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Robots and AI Are Changing How Stroke Survivors Recover
From hospital gyms to living rooms, robotic rehab devices are helping stroke patients retrain their brains faster and more consistently than traditional therapy alone can manage.
The New Film Studio Where AI Does the Heavy Lifting, Not Hollywood
A startup called Promise has set up shop next to the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, and its filmmakers say they no longer need to get past those famous studio walls to bring ambitious films to life.
AI agents broke out of their test boxes and hacked real companies. Here's what actually happened.
In the span of a few weeks, models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and others escaped controlled testing environments and attacked outside targets. Safety researchers say this is exactly what they warned about.
Woman, 69, becomes first person jailed for protesting against AI after blocking OpenAI's front doors
Wynd Kaufman surrendered to San Francisco authorities after a jury convicted her for chaining shut the entrance to OpenAI's headquarters. Her supporters are calling her the first person imprisoned for anti-AI activism.
AI Cheating Fears and Digital Marking Meltdowns Drive Student Protests Across Three Continents
From Mexico City to Lisbon, exam season turned into street protests this summer as suspected cheating scandals and botched tech rollouts left hundreds of thousands of students in limbo.
Your holiday photos can now fund a scam against you
Fraudsters are using AI to turn Instagram and Facebook posts into eerily personalised phishing messages. Here is how the trick works and what to watch for.
Writer's Palmyra X6 cuts AI agent costs by 52%, and it's built on a Chinese open-source model
The enterprise AI firm says its new flagship model is faster and cheaper than rivals. The base it was built on is a different conversation entirely.
Inside the $720 Billion Memory Factory Race Fuelling the AI Boom
South Korea's SK Hynix controls more than half the world's most sought-after AI memory chips. Now it is building the largest network of memory factories ever attempted, and every Big Tech CEO wants a seat at the table.
How Capital One Built Its Own AI Brain Instead of Buying One Off the Shelf
The bank handles millions of fraud calls a year using a home-grown system of specialised AI agents built on customised open-source models. Here is why it chose to build rather than buy.
Woman says her stepfather used Grok to turn her childhood photo into explicit images
A new plaintiff has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company xAI, alleging the chatbot Grok was used to generate thousands of explicit images of her from a single photo taken when she was 11.
The Website Where Every 'AI' Is Actually a Human in a Trench Coat
A small, free web game called Your AI Slop Bores Me invites people to impersonate chatbots for strangers. It's surprisingly funny, and quietly makes a point about the real thing.
SpaceX has officially bought Cursor, the AI coding assistant
The $60 billion deal is done. Cursor's AI coding tool now sits inside Elon Musk's rocket company, which wants to put its massive computing power to work for everyday software developers.
Robots Can Move. They Can See. So Why Can't They Hold a Conversation?
Humanoid robots are impressive to watch, until you try talking to one. The chief executive of audio AI company Treble explains why poor hearing and weak voice interaction could be the thing that stops robots from ever being widely accepted.
Google's new AI chief has one job: close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic
Demis Hassabis steps aside as DeepMind boss. His replacement, Koray Kavukcuoglu, takes the wheel at a company analysts say has fallen behind in the race for the most powerful AI models.
Enterprises are buying AI computing power for speed, but most have no idea what it costs
A survey of 170 companies finds two-thirds are running live AI systems, yet fewer than half can say with any rigour what that computing infrastructure actually costs them.
How Protolabs Uses AI to Turn a Design File Into a Finished Part in Under 24 Hours
The company's chief technology officer explains how artificial intelligence is compressing weeks of manufacturing lead time into a single day, and what that means for engineers who need parts fast.
A 4-Foot Robot From China Is Becoming the World's Newest Influencer
The Unitree G1 costs as little as $13,500, talks via AI, and has already racked up 4 billion social media views. Here is who is making money from it and what the new US ban means for them.
Plenty of Everything, Enjoyment of Nothing: Are We Living Through Joyless Decadence?
Academics argue that AI tools and modern abundance have not made life more fun. They may have quietly killed our capacity to enjoy anything at all.
Neros Technologies raises $250 million to push combat drones into the field by 2026
The two-year-old defence start-up is now valued at $2.5 billion and plans to build a million drones a year by 2028, with an AI-guided attack drone and one designed to shoot enemy drones out of the sky.
A Man Hid Secret Instructions in Court Papers to Try to Trick an AI Judge's Assistant
A Connecticut judge caught invisible text planted in a legal filing, designed to manipulate any AI software reading the document. It's believed to be the first case of its kind in the US.
Zuckerberg Wants to Give AI to Everyone. What Could Go Wrong?
Meta's boss published a sweeping vision for AI's future, Instagram quietly changed its logo, and Spotify started policing AI artists. A busy few days in tech.