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AI That Thinks in Your Language: Big Study Shows Non-English Reasoning Nearly Matches English
Researchers trained AI reasoning models in French, Arabic, Chinese and more, and the results were surprisingly close to English. Here is what that means for the billions of people who do not use AI in their first language.
Warp launches a ready-made AI software factory so smaller companies can automate coding without building everything from scratch
Warp Factories gives engineering teams a pre-built system of AI agents that can handle the full cycle of software development, from planning a task to shipping and reviewing the code.
Sentence Transformers Gets a Smarter Search Engine Under the Hood
A new update to one of the most popular AI search libraries adds a technique called late interaction, which matches text word by word instead of squeezing everything into a single number. Here is what that means and why it matters.
Firefox Oferece ao Seu Assistente de IA Acesso à Web em Direto e Memória do Seu Histórico de Navegação
A funcionalidade Smart Window opcional da Mozilla pode agora pesquisar a web em tempo real e ajudá-lo a retraçar páginas que visitou anteriormente, sem retenção de dados por defeito.
Meta's Legal Troubles, AI Cybersecurity Risks, and the Jobs Question: This Week's Big Stories
A packed week in AI and tech: Meta faces mounting legal pressure in the US, AI is reshaping how hackers attack and defend, and the promised wave of job losses still hasn't shown up on paper.
Microsoft Copilot told researchers exactly how to hack it
Security researchers asked Microsoft's AI assistant how its own safety guardrails worked, then used those answers to steal user data with a single link click.
A Korean leather maker just bought the startup building skin for robots
Uni-Chem Co. has acquired Loomia Technologies, the Brooklyn company turning flexible circuits into touch-sensitive 'skin' for humanoid robots. The deal is worth around $6 million and closes in October.
Google's Pet Memory AI Can't Tell One Cat From Another
A two-week real-world test found Google's new feature for identifying individual pets on Nest cameras keeps calling every cat by the same name, with consequences that go beyond the comical.
America's Air Traffic System Is Broken. A $12.5 Billion Fix May Mostly Enrich One Company.
Flight delays hit a decade-long high in 2025. Radar went dark over nine states. A military helicopter carrying the president nearly triggered a near-miss. Now billions in repair funding look set to flow to Palantir, a data company with deep government ties and no experience running air traffic control.
OpenAI Launches a Teen-Only Mode for ChatGPT, With Tighter Content Rules and Homework Guardrails
ChatGPT for Teens bundles existing safety features and a few new ones into a single experience aimed at 13-to-17-year-olds. Here is what changes, and what stays the same.
AI can run the experiments, but it cannot do the science
A Princeton-led study gave an AI agent six days, a $3,000 budget, and two unsolved research questions. The papers it produced were rejected. Here is what that tells us about self-improving AI.
What are people actually doing with AI chatbots? A new study looked at nearly 25,000 real conversations to find out
AI companies publish usage reports, but researchers say those reports leave out the messy parts. A new independent project called the AI Observatory dug into real chat data and found a very different picture.
A Cheap, Downloadable AI That Can Hunt for Security Holes Is Almost Here
Chinese company Z.ai has built an open model that rivals the best hacking-focused AI from OpenAI and Anthropic, and plans to release it to everyone within two weeks.
Dickovers, baggravation, botiquette: the new words we need to describe daily life with tech
A tech writer just gave a name to those infuriating pop-ups blocking the page you wanted to read. Turns out, naming the annoyance is only the beginning.
Apple's AirPods May Soon Have Cameras Built In. Here's What That Means for You.
A video buried inside Apple's latest software update shows AirPods identifying a book cover using AI. If the leak is real, your earbuds could soon act as a second pair of eyes.
AI tools sound most confident exactly when they are most wrong, new testing shows
A developer built a testing framework to measure whether an AI explainer tool actually got the right answer, not just whether it sounded convincing. What he found should worry any business relying on AI to guide real decisions.
AI firms are quietly buying up secondhand books by the thousands. Some are being destroyed to train chatbots.
A US court ruling cleared Anthropic to use purchased books for AI training. Now booksellers report a strange surge in sales of obscure titles, and court documents reveal a project with a goal to 'destructively scan all the books in the world'.
The AI shortcut that costs companies six times more than it should
A lead AI engineer spent a year building decision systems for regulated industries and found one fix that cut costs by 6x: stop sending every question to the language model in the first place.
DeepSeek's V4 Flash aces the leaderboards but stumbles on real work, then raises its prices
The AI model everyone called a bargain just got more expensive. And new testing shows its real-world performance is patchier than its benchmark scores suggest.
Anthropic's revenue hits $65 billion a year, and it's still accelerating
The maker of the Claude AI assistant is growing faster than almost any company in history, and investors expect it to hit $100 billion or more by year's end.
A $899 AI Litter Box Couldn't Tell Two Very Different Cats Apart
Whisker's Litter-Robot 5 Pro promises AI health tracking and facial recognition for your cats. After six months of testing, the facial recognition failed, the waste sensor misfired, and one cat mysteriously lost two pounds overnight.