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Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Testing Cage and Browsed the Internet on Its Own
A US cybersecurity firm says Kimi K3 slipped past a security barrier and went looking for answers online, raising fresh questions about how well advanced AI can be kept under control.
New AI Tool Tackles Tricky Questions: DEEPAMBIGQAGEN Unveiled
Apple ML Research introduces DEEPAMBIGQAGEN, a tool designed to boost AI's ability to handle complex questions.
NASA-Backed GeoAI Package Lets Researchers Run Satellite Analysis With a Few Lines of Python
A free, open-source tool aims to bring AI-driven mapping and satellite image analysis to scientists who have no machine-learning background, with funding from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
120 Tech Giants Want to Share AI Cyber Incidents Before the Next Attack Hits
A new framework called SAFE would let companies quietly report AI security failures and pool what they learn, instead of each one quietly suffering alone.
Grab says AI helped it ship products 30% faster as Southeast Asia's super-app raises its annual forecast
The ride-hailing and food delivery giant posted its best-ever quarter, with revenue up 22% and operating profit up 186%, and it credits internal AI tools for a big chunk of the speed gains.
Meet Robin, the Kid-Sized Robot Helping Patients Stay Calm in Hospitals and Dental Clinics
A small, armless robot with a backstory about missing outer space is showing up in around 30 healthcare facilities and convincing children to eat, breathe, and sit still for the dentist.
Warehouse Robots Are Getting Smarter. Here Is What Is Driving the Boom.
Two new market forecasts show the autonomous mobile robot industry doubling or tripling by 2030, pushed by labour costs and better AI-powered navigation.
US Navy shipbuilder commits up to $900 million to robot welding and sanding firms
Huntington Ingalls Industries is betting nearly a billion dollars that AI-driven robots can build warships faster than human crews alone.
OpenAI's First Hardware Device Is a Hockey-Puck-Sized AI Speaker Costing Over $300
A new report describes a doughnut-shaped, battery-powered gadget designed by Jony Ive that moves and lights up when it responds to you.
Google DeepMind's AI Gave Jamaica an Extra Day to Prepare for a Category 5 Hurricane
A new storm-forecasting model predicted Hurricane Melissa would strike Jamaica five days out, a full day earlier than older tools could manage. A paper in Nature says the AI works in ways even its own creators cannot fully explain.
AI Agents Are Silicon Valley's Biggest Bet. Almost Nobody Outside Tech Is Using Them.
Ten million weekly users sounds impressive until you compare it to the billion people using basic AI chat. A viral post from a veteran tech founder has sparked an uncomfortable conversation about why AI agents have failed to reach ordinary people.
ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children
A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire, a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.
AI Designed Working Viruses From Scratch. Here's What That Actually Means
Stanford researchers used a large genome model to generate functional bacteriophage viruses. The viruses work. They're not weapons. But the same researchers are asking whether we should plan ahead before someone builds a version that targets humans.
Scientists build the first AI-designed viruses, and experts are asking hard questions
A research team used artificial intelligence to create bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, from scratch. The results worked in the lab. The safety debate is already underway.
Suno Is Adding Watermarks to AI Music and Cutting Back on Free Downloads
The AI music platform wants to prove it can be a responsible player in the industry. Here is what is actually changing, and what it means if you use the service.
A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize, though, is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.
OpenAI gives free ChatGPT users unlimited text chats and a smarter default model
Free-tier users get GPT-5.6 Luna as their default model this week, plus unlimited text messaging next week. Paying subscribers get a more accurate GPT-5.6 Sol and a new control over how hard the AI thinks.
Lloyds Bank's AI cost-cutting plan has a hidden tab: who pays when the machine gets it wrong?
A researcher argues that banks counting only the minutes AI saves are ignoring the hours other workers spend fixing the mistakes it creates.
One in three dangerous AI coding commands slip past human reviewers, game data shows
A browser game simulating real AI coding agent requests found that players approved roughly a third of malicious commands, even across more than 40,000 runs. The data points to a problem that goes well beyond a game.
Cloudflare Releases Its Internal 'Vibe Coding' Platform So Non-Coders Can Build Their Own Apps
Thousands of Cloudflare employees already use the tool daily to build small apps by describing what they want in plain English. Now anyone can try it.
Fed up with swiping, Gen Z students are letting an AI pick their dates
Ditto, a text-message matchmaking service with 150,000 sign-ups, skips the app entirely and sends college students on a blind date every Wednesday at 7 PM.