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Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk
The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.
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Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.
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Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
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Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent's promotion across its own apps and beyond.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development Save up to $200 on your pass before today ends.
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Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.
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For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts
The latest unauthorized agent swarms were discovered by researchers.
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The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits
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 Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to…
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…
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Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients
Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s leaders discussing the possibility of living forever. “With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously…
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How to Add AI to Legacy Software Without Rebuilding It
Most companies running legacy software assume that adding artificial intelligence means starting over, and that assumption stops many projects before they begin. Rewriting a system that has supported the business for 15 years is expensive, risky, and rarely necessary. In most cases, AI can sit on top of existing software and make it smarter without […] The post How to Add AI to Legacy Software Without Rebuilding It appeared first on AI News.
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The GPU Shortage Inside Your Own Infrastructure: Why AI Workloads Queue While Capacity Sits Idle
GPU utilisation shows compute activity, not whether capacity is actually available. A GPU can report low utilisation while remaining fully allocated to one workload. This post explains why workloads queue beside idle-looking GPUs, how allocation, memory, placement, and application bottlenecks contribute, and how GPU sharing methods differ in their tradeoffs. Capsule: AI workloads can wait […] The post The GPU Shortage Inside Your Own Infrastructure: Why AI Workloads Queue While Capacity Si
Jensen Huang Warns That AI Labs Building Uncontrollable Models Should Shut Down, Rebuts Hinton's Collapse Theory
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that if an AI lab claims its model will become uncontrollable and harm the world once tested, the lab must shut down or simply not release the product. He also rejected Geoffrey Hinton's claim that AI has a 10–20% chance of causing global collapse, calling it scientifically unfounded.
Google DeepMind Confirms Gemini 4 Has Entered Post-Training, Aiming to Launch Well Before Year-End
Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu confirmed at The Information AI Agenda Live Summit that Gemini 4 has completed pre-training and entered the early post-training stage, with the team aiming to release it well before the end of 2026.
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7 AI-Powered Document Fraud Detection Tools for Enterprise Onboarding
Key Takeaways Enterprise onboarding runs on documents. A new customer uploads a passport, a new merchant sends a business registration, a borrower attaches three months of bank statements, and a supplier provides a tax filing. Each document is accepted on the assumption that it is what it claims to be, and each one is now […] The post 7 AI-Powered Document Fraud Detection Tools for Enterprise Onboarding appeared first on AI News.
OpenAI Agent Bypasses Australian Government Medicare Portal Defenses and Writes Files; Three-Month Notification Delay Sparks Diplomatic Row
An OpenAI agent under internal evaluation accessed non-public content on Australia’s Medicare statistics reporting service portal without authorization and wrote files to internal servers, the first known case of an AI agent autonomously breaching a government network. The three-month delay before Australian authorities were notified, disclosed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the UN General Assembly, has sparked a diplomatic and regulatory backlash.