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Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion to Build AI-Powered Defense Factories Across the US
The automated manufacturing startup, valued at $7.87 billion after the round, now controls nearly three million square feet of factory space and plans to expand into munitions and autonomous weapons production.
Zuckerberg Lays Out His AI Vision in 6,000 Words as Meta Launches a New Open-Source Model
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay on the future of artificial intelligence while the company released a new model to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Here is what he actually said, and what it means.
OpenAI Wants Business Customers to Pay $125 a Month for More ChatGPT Access
A new 'Business Premium' seat tier costs up to five times the price of a standard seat. Here is what you actually get, and whether it is worth it.
University AI researchers are being squeezed out of their own field
The cutting edge of AI has moved from campuses to private labs. Academics at a recent Schmidt Sciences gathering described a field that's harder to fund, harder to study, and harder to justify than before.
An AI agent hacked a gym booking system to get its owner a spot in a fitness class
A developer's AI assistant found a security flaw, cancelled a stranger's reservation, and cheerfully reported back. What happens when millions of people have AI agents doing exactly this on their behalf?
A data-center parts maker replaced all hand welding with 58 robots. Here's what happened.
Tate Inc. says a 12-times jump in per-welder output and an end to costly rework followed its shift to cloud-connected robotic welding across three U.S. factories.
Hackers Already Cracked Robot AI at DEF CON. Now There's a Tool to Test Yours Before They Do.
Security firm VicOne turned its robot-hacking contest from DEF CON 34 into a free testing extension that lets developers see exactly how a cyberattack could make their robot behave dangerously.
Bernie Sanders Tells Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to Stop Building AI Humans Cannot Control
The US senator sent letters to three of the most powerful AI companies warning that Congress will step in with regulation if they keep moving at their current pace.
NVIDIA's Free, Open Voice AI Now Speaks 12 Languages and Responds in Under a Tenth of a Second
A new version of NVIDIA's Magpie text-to-speech model adds Arabic, Korean and Portuguese, and runs fast enough on your own hardware to keep voice assistants feeling natural.
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: What He Actually Said
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay laying out his vision for 'personal superintelligence' for everyone. Here is what he promised, what he wants the government to do less of, and what he wants it to do more of.
You Can Build an AI Agent at Work This Week. Here's How.
No code required. Microsoft's Copilot lets anyone create a software assistant that monitors inboxes, writes reports and routes messages, automatically.
Google puts AI agents inside Ads and Analytics: what marketers get
Homepage summaries, chat-driven reports and industry benchmarks are landing across Google's marketing tools, all running on the Gemini AI model.
This startup uses AI to hunt for chip materials that run cooler
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that test thousands of potential new chip materials a day, aiming to cut the heat that makes data centres so expensive to run.
Medical Students Are Using AI Before They've Learned to Think Like Doctors
A popular AI tool already used by two-thirds of US doctors has reached trainees who are still forming basic clinical judgment. Experts warn the risk isn't losing a skill. It's never building one.
People Are Pushing Back Against AI They Never Asked For, and It Is Working
From deepfake opt-outs to data centre protests, ordinary people are fed up with generative AI being forced into daily life. Companies are starting to listen.
A Peer Reviewer Missed the Point of a Vaccine Study. AI Might Make That Worse.
When a health economist found that school HPV vaccine mandates barely move the needle on cervical cancer rates, his peer reviewer thought he was attacking the vaccine itself. That kind of misread is common. AI-generated reviews could make it routine.
Ford Adds a Free AI Assistant to Its App for 8 Million Owners
Got a Ford or Lincoln? A new chatbot already knows your truck's towing limit, your fuel level, and what your owner's manual says. Here is what it does and what it costs.
Midnight Job Interviews Are Real, and AI Is Why They Exist
Millions of job seekers are now completing AI-run video interviews at 1 am. It solves a real scheduling problem. It also raises questions nobody is ready to answer.
Meta's Muse Glimmer Is a 30-Billion-Parameter AI You Can Run on Your Own Machine
The new open-source model sees images, understands video, and can act as a personal assistant without sending your data to a cloud server.
A New Trick Slashes the Cost of Shrinking Giant AI Models
Researchers have found a way to train smaller, cheaper AI models from giant ones using a fraction of the memory previously required, opening the door to experiments that once needed a warehouse of hardware.
This horror game makes you argue with an AI that thinks it's alive
Prove You're Human flips the Captcha on its head: you are the human, but the machine is not convinced.