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In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced infrastructure acting as the engine of continuous intelligence, powering real-time services while…
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple.   Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]
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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. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…
Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…
M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining […] The post M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul appeared first on AI News.
Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might think.
Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26 and 27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses that remained […] The post 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating appeared first on AI News.
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
