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Talk to Your Self-Driving Car: Researchers Build a System That Lets You Ask for a Smoother Ride
A team in the Netherlands has wired a chatbot-style AI into an autonomous vehicle's driving software, so passengers can say 'I feel dizzy, slow down' and the car actually listens. It works in simulation. Real roads are a long way off.
Nvidia Manager and Supermicro Staff Indicted in Taiwan Over AI Server Smuggling to China
Nine people face charges of document forgery and breach of trust after allegedly helping hide billions of dollars' worth of restricted AI hardware shipped to China.
AI Learns to Think in Pictures Internally, Cutting Video Analysis Time Without Losing Accuracy
A new training method called Internalized Visual Thinking lets AI models reason about video the way humans picture things in their heads, skipping the slow step of generating actual images mid-analysis.
AI in the Classroom: How One School Stopped Panicking and Started Teaching With It
Cheshire Academy in Connecticut tried banning AI, then tried ignoring it. Neither worked. Here is what they are doing instead.
General Intuition Nears $6 Billion Valuation as Investors Bet on AI That Understands Physical Space
The startup is training AI agents to move through the real world, not just answer questions. A fresh funding round could value it at $6 billion before a single dollar of outside money lands.
OpenAI Wants AI Agents to Run Your Workday. Can It Convince Anyone Beyond Coders?
ChatGPT Work lets software act on your behalf across your inbox, Slack, and spreadsheets. The catch: only a tiny fraction of users have tried anything like it.
Australia's PM Tries to Calm State Leaders Over National AI Datacentre Law
Anthony Albanese heads into a national cabinet meeting promising that new federal controls on datacentres will work alongside state rules, not override them. Behind the scenes: power bills, planning fights, and a seven-fold rise in electricity demand.
AI Is Reshaping Engineering Jobs. Here Is What Actually Keeps You Employable
Experts say the secret is not learning the right coding language. It is learning how to keep learning, whatever comes next.
Hugging Face is reportedly fielding acquisition offers at a $13 billion valuation
The open-source AI model hub has been approached by potential buyers, but its CEO has publicly stressed the company's long-term duty to its community of developers and researchers.
Teachers Are Being Targeted With AI Deepfake Porn. Schools Often Have No Idea What to Do.
Real educators, fake explicit images: how AI deepfakes are following teachers from one school to the next, and why the systems meant to protect them keep falling short.
Canonical is funding a PhD to find out if AI can turn millions of lines of C into Rust
It's a three-year research project, not a bot rampage. Ubuntu's parent company wants actual evidence before touching its codebase.
Children learn language on a fraction of the data AI needs. Scientists want to know why.
A toddler masters grammar after hearing roughly 10 million words. A large language model may consume 15 trillion. Closing that gap could reshape how AI is built.
This Tech Conference Is Worth Binge-Watching Like Your Favourite TV Series
Software Should Work 2026 packs 13 talks on code reliability into a single watchable day. It might be the best thing on your screen this summer.
The man who helped build modern AI now worries he made a mistake
Geoffrey Hinton spent decades teaching machines to think like brains. A new podcast series revisits his story and asks what happens when the technology outgrows its creators.
A Top US Law School Just Banned AI from Almost Every Corner of Student Work
Starting summer 2026, students at one law school cannot use AI to brainstorm, draft, revise, or even run a spellcheck on graded work. Here is what the policy says and why it matters beyond the classroom.
AI Makes All Code 'Write-Only': What That Means for Developers and the Rest of Us
A software engineer told a London conference that AI-generated code is too dense to read, too fast to review, and best treated as disposable. His prescription: automate the boring parts and save human creativity for what machines still cannot do.
Could AI Actually Wipe Us Out? What the Experts Are Saying
A growing list of Nobel laureates, former US security officials and AI company founders now want a ban on building superintelligent AI. Here is what the debate is really about.
Nvidia's simple algebra trick makes AI model handoffs up to 25 times faster
Swapping between AI models mid-task is brutally expensive. Nvidia researchers found that a basic linear equation can do what previously needed a full restart, cutting costs and wait times sharply.
A mystery AI model called Ox Alpha just appeared online, and nobody knows who built it
A free, anonymous AI model dropped on a major distribution platform this week and immediately sparked a guessing game: is it Chinese, American, or something else entirely?
England's NHS Shake-Up Would Scrap Elected Hospital Governors. Here's What That Means.
A new health plan for England, heading to Parliament this autumn, would remove the statutory governors who sit on hospital trust boards. Volunteers and former clinicians who hold NHS leaders to account say cutting the role is a serious mistake.
Flock Safety's CEO wants a 'compromise' on surveillance. Critics say the cameras are already out of control.
Forty-six police officers have been accused of misusing Flock's licence plate cameras to stalk partners. The company is making small changes. Lawmakers on both sides want more.