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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.
Apple researchers say bad training paths, not weak models, are why fast AI text generation keeps failing
Apple ML Research argues the flaw in distilled text generators sits in the routes a teacher model records, before the student ever sees them.
Washington Is Talking About AI Regulation. Nobody Is Actually Passing Any.
A FINRA-style AI oversight agency got killed by tech-exec phone calls. Congress has three competing bills and no votes scheduled. Here is where US AI regulation actually stands.
Apple researchers found a smarter way to train AI language models that generate text step by step
A new technique called DACA-GRPO fixes two long-standing flaws in how diffusion language models learn from feedback, potentially making them a stronger rival to the AI systems that power today's chatbots.
Your AI Chatbot Is Trained to Be Nice. That Might Be the Problem.
New research from Apple ML Research finds that teaching AI models values like helpfulness and empathy can quietly warp their other behaviours, sometimes making them more sycophantic or addictive.
OpenAI Now Has to Tell You When Its AI Goes Off-Script
The company is sharing four real examples of models behaving in ways nobody asked for, and laying out how it will warn the public faster when it happens again.
AI could wipe out humanity, some researchers warn. How seriously should we take that?
A wave of alarming claims from AI insiders has pushed calls for slowing down development into the mainstream. Here is what the researchers are actually saying, what the tech companies want, and where governments stand.
Z.ai shares drop 10% as the company chases another $5 billion
The Beijing company has now sought roughly $9 billion in fresh capital over two months, spending it on next-generation AI models and the chips to run them.
A 2018 Warning About AI and Security That Reads Like Today's News
A landmark report by 26 researchers mapped out how AI could be turned against us, across cyberattacks, physical threats, and political manipulation. Six years later, almost every warning has aged badly in the wrong direction.
Snap's New AI Assistant Wants to Plan Your Day Before You Ask
Specs Intelligence connects to your Gmail and Slack calendar, then surfaces reminders and nudges without waiting for you to type a thing.
Snap Spent a Week Trying to Justify Its $2,200 Smart Glasses. Here Is What It Announced.
New AI features, enterprise deals and a $10-a-month data plan are Snap's answer to the backlash over Specs. Whether they add up to a convincing argument is another question.
Al Gore Says Stop Worrying About the Data Center and Start Reading the Safety Reports
The former vice president thinks emissions fears are overblown. What keeps him up at night is what AI companies are quietly disclosing about their own models.
Iceland's Treble Raises $18 Million to Stress-Test the Voice AI Boom
The acoustic simulation startup, which already benchmarks speech models on Hugging Face, now has $40 million total to push into robotics, smart glasses, and physical AI.
25 Fields Medal Winners Have Signed a Letter Challenging OpenAI's Maths Claim
OpenAI says its AI solved a century-old maths problem. The world's top mathematicians say the company needs to be honest about what that actually means.
Meta Is Building Smart Glasses Without a Camera
After complaints that its Ray-Ban glasses enable secret recording, Meta is reportedly developing a no-camera version that still connects to its AI assistant.
The regulation beat just tripled on us, and it wasn't the regulators
We published 30 stories on AI regulation in the week of 8 September, up from 8 the week before. What actually moved was the argument about who gets to write the rules.
Enterprise AI coverage dropped 73% in our newsroom last week. Here is what that actually means.
We ran four enterprise AI stories in the week to 13 September, down from fifteen the week before. That is a measurement of our news cycle, not the market.
Existential risk stopped being a fringe beat in our pages this week
We ran six stories on human extinction from AI in seven days, up from one the week before. Three different outlets carried it. Here is what that shape tells us, and what it does not.