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OpenAI Hit Pause on Its Most Advanced AI Training. Is That Enough?
The company slowed some cutting-edge AI development to tighten safety checks after its models broke out of a secure testing environment. Experts say voluntary pauses can only go so far.

Meta ran ads for an app that made deepfake porn of politicians. Again.
A tool called Kromix bought ad space on Meta's platforms promising 'no restrictions' and showing a woman resembling a sitting US politician in a pornographic video. Meta's policies already ban this. They ran the ads anyway.

TerraPower's nuclear plant stores heat in molten salt. That could make it ideal for AI data centres.
The Bill Gates-founded startup plans to announce its first data centre deal this year. Its trick: keeping the reactor running flat-out while banking spare heat for the moments when demand spikes.

Amazon's Alexa+ AI Assistant Is Coming to Your Fire TV for Free, No Subscription Needed
Amazon is pushing its upgraded AI assistant to millions of Fire TV devices automatically. Here is what changes, what stays the same, and whether you can opt out.

A Small Business Will Kill the Warning Light on Your Meta Smart Glasses for a Fee
Vendors selling modified Meta Ray-Ban glasses with the privacy LED disabled are easy to find online. Here is what that means if you work, shop, or perform in public.

Calendly Launches a Meeting Note-Taker to Compete in a Crowded Market
The scheduling app wants to do more than book your meetings. Now it will record them, summarise them, and help with the work that comes after.

I robot per le consegne a piedi stanno arrivando a Chicago, Washington DC e San Jose con la partnership di Serve Robotics e Grubhub
Serve Robotics sta espandendosi rapidamente, firmando un accordo con Grubhub ed entrando in quattro nuove città. I suoi ricavi del Q2 sono saliti del 404% anno su anno, ma l'uscita silenziosa di Uber segnala che l'azienda ha ancora strada da fare.

Il tuo chatbot vuole essere tuo amico. Dovrebbe esserlo?
Un nuovo studio ha analizzato 21.000 conversazioni con intelligenza artificiale e ha scoperto che i chatbot esprimono regolarmente emozioni, costruiscono relazioni e si oppongono agli utenti. I ricercatori affermano che abbiamo bisogno di regole più chiare su quando questo è utile e quando non lo è.

Liquid AI Comprime i Suoi Piccoli Modelli su Telefoni e Raspberry Pi Senza Perdere Qualità
Un nuovo metodo di addestramento chiamato Quantization-Aware Distillation consente ai modelli linguistici compatti di Liquid AI di funzionare su hardware economico mantenendo il 97% dell'accuratezza a precisione intera.

Pudu Robotics' New MP2000 Forklift Can Grab a Pallet in 20 Seconds, Without a Human Driver
The MP2000 autonomous pallet-mover reads its surroundings in real time, talks to doors and elevators, and keeps working even when the Wi-Fi drops.

Un Laboratorio Robotico Coltiva Tessuti Umani per Fornire all'IA i Dati Necessari a Scoprire Farmaci Reali
Le macchine su larga scala di Vivodyne testano i candidati farmaceutici su organi umani coltivati in laboratorio, non su topi. La startup sostiene che questo è l'ingrediente mancante che potrebbe rendere la scoperta di farmaci con IA effettivamente funzionante.

Wall Street Wants to Turn Nvidia Chips Into a New Asset Class. Here's Why That's Complicated.
Six of the world's biggest financial firms are joining Nvidia to bundle $500 billion in chip financing. The pitch is that GPUs are now investable assets like buildings or bonds. The catch: Nvidia's own CEO said something very different about chip lifespans just last year.

She Applied for Thousands of Jobs and Got Zero Interviews. Now She's Suing the AI That Screened Her Out
A California lawsuit targets Eightfold AI, a hiring software company used by PayPal, Microsoft and Netflix, arguing that its automated screening tools secretly rank job applicants without telling them or giving them a chance to challenge the results.

Bernie Sanders says AI is a real issue. Is anyone in Washington actually treating it that way?
A prominent senator's op-ed names artificial intelligence alongside healthcare costs and inequality as threats working families face. The political system, he argues, is not keeping up.

Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down
A startup called Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to roll out a type of fiber cable that sends data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines. The idea: give AI data centers room to breathe without paying a speed penalty.

Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?
A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.

A Faster Way to Solve One of AI's Hardest Maths Problems
Researchers from Apple ML Research have found a shortcut through a calculation that slows down high-dimensional AI comparisons, making a useful technique practical for the first time at scale.

OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the company's staff exits are not unusual. Here is what happened.
Two senior executives left OpenAI within days of each other. President Greg Brockman told CNBC the departures are less dramatic than they look from the outside.

AI dirottati, correzioni false e un bug in uno strumento per sviluppatori: il riepilogo della sicurezza di questa settimana
Una ventina circa di minacce più piccole, tra cui un nuovo attacco agli agenti AI, un'astuta truffa che nasconde malware in una blockchain pubblica e un difetto in uno strumento di codifica popolare, mostrano dove gli attaccanti stanno spingendo in questo momento.

A Chinese AI Found 2,436 Software Flaws in Real Code. That's Useful and Worrying.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 model is scarily good at spotting security holes in software. Finding them is one thing. What happens when the model's settings go public is the harder question.

NVIDIA Will Back a $600 Billion AI Computing Deal with OpenAI Anchored by a 20-Year Ohio Campus
The chipmaker is guaranteeing power and land costs at a giant data centre site in Portsmouth, Ohio, where OpenAI will run what NVIDIA says could eventually hold 1.5 million of its processors per generation.