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Your AI Data Center Has a Heat Problem. Here Is What the Industry Is Doing About It.
Modern AI chips now burn more than 1,000 watts each. Air conditioning can't keep up. A new white paper explains why liquid cooling is becoming the only practical answer.

Four months old, $85 million raised. Can Hang Ten Systems really build enterprise software with two engineers instead of thirty?
Hang Ten Systems just closed a $53 million follow-on seed round, five weeks after its first. The pitch: AI can shrink a 30-person software project down to a team of two or four.

AI's Dominance Is Not a Done Deal
The spread of artificial intelligence feels inevitable to many people. It isn't.

Australia may let AI companies scrape everything you post online, by default
The Albanese government is weighing changes that would give US tech giants open access to Australian content. Here is what that means for anyone who has ever posted, written or created anything on the internet.

A Godfather of AI Says Governments Are Almost Ready to Act
Yoshua Bengio, one of the researchers who built the foundations of modern AI, says governments are getting close to acting on AI safety the way they acted on Covid: fast, collectively, with serious consequences for the industry.

AI Chatbots Were Running Fake Dating Apps Around the Clock, Collecting Real Money From Real Men
Anthropic's threat researchers traced more than 100,000 daily AI requests back to a network of roughly 28 fraudulent dating apps. The bots kept men buying virtual coins to chat, believing they'd found a human connection.

Robots are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. Here is why.
Nvidia's Les Karpas says the biggest thing holding back general-purpose robots is not the hardware. It is data. And solving that problem is far harder than it sounds.

A man who cannot drive says driverless cars cannot arrive soon enough
Lars Janssen has a visual condition that rules out a licence forever. New safety data from the US suggests the autonomous vehicles he is waiting for may already be safer than most human drivers.

Claude Can Now Write Your Docs and Build Your Slides Without Leaving the Chat
Anthropic is adding document and presentation tools directly inside Claude chats, letting users create, share, and edit files without switching to another app.

Anthropic integra el chat, Cowork y Artifacts de Claude en una sola ventana
Los usuarios de Claude ya no necesitan elegir entre pestañas. Una sola ventana gestiona ahora el chat, el trabajo colaborativo y el diseño, con nuevas funciones de presentación y documentos próximamente.

Google Is Letting AI Agents Like Claude Control Your Smart Home
A new Google integration gives third-party AI tools access to your lights, locks, cameras and appliance data. It's genuinely useful. It also raises real questions about who's really in charge of your home.

Cómo los investigadores están engañando a los robots para que hagan lo incorrecto
Nuevas investigaciones demuestran que los robots impulsados por IA pueden ser manipulados a través de sus cámaras, datos de entrenamiento o sistemas inalámbricos, y las máquinas podrían no detectar nada anómalo.

Congress went home early and took the AI bills with it
Speaker Mike Johnson cancelled Thursday's votes, letting lawmakers dodge a Hegseth impeachment resolution and a flurry of proposed AI bills before the midterm recess.

A Fruit Fly's Brain Is Now Generating Magazine Story Ideas, and It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
Researchers mapped every neuron in a real fly's brain and open-sourced it. Now people are using that map to pitch articles, trade stocks, and play video games. Wired AI's Will Knight reports on where this is actually heading.

Apple Wants Back in the Server Room, and Nvidia Might Help It Get There
After 15 years out of the server market, Apple could return with powerful chips and an unlikely partner, and the Mac Mini shortage is partly why.

Apple Built an AI That Reads Your Database Code and Writes the Missing Documentation
Enterprise databases are drowning in unlabelled columns. Glyph, a new AI system from Apple ML Research, reads the code that creates each column and writes the missing documentation itself.

How watching humans work could teach the next generation of factory robots
A robotics engineer explains how first-person camera footage of people doing real tasks could cut the time and cost of training industrial robots.

AI's e-waste bill by 2050 is far bigger than anyone was counting
A nonprofit has calculated the full weight of hardware behind AI, and the e-waste total by 2050 is enough to fill 23 million shipping containers.

An AI Studio Made a 2.5-Hour Odyssey Film. It Is Spectacularly Bad.
Fountain 0's 'Odysseus: The Fall' bills itself as the first fully AI-generated Hollywood-level blockbuster. A sword turns into a dagger mid-scene. An alien carcass appears on a spit. The cyclops changes height between shots.

Apple researchers say bad training paths, not weak models, are why fast AI text generation keeps failing
Apple ML Research argues the flaw in distilled text generators sits in the routes a teacher model records, before the student ever sees them.

Washington Is Talking About AI Regulation. Nobody Is Actually Passing Any.
A FINRA-style AI oversight agency got killed by tech-exec phone calls. Congress has three competing bills and no votes scheduled. Here is where US AI regulation actually stands.