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Anthropic hands Claude Code more control, but keeps it on a leash

For developers using AI, “vibe coding” right now comes down to babysitting every action or risking letting the model run unchecked.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate

Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy’s Defender, she worried that people would think she was an “old fuddy duddy” still sounding alarms about government spying online. As o

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OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator

OpenAI is preparing to shut down Sora, the video-generation app that drew widespread attention when it launched in late 2024. OpenAI announced the move in a social media post Tuesday just after a Wall Street Journal story broke the news.

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Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI

Mozilla developer Peter Wilson has taken to the Mozilla.ai blog to announce cq, which he describes as “Stack Overflow for agents.” The nascent project hints at something genuinely useful, but it will have to address security, data poisoning, and accuracy to achieve significant adoption. It’s meant t

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Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troubling, Judge Says

of Defense appears to be illegally punishing Anthropic for trying to restrict the use of its AI tools by the military, US district judge Rita Lin said during a court hearing on Tuesday.“It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic,” Lin said of the Pentagon designating the company a supply-chain ri

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Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center

For generations, Ida Huddleston and her family have owned a farm in northern Kentucky. And they’ve turned down at least one multimillion-dollar offer to preserve it. Last year, a “major artificial intelligence company” offered them $26 million to sell part of their farm for a proposed data center, a

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OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down Sora, a TikTok-like social app that launched six months ago.

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With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI

Kleiner Perkins, the prominent U.S. venture firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $3.5 billion in fresh capital across two funds, a significant increase from the firm’s $2 billion fundraise less than two years ago. The firm, founded back in 1972, says it raised $1 billion for its 22nd early-stag

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The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war

AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in the biggest protest against AI to date.

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AI agents enter banking roles at Bank of America

AI agents are starting to take on a more direct role in how financial advice is delivered, as large banks move into systems that support client interactions.Bank of America is now deploying an internal AI-powered advisory platform to a subset of financial advisers, rolled out to around 1,000 financi

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Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off

half-prone on a couch in his office in San Jose, California. A basketball rests in his hand, partly obscuring his face. Haas had grimaced when WIRED’s photographer first asked him to assume this position.

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Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones

Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window-cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now. While many companies are trying to build humanoids or tout demos of their robots dancing and doing flips, Lucid Bots’ drones are out in

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Agentic commerce runs on truth and context

SponsoredProvided byReltio Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy.

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The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns

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. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona.

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With Sift Stack, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor

The cry of “atoms, not bits!” — a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products — reached a fever pitch last week with word that Jeff Bezos is putting together a $100 billion fund to roll up and automate factories. But automating factories isn’

A new GPT-OSS benchmark and DeepSeek R1 updates for latency-optimized reasoning

MLPerf Inference v6.0 基准发布显著扩展了对开源大语言模型（LLM）的覆盖。随着行业转向更专业化开源模型，基准测试需适应部署策略与架构变化。本轮引入两大亮点：GPT-OSS 120B 新基准，基于117B参数MoE架构，擅长数学、科学推理与编码；DeepSeek-R1 交互场景，针对实时推理应用，首次标准化 speculative decoding。GPT-OSS 分离性能与准确数据集，准确模式覆盖 AIME 2024（82.92%）、GPQA-Diamond（74.95%）、LiveCodeBench v6（84.68%）；性能模式聚焦 PubMed 摘要生成。DeepSeek-R1 交互场景 TTFT ≤1.5s、TPOT ≤15ms，支持 EAGLE-style decoding。参考实现已在 GitHub 提供。（128字）

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Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind

Agile Robots has landed a partnership with Google DeepMind to develop robots with the artificial intelligence research lab, the latest in a string of robotics companies to do so. Munich, Germany-based Agile Robots announced it entered into a strategic research partnership with Google DeepMind on Tue

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The Download: tracing AI-fueled delusions, and OpenAI admits Microsoft risks

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. The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions What actually happens when people spiral into delusion with AI? To find out, Stanford researchers analyz

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Mirage raises $75M to continue building models for its AI video-editing app Captions

Mirage, the maker of video-editing app Captions, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). Over the past year, the startup has made significant changes both to its product and corporate identity.

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Securing AI systems under today’s and tomorrow’s conditions

Evidence cited in an eBook titled “AI Quantum Resilience”, published by Utimaco [email wall], shows organisations consider security risks as the leading barrier to effective adoption of AI on data they hold. AI’s value depends on data amassed by an organisation.