Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
Jeremy Hsu
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AI // Open the pod doors
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.”
Kyle Orland
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AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Nvidia’s big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
Jeremy Hsu
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Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
Nick Indge
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“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
Kyle Orland
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Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
Ashley Belanger
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Mistral says “Le Chonk” can challenge the best AI models
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
WIRED
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Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
Ryan Whitwam
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OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it’s easy to circumvent.
Samuel Axon
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
Dan Goodin
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MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
Dan Goodin
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
Scharon Harding
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AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
Financial Times
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Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn’t sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
Dan Goodin
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Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Ashley Belanger
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US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
Ashley Belanger
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The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99.
Ryan Whitwam
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Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it’s not an antitrust issue.
Ryan Whitwam
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With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
Jacek Krywko
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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet
So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Ryan Whitwam
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RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
Beth Mole
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Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
Ashley Belanger
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“An AI did it” is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer “the harms of its unsafe decision-making,” nonprofit says.
Jon Brodkin
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Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
Ryan Whitwam
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Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.
John Timmer
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OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.
Financial Times
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Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
Cyrus Farivar
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AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year’s end, is worth $8.2 billion.
Samuel Axon
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Here’s what actually happened in OpenAI’s Australian gov’t server hack
Without a “full set of safeguards,” agent accessed “system information and source code.”
Kyle Orland
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OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
Kyle Orland
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Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
Financial Times
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Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
Mozilla’s Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.
Samuel Axon
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Experts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Ashley Belanger
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Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as “the greatest public nuisance ever created.”
Kyle Orland
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OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified.
Kyle Orland
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