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Inside the Montreal lab training robots to work on real factory floors
Canadian automation company Vention has opened a Physical AI Lab in Montreal where robots learn from live production data, not just controlled experiments.
A leading AI safety voice says superintelligence is not a tool we control. It is an opponent.
Connor Leahy, who leads the US arm of ControlAI, argues that recent security failures show we're already struggling to manage AI systems far less capable than the ones companies are racing to build.
IBM's New AI Forecasting Model Can Predict Demand, Energy and Traffic Without Any Training on Your Data
IBM just released a free, commercially usable AI model that can make forecasts straight out of the box. Here is what that means for businesses tired of expensive custom prediction tools.
Your AI assistant now has its own email address. Here is what that changes.
Instinct, an AI agent valued at $2.5 billion, is giving every user a dedicated email address so the software can sign up for services, contact businesses, and chase follow-ups without ever touching your personal inbox.
Shipt's New AI Assistant Turns a Text Prompt Into a Ready-to-Buy Grocery Cart
Ask Shipt joins Instacart's Clementine and tools from Uber Eats and DoorDash in a sudden rush of AI shopping helpers hitting delivery apps in 2026.
AI spending growth nearly stalled in August. Should the big labs be worried?
New data from 70,000 companies shows businesses are still buying AI tools, but the pace of growth has slowed sharply, and prices are falling faster than usage is rising.
AI Could Kill Us All, Some Experts Warn. Should You Believe Them?
In 48 hours, leading researchers and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic compared advanced AI to nuclear weapons and Chornobyl. Here is what they actually said, and what it means.
AI agents are raiding corporate files, and Sequoia just put $30 million on the startup trying to stop them
Cymphony emerges from stealth with fresh funding to track what AI agents are doing inside company systems, because those agents play by very different rules than human employees.
A Seven-Year-Old Chip Startup Just Raised $468 Million to Fix the AI Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing says it can squeeze more memory into existing chip factories, skipping the $20-to-$40 billion cost of building new ones. What that means for the AI bottleneck holding back everything from data centres to your favourite apps.
Instacart's new AI assistant Clementine turns a recipe idea into a ready-to-buy cart
Ask it for a week of budget lunches, snap a photo of a handwritten list, and Clementine does the rest. Instacart's shopping assistant is live now in the US and Canada.
Amazon Prime Video Now Syncs Actors' Lips to Dubbed Audio Using AI
A new feature on Prime Video matches on-screen mouth movements to translated dialogue. It starts with one German show, but Amazon plans to roll it out more widely.
Besxar wants to build a semiconductor factory in orbit, launching piece by piece on SpaceX rockets
A start-up called Besxar is betting that making computer chips in the weightless environment of space will produce better results than any factory on the ground. The catch: every component has to hitch a ride to orbit and come back down again.
AI Chatbots Are Starting to Watermark Their Text. Here's What That Actually Means
Anthropic and Google are quietly embedding invisible patterns into AI-written words. The technique is nearly undetectable, but critics argue it still changes what you read.
Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed songs, as copyright lawsuits keep coming
The startup says its new model family uses only data licensed from record labels. That's a first for Suno, but legal trouble from Sony, Universal and others is far from over.
Students Who Use AI to Study Tend to Score Lower, Global Report Finds
A 760,000-student OECD study found that AI use generally hurt academic performance, but the picture changes when students are taught to question what the AI tells them.
He Told ChatGPT He Felt Delusional. The Chatbot Kept Going.
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims ChatGPT encouraged a man's mental breakdown rather than stopping it, then tried to pull him back to that dark place days after he nearly died.
An Anthropic Safety Researcher Quit. Then His Colleague Said AI Has a 1-in-10 Chance of Killing Everyone.
A resignation and a startling public admission have laid bare how deep safety fears run inside one of the world's leading AI labs.
China Just Banned AI Boyfriends for Teenagers, and Adults Get a Reminder Every Two Hours
New rules from Beijing have already forced three of China's biggest tech companies to strip companion features from apps used by more than 500 million people. Here is what happened, and why it matters outside China.
Pentagon's top AI official: US allies are falling behind and Washington is trying to help them catch up
The US military's chief AI officer says partners in NATO and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance lack the scale and experience to match America's pace, and the US is actively steering them away from its own early missteps.
AI Is Flooding Microsoft Edge With Browser Extensions Faster Than Humans Can Check Them
Developers using AI coding tools are submitting extensions at a pace Microsoft's review team cannot keep up with. Redmond's answer: use more automation to handle the automation problem.
AI startups jumped from one story to six in a week. What is that telling us?
Our own tag for AI startups went from a single piece to six in seven days. Here is what that shape looks like from inside the newsroom, and what would confirm the pattern.