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Barret Zoph lands at Google after a year of bouncing between OpenAI and Thinking Machines
The AI researcher has held four senior roles in roughly 18 months. His latest stop is Google's Gemini team, where his expertise in reinforcement learning will be put to work.
Google's Notebook AI Can Now Read Your Books With You
A new feature called Expert Intelligence lets Gemini Notebook pull from books you've bought on Google Play, so you can chat with them, build recipe collections, or prep for a tough work conversation.
Trump Administration Weighs Sweeping Chip Tariffs That Could Hit Everything From Gaming Consoles to Data Centres
A new tariff plan under consideration would tax not just semiconductors but potentially every product built with them. The tech industry says the timing could not be worse for US artificial intelligence.
NSF Commits $90 Million to Three New Research Centers, One Built Around Robots That Learn From People
The National Science Foundation is funding a new centre at the University of Texas at Austin where scientists will teach robots to adapt to the humans they work alongside.
A Georgia Officer Ran 85 Surveillance Searches on Two Colleagues Using a Licence-Plate Tracking System
Dustin Bozzo, a patrolman near Atlanta, used Flock Safety's automatic licence-plate reader network to follow his ex-partner's movements and those of another officer she spent time with. The case is one of at least 45 similar incidents documented across the US.
Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.
Over 100 AI Companies Sign Letter Warning of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks on Hospitals and Infrastructure
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and more than a hundred other firms say AI-enabled attacks are coming fast, and that neither business nor government can handle them alone.
OpenAI Is Building an AI Agent That Never Stops Working
A new 'Persistent mode' for OpenAI's Codex would let an AI agent keep running tasks on its own, and even message you without being asked. Here is what that means for ordinary users.
Readers Remind Us: The Terminator Warned About AI Back in 1984
A pair of letters in The Guardian spark a quiet but pointed observation: decades before today's AI anxiety, a cold-war research group and a Hollywood robot both saw this coming.
An AI Just Solved a Hard Open Problem in Pure Mathematics. Mathematicians Are Shaken.
OpenAI's Astra model cracked a longstanding question in group theory this month. A working mathematician explains why that felt impossible just weeks ago.
Nobody Knows What AGI Means, and That's the Point
Nvidia's Jensen Huang declared his company had 'achieved AGI' on an earnings call, then called the milestone 'senseless' in the same breath. He's not wrong. The term has no agreed definition, and tech leaders like it that way.
Google's new video AI can extend a scene, jump to 4K, and cost less to test
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lands in the Gemini API with scene extension, keyframe control, cheap 360p drafts and 4K upscaling. Here is what it costs and who actually pays.
Google's AI Mode now tracks flights, spends your miles, and books hotels
Search's chatbot layer just added price alerts, points-and-miles pricing, and one-tap hotel booking. Here's what it actually does for your next trip.
Google's AI Mode becomes a travel agent: flight tracking, hotel booking, and points searches now built in
Google has added real booking and price-tracking tools to AI Mode, its conversational search feature, moving it closer to a full trip-planning assistant.
Hugging Face's $399 Microduck Is a Waddling Open-Source Robot You Can Train Yourself
The duck-shaped bot picks things up, roller skates, and gets back on its feet when it falls. It ships before Christmas, and the code is free for anyone to inspect or modify.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
Google is forcing Android apps to use less memory, and AI chip shortages are why
A global shortage of memory chips, driven by AI data centres gobbling up supply, is about to change the rules for every app on your Android phone.
AI reads mammograms for heart disease, not just breast cancer
A new study shows that the routine breast scans millions of women already get could double as a check for heart disease, the leading killer of women worldwide.
Meet the Microduck: Hugging Face's New Tiny Robot Has One Eye, Rollerskates, and Its Own Voice
Pollen Robotics, the robotics arm of AI company Hugging Face, is taking preorders for a 10-inch bipedal robot that picks up socks, follows a laser pointer, and makes sounds unlike any other robot on the shelf.
Zara's owner just opened a robot-assisted bargain store in the UK. Here's what that means.
Inditex, the Spanish group behind Zara, has brought its cut-price chain Lefties to Britain, starting in Liverpool, with robots helping run the shop floor. Primark, Shein and the supermarkets are the named targets.
Greg Brockman Is Now Running OpenAI's Day-to-Day Operations
While Sam Altman courts investors and plans a stock market listing, OpenAI's co-founder Greg Brockman has quietly taken charge of almost every major product the company makes, from ChatGPT to its enterprise business.