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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 US military’s race to make fake blood In February 2007, a...
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.
More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional.
“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.
Its call sign was Morphine 1-2. In February 2007, the hulking dual-rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, north of Baghdad, when an...
Build with Claude API — the most capable AI for complex reasoning tasks.
Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.
Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old...
A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.
Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games...
Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.
The platform for open-source AI models, datasets, and ML apps.
Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.
Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” a feature it first launched on Instagram.
The other day I whizzed past several people while running in the park, my playlist blasting at full volume. The next morning, I smiled at a barista while ordering a caramel apple-flavored matcha latte...
Facebook's new "Your Algorithm" feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your recommendations "respond right away" after you make...
Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.
Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.
The next time you vibe-code a custom app with Google's AI Studio, you won't have to connect your phone to a computer to install it. On Tuesday, Google announced a new feature in the US that will allow...
Mia Goth at The 32nd Annual Actor Awards. | Variety via Getty Images Earlier this month, news broke that actress Mia Goth had filed for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. An Instagram po...
Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.
Solar geoengineering simulation shows what happens when geopolitics takes over.
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American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping...
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex...
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
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. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US...
Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to...
In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologi...
A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
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. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s...
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is fu...
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
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