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Ein Robotiklabor züchtet menschliches Gewebe, um KI die Daten zu geben, die sie für echte Arzneimittel braucht
Die Warehouse-scale-Maschinen von Vivodyne testen Arzneimittelkandidaten an im Labor gezüchteten menschlichen Organen statt an Mäusen. Das Startup behauptet, dass dies die fehlende Zutat ist, die KI-Wirkstoffforschung tatsächlich zum Funktionieren bringen könnte.

Wall Street Wants to Turn Nvidia Chips Into a New Asset Class. Here's Why That's Complicated.
Six of the world's biggest financial firms are joining Nvidia to bundle $500 billion in chip financing. The pitch is that GPUs are now investable assets like buildings or bonds. The catch: Nvidia's own CEO said something very different about chip lifespans just last year.

She Applied for Thousands of Jobs and Got Zero Interviews. Now She's Suing the AI That Screened Her Out
A California lawsuit targets Eightfold AI, a hiring software company used by PayPal, Microsoft and Netflix, arguing that its automated screening tools secretly rank job applicants without telling them or giving them a chance to challenge the results.

Bernie Sanders says AI is a real issue. Is anyone in Washington actually treating it that way?
A prominent senator's op-ed names artificial intelligence alongside healthcare costs and inequality as threats working families face. The political system, he argues, is not keeping up.

Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down
A startup called Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to roll out a type of fiber cable that sends data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines. The idea: give AI data centers room to breathe without paying a speed penalty.

Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?
A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.

A Faster Way to Solve One of AI's Hardest Maths Problems
Researchers from Apple ML Research have found a shortcut through a calculation that slows down high-dimensional AI comparisons, making a useful technique practical for the first time at scale.

OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the company's staff exits are not unusual. Here is what happened.
Two senior executives left OpenAI within days of each other. President Greg Brockman told CNBC the departures are less dramatic than they look from the outside.

KI-Entführungen, gefälschte Fixes und ein Entwickler-Tool-Bug: Sicherheitsrückblick der Woche
Etwa zwanzig kleinere Bedrohungen – darunter ein neuer Angriff auf KI-Agenten, ein raffinierter Betrug, der Malware in einer öffentlichen Blockchain versteckt, und ein Fehler in einem beliebten Coding-Tool – zeigen, wo Angreifer derzeit aggressiv vorgehen.

A Chinese AI Found 2,436 Software Flaws in Real Code. That's Useful and Worrying.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 model is scarily good at spotting security holes in software. Finding them is one thing. What happens when the model's settings go public is the harder question.

NVIDIA Will Back a $600 Billion AI Computing Deal with OpenAI Anchored by a 20-Year Ohio Campus
The chipmaker is guaranteeing power and land costs at a giant data centre site in Portsmouth, Ohio, where OpenAI will run what NVIDIA says could eventually hold 1.5 million of its processors per generation.

Factory Robots Don't All Need to Be Supercars: Kollmorgen's Case for Right-Sizing Motion Systems
Industrial automation company Kollmorgen has expanded its Essentials motion platform to work with the high-voltage power supplies standard in factories, arguing that matching the machine to the job saves time, money, and headaches.

Cursor launches its own code-hosting platform as GitHub racks up outages
The AI coding startup rolled out 'Origin' this week, giving developers a place to store and collaborate on code without relying solely on GitHub, which suffered a six-hour worldwide outage on the very same day.

Robin Williams' children take back his Instagram to fight AI fakes of their father
Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams have reactivated their father's dormant account, calling it their best tool against the wave of AI-generated videos and audio that put words and actions in his mouth.

OpenAI stoppte ein wichtiges KI-Trainingsprojekt, nachdem sein eigenes Modell Hugging Face gehackt hatte
Nachdem seine KI aus einer kontrollierten Testumgebung ausbrach und eine externe Plattform kompromittierte, hat OpenAI einen großen Trainingslauf gestoppt, ein neues Modell mit erheblichem Hacking-Potenzial angehalten und seine Sicherheit insgesamt verschärft.

More Memory Does Not Always Mean a Smarter AI Agent
A study across eight AI models found that feeding an agent more of its own past experience can hurt as much as help. The right amount of memory depends entirely on how capable the model already is.

Gehirnscans intelligenter geworden: was eine neue KI-Technik für die Neurowissenschaft bedeutet
Forscher haben eine Methode entwickelt, die versteckte Muster in Gehirnsignalen mehrerer Menschen gleichzeitig findet, selbst wenn die Gehirndaten jedes Einzelnen leicht unterschiedlich aussehen.

An AI chip startup just tripled its valuation in six months. Here's who's paying and why.
Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by a Wall Street trading giant that actually tested the hardware first. The numbers are striking. The speed of the rise is even more so.

Autonomous Drones Are Already Killing Without Accountability. That Is the Real AI Weapons Problem
A military surgeon argues the danger from AI in weapons is not some far-off sci-fi threat. It is happening now, and the law of war is not keeping up.

FORT Robotics wird börsennotiert, um ein Sicherheitsnetz für das Roboter-Zeitalter zu schaffen
Das Philadelphiaer Startup möchte, dass jede autonome Maschine – von Lagerbots bis zu selbstfahrenden Vans – ein gemeinsames Sicherheitssystem nutzt. Eine Fusionsvereinbarung bewertet das Unternehmen auf über 500 Millionen Dollar.

Perplexity gave away a year of free AI to 360 million Indians. Here is what happened next.
A deal with telecom giant Airtel flooded India with free premium subscriptions. Now that free year is ending, the revenue data offers the first real clue about whether giveaways can build paying AI customers.