit, opens what the trade calls a pull request, and a colleague checks it for bugs and security holes. It is slow and unglamorous work. Until recently it was also …
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Renting an Nvidia H100 for an hour costs whatever your supplier says it costs. There is no published price. Two companies buying identical capacity can pay very different rates, and neither of them will know. That changes on 5 October. CME Group, the exchange…
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The growing use of AI in software development is changing the bottleneck for engineering teams. Generating code is becoming faster, but reviewing its potential impact, validating releases, and responding to unexpected behavior still require context from produ…
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Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits those options into two groups using a secret key, then nudges the model towards o…
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Anthropic upgrades the Claude in Chrome side panel to Claude Cowork.
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Researchers found GPT-4 generates convincing personality questions from an oven manual, though only clinical questionnaires kept a coherent statistical structure.
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The AI massacre is coming, and knowing which side of the stack you're on will decide whether you survive it.
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Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
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The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double its valuation in an autumn listing. At $2 trillion it would eclipse SpaceX, which went public at $1.77 …
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Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli AI startup, for roughly $6bn, according to reports attributed to Reuters. If it happens, it would be the largest deal in Anthropic’s history. The talks are not final, both companies declined to co…
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Ahrefs’ new tool benefits from native data access and promises to save you hours every week
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Pathway’s 150M model achieves 29.5% on ARC-AGI-1 while costing 11 times less than ChatGPT’s comparable reasoning model during inference.
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Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
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The following op-ed authored by Ariana Aboulafia first appeared in Tech Policy Press on August 12, 2026. A excerpt of the text has been pasted below. AI-enabled smart glasses may very well be tech’s hottest, and creepiest, accessory. Google recently announced that it is releasing its first smart glasses since Google Glass. Snap launched its smart glasses earlier this summer, and […] The post…
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AI coding tools can introduce unvetted or hallucinated open source dependencies faster than traditional security reviews can keep pace. ActiveState explains why organizations should govern packages at the point of selection, before they enter the development pipeline. [...]
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WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new optional "Scam Alert" feature, which uses a local machine learning model to warn users when scammers are targeting them. [...]
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Multiple 'watermark removers' have surfaced days after Anthropic began watermarking text generated by Claude, including an open source project with over 4,500 GitHub stars and paid AI detection evasion services. None of the tools' claims about defeating the text watermark can be verified, as Anthropic has not released a detector. [...]
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Set up Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability for AI agents running outside AWS: on-premises, on GCP, on Azure, or on developer machines. This walkthrough uses the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and IAM credentials to route session traces, span metrics, and token usage to the same AgentCore Observability dashboard.
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Learn how to automate legacy web applications that need human-like interaction using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool and Strands Agents. This walkthrough covers a reference architecture for an AI-powered digital worker that drives legacy interfaces through secure, isolated browser sessions while preserving human oversight and full audit trails.
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Amazon Quick is now available directly inside Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. These extensions bring connected data access and agentic document editing into the Microsoft 365 apps your teams already use, so you can analyze data, draft content, and reach enterprise knowledge without switching applications.
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arXiv:2608.11211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conway's 99-graph problem asks whether a strongly regular graph with parameters $\mathrm{srg}(99,14,1,2)$ exists. We report a systematic, fully reproducible attack by an autonomous AI research agent, scored under the track's partial-credit metric. Our verifiable contributions are: (1) an exhaustive proof that no circulant graph on $\mathbb{Z}/99$…
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arXiv:2608.11210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian calibration of process-based models requires a prior distribution for each model parameter. Despite decades of methodological work, researchers almost always fall back on uniform priors. The main reason is that building informative priors from scientific literature is slow and needs both domain and statistical expertise. We present…
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arXiv:2608.11207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When two LLM agents with structurally opposed objectives interact across multiple turns, the absence of a shared goal function produces not competition but collapse: the visitor capitulates, the site agent stops varying its approach, and the conversation terminates without achieving either agent's stated objective. This paper asks whether a…
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Zhipu’s MaaS open platform is reported to have nearly 7 million registered API users, about 2 million more than in early July. The figure refers to users of the platform’s model APIs. The company has also newly activated more than 50,000 domestically developed AI chips to meet rising inference demand. Zhipu’s previously restricted Coding Plan […]
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The competition around large AI models is moving beyond models and chips and increasingly into data center infrastructure. Over the past few years, tech giants around the world have continued to ramp up AI computing capacity, with GPU purchases and server expansions becoming almost standard practice. But as demand for computing power continues to surge, […]
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Honor has scheduled the China launch of its Robot Phone for Aug. 12. The device combines a smartphone with a motorized gimbal camera and AI-assisted subject tracking. Honor has also highlighted an imaging collaboration with ARRI. Pricing, sales channels and broader availability were not disclosed in the announcement. [IT Home, in Chinese]
