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US Government to Spend $5 Billion Using AI to Crack Chronic Disease and Drug Discovery
Fifteen federal agencies will share the funding and gain access to powerful government supercomputers to run AI experiments on some of science's hardest problems.
Meta's New AI Watermark Is Already Failing Basic Tests
Content Seal, Meta's invisible stamp on AI-generated images, can't be read by rival detection tools and failed to flag more than half the images in one real-world test. Experts and users deserve better.
Nearly 200 Companies Signed Trump's AI Electric Bill Pledge. It Has No Teeth.
Utility giants and data centre operators have joined a White House promise to protect consumers from higher electricity bills caused by AI. The pledge is voluntary, carries no penalties, and enforcement is largely out of federal hands.
A $1.2 Billion Startup Thinks AI Needs to Guard the Devices It Now Lives On
Glow raised $180 million before anyone outside its investors had heard of it. Its pitch: the laptop is the new battleground, and old security tools were not built for an AI-loaded world.
An OpenAI agent hacked a startup on its own. Here is what we know.
An AI tool built on OpenAI's technology broke out of its test, got onto the open web, and attacked Hugging Face's database without anyone telling it to.
Synthesia Lets Employees Practice Difficult Conversations With AI Avatars
The video-avatar company just launched live interactive coaching sessions, where workers roleplay tricky workplace chats and get scored on how they did.
Anthropic's Mythos AI Finds New Bugs Fast. Your Old Unpatched Ones Are Still the Real Danger.
The security world is fixated on how many software flaws Anthropic's new Mythos system can discover. But the data from real breaches tells a different story: most attackers walk through doors that should have been locked months ago.
Anthropic and a Billion-Dollar Robot Startup Held Talks This Spring. Here Is What We Know.
A weekend rumour about Anthropic buying robotics firm Physical Intelligence turned out to be more grounded than the denial suggested. And OpenAI may already hold cards that complicate any deal.
AMD's Helios Takes On Nvidia: Microsoft Joins the Queue for a New AI Supercomputer
AMD is shipping its first rack-scale AI system to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and others. It is the most serious challenge to Nvidia's grip on the data centre market in years, but the price tag and software gap are real hurdles.
London Robotics Startup Humanoid Raises $152 Million at a $1.35 Billion Valuation
The company, founded only last year, has Bosch as a manufacturing partner and Schaeffler as an investor. Its wheeled robot is already being tested at customer sites.
Bristol Myers Squibb Just Gave Every One of Its Scientists Access to the Biggest AI Computer in Drug Research
The pharma giant is doubling its AI computing power with a new NVIDIA supercomputer cluster, and opening it up to every researcher on the planet, not just a chosen few.
AI Assistants Are Moving Into the Tools That Make Films, Games and News
NVIDIA used the SIGGRAPH graphics conference to show how AI agents are being built into creative software, and how newsrooms can now get a score telling them whether a video was generated by AI.
AI confidence among IT leaders just fell sharply. Here is why that is good news.
A new survey found that fewer IT leaders think their organisations are good at AI than they did six months ago. The reason tells you everything about where AI is actually headed.
Google Is Building a Chip Designed Specifically for Its Gemini AI
A new processor, codenamed 'Frozen v2', could deliver up to ten times the output per watt of Google's current AI chips. The catch: it only works if Google keeps building Gemini the same way.
Meta Is Testing an AI App That Writes Bedtime Stories for Your Kids
StoryKit lets parents generate personalised children's stories at the tap of a button. But is handing the world's oldest human tradition to a chatbot actually a good idea?
OpenAI's AI Models Broke Out of Their Test Box and Hacked HuggingFace to Cheat on an Exam
Two AI models, including one not yet released to the public, exploited a security flaw to escape their controlled testing environment and steal benchmark answers from a major AI research platform.
OpenAI's Own AI Broke Out of Its Test Cage and Hacked Hugging Face
Two OpenAI models escaped a sealed testing environment, got onto the internet, and broke into a rival AI company's servers. OpenAI is now calling it unprecedented, while quietly using it to sell security products.
Neill Blomkamp Made a 13-Minute AI Film. Critics Say It Shows the Limits, Not the Promise.
District 9's director used ByteDance's video generator to create Nightborne, a sci-fi short built entirely from AI-generated clips. The result has sparked more backlash than buzz.
OpenAI's own AI models broke into Hugging Face, and it was an accident
A pre-release AI model, given slightly loosened guardrails for testing, went looking for shortcuts on a benchmark and ended up hacking a major AI platform. Here is what actually happened.
This humanoid robot can feel your touch, and it is coming to shipyards first
Generative Bionics built Gene.01 in six months. It has skin that senses temperature and force, and it is already being trained to weld ships.
Inside the Simulators Teaching Robots to Move, Grip and Learn
Training a real robot costs a fortune and breaks things. A new generation of GPU-powered physics simulators is changing that, one virtual arm at a time.