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The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented hundreds of people who moved through areas watched by these towers without…
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Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work.
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.
No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.
AutoScheduler has launched its warehouse app builder to let logistics teams build custom tools directly from live facility data. The new software module forms part of the company’s wider Warehouse AI Platform, serving distribution centres that balance inventory, machinery, and labour. Distribution centres routinely depend on rigid enterprise resource planning and warehouse management suites. When […] The post AutoScheduler launches warehouse app builder for logistics teams appeared f
Toyota Motor estimates that expanding automation across its factories, group companies, and major suppliers could require around 400,000 robots and annual spending of about 1 trillion yen ($6.4 billion) from 2028. The potential investment was discussed with investors earlier in September, according to Reuters. Toyota has not said whether the full investment will proceed or […] The post Toyota’s $6.4bn robotics estimate puts physical AI in focus appeared first on AI News.
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after which Anthropic (proudly) and Meta (reluctantly) disclosed similar incidents involving their models. This was followed…
In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.
Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots—and quickly discovered something unusual.
The comedian sat down with WIRED to talk about social media, AI, and getting laughs for impersonating Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs.
Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
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Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.