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DeepSeek is recruiting for an IDC data-center team in Beijing, Hangzhou and Ulanqab, with roles covering data-center planning, construction, testing and operations. The listings indicate that the company is expanding its infrastructure efforts beyond model research and software development. The job descriptions seek candidates in electrical engineering, HVAC, automation, energy, communications,…
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ByteDance has reportedly formed a new top-level department focused on AI data and safety, placing it alongside Seed, Flow and Douyin within the company’s organizational structure. The unit is led by Wang Yinglei, a former TikTok executive who oversaw platform responsibility and livestreaming. The department reportedly grew out of a global data team established in […]
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Alibaba Cloud’s Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance has entered service in China, with Ulanqab as its first deployment region. Enterprise customers can provision 64-card, high-speed-interconnect computing units through the cloud without building their own data centers. The instance is designed to handle inference for mixture-of-experts models with up to 10 trillion parameters. Kimi K3 and […]
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This seems to work : Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by its guardrails, the safety barriers AI developers erect to…
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See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.
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OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.
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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company fired co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top post.
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Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
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Fake remote workers can exploit gaps between hiring checks, device delivery, and account access to enter organizations under false identities. Specops Software explains how document verification and biometric liveness checks can help organizations confirm that the person receiving access is the legitimate new hire. [...]
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Learn how to visualize and analyze Amazon Bedrock cost attribution using Amazon Athena and CUDOS dashboards. This post shows how to set up CUR 2.0 with IAM principal data, query Bedrock spend by principal, project, and team, and build dashboards to track AI costs across your organization.
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Learn how OneAdvanced, a UK enterprise software provider, built a UK-sovereign AI platform by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon SageMaker AI, with a RAG pipeline on pgvector and over 50 agents built with Strands Agents SDK on Amazon ECS.
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arXiv:2608.10030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI agents are increasingly deployed in complex environments, understanding their behaviors becomes critical. Yet behavioral scientific research on AI agents remains manual and labor-intensive. We introduce AEROBAT, the first multi-agent system to automate behavioral scientific research on AI agents. Given an arbitrary target behavior by its user,…
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arXiv:2608.09998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have become powerful tools for supporting and automating complex human tasks. Despite their benefits, growing attention has been directed toward their environmental implications, primarily due to their high energy demands and associated carbon emissions. This concern is particularly relevant in…
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arXiv:2608.09949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study evaluates the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex biological systems, evolving from data analysis to autonomous, AI-guided experimentation. The framework is driven by data from a 49-channel phytosensor network, encompassing multispectral, electrochemical, and dielectric modalities. To enhance accessibility, the system…
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Li Auto expects the second generation of its Livis AI glasses to arrive in the second half of 2027. The company is evaluating lens-based display technologies with Zeiss and is also developing native compatibility with HarmonyOS. Li Auto said the Livis product line is expected to support more vehicle models over time. The AI glasses […]
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Alibaba Cloud plans to more than double its global capacity for modular data centers in 2026, as demand for AI computing infrastructure continues to grow. The cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group said its modular approach can support the deployment of large AI data centers in about 100 days. The company said the standardized design can […]
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When I give talks about AI genies , I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened . The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And…. Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into classes several weeks in advance, far beyond what was supposed to be possible. Andrew, who was sitting fourth on a…
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Interesting empirical research: “ Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI .” Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict? This study provides a unique empirical window into that question by deploying a high-fidelity replica of an AI decision-support system (DSS) used in military targeting. After reconstructing the interface and…
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OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.
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Mistral is bringing together the inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments Europe needs to control its AI future, and setting a roadmap for the world.
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Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.
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CSET’s Steph Batalis shared her expert insight in an article published by The Washington Post. The article examines how AI-generated viruses could support new approaches to vaccine development and treatments for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, while raising concerns about the potential misuse of AI to design dangerous human pathogens. The post AI & Tech Brief: AI viruses appeared first on Center…
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AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. [...]
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Photographers are among the most skeptical audiences for generative AI. Learn how Pixieset used Amazon Bedrock to launch an AI-generated alt text feature to millions of users in four months, reaching 35% adoption by automating the tedious image SEO work photographers avoid, without touching the creative craft they take pride in.
