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Everyday AI

Snap's New AI Assistant Wants to Plan Your Day Before You Ask

Specs Intelligence connects to your Gmail and Slack calendar, then surfaces reminders and nudges without waiting for you to type a thing.

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AI Business

Snap Spent a Week Trying to Justify Its $2,200 Smart Glasses. Here Is What It Announced.

New AI features, enterprise deals and a $10-a-month data plan are Snap's answer to the backlash over Specs. Whether they add up to a convincing argument is another question.

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Policy

Al Gore Says Stop Worrying About the Data Center and Start Reading the Safety Reports

The former vice president thinks emissions fears are overblown. What keeps him up at night is what AI companies are quietly disclosing about their own models.

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AI Business

Treble de Islandia recauda $18 millones para someter a prueba el auge de la IA de voz

La startup de simulación acústica, que ya evalúa modelos de voz en Hugging Face, ahora tiene $40 millones en total para invertir en robótica, gafas inteligentes e IA física.

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Frontier Labs

25 Fields Medal Winners Have Signed a Letter Challenging OpenAI's Maths Claim

OpenAI says its AI solved a century-old maths problem. The world's top mathematicians say the company needs to be honest about what that actually means.

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Everyday AI

Meta está desarrollando gafas inteligentes sin cámara

Tras las quejas de que sus gafas Ray-Ban permiten grabar en secreto, Meta está desarrollando una versión sin cámara que sigue conectada a su asistente de IA.

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AI2Day OriginalPolicy

The regulation beat just tripled on us, and it wasn't the regulators

We published 30 stories on AI regulation in the week of 8 September, up from 8 the week before. What actually moved was the argument about who gets to write the rules.

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AI2Day OriginalAI Business

Enterprise AI coverage dropped 73% in our newsroom last week. Here is what that actually means.

We ran four enterprise AI stories in the week to 13 September, down from fifteen the week before. That is a measurement of our news cycle, not the market.

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AI2Day OriginalPolicy

Existential risk stopped being a fringe beat in our pages this week

We ran six stories on human extinction from AI in seven days, up from one the week before. Three different outlets carried it. Here is what that shape tells us, and what it does not.

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AI Security

Meta AI Was Building Profiles of a Mother's Children From Old Family Posts

A viral video showed Meta's built-in chatbot compiling details about a woman's young daughters, including a photo she thought she'd deleted years ago.

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Science & Space

El diseño de proteínas con IA de Apple aprende la secuencia y la forma simultáneamente

Un nuevo modelo de Apple ML Research omite el proceso de entrenamiento habitual de dos pasos y genera tanto la secuencia química como la forma 3D de las proteínas conjuntamente, lo que podría acelerar el camino hacia nuevos candidatos farmacéuticos.

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Frontier Labs

DiscoSign quiere que la traducción de lengua de signos siga realmente una conversación

Apple ML Research creó DiscoSign para manejar los elementos de discurso que los sistemas oración por oración rutinariamente pierden.

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Explained

Investigadores de Apple Crearon una Mejor Forma de Evaluar Subtítulos de Video de IA

Un nuevo método de Apple ML Research califica los subtítulos de video según lo que realmente capturan correctamente, no solo si utilizan las mismas palabras que un escritor humano.

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AI Security

Anthropic caught scientists trying to use Claude to develop bioweapons

The AI company blocked at least five attempts this year by researchers to extract information that could help build biological weapons, including users from countries it bans outright.

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Robotics

The Texas Drone Maker That Saw the China Problem Coming a Decade Early

Hylio built its supply chain in America long before Washington made it a legal requirement. Now farmers squeezed by falling crop prices and rising costs are finding out why that matters.

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Explained

AI Doom-Mongering Is a Real Problem, and This Column Is Part of It

The Guardian AI's weekly digest bundles vague catastrophe warnings with cultural gags and a 9/11 reflection. That mix tells you more about media habits than it does about AI.

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Policy

An AI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Over Existential Fear. Should the Rest of Us Be Worried?

Jacob Coxon walked away from one of the world's top AI labs saying colleagues believe the next year or two will decide humanity's fate. Here is what that actually means.

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Frontier Labs

AI Researchers Are Quitting Over Fears the Technology Could Kill Everyone

A wave of resignations and open warnings from inside the world's top AI labs suggests the people building these systems are genuinely frightened of what comes next.

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AI Security

Hidden Threats in Your AI Assistant: What You Need to Know

AI assistants can be hijacked with hidden instructions in everyday documents, posing risks to businesses.

2 min read
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AI Business

AI boom quietly lifts UK economy as July growth beats every forecast

Britain's economy grew by 0.4% in July, double the rate economists expected, with fast-expanding AI services getting much of the credit.

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AI Security

Reflectiz Unveils AI Platform for Continuous Website Security

Reflectiz's new AI-driven platform runs penetration tests year-round, claiming ten times the coverage of tools that only check once or twice a year.

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