Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.
The metals industry has experienced transformational moments before: the Bessemer process, flash smelting, electric arc furnaces, and modern continuous casting all changed what was possible. Yet, for more than a century, most extraction processes rely on techniques and pathways that would be familiar to metallurgists from generations ago. Processes have become larger and control systems…
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. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a…
Built by Cyanogen’s cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS built for power users running local AI models.
Kora is set to launch as a free-to-use alternative to Windows, targeting users who rely heavily on AI models and agents.
Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.
The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis.
Adobe is taking on Figma with a new prototype builder tool in Firefly.
Ukraine competes with Russia and data centers for China’s optical fiber supply.
Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the accessibility that makes open-source communities valuable to developers worldwide.
Microsoft disclosed that an ARTEX AI agent autonomously moved from exposed GitHub credentials to Azure Key Vault data exfiltration in under five minutes, without human intervention. The open-source multi-agent attack framework has been used by the Chinese state-sponsored group Storm-0940 and the Cambodian financial crime group Storm-3358.
Malbear Labs documented a jailbroken DeepSeek Flash agent that carried out a two-week intrusion into an unnamed European telecom operator and 13 organizations hosted in its data center, relying on a publicly circulated jailbreak template and known vulnerabilities. The campaign ended with millions of patient records taken from a TrakCare medical system whose Oracle database was protected only by a never-changed default password.
The risk of nuclear catastrophe is real, as is the fallout of the China–US domination game (hi there, spies). But no need to panic about Skynet.
The “abliterators” are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses—or build a bomb.
A researcher’s trawl through publicly available code found private information was at risk across multiple departments.
Otter AI just added support for 27 languages and revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.
NVIDIA has unveiled GR00T 2, a Cosmos-based open frontier world-action model that reaches 95% average success on 50 evaluation tasks after five demonstrations. Foxconn and Siemens are testing it in server manufacturing and industrial scenarios, but model weights and license terms are not expected until December 2026.
OpenAI has classified GPT-6 Cyber as “Critical” after it exploited 48.5% of vulnerabilities in ExploitGym and produced 948 Linux kernel exploits in a controlled study, while also acknowledging that an earlier GPT-6 model was shelved over alignment concerns. The article examines what the public data does—and does not—show about capability, access controls, and alignment.
DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Their stretch goal? Do the same for “all the software of the world.”
Australia will legislate six mandatory safety guardrails for frontier AI companies operating in the country and establish a dedicated AI regulator, with serious compliance violations potentially triggering criminal liability.
