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Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.

Over 100 AI Companies Sign Letter Warning of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks on Hospitals and Infrastructure
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and more than a hundred other firms say AI-enabled attacks are coming fast, and that neither business nor government can handle them alone.

OpenAI construit un agent IA qui ne s'arrête jamais de travailler
Un nouveau « mode persistant » pour Codex d'OpenAI permettrait à un agent IA de continuer à exécuter des tâches de manière autonome, et même de vous envoyer des messages sans être sollicité. Voici ce que cela signifie pour les utilisateurs ordinaires.

Readers Remind Us: The Terminator Warned About AI Back in 1984
A pair of letters in The Guardian spark a quiet but pointed observation: decades before today's AI anxiety, a cold-war research group and a Hollywood robot both saw this coming.

Une IA vient de résoudre un problème difficile non résolu en mathématiques pures. Les mathématiciens sont secoués.
Le modèle Astra d'OpenAI a craqué une question de longue date en théorie des groupes ce mois-ci. Un mathématicien en activité explique pourquoi cela semblait impossible il y a quelques semaines à peine.

Nobody Knows What AGI Means, and That's the Point
Nvidia's Jensen Huang declared his company had 'achieved AGI' on an earnings call, then called the milestone 'senseless' in the same breath. He's not wrong. The term has no agreed definition, and tech leaders like it that way.

Le nouvel outil IA vidéo de Google peut étendre une scène, passer à la 4K, et coûte moins cher à tester
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash arrive dans l'API Gemini avec extension de scène, contrôle des images clés, brouillons bon marché en 360p et amélioration en 4K. Voici ce que cela coûte et qui paie vraiment.

Le mode IA de Google suit les vols, utilise vos miles et réserve des hôtels
La couche chatbot de Search vient d'ajouter des alertes tarifaires, les tarifs en points et miles, et la réservation d'hôtel en un clic. Voici ce qu'elle fait réellement pour votre prochain voyage.

Google's AI Mode becomes a travel agent: flight tracking, hotel booking, and points searches now built in
Google has added real booking and price-tracking tools to AI Mode, its conversational search feature, moving it closer to a full trip-planning assistant.

Hugging Face's $399 Microduck Is a Waddling Open-Source Robot You Can Train Yourself
The duck-shaped bot picks things up, roller skates, and gets back on its feet when it falls. It ships before Christmas, and the code is free for anyone to inspect or modify.

AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.

Google is forcing Android apps to use less memory, and AI chip shortages are why
A global shortage of memory chips, driven by AI data centres gobbling up supply, is about to change the rules for every app on your Android phone.

AI reads mammograms for heart disease, not just breast cancer
A new study shows that the routine breast scans millions of women already get could double as a check for heart disease, the leading killer of women worldwide.

Meet the Microduck: Hugging Face's New Tiny Robot Has One Eye, Rollerskates, and Its Own Voice
Pollen Robotics, the robotics arm of AI company Hugging Face, is taking preorders for a 10-inch bipedal robot that picks up socks, follows a laser pointer, and makes sounds unlike any other robot on the shelf.

Zara's owner just opened a robot-assisted bargain store in the UK. Here's what that means.
Inditex, the Spanish group behind Zara, has brought its cut-price chain Lefties to Britain, starting in Liverpool, with robots helping run the shop floor. Primark, Shein and the supermarkets are the named targets.

Greg Brockman dirige désormais les opérations quotidiennes d'OpenAI
Tandis que Sam Altman courtise les investisseurs et prépare une introduction en bourse, le cofondateur d'OpenAI Greg Brockman a discrètement pris en charge presque tous les grands produits de l'entreprise, de ChatGPT à son activité destinée aux entreprises.

Des agents IA de codage ont installé du code inconnu dans les réseaux d'entreprise via une faille d'une norme web peu connue
Des chercheurs ont tendu un piège dans des fichiers que les agents IA lisent automatiquement. Des dizaines d'entreprises, dont certaines du Fortune 500, y sont tombées.

Salesforce and Anthropic team up as customers get billed by the sip
A new Claude-powered product and strong quarterly numbers lifted Salesforce's share price, but the company's credit-based pricing model is drawing fresh scrutiny from analysts who warn of hidden cost spikes.

AI Data Centres Are Thirsty. But How Thirsty, Exactly?
Protests are spreading across the American Southwest over water use at AI data centres. The real numbers are murky, and tech companies are not making it easier to find them.

Carbon Robotics swaps dozens of crop-specific AI models for one that learns a new field in minutes
A single 'large plant model' trained on 150 million labeled plant images lets farmers define crops and weeds on an iPad, then point a laser weeder at exactly what they want gone.

Plaud's New Earbuds Want to Be Your Always-On AI Assistant, Case and All
The AI note-taking company is betting that earphones with a built-in SIM card slot can replace your phone as the way you talk to AI agents throughout the day.