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There was a time when the org chart told you how the company worked. Finance managed capital. Human resources managed people. Information technology managed systems. Operations managed workflows. AI is blowing that model…

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

Researchers and the Prime Minister of Australia have revealed more instances of OpenAI’s agents going rogue.

The US and China are vying for AI supremacy while seeking to keep it under human control.

The hackers claim they have every agent's name, role, badge number and personal details including home address, phone numbers and spouse information.

The economics of enterprise transformation are pushing finance and human resources into much closer alignment as companies decide where artificial intelligence fits, where people create the most value and how productivit…

Heads of two of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies give separate briefings on AI safety Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic, heads of two of the world’s largest artificial intelligence c…

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June and the…

As the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues.

Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel.

Basecamp Research Ltd. today announced that it has raised $140 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. S32, a fund affiliated with Google LLC co-founder Bill Maris, led the Series C round. It was joined b…

$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.

Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model

As language models grow, scaling dense architectures becomes increasingly expensive. In a dense transformer, every token passes through every layer, so adding...

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site…

A GPU cluster can pass every health check and still fail to run an AI workload. Even when every GPU, network link, and pod reports healthy, a 512-GPU training...

YouTube’s next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.

The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.

Whether produced by Russia, China or far-right influencers, deepfakes and disinfo are pushing multiple false narratives Russian disinformation campaigns are varied in their falsehoods and strategies. The narratives range…

Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

It’s kind of a broad question, but let me narrow it down to one specific use-case/example I'm currently working on / interested in: Finding "closeness" or "similarity" of writing system glyphs (script characters), like a…

I am building a probabilistic energy forecasting model using NGBoost (NGBRegressor) to predict household residual power (residual_power_w) at 15-minute resolution. My goal is to forecast the full next 24 hours (96 steps)…

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me…

Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.

HEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), HAL delivers governed k…

A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.

AI models train on information available on the internet. Robots can’t do that.

Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge: kernel settings, system packages, storage layouts, security agents,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade…

Learn how to build a conversational video intelligence solution on AWS using an agentic architecture. A single Strands Agents SDK agent orchestrates Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Transcribe at runtime, d…

Pair OpenCode, an open-source terminal-native AI coding agent, with open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to get a secure, flexible, pay-per-use coding assistant. Learn how to configure multi-model workflows, match the ri…

The development adds to the rising momentum toward general-purpose robots and the real-world deployment of physical AI.

Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.

Summary: Currently, “chain of thought” (CoT) is our most valuable tool for understanding the reasoning and cognition of AI systems. However, some architectures would enable AI models to reason much more extensively in la…

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

In regards specifically to mode collapse in the DINO head, I am not asking exactly why the teacher and student eventually gravitate towards producing the same output as thats one way to make the loss minimal even if its…

ChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can tap into plugins like email, calendar, and Slack. Users can manage appointments, send emails, or build websites just by talking. The update…

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Google is introducing two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, which support more than 100 languages. Flash TTS can create new voices from text descriptions, and both models let users add s…

The vendor is reacting to U.S. rivals Google and Anthropic, as well as the growing popularity of open source models.

2.3.1 Varied stable objects 2.3.1.1 Life as we know it requires a world which is intelligible and predictable, but also rich enough to support the complex mechanisms needed for cognition. Furthermore, given the definitio…

Andy Burnham’s accusation against the Kremlin tells half the story. Domestic extremists amplified by US big tech are part of the same problem In November 2020, Barack Obama warned of an “ epistemological crisis ” facing…

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create…

Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early…

Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.

The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.

TLDR: In the recently discovered HF and German wiki swarm incidents, agents used public counters and encoded URLs to signal activity and relay upcoming evaluation questions & answers. We think this signals a broader prob…

Readers have advice for a cross-party committee of MPs looking into the UK’s poor record at the song contest I agree with Laura Snapes that the very last thing we need is MPs’ questionable tastes entering the murky water…