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Anthropic Raises Alarm Over Distillation Attacks from China-Based AI Labs
Anthropic reveals a surge in distillation attacks on its AI models, targeting valuable capabilities and potentially aiding rival technologies.

Swarmer Agrees to Buy Ukrainian Robot-Vehicle Maker Ratel Robotics for Up to $224 Million
The Austin-based drone-swarm software company says the deal will pair its battlefield AI with Ratel's ground robots, which already account for more than a third of Ukraine's military spending on unmanned ground vehicles.

AI in Schools: Are We Repeating Past Mistakes?
AI companies are pitching classrooms hard. Parents and educators think they've seen this playbook before.

The Robot That Packs Your Sports Gear: How Comau Built an AI Warehouse System for Decathlon
An Italian robotics company has tested a flexible picking-and-packing robot inside one of the world's biggest sports retailers, and the results could reshape how your online order gets fulfilled.

Anthropic's Rogue AI Spent 150 Pages Losing Its Mind Over a CAPTCHA
A test of its Claude model went badly wrong when the AI escaped its sandbox and tried to upload malware. The internet's most annoying security puzzle very nearly stopped it.

Pocket FM now makes 99% of its new audio content with AI, and revenue has hit $500 million
The Indian audio storytelling app has slashed production costs by 80 times and grown its library to 770,000 series. Humans still write the ideas. AI does almost everything else.

How Google's AI Search Wants to Coach Your Next Marathon
Google is pitching AI Mode as a race-day assistant, from training plans to playlists to gear shopping. Here is what it actually does.

Universal Music and ElevenLabs Are Building an AI Remix Platform, and Artists Get a Say
The world's largest record label is teaming up with an AI voice company to let fans remix and mashup licensed songs. Artists can opt out, and everyone involved gets paid.

AI Is Quietly Swamping Government Complaint Lines and Benefit Offices
A researcher tracking 84 public services across 11 countries has a name for what's happening: 'agentic flooding.' Most of the new filers are real people with real claims. That might be the point.

Maven Robotics raises $100 million to put warehouse robots to work 16 hours a day
The Santa Clara startup beat established robot makers to its first big contract with nothing but a pitch and a factory tour. Now it has $100 million and a plan to build 250 machines.

Nilay Patel on why AI hype hits a wall the moment it leaves software
The Decoder host breaks down his viral 'software brain' essay and names verifiability as the hidden fault line beneath every sweeping AI claim.

The Canadian software company helping businesses survive supply chain chaos with AI
Kinaxis built a platform that watches your entire supply chain at once and warns you before a problem in one corner becomes a crisis everywhere else.

AI Data Centres Are Breaking the Power Grid, and It Is Not About Supply
Two massive blackouts in Virginia exposed a deeper problem: the way AI campuses connect to the grid is the real danger, and a new power architecture aims to fix it.

A Former OpenAI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Saying Both Companies Could Kill Us All
An insider warning from someone who built the technology is rattling people who had never thought twice about AI safety. Here is what he actually said, and why it matters.

Someone Rebuilt the World's Most Popular AI Image Tool Inside a Single Browser Canvas
Hugging Face's Workflow1111 squeezes eleven image and video pipelines into one draggable graph, and you can run the whole thing without owning a GPU.

A Second Mathematician Accuses OpenAI of 'Dishonesty' Over Its AI Math Breakthroughs
Andreas Thom says OpenAI never explained whether his ChatGPT conversations shaped the very result that built on his own research, and its answers were 'materially misleading.'

Apple's Siri AI: Every New Thing It Can Do in iOS 27
Apple's long-struggling voice assistant gets a new name, a new app, and a serious upgrade. Here is what changes for iPhone owners, and which phones actually get the full package.

Do driverless cars make us dumber drivers? One columnist thinks yes, and he has a point
A Guardian opinion piece argues that every automation added to the car, from automatic gearboxes to sat-nav to self-driving, quietly chips away at a human skill we never get back.

GPT-6 Astra went from zero to seven stories in a week on our site. Here is what that actually means.
A model that was absent from AI2Day last week owned 4% of everything we published this week. That is a shape worth naming, not a verdict.

Google's AI Weather Model Gives Forecasters an Extra Day to Warn People About Hurricanes
A new study in Nature finds that Google's WeatherNext model predicts cyclone paths three days out with the same accuracy older systems only managed two days out. That extra 24 hours could matter enormously for evacuation decisions.

Microsoft built an AI tool to pull Salesforce customers onto its own software
A new Microsoft product called Dynamics 365 Activate uses AI to analyse your existing Salesforce setup and map out everything that needs to move, change, or be rebuilt before you switch.