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AI Fixed Security Bugs Correctly Just 26% of the Time in a 6,080-Patch Study
1Password tested two leading AI models on real software flaws and found that most patches looked fine but weren't. What that means for the software you use every day.
Nearly a third of UK manufacturers hit by cyber-attacks, survey finds
A new survey shows 30% of British manufacturers suffered a cyber-attack on themselves or a supplier in the past year, yet only half have a formal plan to respond when one strikes.
Tencent's Team Memory lets AI agents share knowledge, but a wrong fact now spreads to the whole team
Tencent has open-sourced a shared memory system for teams of AI agents. The idea is compelling: agents stop relearning what the team already knows. The catch is just as plain: one bad piece of information now reaches every agent at once, and there's no fix for that yet.
Is China Winning the AI Race? A Clearer Picture Than the Headlines Suggest
Chinese AI models are cheaper, widely adopted, and strong in robotics. American labs still hold the frontier. The gap is closing faster than most people expected.
NSW Deputy Premier Wants to Ban Unsupervised AI-Assisted Homework Amid HSC Integrity Fears
Half of every NSW student's final school result comes from take-home work. Officials now worry AI is quietly doing that work for them.
Battered AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Chip Startup Source Foundry
Despite selling off half its assets last month, the fund founded by a former OpenAI researcher has now put a total of $500 million into a Stanford-born startup trying to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper.
Anthropic puts Claude Code on autopilot by default from August 14
The AI coding tool will now act on its own and only pause for truly risky steps. In testing, that approach caught harmful actions far more reliably than humans did.
Analog Devices doubles down on robotics startups with renewed MassRobotics sponsorship
The semiconductor giant is giving Boston-area robotics founders direct access to its engineers, sensor technology and seed funding through its internal startup incubator.
AI Writing Detectors Are Ruining Careers. They Are Also Frequently Wrong.
Students have been suspended, book deals have collapsed, and journalists have been harassed, all based on AI detection tools that their own makers admit are not fully reliable.
The Data Centre Dilemma: How AI's Hunger for Power Is Reshaping British Towns
The UK government wants three times as many data centres. In Slough, locals are already living next to metal-clad giants that drink water and burn electricity at a scale that rivals whole neighbourhoods.
Free App Meetily Transcribes and Summarises Your Meetings Without Sending Data to the Cloud
Most AI meeting tools cost $10 to $20 a month and upload your conversations to someone else's servers. Meetily runs entirely on your own computer, for free, using open-source AI models.
AI Founders Are Pledging Their Fortunes to Charity. Does It Actually Help?
A new wave of AI billionaires is promising to give away the wealth they make from the technology reshaping the world. Critics ask whether that generosity is a fix or just a fig leaf.
Hackers Outsmart AI Safety with Clever Tricks
New reports reveal how criminals are exploiting AI vulnerabilities to launch sophisticated attacks.
Banks Are Handing Their AI Future to a Handful of Tech Giants, Moody's Warns
The credit rating agency says finance's rush to adopt AI is creating dangerous dependence on a small group of Silicon Valley companies, with outages and price hikes the headline risks.
Google's AI empire is growing. The researchers who built it keep leaving.
Jeff Dean exits after 27 years. Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day leadership. Every author of the 2017 paper that started the generative AI era has now left Google. Here is what is actually happening inside the world's most powerful AI company.
SoftBank's Intel bet pays off big, but OpenAI goes quiet on the books
The Japanese investment giant posted a $2.2 billion profit for the June quarter, well above forecasts. A huge gain on Intel shares did the heavy lifting. OpenAI, which SoftBank has pumped $55 billion into, added nothing this time.
A US Lawmaker Wants Communities to Have the Right to Reject AI Data Centers
Representative Ro Khanna is pushing a 'Data Center Bill of Rights' that would let neighborhoods block new facilities over electricity costs, water use and proximity to homes.
Asian Tech Stocks Slide as SK Hynix Drops Nearly 10% on AI Spending Fears
A sharp sell-off swept through Asian chip and tech stocks on Thursday, but analysts say the underlying AI investment story has not changed.
Amazon's Texas Data Center Could Become America's Biggest Climate Polluter
A planned natural gas power plant in Pecos County is permitted to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, more than any other single power plant in the United States.
OpenAI Buys Presentation Startup NextSlide
The small AI tool that turned rough notes into polished slides is now inside ChatGPT's walls. Here is what we know about the deal.
Amazon's New Texas Power Plant Could Emit More CO2 Than Any Coal Plant in America
A gas plant built to power Amazon's West Texas data center holds a pollution permit larger than any coal facility in the US. The company says its climate commitment stands, but its own emissions have risen for years.