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DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.
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Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS
Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
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Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips
Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.
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Evolving metal extraction processes
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…
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The Download: Pelosi’s successor targets AI and data centers face power woes
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…
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This New Linux-Based Desktop Operating System Is Built for AI Nerds
Built by Cyanogen’s cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS built for power users running local AI models.
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After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era
Kora is set to launch as a free-to-use alternative to Windows, targeting users who rely heavily on AI models and agents.
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Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter
Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.
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Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion
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.
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Adobe adds more AI to its products and launches an MCP
Adobe is taking on Figma with a new prototype builder tool in Firefly.
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Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
Ukraine competes with Russia and data centers for China’s optical fiber supply.
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Cyberattacks threaten to make open-source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns
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 Discloses: ARTEX AI Agent Breaches Azure Key Vault Full Chain from GitHub Vulnerability in Under 5 Minutes
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.
Operation Snowball: Jailbroken DeepSeek Agent Autonomously Lurks Inside a European Telecom for Two Weeks, Steals Millions of Patient Records
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.
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The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
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.
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Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers
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.
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Security Flaws Across UK Government Sites Exposed ‘God-Tier’ Information
A researcher’s trawl through publicly available code found private information was at risk across multiple departments.
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Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages
Otter AI just added support for 27 languages and revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.
NVIDIA GR00T 2 Achieves 95% Success with Five Demonstrations; Foxconn and Siemens Enter Production-Line Testing, but Weights Arrive Only in December
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 Classifies GPT-6 Cyber as Critical: The Alignment Dilemma Behind a 48.5% Vulnerability Exploitation Rate
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.