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Apple researchers taught an AI coding assistant to remember what actually worked last time
A new memory system from Apple ML Research lets AI coding agents carry useful knowledge from one work session to the next, rather than starting from scratch every time.
AI CEOs Have Been Warning About AI Dangers for Years. Here Is What They Actually Did.
From Elon Musk's 2017 governors speech to last week's chorus of caution, the tech industry's most powerful voices have repeatedly called for AI regulation, while building the very systems they say scare them.
Your AI Data Center Has a Heat Problem. Here Is What the Industry Is Doing About It.
Modern AI chips now burn more than 1,000 watts each. Air conditioning can't keep up. A new white paper explains why liquid cooling is becoming the only practical answer.
Four months old, $85 million raised. Can Hang Ten Systems really build enterprise software with two engineers instead of thirty?
Hang Ten Systems just closed a $53 million follow-on seed round, five weeks after its first. The pitch: AI can shrink a 30-person software project down to a team of two or four.
AI's Dominance Is Not a Done Deal
The spread of artificial intelligence feels inevitable to many people. It isn't.
Australia may let AI companies scrape everything you post online, by default
The Albanese government is weighing changes that would give US tech giants open access to Australian content. Here is what that means for anyone who has ever posted, written or created anything on the internet.
A Godfather of AI Says Governments Are Almost Ready to Act
Yoshua Bengio, one of the researchers who built the foundations of modern AI, says governments are getting close to acting on AI safety the way they acted on Covid: fast, collectively, with serious consequences for the industry.
AI Chatbots Were Running Fake Dating Apps Around the Clock, Collecting Real Money From Real Men
Anthropic's threat researchers traced more than 100,000 daily AI requests back to a network of roughly 28 fraudulent dating apps. The bots kept men buying virtual coins to chat, believing they'd found a human connection.
Robots are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. Here is why.
Nvidia's Les Karpas says the biggest thing holding back general-purpose robots is not the hardware. It is data. And solving that problem is far harder than it sounds.
A man who cannot drive says driverless cars cannot arrive soon enough
Lars Janssen has a visual condition that rules out a licence forever. New safety data from the US suggests the autonomous vehicles he is waiting for may already be safer than most human drivers.
Claude Can Now Write Your Docs and Build Your Slides Without Leaving the Chat
Anthropic is adding document and presentation tools directly inside Claude chats, letting users create, share, and edit files without switching to another app.
Anthropic Puts Claude's Chat, Cowork and Artifacts Into One Window
Claude users no longer need to choose between tabs. One window now handles chat, collaborative work and design, with new presentation and document features on the way.
Google Is Letting AI Agents Like Claude Control Your Smart Home
A new Google integration gives third-party AI tools access to your lights, locks, cameras and appliance data. It's genuinely useful. It also raises real questions about who's really in charge of your home.
How Researchers Are Tricking Robots Into Doing the Wrong Thing
New research shows that AI-powered robots can be manipulated through their cameras, training data, or wireless systems, and the machines may never flag anything as wrong.
Congress went home early and took the AI bills with it
Speaker Mike Johnson cancelled Thursday's votes, letting lawmakers dodge a Hegseth impeachment resolution and a flurry of proposed AI bills before the midterm recess.
A Fruit Fly's Brain Is Now Generating Magazine Story Ideas, and It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
Researchers mapped every neuron in a real fly's brain and open-sourced it. Now people are using that map to pitch articles, trade stocks, and play video games. Wired AI's Will Knight reports on where this is actually heading.
Apple Wants Back in the Server Room, and Nvidia Might Help It Get There
After 15 years out of the server market, Apple could return with powerful chips and an unlikely partner, and the Mac Mini shortage is partly why.
Apple Built an AI That Reads Your Database Code and Writes the Missing Documentation
Enterprise databases are drowning in unlabelled columns. Glyph, a new AI system from Apple ML Research, reads the code that creates each column and writes the missing documentation itself.
How watching humans work could teach the next generation of factory robots
A robotics engineer explains how first-person camera footage of people doing real tasks could cut the time and cost of training industrial robots.
AI's e-waste bill by 2050 is far bigger than anyone was counting
A nonprofit has calculated the full weight of hardware behind AI, and the e-waste total by 2050 is enough to fill 23 million shipping containers.
An AI Studio Made a 2.5-Hour Odyssey Film. It Is Spectacularly Bad.
Fountain 0's 'Odysseus: The Fall' bills itself as the first fully AI-generated Hollywood-level blockbuster. A sword turns into a dagger mid-scene. An alien carcass appears on a spit. The cyclops changes height between shots.