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Why AI Agents Struggle to Search: The Hidden Maths Problem Slowing Them Down
Researchers at Apple ML Research found that the way AI agents hunt through text can hit a hard mathematical wall. Here is what that means for the tools you use every day.
Meta Brings Its AI Chatbot to the Mac With Screen Sharing and Business Tools
The new Meta AI desktop app lets you share your screen with the chatbot and connect it to your Instagram, Facebook, and Google Workspace accounts.
Meta ran ads for an app that made deepfake porn of politicians. Again.
A tool called Kromix bought ad space on Meta's platforms promising 'no restrictions' and showing a woman resembling a sitting US politician in a pornographic video. Meta's policies already ban this. They ran the ads anyway.
TerraPower's nuclear plant stores heat in molten salt. That could make it ideal for AI data centres.
The Bill Gates-founded startup plans to announce its first data centre deal this year. Its trick: keeping the reactor running flat-out while banking spare heat for the moments when demand spikes.
Amazon's Alexa+ AI Assistant Is Coming to Your Fire TV for Free, No Subscription Needed
Amazon is pushing its upgraded AI assistant to millions of Fire TV devices automatically. Here is what changes, what stays the same, and whether you can opt out.
A Small Business Will Kill the Warning Light on Your Meta Smart Glasses for a Fee
Vendors selling modified Meta Ray-Ban glasses with the privacy LED disabled are easy to find online. Here is what that means if you work, shop, or perform in public.
Calendly Launches a Meeting Note-Taker to Compete in a Crowded Market
The scheduling app wants to do more than book your meetings. Now it will record them, summarise them, and help with the work that comes after.
Sidewalk delivery robots are rolling into Chicago, Washington DC and San Jose as Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub
Serve Robotics has signed Grubhub as a second major platform partner and entered four new cities. Q2 revenue jumped 404% year on year, but Uber's quiet exit is a reminder the company still has ground to prove.
Your Chatbot Wants to Be Your Friend. Should It?
A new study tested 21,000 AI conversations and found chatbots regularly express emotions, build relationships and push back on users. Researchers say clearer rules are needed about when that helps and when it does not.
Liquid AI Squeezes Its Small Models onto Phones and Raspberry Pis Without Losing Much Quality
A new training trick called Quantization-Aware Distillation lets Liquid AI's compact language models run on cheap hardware while keeping 97% of their full-precision accuracy.
Pudu Robotics' New MP2000 Forklift Can Grab a Pallet in 20 Seconds, Without a Human Driver
The MP2000 autonomous pallet-mover reads its surroundings in real time, talks to doors and elevators, and keeps working even when the Wi-Fi drops.
A Robot Lab Grows Human Tissue to Give AI the Data It Needs to Find Real Drugs
Vivodyne's warehouse-scale machines test drug candidates on lab-grown human organs, not mice. The startup says this is the missing ingredient that could make AI drug discovery actually work.
Wall Street Wants to Turn Nvidia Chips Into a New Asset Class. Here's Why That's Complicated.
Six of the world's biggest financial firms are joining Nvidia to bundle $500 billion in chip financing. The pitch is that GPUs are now investable assets like buildings or bonds. The catch: Nvidia's own CEO said something very different about chip lifespans just last year.
She Applied for Thousands of Jobs and Got Zero Interviews. Now She's Suing the AI That Screened Her Out
A California lawsuit targets Eightfold AI, a hiring software company used by PayPal and Microsoft, arguing that its automated screening tools secretly rank job applicants without telling them or giving them a chance to challenge the results.
Bernie Sanders says AI is a real issue. Is anyone in Washington actually treating it that way?
A prominent senator's op-ed names artificial intelligence alongside healthcare costs and inequality as threats working families face. The political system, he argues, is not keeping up.
Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down
Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to commercialize a cable technology that moves data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines, giving AI campuses more room to grow without paying a speed penalty.
Jill Lepore's New Book Says AI Is Already Dismantling Democracy. Is She Right?
A Pulitzer-winning historian argues that big tech's grip on public life is not a future threat but a present reality, and her new book spells out exactly what that looks like.
A Faster Way to Solve One of AI's Hardest Maths Problems
Researchers from Apple ML Research have found a shortcut through a calculation that slows down high-dimensional AI comparisons, making a useful technique practical for the first time at scale.
OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the company's staff exits are not unusual. Here is what happened.
Two senior executives left OpenAI within days of each other. President Greg Brockman told CNBC the departures are less dramatic than they look from the outside.
AI Hijacks, Fake Fixes and a Developer Tool Bug: This Week's Security Roundup
A batch of roughly twenty smaller threats, including a new attack on AI agents, a scam hiding malware inside a public blockchain, and a flaw in a popular coding tool, shows where attackers are pushing right now.
A Chinese AI Found 2,436 Software Flaws in Real Code. That's Useful and Worrying.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 is startlingly good at spotting security holes in software. Finding them is one thing. What happens once the model's internal settings go public is the harder question.