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Meta's AI Hacked a Company During a Security Test. It's the Third Big Lab to Report This.
An error by Meta's testing partner gave an AI model unexpected internet access. What happened next is becoming a worrying pattern across the industry.
Elon Musk's AI Wikipedia Rival Grokipedia Hasn't Updated in Three Months
xAI launched Grokipedia with six million articles and big promises. Now it appears frozen, with no accepted edits since late April.
Nobody Has Figured Out How to Price AI Yet. That Is a Problem for Everyone
Companies are paying for AI by the token, a tiny unit of text the software processes, but nobody, not startups, not Microsoft, not the firms selling AI services, can predict how many tokens a task will burn. Budgets are blowing up, and the bill lands before anyone notices.
Asana built AI agents that share memory across your whole company, with a wall around the secrets
The project-management company's new system lets AI teammates learn from every task they touch, but blocks them from passing confidential information to people who shouldn't see it.
Big Tech's AI bets are making corporate profits look much bigger than they are
Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet booked billions in paper gains from their stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX. Strip those out and earnings growth looks a lot more ordinary.
A 60-day deadline on AI rules lands today. Here is what it means for patients and everyone else.
The White House set itself an August 1 deadline to finish a framework for reviewing powerful AI models before public release. The clock has run out, and the rules will shape which AI tools reach doctors, businesses and ordinary users first.
AI browsers can be tricked into spamming your WhatsApp contacts and adding items to your Amazon cart
Security researchers found about 20 flaws across AI-enhanced browsers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others. The worst let hackers turn your browser into a phishing machine.
Apple Researchers Find a Hidden Glitch That Can Quietly Corrupt AI-Generated Images
A small number of rogue data points, called outlier tokens, can throw off the systems that create AI images. New research explains what they are and how to fix them.
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI coding agent built for giant software projects
Meta's new terminal tool can plan, write and test code across huge codebases, and it spins up multiple AI sub-agents at once to get big jobs done faster.
Klaviyo buys AI startup Agency and gets a new product chief in the same deal
The e-commerce marketing platform is acquiring a three-year-old AI startup founded by a serial entrepreneur who once hired Klaviyo's own CEO, and is now joining to lead its AI push.
Reddit hints at big changes to the old-style site many loyal users still prefer
A vague blog post signals that old.reddit.com, the stripped-back version of Reddit that millions of long-time users swear by, may not survive much longer in its current form.
AI Found a New Class of Web Vulnerability. A Human Had to Explain Why It Mattered.
Security researcher James Kettle spent months running experiments with leading AI models. The AI generated more leads than he could ever chase alone, but the biggest discovery only landed when human and machine worked together.
This Four-Legged Robot Inspects Factories Using AI, No Cloud Connection Needed
Avnet and Weston Robot have built a dog-like inspection robot that thinks for itself on-site, spots problems in real time, and works even when the internet is not available.
GAM Enterprises Buys Schaeffler's Precision Gearbox Technology to Make Its Own Parts
The Illinois motion-control company acquired the intellectual property behind the PSC gear reducer, a core part in its own flagship product, and set up a new German subsidiary to manufacture it.
AI Models Are Teaching Themselves to Spread Like Computer Viruses
A researcher at Fudan University found that 11 out of 32 AI models copied themselves to new machines when told to survive. Here is what that means.
Autodesk puts $1 million into a University of Florida lab that wants robots to build your next home
Florida is short more than 121,000 homes. A new robotics lab and the country's first degree in industrialized construction aim to close that gap with factory-built housing and collaborative robots.
The Power Grid Is Struggling. A New AI Course Wants to Train the Engineers Who Can Fix It
America's electrical grid was built for steadier times. Now AI tools are being drafted to keep the lights on, and a new online programme is teaching engineers how to use them.
Moove raises $250 million to build the charging depots and service hubs that self-driving cars need
The fleet operator hit a $2.1 billion valuation and plans to triple its autonomous-vehicle workforce by year-end, betting that owning the physical infrastructure behind autonomous vehicles matters as much as the vehicles themselves.
Google reshuffles its AI leadership: Demis Hassabis moves to chief scientist, Jeff Dean departs
The man who built DeepMind steps back from day-to-day operations to focus on drug discovery and big-picture AI strategy, while a longtime Google engineer leaves to start a new science-focused AI company.
Meta Approved and Ran Ads Showing AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Images for Nine Months
More than 50 paid advertisements containing child sexual abuse material ran across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Some reached thousands of accounts in Europe and the United States before researchers forced Meta's hand.
SpaceX Is Really a Satellite Firm That Rents Out Computer Power. The Rockets Are Almost a Side Note.
The company's first public earnings report shows Starlink internet and data-centre leasing dwarfing actual space business, and Elon Musk's grand orbital plans look a lot like wishful thinking.