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ONESTRUCTION, with technical advisory from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, built Ishigaki-IDS, a foundation model specialized for construction and BIM workflows. This architectural case study shows how they combined synthetic data, a three-stage training pipeline, and verifiable rewards on Amazon EC2 to build a domain model in a data-scarce field.
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Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By describing tests in plain English instead of maintaining selector-based code, they cut QA cycle times, freed engineering capacity, and caught regressions earlier.
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Claude apps gateway is a self-hosted governance layer between Claude Code and Claude Desktop and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. This post presents a production reference deployment covering end-to-end architecture, enterprise deployment patterns, cost, and implementation resources.
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Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models run with zero-operator access enforced at the chip, keeping your code and vulnerability data secure.
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Today we're announcing a major refresh to AWS Cloud Quest, the 3D, role-based learning game on AWS Skill Builder.
AWS Training & Certification — Open source ↗
arXiv:2608.07476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a formal framework for constructing canonical interpretations from plural structure theories. A structure theory is a triple T = ({\Sigma}, A, I) consisting of a signature, axioms, and an inference policy, whose admissible interpretation family collects all globally consistent assignments of structural conclusions. We distinguish three…
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arXiv:2608.07474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work showed that human-in-the-loop oversight becomes structurally untenable in high-loss domains when AI output velocity V exceeds human cognitive capacity C_max. The operative constraint, however, is not V alone but V x L, where L denotes per-item cognitive load. L consists of triage, judgment, and response, which respond asymmetrically to AI…
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arXiv:2608.07473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluative AI (EAI) has been recently proposed as a way to support human decision-making, not by producing a single recommendation, but by presenting competing hypotheses together with evidence for and against each. In this position paper, we advocate (computational) argumentation as a particularly suitable paradigm to provide a formal, computable…
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WeChat is testing two AI features in Moments: AI-assisted writing and AI-generated comments. Screenshots from the test show an “AI Writing” button in the Moments publishing interface that can help users generate post copy. The features are linked to WeChat’s Xiaowei AI assistant and are currently available only in a limited gray test. WeChat has […]
TechNode — Open source ↗
Tencent’s WorkBuddy has reportedly become one of the company’s highest-priority AI applications, with the company increasing advertising, computing and organizational resources for the product. The campaign has included outdoor advertising in Beijing and Shenzhen and promotional placements across major mobile apps. WorkBuddy is a desktop AI office agent that can break down instructions into…
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OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
The post How to build an AI agent: A simple guide for anyone appeared first on Source .
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Want to be able to deal with RSI? Here are 23 actionable policy ideas:…IFP serves up some “low-regret” policy recommendations…Policy experts with think tank IFP have […]
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Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
Hugging Face — Open source ↗
Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics can simplify your marketing workflow.
Google AI Blog — Open source ↗
Join the Inaugural D-TECT Forum lobacni Mon, 08/10/2026 - 14:07 11 November 2026 The Drone Tech for Countering Threats (D-TECT) Forum is the EU industrial coordination mechanism for drone and counter-drone technologies. © Marcus Jacobi The European Commission invites interested organisations to join the inaugural D-Tect Forum on 11 November 2026 . We are looking for companies, research…
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CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an article published by The Washington Post. The article looks at recent incidents in which AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta broke out of controlled testing environments and attempted to hack real systems, raising concerns about whether AI companies can safely control increasingly capable models. The post They said they would build AI…
CSET (Georgetown) — Open source ↗
AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation become easier to bypass. Specops explains why organizations are increasingly adding device trust to their Zero Trust strategies. [...]
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OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. [...]
BleepingComputer — Open source ↗
The Amazon SageMaker AI Spaces add-on for Amazon EKS runs managed JupyterLab and Code Editor environments on the cluster your ML team already operates. This post shows how to install and configure the add-on, connect from the browser and from VS Code over SSH-over-SSM, and move your team to OpenID Connect sign-in with Amazon Cognito.
AWS Machine Learning Blog — Open source ↗
nOps rebuilt its Clara FinOps AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, replacing a self-managed Amazon EKS stack running LangChain and LangGraph. The move cut time-to-production by 75% (from 10-12 months to 4 months), improved response quality, and reduced operational overhead while keeping analytics governed through Databricks Lakehouse Metric Views.
