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A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US military contract worth almost $50 million.
The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are meant to compete with cutting-edge A.I. models from rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
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Ambi is releasing apps for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch that enables ambient capture
Kanishka Narayan said the government will use advanced AI to strengthen the UK against cyber attacks.
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.
Andrew Bailey delivers note on vulnerabilities and monitoring of global stablecoins and finalised sound practices on AI adoption.
Brad Smith calls for global rules on AI, and says the UK is in the "best position" to lead the charge.
Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date. Gurman […]
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On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?
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Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San…
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San…
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."
Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.
The camera-maker says it is now re-evaluating the rules and procedures of its Small World in Motion contest.
A racist AI-generated video is the latest offensive stunt by One Nation. Now Pauline Hanson’s attack on Mehreen Faruqi needs to be settled by the courts
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Fight in East Fishkill, New York, part of a growing divide over whether AI benefits outweigh enormous downsides
The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.
“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
Generative AI is transforming our working lives but how can we ensure it doesn’t result in groupthink and bland ideas? Step forward Warwick Business School academics with a passion for exploring how AI can be harnessed for good
With board members now asking generative AI to bring insights to the table, experts from Warwick Business School are questioning where its influence should begin and end
The AI firm instead claims the researchers were fired for mishandling sensitive information.
Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg’s hand.
Commission holds special meeting of Scientific panel on frontier AI safety and risks Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/09/2026 - 09:16 Today, the Commission holds a special meeting of the Scientific Panel on artificial intelligence (AI). The panel has been investigating recent loss-of-control incidents, and together…
Meredith Whittaker says the tech has been misunderstood, in an exclusive interview with BBC Global Women.
Firmus said it had made the decision due to "recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions".
Nearly 100 patients discussed their maladies with a Google bot, called AMIE, before meeting with physicians.
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than just a Hollywood star.
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software, and surveillance.
OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.