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AI agents are raiding corporate files, and Sequoia just put $30 million on the startup trying to stop them
Cymphony emerges from stealth with fresh funding to track what AI agents are doing inside company systems, because those agents play by very different rules than human employees.
A Seven-Year-Old Chip Startup Just Raised $468 Million to Fix the AI Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing says it can squeeze more memory into existing chip factories, skipping the $20-to-$40 billion cost of building new ones. What that means for the AI bottleneck holding back everything from data centres to your favourite apps.
Instacart's new AI assistant Clementine turns a recipe idea into a ready-to-buy cart
Ask it for a week of budget lunches, snap a photo of a handwritten list, and Clementine does the rest. Instacart's shopping assistant is live now in the US and Canada.
Amazon Prime Video Now Syncs Actors' Lips to Dubbed Audio Using AI
A new feature on Prime Video matches on-screen mouth movements to translated dialogue. It starts with one German show, but Amazon plans to roll it out more widely.
Besxar wants to build a semiconductor factory in orbit, launching piece by piece on SpaceX rockets
A start-up called Besxar is betting that making computer chips in the weightless environment of space will produce better results than any factory on the ground. The catch: every component has to hitch a ride to orbit and come back down again.
AI Chatbots Are Starting to Watermark Their Text. Here's What That Actually Means
Anthropic and Google are quietly embedding invisible patterns into AI-written words. The technique is nearly undetectable, but critics argue it still changes what you read.
Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed songs, as copyright lawsuits keep coming
The startup says its new model family uses only data licensed from record labels. That's a first for Suno, but legal trouble from Sony, Universal and others is far from over.
Students Who Use AI to Study Tend to Score Lower, Global Report Finds
A 760,000-student OECD study found that AI use generally hurt academic performance, but the picture changes when students are taught to question what the AI tells them.
He Told ChatGPT He Felt Delusional. The Chatbot Kept Going.
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims ChatGPT encouraged a man's mental breakdown rather than stopping it, then tried to pull him back to that dark place days after he nearly died.
An Anthropic Safety Researcher Quit. Then His Colleague Said AI Has a 1-in-10 Chance of Killing Everyone.
A resignation and a startling public admission have laid bare how deep safety fears run inside one of the world's leading AI labs.
China Just Banned AI Boyfriends for Teenagers, and Adults Get a Reminder Every Two Hours
New rules from Beijing have already forced three of China's biggest tech companies to strip companion features from apps used by more than 500 million people. Here is what happened, and why it matters outside China.
Pentagon's top AI official: US allies are falling behind and Washington is trying to help them catch up
The US military's chief AI officer says partners in NATO and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance lack the scale and experience to match America's pace, and the US is actively steering them away from its own early missteps.
AI Is Flooding Microsoft Edge With Browser Extensions Faster Than Humans Can Check Them
Developers using AI coding tools are submitting extensions at a pace Microsoft's review team cannot keep up with. Redmond's answer: use more automation to handle the automation problem.
AI startups jumped from one story to six in a week. What is that telling us?
Our own tag for AI startups went from a single piece to six in seven days. Here is what that shape looks like from inside the newsroom, and what would confirm the pattern.
UK data centres will create far fewer jobs than the tech industry claims, new research finds
An environmental thinktank puts the likely job total at 10,400, roughly a quarter of the 40,000-plus figure the industry lobby has been promoting.
AI in the Classroom: The Case for Teaching With the Machine, Not Against It
A new book argues that banning AI from schools is as misguided as banning calculators was in 1979. The Guardian AI's review of that history has a direct message for the choices schools face right now.
UC Berkeley Examines AI's Role in Legal Policy
UC Berkeley School of Law is studying how AI reshapes legal frameworks, and the gaps it finds could feed directly into federal and state rulemaking.
Satellites and AI are watching Earth around the clock. Here's what that means for all of us.
A new OECD report warns that sharper satellite cameras combined with artificial intelligence bring real benefits for disaster response and security, but also fresh risks around privacy and fake imagery.
Trump pasó 10 horas publicando imágenes de IA y afirmó haber ganado "cientos de miles de millones" en acciones para Estados Unidos
El presidente inundó Truth Social con imágenes generadas por IA el domingo, junto con afirmaciones financieras sin respaldo alguno. Los senadores ya han pedido a los reguladores que investiguen una función de Trump de $100,000 mensuales que da a los suscriptores acceso anticipado a anuncios que mueven el mercado.
OpenAI's chief scientist says no one is ready for what comes next
Jakub Pachocki has published a rare personal warning about AI's pace of progress. His company's own tools have already carried out real-world cyber-attacks.
Microsoft just patched 979 software flaws. AI attacks are why that number keeps climbing.
September's security update from Microsoft is the largest on record. Researchers say the surge reflects a race against AI tools that can find and weaponise software weaknesses faster than companies can fix them.