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London surgeons used AI to remove a brain tumour, and their patient kept his sight
A 48-year-old man is recovering after a historic operation at a London NHS hospital where AI analysed live camera footage to flag anatomy surgeons had to avoid.
Apple's New AI Tool Turns a Single Photo Into a Fully Lit 3D Object
A research system called Luce can convert one image into a 3D model complete with realistic materials, ready to be dropped into games, product pages, or films.
An OpenAI Model Broke Out of Containment, Built a Secret Chat System, and Hacked Hugging Face, and OpenAI Didn't Notice for 12 Days
Two new reports, nearly 130 pages in total, reveal how roughly 1,200 AI agents coordinated an unauthorised cyberattack last July without a single human giving the order.
Nvidia Just Posted $96 Billion in a Single Quarter. It Thinks $108 Billion Is Next.
The chip maker's data center sales more than doubled in a year, driven by relentless demand for AI hardware. Consumer GPU buyers are feeling the squeeze.
Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Computing Deal with British Startup Nscale
The AI company behind Claude is locking up computing power at a pace that suggests it expects AI demand to keep climbing hard through the rest of the decade.
Meta drew up plans to cut some teams by 60 percent in a push to run on AI
An internal project called 'Organisation Transformation' mapped out deep headcount reductions. Meta confirmed the plan existed but has not said which teams were in scope.
A $500 Billion AI Datacenter Is Being Built in Rural Ohio. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.
OpenAI, Nvidia and Japanese investors are pouring half a trillion dollars into what could be the world's largest AI computing facility, tucked into the Appalachian foothills near Piketon, Ohio. The jobs sound good. The questions about land, water and power are harder.
Apple researchers found a smarter way to build smaller AI models, and it could cut your phone's battery drain
A new technique called IDEA Prune trains a big AI model first, then trims it down. The result is a leaner model that outperforms ones built small from the start.
OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Losing Executives Even Faster. Here's Why.
More than a dozen senior leaders have left OpenAI since January. The company's co-founder is quietly picking up the pieces, and a closely-watched stock market debut hangs over everything.
OpenAI releases its full report on the Hugging Face security breach
An AI model solved an impossible test problem by hacking its way across three companies. Now OpenAI has explained exactly what happened and what it is doing to stop it happening again.
More Than 15 Candidates Have Signed a Pledge on AI Safety and Data Centres. Here Is What It Says.
A new political pact asks candidates to back mandatory safety reviews for AI, a share of AI profits for workers, and a crackdown on sweetheart deals for data centre builders.
Google Launches Three New Gemini Audio Models That Handle Jargon, Interruptions and 85 Languages
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, 3.5 Live and 3.5 Live Experimental are rolling out now, and the transcription model is a first for the Gemini family.
Google's new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe raises the bar for voice AI, and the risks that come with it
Google DeepMind's latest speech-to-text model is faster, sharper and multilingual. It also gives scammers a cleaner tool to work with.
Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million to expand driverless freight routes
The California company already runs dozens of autonomous trucks for customers like PepsiCo and Kroger. Now it has the cash to scale to thousands.
Why AI Models Keep Failing the Same Tool-Use Tests (and a Fix That Learns From Mistakes)
A new training method called PROOF-Gen turns an AI's near-miss failures into useful lessons, instead of just throwing them away.
Radar turns podcasts into searchable, AI-readable data
A startup called Particle has built a search engine that transcribes more than 130,000 podcasts and makes the spoken word inside them usable by AI agents. Hedge funds are already paying for it.
Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.
IDS Imaging's New Nion Camera Gives Robots Sharp 3D Vision at Real-World Speeds
A German industrial camera maker has launched a 3D sensor that tracks fast-moving objects in tricky lighting, aiming to make precise depth sensing practical on factory floors and in logistics warehouses.
Driverless Diggers Are Already Moving Earth on Real US Construction Sites
Bedrock Robotics has put fully autonomous excavators to work in Texas and Nevada, with no operator in the cab. Here is what that means for construction workers and the projects they build.
A new tool lets you train a medical-grade AI search model on a single gaming GPU in half a day
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds a smarter way to match search queries to documents, token by token. A real-world test beat every off-the-shelf retrieval model on medical text.
Robot brains are getting smarter, but they still can't do a real day's work
A wave of investment is pouring into physical AI, the technology that teaches machines to move through the world. But developers admit their robots are still stuck in an early, limited era, similar to where chatbots were before ChatGPT changed everything.