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In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America. There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined underground for more than a billion years. This ancient brine turned out to be a habitat…
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file
Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company discussed its Connected Care vision at the Health Forum during Galaxy Unpacked in July 2026. Samsung described a future of […] The post Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data appeared first on AI News.
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. Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash The police-tech giant Flock is changing officers’ access to its nationwide network of license plate readers. The move comes…
Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way.
