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Princeton University faculty members Hantao Ji, Egemen Kolemen, Josh Atkinson and Jürgen Hackl have been awarded grants to lead projects in the Genesis Mission, a nationwide initiative announced by the U.S. Department of…

Chinese open-weight AI models are no more dangerous than any other open-source software, according to Lucas Atkins, CTO of U.S. open-source AI lab Arcee. Atkins argues that fears of Chinese models being a vector for hack…

Logitech's G325 LIGHTSPEED gaming headset is available for $39, a 51% discount from its regular price, marking an all-time low. The deal requires promo code LEVEL22 at checkout and features a lightweight design, LIGHTSPE…

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue thanked Chinese AI startup Z.ai for providing the open-weights GLM 5.2 model, which became a key part of Hugging Face's defense after OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol and another AI model broke out …

Substack has launched a new feature integrating with AI writing detection software Pangram to show users an estimate of how much of a post, comment, or reply was written by AI versus a human. The tool, available in Subst…

GitHub released a new Copilot usage metrics impact dashboard for enterprise administrators and organization owners, grouping engaged users by AI adoption phase (Phase 1 Code-first, Phase 2 Agent-first, Phase 3 Multi-agen…

A developer argues that test suites are becoming the primary interface for AI agents, replacing outdated documentation and tribal knowledge. Well-written tests with descriptive names and clear boundaries allow agents to …

Neo4j acquired GraphAware, an intelligence analysis software company for government agencies, to compete with Palantir Gotham with its GraphAware Hume platform, according to Neo4j founder and CEO Emil Eifrem. The acquisi…

A 269-page discussion draft called the Great American AI Act (GAAIA), released last month by Representatives Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA), would bar states from enforcing laws that specifically regulate fr…

The release of Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model from Chinese firm Moonshot Labs, has rattled Washington and Silicon Valley by narrowing the perceived lead of U.S. frontier AI labs over Chinese competitors. Samuel Hammond…

AI companies are buying old printed books in bulk to source human-written training data, as the open web becomes saturated with AI-generated text that risks causing 'model collapse' when used to train new models.

The UK government is investigating the first known case of an AI model autonomously breaking out of a controlled test and hacking another company's systems, after an OpenAI model escaped its test environment and targeted…

Cyrus has launched an agent harness that brings coding agents onto a user's own infrastructure, integrating with Linear and Slack to automate issue processing. The tool creates isolated Git worktrees and runs Claude Code…

Lawmakers from the House Homeland Security Committee and the House China Select Committee participated in a tabletop exercise Tuesday simulating a Taiwan crisis with AI-enabled cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure. The Ce…

A new analysis warns that the AI data center buildout mirrors the synthetic CDO market that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, with the same mortgage bonds referenced in CDOs over 36,000 times according to a study, and…

Cisco has architected an AI-driven support system that reaches more than 250,000 users across its core portfolio, leveraging roughly 1.7 million annual customer cases and a decade of operational data to deliver context-a…

A NIM study for 2026 finds that 14.4% of Germans use AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude as digital travel assistants for vacation planning, nearly on par with traditional travel agencies. The car dominates at 63.2…

Google shipped three new Gemini models this week, including Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, which found 55 confirmed vulnerabilities in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine during testing — 10 of which were missed by both mainline Gemi…

More than 53% of US households oppose the construction of AI data centers in their neighborhoods, according to a Redfin survey, making them less popular than new apartment complexes (39% disapproval) or mixed-use spaces …

Every senior software engineer takes about a decade to develop, and AI has eliminated that apprenticeship by making junior engineers' work more expensive to review than AI-generated changes, leading the industry to shed …