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arXiv:2608.06410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated agent design improves agent harnesses through iterative revision, evaluation, and feedback summarization. Existing methods are largely candidate-centric: cross-round experience is organized around candidate agents, which leaves the repair progress implicit. This causes inefficient repair targeting, slow consolidation of partial progress,…
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arXiv:2608.06402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analytics that aims to identify cohesive groups of entities with similar behaviors or interests. Classic objective-driven methods struggle with complex graph structures, while deep-learning approaches improve performance at the expense of interpretability and rely on labeled data and training. Large…
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arXiv:2608.06394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-label node classification is an important yet challenging task in graph learning, where nodes exhibit multiple semantics simultaneously. Existing methods for multi-label node classification can effectively model multiple labels, while only considering in-domain scenarios where the model needs to be trained and tested within the same graph…
arXiv cs.AI — Open source ↗
New from Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.
Anthropic — Open source ↗
Unitree Robotics has priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB150.80 per share, with 40.45 million shares to be issued. The final strategic-placement list allocated 933,900 shares worth about RMB141 million to Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Basic Technology Research, the developer of DeepSeek. The allocation is subject to a 36-month lockup. Unitree said strategic investors were […]
TechNode — Open source ↗
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?
Hugging Face — Open source ↗
CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an article published by TIME. The article examines the race to automate AI research and the possibility that AI systems could increasingly accelerate their own development, raising concerns about how quickly AI progress may advance and whether researchers and policymakers can keep pace. Even for the researchers […] The post Inside the Race to Make…
CSET (Georgetown) — Open source ↗
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an op-ed published by Barron’s. In his piece, he examines how the Trump administration’s AI strategy could affect U.S. competitiveness with China, particularly as the administration seeks to promote AI and semiconductor exports while addressing national security concerns. The post How America’s Dizzying AI Strategy Plays Into China’s Hands appeared…
CSET (Georgetown) — Open source ↗
The following op-ed authored by Jake Laperruque first appeared in Tech Policy Press on August 6, 2026. A excerpt of the text has been pasted below. Society’s growing reliance on artificial intelligence has given rise to concerns about AI sycophancy. This dark pattern—the tendency of AI systems to tailor responses to flatter users and validate their point of […] The post Op-ed: Will AI Sycophancy…
CDT — Open source ↗
TReNDS, a research center at Georgia State University, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source Strands Agents SDK that automatically investigates production errors in real time, reducing root-cause analysis from 15 to 30 minutes of manual work to under 60 seconds.
AWS Machine Learning Blog — Open source ↗
In this post, you learn how Cohere Health built a multi-tenant agentic architecture on AgentCore using AgentCore Runtime’s secure MicroVM isolation, unified tool access through AgentCore Gateway, AgentCore Memory, and the Agent Skills open standard to rapidly scale policy digitization capabilities, while preserving transparency, version control, and human oversight.
AWS Machine Learning Blog — Open source ↗
The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center built an automated system that uses constraint programming and custom tree search to determine, with mathematical certainty, when and how an NHL team clinches a playoff spot. The approach was validated against four full NHL seasons of officially published results.
AWS Machine Learning Blog — Open source ↗
arXiv:2608.05204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-agent ecosystems are rapidly growing around reusable skills: mixed-modality packages of metadata, natural-language instructions, code, tools, references, and operational workflows. As skills become marketplace artifacts, auditing their reuse is no longer the same problem as ordinary code clone detection. Existing detectors target single-modality…
arXiv cs.AI — Open source ↗
arXiv:2608.05203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models achieve strong predictive accuracy for 90-day outcome prediction in acute ischaemic stroke, yet clinical adoption is limited by the misalignment of model explanations with clinicians' reasoning. Motivated by a clinician user study calling for clinical guideline-aligned cut-offs, we ask whether continuous predictors can be…
arXiv cs.AI — Open source ↗
arXiv:2608.05159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise operations extensively rely on multiple heterogeneous business systems and information applications, which also result in severe data silos and process fragmentation. Enterprises have invested considerable financial and material resources in building these applications, however, effectively leveraging and orchestrating them remains a…
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New from Anthropic: Improving Fable 5 S Biology Safeguards.
