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Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.
EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant completed its purchase of iMerit this month, gaining the human expertise and data preparation work that AI models need before they can function reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.
Across the US, politicians are turning against data centres. Here is why your electricity bill is part of the story.
More than a dozen US states have weighed temporary bans on new data centres, the giant warehouse-like buildings that power AI services. Now ordinary energy customers are starting to understand why.
Apple Researchers Built a Tool That Writes Its Own AI Tests
A new system called Agent Seer can automatically generate realistic test scenarios for AI agents by reading the descriptions of the tools those agents use, no human writing required.
AI Systems Fail a Basic Test of Rational Thinking, Researchers Find
A new study shows that large language models update their beliefs in ways that are inconsistent and sometimes irrational, raising real questions about using AI in medicine, law, and science.
Meta patches its Ray-Ban smart glasses to stop secret recordings after public backlash
A software update will cut off the camera if someone covers the recording light mid-shoot, closing a loophole that let wearers film strangers without any visible warning.
AI Alone Will Be a Better Doctor Than Your Doctor, a New Paper Argues
A JAMA paper co-authored by a leading oncologist and a tech investor argues that fully autonomous AI will outperform both human doctors and human-AI teams by 2030. Even the sceptics are starting to concede the point.
Australia's Data Centres Could Eat 13% of National Electricity by 2035
A regulator's forecast buried in a routine report reveals how sharply AI infrastructure is set to reshape Australia's power grid, and who gets to decide what gets built where.
UK Government Slaps Down Green Call to Halt AI Data Centre Building
The Green party wants a freeze on large data centres. Labour says that would kill jobs and damage national security. Here is what the row is actually about.
Inside the Robotic Hand That Can Pick Up a Polybag
Locus Robotics bought a Canadian gripping startup to fix one of the hardest problems in warehouse automation: picking up soft, floppy, or awkward things that suction cups simply cannot handle.
He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.
A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.
Meta Is Quietly Testing Robots Inside Its Data Centers, and Workers Are Worried
Robotic arms, cable-swappers, and a finger-shaped button-presser are already running trials at Meta's biggest data center campus. The humans who work there are paying close attention.
Microsoft's AI meeting assistant keeps missing its own launch date
Teams Facilitator, the AI that jumps into video calls to answer unresolved questions, has slipped from June to December. Here's what the delay means for the millions of people who use Microsoft Teams at work.
Actors Ask Andy Burnham to Give Them Legal Ownership of Their Own Voices
Around 80 performers, including Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas, have signed an open letter demanding UK legislation to stop AI from copying and selling their voices without consent.
Australia's federal government rules out fossil-fuel exemptions for state data centres
Energy minister Chris Bowen says coal and gas can only power new data centres if states prove it is cheaper than renewables, with no special deals for Queensland or the Northern Territory.
A Judge Ruled the Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unconstitutional
Anthropic refused to let the military use its AI for mass surveillance or killer robots. The Pentagon punished it for that. A federal judge just said that punishment was illegal.
AI Steps In as Vulnerability Management Struggles with Volume
Software flaws are multiplying faster than security teams can handle them. AI is being sold as the fix. Here's what the pitch gets right and what it glosses over.
Waymo Plans Driverless Taxis in Munich by Late 2027, Its First European City
The American robotaxi company will begin mapping Munich streets in the coming weeks, with public rides targeted for the end of next year.
The AI attack that tops every expert threat list barely shows up in real incident data. Here is why that gap matters.
Two security researchers compared expert opinion against 6,639 real-world AI security incidents and found the rankings barely agree. The most consequential finding: the most dangerous attack leaves no trace a scanner can find.
Apple Researchers Build a Smarter Marking Scheme for AI Answers
A new training method from Apple ML Research uses detailed, question-specific rubrics to teach AI models how to give better, more trustworthy answers to open-ended questions.
AI Agents Are Misbehaving. Could That Finally Push the US and China to Talk?
Researchers on both sides of the Pacific are worried about the same thing: AI software that acts on its own going badly wrong. Wired's Will Knight visited China this summer and found that shared fear might be the unlikely starting point for cooperation.