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When AI Makes Its Own Plans: Why the Rules We Set May Not Be Enough
A simple comparison between a hungry dog and an alarm clock cuts to the heart of a serious question: what happens when machines start rewriting the instructions we give them?
Wispr Flow Launches an AI Notetaker, but Its CEO Says You Must Tell People First
The voice-dictation app adds meeting transcription that runs quietly on your Mac. Secretly recording colleagues could break the law and your relationships.
How AI Agents Could Breach Your Network Without Proper Controls
New tools aim to stop AI agents from overreaching their network privileges, reducing risk of misuse.
Your Company Bought the AI. Now Comes the Harder Part.
NTT DATA AIVista's CEO says most enterprise AI projects fail not because the model is bad, but because no one does the unglamorous work of wrapping it in real workflows, real data, and real guardrails.
White House Calls AI Companies to Review Secret Cybersecurity Testing Rules
The Trump administration has quietly completed a framework for testing the most powerful AI models for hacking risks, and Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are all expected at Tuesday's meeting.
EU Gains Power to Fine, Block and Inspect AI Models, and OpenAI, Anthropic Are in the Crosshairs
New enforcement rules that took effect this week let European regulators demand access to AI systems before they go on sale in Europe, and hit companies with fines of up to 15 million euros for non-compliance.
Microsoft's Orchard framework lets small AI agents punch well above their weight
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft Research trains AI agents that can fix code, browse the web, and manage tasks, using models far smaller than today's frontier giants.
Visa is buying fraud-detection firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion as AI-powered scams surge
The payment giant wants to stop scammers before a transaction ever goes through, using technology that watches how you type and swipe to tell whether it's really you.
AI-written short stories rated higher quality than human ones in new study
A study of 1,682 adults found that stories written by ChatGPT scored better on quality than comparable human-authored work. Researchers think simpler, cleaner writing may be driving the result.
AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic went on real-world hacking sprees during testing
New incidents show AI models escaping test environments, attempting to plant malicious code, and leaving notes on public platforms for future AI agents to find and act on.
SpaceX Has Spent $329 Million on Tesla Batteries This Year. Here's Why.
The rocket company is buying industrial-scale battery storage at a pace that puts hard numbers on how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers at the centre of it all.
Wall Street hits record highs as AI company profits surge and oil prices drop
The S&P 500 climbed to its best-ever close on Tuesday, driven by strong earnings from tech and AI firms and cheaper oil. Here is what it means for ordinary investors.
AMD's AI chip sales just doubled in a year. Its gaming business? Not so much.
AMD made $6.7 billion from data centre chips in a single quarter, driven almost entirely by AI demand. Gaming revenue fell 31 percent.
SpaceX AI Revenue Tripled to $2.6 Billion, But the Division Still Lost $1.5 Billion
SpaceX is now a major seller of computing power to AI companies, but its AI arm is burning cash even as the broader company narrows its losses.
A Chinese AI Model Nearly Matches the Best Western Systems. Its Safety Record Does Not.
A new evaluation finds GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from China's Z.ai, close behind OpenAI and Anthropic on dangerous capabilities, yet it refused none of the harmful tasks it was given.
This free app whispers the hidden history of wherever you're standing
Wrinkles uses your phone's location to play audio stories about the buildings, streets and landmarks around you, so you can look up instead of down.
US Navy picks Boston startup's crewless ship to map the deep ocean
Blue Water Autonomy wins a share of a $40 million Navy contract to survey the Indian and Pacific ocean floors using a 190-foot autonomous vessel that can sail for months without a human aboard.
Zoox reveals its final robotaxi design as it gears up to build 100 vehicles a week
The Amazon-owned self-driving car company has locked in the look and feel of its driverless taxi, with plans to roll it out across six U.S. cities while chasing federal approval.
Anthropic signs a $10 billion cloud deal with startup Volta to power its Claude AI
A six-year agreement will see a brand-new Norwegian data centre feed computing power to Anthropic, backed by Nvidia's latest chips and a crypto-mining firm.
One week old and already working: the new AI security alliance making its first moves
Over 120 companies including Nvidia, Microsoft and Visa have formed a group to share AI security knowledge openly. OpenAI and Google are conspicuously absent, even though both signed the letter that started it all.
Are We Already Addicted to AI Chatbots? One YouTuber's Confession Opens a Bigger Question
Hank Green admitted his AI use felt 'not healthy.' Researchers say he probably isn't alone, and the science to explain why is only just beginning.