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On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old “town hall in your pocket” or Anthropic’s Claude constitution, it’s a theory that doesn’t paint Silicon Valley in a very flattering light.   In Lepore’s upcoming book, Th
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
SpecForge v0.3.0: a Unified Disaggregated and Colocated Speculative Decoding Stack, and New Open SpecBundle Draft ModelsThe SpecForge TeamAugust 4, 2026When we first released SpecForge, a training job
Full-Stack Performance Optimization of AR+DiT in SGL-DiffusionAscend TeamAugust 05, 2026TL;DR Replaces the HF backend with SRT to accelerate AR modeling and resolve parallelism conflicts, with dedicat
HPC-Ops × SGLang: High-Performance Attention, Router GEMM, and MoE Kernels from Tencent HunyuanTencent Hunyuan AI Infra and the SGLang TeamAugust 7, 2026HPC-Ops is an open-source operator library for
The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
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. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under…
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’s the whole algorithm. But here’s the point: the more AI controls over how you see the content, the more it […] The post How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch appeared first on AI News.
Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage ΦX174, pronounced “FYE-ex-1-7-4”. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data […] The post Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli appeared first on AI News.
