New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
Dan Goodin
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AI // Open the pod doors
Google’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet
They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.
Ryan Whitwam
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Trump’s plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.
Ashley Belanger
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Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids’ savings accounts, report says
Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.
Ashley Belanger
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South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.
Jeremy Hsu
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South Korea plans to train entire military as “drone warriors”
Half-million-strong military will train on drones as “universal combat tool.”
Jeremy Hsu
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NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI
NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.
Ashley Belanger
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Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead
Notion is “going all in on using agents to run your inbox.”
Scharon Harding
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Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026
It took 20 years, but the Finance app arrives just in time to be packed full of AI.
Ryan Whitwam
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Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack
Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.
Ashley Belanger
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IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology
IBM’s nanostack transistors could boost chip performance or energy efficiency.
Jeremy Hsu
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OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.
Samuel Axon
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Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments
Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.
Scharon Harding
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How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
Jennifer Ouellette
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GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers
US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.
Jeremy Hsu
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How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban
The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.
Financial Times
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As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military
Taiwan’s drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas.
Jeremy Hsu
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Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders’ AI wealth fund.
Ashley Belanger
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AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties
Nvidia’s self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
Jeremy Hsu
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“Dangerous” AI models are coming no matter what
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
WIRED
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Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder
Google’s new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
Ryan Whitwam
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Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI’s gas turbines
NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.
Jon Brodkin
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Anthropic “pauses” token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users’ costs.
Kyle Orland
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Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
Jeremy Hsu
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SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion
Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.
Samuel Axon
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Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
Kyle Orland
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Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users
SearchLeak exploit shows why the industry’s approach to LLM security fails over and over.
Dan Goodin
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Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021
Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.
Financial Times
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Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive
Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 “jailbreak” could be a national security threat.
Kyle Orland
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SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?
As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.
Eric Berger
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Here’s what Jeff Bezos’ new startup Prometheus will do
It isn’t the only startup tackling physical AI, but it’s one of the best-funded.
Samuel Axon
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Ukraine’s one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers
Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.
Jeremy Hsu
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$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a “taste of political power.”
Ashley Belanger
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When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket
Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.
Kyle Orland
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Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams
The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.
Ryan Whitwam
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Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Jeremy Hsu
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