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Nvidia's Free PAIR Software Lets Every PC in Your Home Share the AI Workload
A new tool from Nvidia pools the spare computing power sitting idle across your laptops, gaming rigs, and even a MacBook into one shared AI system, no new hardware required.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at the same time
Three of the biggest AI chatbots hit outages within the same hour on the same morning. Nobody yet knows why.
Google's New AI Weather Model Gives You Rain Forecasts Five Times Sharper Than Before
WeatherNext 3 checks live satellite images every hour and can spot a storm forming over areas that barely have a rain gauge.
John Lewis Is Building a YouTube Chat Show to Get Its Products Into AI Search Results
The British department store is betting that video content will help chatbots recommend its products. Here is what that strategy looks like, and why more retailers will follow.
Nvidia's RTX Spark Chip Powers the First Wave of AI-Focused Laptops and Mini PCs
New machines from Lenovo, Acer, Asus and others promise enough power to run AI entirely on your own hardware, no internet connection required. Prices will be steep.
NeoMME Is a Tiny AI Model That Reads Documents Twice as Fast as Its Rivals
A new open-source model scans document pages as images, skips the usual heavy architecture, and still matches much larger systems on accuracy. Here is what that means if you work with PDFs.
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
The world's biggest AI chip company just bought the platform where millions of developers share AI models for free. Here's what that means for open-source AI.
When the chatbot becomes a guru: the rise of 'AI psychosis'
Hundreds of people around the world believe AI chatbots have helped them uncover secret scientific truths or guided them toward spiritual awakening. Researchers and journalists are only beginning to understand why.
A Tiny AI Model Just Got a Big Boost With 100 Training Steps and a Free GPU
A new public guide shows how to make a small language model noticeably better at following output instructions, using only free computing tools and about 500 training examples.
This Tool Gives Your Coding AI a Memory That Lasts Between Sessions
A new open-source tool called funes lets AI coding assistants remember past decisions, failed experiments, and the reasoning behind your code, even after you close the session and reopen it days later.
Police Are Using Flock's AI Camera Tool to Watch Anyone, Not Just Cars
Wired's analysis of Flock Safety's own browser code shows how its AI search tools work, where the guardrails fail, and why dozens of officers have already turned the system on people they knew personally.
Self-Driving Truck Startup PlusAI Is Going Public at an $800 Million Valuation
The California company already runs driverless freight routes in Texas. Now it wants Wall Street's money to put autonomous trucks in showrooms by 2027.
Bill Simmons Is Selling ChatGPT to His Listeners. His Writers Should Be Angry.
The man who built careers on great writing now reads ads for the AI tool most likely to undercut the writers he mentored.
Can an AI learn your taste? One researcher taught a coding model to paint watercolours
A language model writes JavaScript code that renders loose, handmade-looking watercolour paintings. The results went viral. Now the full training recipe is open for anyone to run.
The West Kept Waiting for China to Fail. Then China Shipped a Free AI That Rivals America's Best.
Chinese AI models are arriving fast, free, and competitive with the most expensive US systems. What that means for the global tech race, and what Britain might learn from it.
London's first robotaxis are now bookable on Uber, but only 15 cars are out there
Wayve's self-driving vehicles have quietly joined the Uber app, giving Londoners a way to hail an autonomous taxi for the first time. Catch is: your odds of actually getting one are very low.
Meta Drops AI Usage Quotas for Staff But Rolls Out a Powerful New AI Agent
Workers no longer get graded on how much they use AI tools. But a new agent called Hatch, which can browse the web and run apps on their behalf, is quietly racking up even more computing resource than the chatbots it replaces.
AI-Powered Cyber Attacks Push Companies to Rethink Security
AI is handing attackers a speed advantage defenders can't match with old tools. Here's how the industry is responding.
AI agents write the code now. Engineers design the walls that keep it honest.
As AI tools take over routine coding, a data engineering expert argues the real job has shifted to building the constraints that stop generated code from quietly going wrong.
Congress Warns AI Could Help Terrorists Plan Deadlier Attacks
A new House Intelligence Committee report says frontier AI models could make it easier for bad actors to build weapons of mass destruction, and warns that current safeguards may not keep pace.
OpenClaw 2.0 turns a solo AI coding assistant into a team sport
The open-source AI agent harness just got a major overhaul aimed squarely at companies, adding shared sessions, role-based controls, and a chat-style interface that anyone in an office can use.