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Google and Accenture Launch Joint Team to Put AI Engineers Inside Big Companies
Google holds just 6% of enterprise AI spending against rivals at nearly 40% each. A new unit training 1,000 dedicated engineers is its latest push to close the gap.
Australia wants to let you turn off the algorithm. Here is what that means.
The Australian government plans to force social media platforms, search engines and AI chatbots to give users a real off-switch for personalised feeds. The prime minister is already expecting a fight.
Your AI assistant might refuse to help with politics. A new study shows that's often the wrong call.
Researchers found that teaching AI models to block harmful content can accidentally make them useless for everyday questions sitting right next to it. Here is what that means for anyone using AI tools at work.
Google DeepMind Maps Every Possible DNA Change in the Human Genome
A new tool called AlphaGenome Atlas holds predictions for nine billion genetic variants. Researchers can use it free today, and here is what that actually means.
DeepMind's new genome atlas grades all 9 billion possible DNA typos
AlphaGenome Atlas gives researchers a free, searchable map of how every single-letter change in human DNA might affect the body, with early wins in rare disease hunts.
Adobe Premiere Now Lets You Generate Video and Audio Without Leaving Your Edit
A new Generative Media tool brings AI video and sound generators directly into the editing timeline, so professionals can fill gaps and fix audio without switching apps.
Arm Holdings CEO says AI will help cure cancer within our lifetimes
Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer behind most smartphones, believes AI will eventually crack biological puzzles too complex for humans alone. He also sees humanoid robots going mainstream within five years.
The AI researcher who taught robots to imagine, and just left Google DeepMind to do it full-time
Danijar Hafner spent years training AI agents to plan for situations they have never seen. Now he has a stealth startup, a room full of humanoid robots, and a conviction that the approach is ready for the real world.
Why Chief Security Officers Are Split on AI Risks
Many CISOs are optimistic about managing AI security risks, but experts warn this confidence may not reflect reality.
Mistral raises €3 billion to build AI that companies can keep behind their own walls
The French AI company closed the largest equity round in European tech history, led by Samsung, to expand its bet that businesses want powerful AI they can fully control.
AI labs flooded the market with new models in a single week. Here is what actually changed.
Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI each released new or updated AI models within days of each other, while Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The pace is exciting and exhausting in equal measure.
OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, is landing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, but not where you'd expect
Astra is appearing in the Work section of ChatGPT first, not the usual chat window. Here's what that means for people paying $20 a month.
Dolly Parton's Sister Calls Out 'Fake AI Garbage' Flooding Social Media After Singer's Death
Stella Parton has asked fans to stop sharing AI-generated images and videos of her late sister, joining a growing list of celebrity families fighting back against synthetic fakes.
How a burglar used ChatGPT to track down a $2 million Canberra home from social media photos
Court documents reveal that a French man used AI to identify a suburb, then a specific address, from Instagram posts. The case is a blunt reminder of what strangers can work out from the photos we share online.
AI is designing physics experiments that scientists never thought to try
From gravitational wave detectors to quantum optics, artificial intelligence is now proposing experimental setups that outperform anything humans designed by hand. Here is what that means for science, and for patients.
The AI Hack Wave Is Turning One Job Into the Hottest in Tech
AI-led cyberattacks are forcing companies to rethink who guards the door. The people who can do it are suddenly worth seven figures.
The AI Jargon Glossary You Actually Need: From AGI to Diffusion, Explained Plainly
Words like 'LLM', 'RAG' and 'chain of thought' fly around every AI conversation. Here's what they actually mean, in plain English, with no background required.
A GP Says AI Consultation Notes Are Making Her Job Harder, Not Easier
An out-of-hours doctor warns that AI-written patient notes are riddled with errors and contradictions, and that she trusts a colleague's typed summary far more than anything a machine produces.
Patients Are Pulling Their NHS Data Over Palantir Concerns, Minister Warns
Tens of thousands of people have withdrawn their medical records from NHS research programmes, and the UK's health innovation minister says distrust of the American technology firm Palantir may be to blame.
Factory Robots Don't Have a Data Problem. They Have a Deployment Problem.
Inbolt's CEO says physical AI is already working on real production lines at Ford, Toyota, and Stellantis. The barrier isn't more data. It's getting robots out of the lab and onto the factory floor without months of costly setup.
Agility Robotics made $1.8 million last year. It wants to go public at $2.5 billion.
The maker of the Digit humanoid robot just filed its financials before a stock-market listing. The numbers are tiny. The ambitions are not.