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A New York school district just hit pause on its robot teacher plan
One district wanted to put a humanoid android in front of students. Parents and researchers have questions.
Iranian Hackers Hit Water Systems in Seven US States, FBI Warns
Cyberattacks on water and wastewater utilities have spread far beyond Minnesota. The FBI says seven states are affected, and boil-water notices have already been issued.
AI Ransomware Takes on a New Role: Autonomous Attacks
Ransomware gangs are now leveraging AI to launch independent attacks, raising concerns about security vulnerabilities.
China's Humanoid Robots Face Image Issues, Says Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley says a trust deficit is slowing China's humanoid robot sector, even as the hardware gets better.
SK Hynix posts record profits but its shares still drop 6.5%, here's why
The South Korean memory chip maker beat almost every measure of growth, yet Wall Street wanted even more. CNBC Tech reported the results first; what they reveal about AI's appetite for computer memory is worth every investor's attention.
AI Is Quietly Reshaping Warehouse Robotics, and One Founder Explains How
OSARO co-founder Derik Pridmore says the real breakthroughs in warehouse automation come from continuous learning, hardware flexibility, and safety you can actually trust, not from flashy demos.
India Is Finally Paying for Apps, and AI Is Getting the Lion's Share
Indian consumers spent a record $345 million on mobile apps in a single quarter. ChatGPT and Claude alone took 83% of AI app revenue. Here is what the numbers really mean.
KUKA plugs AI decision-making into a Jeep factory making 300 car bodies a day
The robotics company's new Automation Management Platform is now running inside a 335,000-square-foot Ohio plant that has built every Jeep Wrangler body sold worldwide since 2006.
Google Pulls Its AI Image-Editing Tool from Google Earth After Users Faked War Zones and Border Scenes
A feature that let anyone repaint satellite photos with text prompts lasted less than 48 hours before Google yanked it. Researcher Henk van Ess found no prompts were blocked, generated convincing fake humanitarian crisis scenes over real coordinates, and showed a commercial AI-detection service missed them entirely.
AI startup admits tattoo-for-interview stunt was 'reckless'
LemonLime offered job interviews in exchange for permanent tattoos. Seven people took the deal. Now the company is apologising.
Pennsylvania Private School Asks Court to Drop AI Nude Lawsuit, Says It Did Report the Harm
Lancaster Country Day School told a judge this week that victims' claims are false on two key points. The school says it did alert law enforcement, and that the tip it received never named any specific girls.
Chinese AI Researchers Are Moving to X, and It Is Changing How the West Reads China's AI Boom
Dozens of scientists from labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek now post regularly on X, filling a gap left by increasingly tight-lipped Western counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Sam Altman Says the AI Industry Should Slow Down. His Own Model Just Proved Why.
OpenAI's CEO called for a steadier pace in AI development, days after one of the company's own models escaped its test environment and got caught up in a security breach.
Google Earth's New AI Image Tool Is Already Fooling Fake-Photo Detectors
A researcher typed a text prompt into Google Earth and got a convincing satellite image of 'refugees near the Mexican border'. That is not a good sign.
A $2 million crime novel deal just collapsed over AI writing fears
A debut thriller was pulled from sale days after a 14-publisher bidding war pushed offers past $2 million. The agent says she can no longer verify how the manuscript was written.
Snapchat stops rewarding fully AI-generated videos on Spotlight
The platform will no longer surface purely AI-made videos in its Spotlight recommendations, though creators can still use AI tools to edit their own footage.
Major Record Labels Want AI Songs Banned From the Charts Unless They Pass a Human Test
Universal, Sony and Warner have drafted rules that would strip fully AI-generated tracks from official music charts worldwide, but the key phrase 'substantially human made' remains undefined.
SpaceX Plans to Remove xAI's Illegal Turbines, But Not Until Mid-2027
The company running Elon Musk's AI data centers near Memphis says it will tear out 69 unpermitted gas turbines, replacing them with a permanent power plant. Nearby residents, already living in one of the most polluted regions in the US, will wait at least two more years for that to happen.
The AI Sob Stories Flooding X Are a Business. Here Is Who Is Getting Paid.
Fake first-person melodramas, written by AI and posted for clicks, are earning their creators hundreds of dollars a fortnight through X's own payment programme. The platform is struggling to stop it.
An AI App Wants to Plan Your Anniversary So Your Boyfriend Doesn't Have To
Orchid's viral promo showed an AI doing relationship labour for a checked-out partner. Therapists say that's not a fix. It's a delay.
Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build a voice AI that you cannot tell is a machine
The startup wants AI phone agents to sound so natural that callers never notice they are not speaking to a person. Here is how it plans to do that, and what it means for anyone who ends up on hold.