Anthropic — Open source ↗
StepFun, a Chinese AI company, is reportedly reorganizing around two strategic lines: foundation models and agent devices. Its phone business is being moved into a separate company, while the original entity continues to operate the model business; the plan has not been officially confirmed. StepFun is also reportedly building an overseas commercialization team to sell […]
TechNode — Open source ↗
PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking. A demonstration showed one of its robots autonomously cooking mapo tofu in nine minutes. [TechNode reporting]
TechNode — Open source ↗
Nvidia is reportedly seeking a Chinese base-station maker to combine its AI computing platform with wireless network equipment for 6G systems aimed at overseas markets, according to people in the communications supply chain. The report said Nvidia and a Shenzhen-based company, 佳贤通信 (Jiaxian Communications, our transliteration), had been in contact since 2025 and had worked […]
TechNode — Open source ↗
OpenAI and the APA are launching a three-year partnership to develop guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use supporting youth mental health.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
Google DeepMind — Open source ↗
CSET is partnering with top universities to expand AGORA, its living collection of 1,000+ AI-related laws, regulations, and standards. The post Expanded Collaboration to Boost Critical AI Governance Data and Tracking Tool appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .
CSET (Georgetown) — Open source ↗
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive information on the device. The following versions of Johnson Controls Inc. TL280 are affected: TL280 <5.63 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 4.1 Johnson Controls Inc. Johnson Controls Inc. TL280 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Background Critical Infrastructure…
CISA — Open source ↗
When a court is deciding whether someone goes to prison, whether a company pays for a defective product, or whether the government violated a person’s constitutional rights, the evidence supporting that decision needs to be reliable. That principle sounds obvious. But as artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly produces the “evidence” that judges and juries are asked […] The post Changing Course…
CDT — Open source ↗
OpenAI is rolling out a more reliable version of ChatGPT GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro users, while Free users are getting unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna. [...]
BleepingComputer — Open source ↗
Meta has become the latest AI company to confirm that one of its models hacked a real organization during cybersecurity testing, as similar incidents continue to emerge following OpenAI'sOpenAI's initial disclosure that its agents breached Hugging Face. [...]
BleepingComputer — Open source ↗
AI did not create a new browser security problem. It exposed one that enterprises have long been able to ignore. Skyhigh Security explains why browsers have become a critical control point for governing data movement, AI interactions, and modern work. [...]
BleepingComputer — Open source ↗
Temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore let you define stateful rules that evaluate authorization based on an agent's session history. Learn how to enforce workflow sequencing, prevent data fabrication, cap financial exposure, and require human approval for high-value actions.
AWS Machine Learning Blog — Open source ↗
Learn about new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: temporal policies powered by Dogwood, a new open source policy language for AI agents, and rate limiting on the gateway. These features give you deterministic control over sequences of agent actions and cost ceilings that hold regardless of agent behavior.
AWS Machine Learning Blog — Open source ↗
Learn how to configure rate limits on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway to enforce per-user and per-target traffic controls. Define request, token, and connection limits scoped by JWT claims or IAM identity to protect downstream models, tools, and agents from traffic spikes.
AWS Machine Learning Blog — Open source ↗
arXiv:2608.04071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatically generating professional multimodal reports comprising both textual analysis and visual charts from structured tabular data is a critical challenge in data intelligence. Existing methods suffer from fixed linear pipelines and isolated subtask processing, which hinder joint optimization of factual accuracy, visual quality, and narrative…
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arXiv:2608.04066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How do you verify a long-horizon agent when its own state and self-reports are exactly what you cannot trust? We present an agent instrument built so that verification is structural rather than post-hoc. A deterministic Executive owns all belief; a language model may only file typed proposals, and a claim is admitted only when a prediction…
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arXiv:2608.04012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly expected to operate over repeated cycles of interaction, adaptation, and update rather than through isolated one-shot outputs. This raises a fundamental theoretical question: can an AI system persist indefinitely without incurring unbounded structural aging? This paper develops a long-run persistence…
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CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7.30. The interview examines growing concerns that AI capabilities are advancing faster than the safeguards needed to keep them safe, following new research showing frontier AI models engaging in deceptive and harmful behavior during testing. The post AI models engage in ‘harmful activity…
CSET (Georgetown) — Open source ↗
The digital era has been defined by shifts in how people access information. Early search engines of the 1990s revolutionized how people navigate a complex web of online information; smartphones and social media platforms of the 2000s made that content more accessible than ever. So it’s no surprise that with generative AI products now in […] The post Can Generative Intermediaries Deliver When It…
CDT — Open source ↗
AI is helping attackers create disposable phishing infrastructure and rapidly evolving toolkits that blocklists cannot track fast enough. Push Security explains why browser-level, technique-based detection offers a more durable defense than relying on domains, signatures, and other known-bad indicators. [...]
