World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
Jeremy Hsu
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AI // Open the pod doors
AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven’t.
Knowable Magazine
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Apple’s new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.
Samuel Axon
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AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.
Kyle Orland
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Nvidia senior manager tied to ex-Supermicro staff’s AI smuggling scheme
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.
Ashley Belanger
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As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
Ashley Belanger
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Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
Dan Goodin
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Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.
Ashley Belanger
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Most Read
Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.
WIRED
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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
Dan Goodin
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Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
“We’re not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”
Jeremy Hsu
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Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
Ashley Belanger
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Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
Ashley Belanger
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OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Financial Times
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The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
Aurich Lawson
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Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release
Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has “substantial improvements.”
Ryan Whitwam
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Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker’s IPO is the biggest listing in history
Financial Times
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Claude’s new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now
The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.
Ashley Belanger
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128
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
Kyle Orland
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138
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Dan Goodin
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Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Streaming platform says user-generated content “may be used for future Gen AI model improvements.”
Scharon Harding
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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
Ashley Belanger
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Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini’s surge survive slowing model releases?
Ryan Whitwam
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With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he’s found a way forward.
Samuel Axon
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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
Ashley Belanger
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Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
Saima Sidik
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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
WIRED
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OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Scharon Harding
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AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
Cyrus Farivar
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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
Financial Times
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Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop “large-scale abuse.”
Ryan Whitwam
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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Samuel Axon
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112
Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
John Timmer
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Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren’t coders
Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.
Jeremy Hsu
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AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
Why humans need to moderate humans.
Scharon Harding
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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
Jeremy Hsu
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