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A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.
Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June
Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading…
You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere. Sound familiar? Knowledge workers in 2026 are running into this more and more. It makes sense once you look at […] The post The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus appeared first on AI News.
Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetings—with no video involved.
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.
Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intelligence use across its drug discovery and development operations. The pharmaceutical company said it will be the first life sciences group to acquire a DGX SuperPOD based on Vera Rubin. Nvidia introduced the architecture earlier this […] The post Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery appeared first on AI News.
Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.
Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one will still be straightforward in a year. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 arrived on July 16 as the largest open-weight model yet released, and within days it had reopened a policy argument in Washington that had […] The post Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs. appeared first on AI News.
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next […]
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto “czar” until…
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
