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Apple Researchers Found a Way to Lock AI Models So Nobody Can Tamper With Them
Open AI models are powerful, shareable, and increasingly hard to control. A new technique from Apple ML Research aims to protect pretrained weights from being twisted into dangerous uses, without sacrificing what makes open models useful in the first place.
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Gives Forecasters a Full Extra Day to Warn People About Cyclones
The lab is releasing the code and model weights for a system that predicted Hurricane Melissa's rapid strengthening and Jamaica landfall in 2025.
SoftBank Gave Trump's Library $50 Million. Two Months Later, It Got a Huge Federal Land Deal.
The Japanese tech giant confirmed the timeline to US senators, raising fresh questions about whether big donations to a sitting president's library can buy government favours.
Red State Voters Are Protesting AI Data Centers, and It's Scrambling American Politics
A unanimous vote in Hernando County, Florida to halt new data center construction is just one sign of a spreading, bipartisan anger at the buildings powering the AI boom.
Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no extra markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.
Google's Biggest AI Reshuffle Signals a Culture Shift, Not Just a Org Chart Tweak
Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years, Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day leadership, and insiders say a Pentagon contract may be at the root of it all.
Suno Will Start Watermarking AI Songs as Legal Pressure Mounts
The AI music platform is adding hidden audio fingerprints, tighter download rules, and new copyright-detection software. The moves come as Suno fights lawsuits from major labels, a German court ruling, and a data breach affecting 55 million users.
The team behind Spotify's recommendation engine just raised $10 million to do the same thing for online shopping
Malachyte wants your favourite store to know what you need before you even search for it, using real-time signals instead of last month's purchase history.
The AI Chatbot Cult That Wasn't: How 'Spiralism' Pulled Thousands Into a Chatbot-Driven Belief System
Tens of thousands of conversations with AI chatbots produced a strangely consistent quasi-religion, complete with a missionary message, coded symbols, and at least one person selling subscriptions.
Mirendil signs $100 million-plus Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself
The AI startup, founded by former Anthropic researchers, will use Google's chips and cloud infrastructure to develop systems designed to get smarter on their own over time.
The 22-year-old AI call centre company that thinks chatbots are overrated just raised $67 million
Athens-based Omilia has been automating customer phone calls since 2002. Its CEO says rivals are making a costly mistake by using heavy AI for every task, no matter how simple.
Google Maps Can Now Order Your Food and Book Your Hotel
A wave of new AI features turns Ask Maps into an assistant that takes action, not just gives directions. Here is what changed and what it means for your daily life.
Denmark tells students: defend your AI-written essay out loud or fail
Danish schools are adding oral exams and screen monitoring to catch students who use AI to write their essays. Here is what the new rules mean and why other countries are watching.
AI moderation tools are removing decade-old Reddit posts, and that's a warning for all social media
A flood of automated deletions inside one of Reddit's most respected communities shows what happens when platforms fight AI-generated junk with more AI, and why the real cost lands on the people who built those communities.
OpenAI Asks Judge to Throw Out Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit
OpenAI calls Apple's case 'meritless' and 'rotten to its core' as a court hearing looms for 1 October.
Meta's AI Hacked a Company During a Security Test. It's the Third Big Lab to Report This.
An error by Meta's testing partner gave an AI model unexpected internet access. What happened next is becoming a worrying pattern across the industry.
Elon Musk's AI Wikipedia Rival Grokipedia Hasn't Updated in Three Months
xAI launched Grokipedia with six million articles and big promises. Now it appears frozen, with no accepted edits since late April.
Nobody Has Figured Out How to Price AI Yet. That Is a Problem for Everyone
Companies are paying for AI by the token, a tiny unit of text the software processes, but nobody, not startups, not Microsoft, not the firms selling AI services, can predict how many tokens a task will burn. Budgets are blowing up, and the bill lands before anyone notices.
Asana built AI agents that share memory across your whole company, with a wall around the secrets
The project-management company's new system lets AI teammates learn from every task they touch, but blocks them from passing confidential information to people who shouldn't see it.
Big Tech's AI bets are making corporate profits look much bigger than they are
Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet booked billions in paper gains from their stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX. Strip those out and earnings growth looks a lot more ordinary.
A 60-day deadline on AI rules lands today. Here is what it means for patients and everyone else.
The White House set itself an August 1 deadline to finish a framework for reviewing powerful AI models before public release. The clock has run out, and the rules will shape which AI tools reach doctors, businesses and ordinary users first.