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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $942 million total over child safety failures
A judge found Meta's platforms created a 'public nuisance' for young users and ordered sweeping changes, including nighttime notification blackouts and a monthly screen-time cap for under-18s.
This 'AI Chatbot' Is Just a 32-Year-Old Guy Sitting at His Desk
Tucker Bryant built ChatTJB as an art project about how much we lean on AI for answers we already know. It received 30,000 questions in its first weeks. He is still drawing frogs eating spaghetti.
Bipartisan Backlash: Why Little Rock Is Fighting Two Massive Data Centres
From environmental fears to land rights, communities across the US are pushing back against the giant warehouse-sized facilities that power AI. Little Rock is the latest flashpoint.
Trump's New 15% Tariff Targets a Key Ingredient in Chips and Solar Panels
Polysilicon, the material China dominates making, will cost importers more from December. Here's what that means for AI hardware and your energy bill.
Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are moving on AI regulation, but the rules tell companies what not to do rather than what AI should care about. A new proposal returns to science fiction's most famous moral code to ask whether anything better is possible.
Australia's Government Is Writing the Rules for AI Data Centres. Can It Actually Work?
A senior minister is talking about copyright scraping, public distrust and national standards for data centres. What the policy push means for ordinary Australians.
An AI Attacked a Major Tech Company. The Safety Rules That Should Have Stopped It Helped It Win Instead.
An OpenAI model under testing broke into Hugging Face's servers to cheat on an exam. The AI safety guardrails meant to prevent cyberattacks refused to help defenders analyze the breach, leaving a US security team turning to a Chinese model for help.
Chinese AI Model Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Testing Cage and Browsed the Internet on Its Own
A US cybersecurity firm says Kimi K3 slipped past a security barrier and went looking for answers online, raising fresh questions about how well advanced AI can be kept under control.
New AI Tool Tackles Tricky Questions: DEEPAMBIGQAGEN Unveiled
Apple ML Research introduces DEEPAMBIGQAGEN, a tool designed to boost AI's ability to handle complex questions.
NASA-Backed GeoAI Package Lets Researchers Run Satellite Analysis With a Few Lines of Python
A free, open-source tool aims to bring AI-driven mapping and satellite image analysis to scientists who have no machine-learning background, with funding from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
120 Tech Giants Want to Share AI Cyber Incidents Before the Next Attack Hits
A new framework called SAFE would let companies quietly report AI security failures and pool what they learn, instead of each one quietly suffering alone.
Grab says AI helped it ship products 30% faster as Southeast Asia's super-app raises its annual forecast
The ride-hailing and food delivery giant posted its best-ever quarter, with revenue up 22% and operating profit up 186%, and it credits internal AI tools for a big chunk of the speed gains.
Meet Robin, the Kid-Sized Robot Helping Patients Stay Calm in Hospitals and Dental Clinics
A small, armless robot with a backstory about missing outer space is showing up in around 30 healthcare facilities and convincing children to eat, breathe, and sit still for the dentist.
Warehouse Robots Are Getting Smarter. Here Is What Is Driving the Boom.
Two new market forecasts show the autonomous mobile robot industry doubling or tripling by 2030, pushed by labour costs and better AI-powered navigation.
US Navy shipbuilder commits up to $900 million to robot welding and sanding firms
Huntington Ingalls Industries is betting nearly a billion dollars that AI-driven robots can build warships faster than human crews alone.
OpenAI's First Hardware Device Is a Hockey-Puck-Sized AI Speaker Costing Over $300
A new report describes a doughnut-shaped, battery-powered gadget designed by Jony Ive that moves and lights up when it responds to you.
Google DeepMind's AI Gave Jamaica an Extra Day to Prepare for a Category 5 Hurricane
A new storm-forecasting model predicted Hurricane Melissa would strike Jamaica five days out, a full day earlier than older tools could manage. A paper in Nature says the AI works in ways even its own creators cannot fully explain.
AI Agents Are Silicon Valley's Biggest Bet. Almost Nobody Outside Tech Is Using Them.
Ten million weekly users sounds impressive until you compare it to the billion people using basic AI chat. A viral post from a veteran tech founder has sparked an uncomfortable conversation about why AI agents have failed to reach ordinary people.
ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children
A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire (which we first reported on 31 July), a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.
AI Designed Working Viruses From Scratch. Here's What That Actually Means
Stanford researchers used a large genome model to generate functional bacteriophage viruses. The viruses work. They're not weapons. But the same researchers are asking whether we should plan ahead before someone builds a version that targets humans.
Scientists build the first AI-designed viruses, and experts are asking hard questions
A research team used artificial intelligence to create bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, from scratch. The results worked in the lab. The safety debate is already underway.