BleepingComputer — Open source ↗
And it’s personal information (alternate link ): The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses. What seems to be the issue is a user setting…
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OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
NIST will execute two of its efforts through its Centers for AI in Manufacturing and Critical Infrastructure.
NIST — Open source ↗
A statement from Ollie Whitehouse, Chief Technology Officer at the NCSC, on AI security following recent incidents.
UK NCSC — Open source ↗
The post Teaching AI to speak the language of pathology appeared first on Source .
Microsoft Source — Open source ↗
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026
Google AI Blog — Open source ↗
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insight in an article published by Fortune. The article examines how uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration’s AI governance, combined with the lower cost and flexibility of Chinese AI models, is influencing businesses’ decisions and raising concerns about U.S. competitiveness and national security. The post Trump meets AI giants, Senate Dems decry…
CSET (Georgetown) — Open source ↗
This piece offers a two-pronged framework for assessing sovereign AI based on why states pursue it and how they do so. Five country case studies trace the distinct pathways the United States, China, France, India, and Singapore have each taken toward sovereign AI. The post Assessing Sovereign AI: A Two-Pronged Framework appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .
CSET (Georgetown) — Open source ↗
AI agents need broad access to be useful, but traditional access controls cannot determine whether an action aligns with a user's intent. Varonis explains how Agent IBAC detects intent drift and enforces real-time guardrails to keep agents within their intended boundaries. [...]
BleepingComputer — Open source ↗
OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries. [...]
BleepingComputer — Open source ↗
New from Anthropic: Tino Cuellar.
Anthropic — Open source ↗
The administration says it met the deadline for a pre-release evaluation framework for advanced models, but details remain sparse. The key signal is that pre-launch government access has moved from concept toward process.
Axios — Open source ↗
Senate discussions suggest a framework based on developer self-testing and clearer responsibility for frontier risk, adding legislative pressure beyond executive-order mechanisms.
Platformer AI & Tech Brief — Open source ↗
This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy . Earlier this month, two of OpenAI’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild . OpenAI was running security tests on two of its models: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model that is almost certainly GPT-6. In particular, it was running the ExploitGym benchmark, which measures how good a…
Schneier on Security — Open source ↗
Hugging Face has published a detailed timeline of the attack. From the summary: The agent was running an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation based on the ExploitGym benchmark, which tasks an AI agent with finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. OpenAI ran this on its own infrastructure, and the ExploitGym maintainers and their infrastructure had no involvement in the deployment…
Schneier on Security — Open source ↗
GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
OpenAI — Open source ↗
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Self-sustaining and self-replicating AI viruses are here:…Open weight LLMs + a well-designed harness = a persistent, self-sufficient virus…AI researchers have built a prototype computer virus which […]
Import AI (Jack Clark) — Open source ↗
Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.
Google AI Blog — Open source ↗
[ PDF version ] An increasing number of state policymakers are considering third-party AI auditing or assessment requirements. These policies face many challenges to effectiveness: there are an enormous range of AI models and use cases each presenting different types of risks; few clear existing technical standards for auditing and assessment; requirements must be effective […] The post How…
CDT — Open source ↗
The Center for Democracy & Technology submitted comments urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its proposed policy statement regarding the “suppression of accuracy” in artificial intelligence systems. The FTC’s proposed framework wrongly treats standard technical steps that are needed to train AI models, and ensure they are accurate, reliable, fair, and safe, as […] The post CDT…
CDT — Open source ↗
PDF version. Facial recognition is a powerful AI surveillance tool that is frequently used by law enforcement. But this technology comes with a range of risks: It is dangerous when it works poorly, and dangerous in an entirely different way when it works well. The accuracy of facial recognition matches varies significantly based on a […] The post CDT Issue Brief: Key Limits on Facial Recognition…
CDT — Open source ↗
New from Anthropic: Investigating Incidents Cybersecurity Evals.
Anthropic — Open source ↗
New from Anthropic: Claude For Nonprofits.
Anthropic — Open source ↗
The amended AI Transparency Act now points providers toward detection tools, manifest-style disclosure, and latent disclosure features where technically feasible, strengthening the synthetic-content governance baseline.
Vorp AI policy tracker — Open source ↗
Most phishing campaigns rely on the fact that the victim is afraid to loose "something": money, access to information, ... Many brands have been impersonated by campaigns but I spotted some phishing emails that focus on AI services like ChatGPT.
SANS ISC — Open source ↗
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