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The latest breakthroughs in AI — aggregated from top sources and paired with original analysis.
Microsoft’s Copilot documentation contains a paragraph that quietly invalidates how most teams evaluate whether Copilot is reliable. There… Continue reading on Towards AI »
From the narrow “Can we trust Chinese models ?” to the more scientific -“Eval it!” Continue reading on Towards AI »
MLflow tracing, spans, LLM judges, and the four config choices that separate a notebook demo from production. Continue reading on Towards AI »
It found a bug that automated testing had run past five million times. Then, three days after its successor shipped, the US… Continue reading on Towards AI »
Developers! It’s 3 a.m. here in Houston. If you’re still awake, let me sell you some extra anxiety. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it : ) Continue reading on Towards AI »
Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
Qwen3.8–27B, two free Kaggle GPUs, and a warning in the server log I scrolled past five times. Continue reading on Towards AI »
After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threat In realistic terms how would artificial intelligence actually kill me? What is the main proxy threat? Nuclear war, death due to breakdown of society, a virus? I hear all these reports it could kill us but still unsure how that could practically happen? To be honest
Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There’s nothing like a threat of human extinction to focus the mind. The threat of AI to the existence of humanity has long been raised. Continue reading...
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technology, though he gave almost no details about either plan. As global fears over AI have grown, especially in the past week in the face of multiple industry figures sounding the alarm about its dangers, the president has been critical of calls to slow down developm
Most agent writing assumes a prompt just arrived. This is about the other 99% of the time — triggers, debouncing, and the cost of watching. Continue reading on Towards AI »
Why are AI chatbots pulling so many people down a rabbit hole? Our answer starts with the world’s first-ever chatbot, the strange effect it had on people and the ‘time bomb’ that exploded when ChatGPT was released four years ago. The result is a strange experiment we are all living through – whether we know it or not. You can find episodes one and two further back in the Full Story feed. Studies and surveys cited in this episode: Amelia Miller’s interviews with AI researchers, engineers, product
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) | Getty Images On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this morning, NPR reports, marking an escalation in the administration's war on the First Amendment. P
Two checks on your own judge. The first needs no labels, the second needs a few, and together they tell you whether it grades quality or… Continue reading on Towards AI »
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn't disclose the hack because it didn't consider it to be an "example of model misalignment." The company said that it was an ins
The Hyte X50 is a PC case that really stands out from the typical black box design, and it’s $50 off at the company’s site until September 21st, 2026, bringing the price down to $99.99. This attractive case supports motherboards from ITX all the way up to the E-ATX form factors, and GPUs that are up to 430mm long, which should cover even the biggest options available. The standout feature is a massive curved glass panel that spans the left face and top of the case, giving it a unique, eye-catchi
Band members Luke Silas, Ary Warnaar, Peter Burkman, and James DeVito (left to right). Maybe their next album will be recorded entirely in a windmill? | Image: Joshua Tarn Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you might have first heard them in game soundtracks like 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game or know of their collaboration with Hatsune Miku (which even made its way into
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of technology policy at Carnegie Mellon. The biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. Researchers at the big AI labs including Anthropic and Google DeepMind have quit in noisy
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The TV in your living room knows more about you than you realize. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance devices. LG TV owners, and tech enthusiasts in general, are furious, and
At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially with government assistance. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and even SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly seemed
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears for cybersecurity, public safety and the fate of humanity, he said no. His argument: China. “We’re leading China in AI,” Trump said. “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I
Energy bills are scheduled to rise next month but there are innovative ways to heat your home and save money When Giles Gibson turns on the hot tap in his home, the water that comes out of it is not heated by gas but by the tiny datacentre strapped to the tank. Attached to the hot water cylinder in his London home is a compact computer server that generates heat and then transfers it as it operates. Continue reading...
Parole condition of convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser deemed invalid after board cited non-existent case law Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A review of potential artificial intelligence use in parole decisions will be undertaken after a “concerning” error in the case of a high-profile murderer. Tasmania’s justice department on Friday evening confirmed the review was occurring, four days after a parole condition of convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser was deemed i
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-par
A month of real work with every major Claude feature, narrowed down to the 5 that earned a permanent spot and 5 you can skip. Continue reading on Towards AI »
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
Learn how to install and use OpenCode for free with three no-cost routes: OpenCode Zen, provider free tiers, and local Ollama models. No… Continue reading on Towards AI »
CLAUDE.md, Skills, and Hooks solve three different problems in Claude Code. Here is what each one actually does and how to use all three… Continue reading on Towards AI »
Anthropic studied how people actually use Claude, hour by hour. Continue reading on Towards AI »
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it made a "complete mockery of the idea of fair use." Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht.
The leak is almost never the model. It is the plumbing around it. Continue reading on Towards AI »
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
Hermes Agent, like pretty much every serious agent framework at this point, has grown out of the stateless-chatbot phase. Plug in a memory… Continue reading on Towards AI »
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Every week someone asks me the same question. “Should I use Claude or GPT?” Continue reading on Towards AI »