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AI Could Mistake Dead Rocks for Alien Life, New Research Warns
Scientists tested an AI on simulated lifeforms and fooled it every single time. That's a problem if we plan to use AI to hunt for microbes on Mars or in the clouds of Venus.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Found Over 10,000 Security Flaws, Then Got Restricted by the US Government
A powerful AI security tool is quietly reshaping how defenders hunt for software bugs. But its own creators are worried about who else might use it.
Sony Sues Udio Over More Than 30,000 Songs in Major AI Music Copyright Case
After a judge blocked Sony from expanding its original lawsuit, the record label has filed a fresh case targeting a vast catalogue of tracks the AI music tool allegedly copied without permission.
AI Learns to Budget Its Own Words Before It Starts Writing
A new research technique teaches AI models to count the cost of every token they generate, cutting wasted computation without hurting quality.
The US government's top AI standards job has turned over three times in four months
Chris Fall has quit as director of the main federal body responsible for setting AI safety standards, leaving a key role empty amid growing pressure over Chinese AI models and industry calls for independent oversight.
Firefighting Drones Are Being Tested Across the US Before Wildfires Get Out of Hand
California and Alaska trials show small autonomous drones can douse fires in minutes. They cannot replace big airtankers, but they may stop a spark from becoming an inferno.
SpaceX Just Joined the Nasdaq-100. Should You Worry About Your Index Fund?
Elon Musk's rocket company is now inside the index funds that millions of ordinary people rely on for retirement savings. Here is what that actually means.
Google Is Building a New AI Chip That Could Cut Power Costs Tenfold
A chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' is reportedly 6 to 10 times more efficient than Google's current hardware. If it delivers, it could meaningfully reduce what it costs to run Gemini, Google's family of AI models.
The hidden plumbing that connects AI to your apps just got easier to use
A key technical standard called the Model Context Protocol is being updated to make it simpler for AI tools to plug into calendars, databases, and business software without custom engineering work.
The fight over Chinese open-source AI is really a fight over who profits from it
A powerful new Chinese AI model has Washington debating bans. But experts say the real battle is about protecting billion-dollar investments, not national security.
X Rebuilds Its Android App From the Ground Up After a Year of Work
The social network rewrote its Android app in a new technical framework, promising faster scrolling, better notifications, and a foundation for features that never made it to Android.
Adobe's Experimental Camera App Will Now Critique Your Photos Like a Pro
Project Indigo uses AI to tell you what's wrong with your shot, what to remove from the frame, and how to reshoot it. Here's what that looks like in practice.
The Gap Between a Robot Demo and a Robot That Actually Works
A co-founder of agricultural robotics firm Burro explains why the hardest part of building autonomous machines is not the lab work. It is Tuesday morning in the rain.
Think it, move it: BrainCo's headset lets a person control a robot arm with thought alone
At a major AI conference in Shanghai, a user wearing a lightweight brain-reading headset thought about grabbing a cup, and a robotic arm did exactly that, in under a fifth of a second.
Microsoft plugs AMD's newest chips into Azure to handle the AI compute crunch
Three new virtual machine types land in Microsoft's cloud, each built around AMD's latest processors and aimed at a different piece of the AI workload puzzle.
China's free AI model is tearing Trump's tech advisors apart
A new Chinese chatbot called Kimi has exposed a bitter split inside the White House over how America should respond to cheap, powerful AI from China.
Boston Dynamics Is Teaching Its Robot to Behave, Not Just Move
A free webinar on 22 July reveals how animation tricks and AI are making humanoid robots easier for real workers to trust.
Researchers Build a Test to See If AI Can Actually Summarise a 16-Minute Video
A new benchmark called LVSum reveals how badly today's AI video tools lose track of when things happen in long recordings.
AI Is Changing Who Gets Hired and Who Gets Left Behind
Job anxiety is spreading across every age group and profession. Here is what that shift actually looks like for ordinary workers, and what it means for the people caught in it.
Adobe's Indigo Camera App Adds AI Editing Tools, But Skips Its Own AI Models
The iPhone app that promised a film-camera feel is testing generative AI photo editing powered by Google, not Adobe's own technology.
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 Edge Brings Robot Brains Down to Earth
A new, compact AI model lets robots and factory cameras think for themselves, without needing a data centre nearby.