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Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.
EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant completed its purchase of iMerit this month, gaining the human expertise and data preparation work that AI models need before they can function reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.
Across the US, politicians are turning against data centres. Here is why your electricity bill is part of the story.
More than a dozen US states have weighed temporary bans on new data centres, the giant warehouse-like buildings that power AI services. Now ordinary energy customers are starting to understand why.
Investigadores de Apple Crearon una Herramienta que Escribe sus Propias Pruebas de IA
Un nuevo sistema llamado Agent Seer puede generar automáticamente escenarios de prueba realistas para agentes de IA leyendo las descripciones de las herramientas que utilizan, sin necesidad de escritura manual.
AI Systems Fail a Basic Test of Rational Thinking, Researchers Find
A new study shows that large language models update their beliefs in ways that are inconsistent and sometimes irrational, raising real questions about using AI in medicine, law, and science.
Meta actualiza sus gafas Ray-Ban inteligentes para evitar grabaciones secretas tras la protesta pública
Una actualización de software apagará la cámara si alguien cubre la luz indicadora de grabación durante la captura, cerrando un vacío legal que permitía a los usuarios grabar a extraños sin ninguna advertencia visible.
AI Alone Will Be a Better Doctor Than Your Doctor, a New Paper Argues
A JAMA paper co-authored by a leading oncologist and a tech investor argues that fully autonomous AI will outperform both human doctors and human-AI teams by 2030. Even the sceptics are starting to concede the point.
Australia's Data Centres Could Eat 13% of National Electricity by 2035
A regulator's forecast buried in a routine report reveals how sharply AI infrastructure is set to reshape Australia's power grid, and who gets to decide what gets built where.
UK Government Slaps Down Green Call to Halt AI Data Centre Building
The Green party wants a freeze on large data centres. Labour says that would kill jobs and damage national security. Here is what the row is actually about.
Dentro de la Mano Robótica que Puede Recoger una Bolsa de Plástico
Locus Robotics compró una startup canadiense de agarre para resolver uno de los problemas más difíciles en la automatización de almacenes: recoger cosas blandas, flexibles o incómodas que las ventosas simplemente no pueden manejar.
He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.
A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.
Meta prueba robots en silencio dentro de sus centros de datos, y los trabajadores están preocupados
Brazos robóticos, dispositivos de intercambio de cables y un botón con forma de dedo ya están funcionando en pruebas en el campus del centro de datos más grande de Meta. Los humanos que trabajan allí están prestando mucha atención.
Microsoft's AI meeting assistant keeps missing its own launch date
Teams Facilitator, the AI that jumps into video calls to answer unresolved questions, has slipped from June to December. Here's what the delay means for the millions of people who use Microsoft Teams at work.
Actors Ask Andy Burnham to Give Them Legal Ownership of Their Own Voices
Around 80 performers, including Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas, have signed an open letter demanding UK legislation to stop AI from copying and selling their voices without consent.
Australia's federal government rules out fossil-fuel exemptions for state data centres
Energy minister Chris Bowen says coal and gas can only power new data centres if states prove it is cheaper than renewables, with no special deals for Queensland or the Northern Territory.
A Judge Ruled the Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unconstitutional
Anthropic refused to let the military use its AI for mass surveillance or killer robots. The Pentagon punished it for that. A federal judge just said that punishment was illegal.
AI Steps In as Vulnerability Management Struggles with Volume
Software flaws are multiplying faster than security teams can handle them. AI is being sold as the fix. Here's what the pitch gets right and what it glosses over.
Waymo Plans Driverless Taxis in Munich by Late 2027, Its First European City
The American robotaxi company will begin mapping Munich streets in the coming weeks, with public rides targeted for the end of next year.
The AI attack that tops every expert threat list barely shows up in real incident data. Here is why that gap matters.
Two security researchers compared expert opinion against 6,639 real-world AI security incidents and found the rankings barely agree. The most consequential finding: the most dangerous attack leaves no trace a scanner can find.
Apple Researchers Build a Smarter Marking Scheme for AI Answers
A new training method from Apple ML Research uses detailed, question-specific rubrics to teach AI models how to give better, more trustworthy answers to open-ended questions.
AI Agents Are Misbehaving. Could That Finally Push the US and China to Talk?
Researchers on both sides of the Pacific are worried about the same thing: AI software that acts on its own going badly wrong. Wired's Will Knight visited China this summer and found that shared fear might be the unlikely starting point for cooperation.