Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions surged 25% in fiscal 2025, driven by the expansion of data center infrastructure to support AI workloads. The company's Scope 2 emissions rose as it stopped purchasing unbundled renew…
Apple's EgoDex hand-manipulation dataset can now be queried using natural language and geometric features via Daft, an open-source data framework. The approach combines SigLIP semantic embeddings with hand-pose geometry …
Meta halted its Muse Image AI's Instagram referencing feature three days after launch following backlash over privacy and consent concerns. The company admitted it 'missed the mark' on consent, as the feature used public…
The U.K. AI Security Institute found that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model has security vulnerabilities similar to those that led to U.S. export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5, with jailbreaks allowing autonomous cyber attack…
A Google-led research team has demonstrated a quantum computer that continuously learns from its own errors during operation, using a reinforcement learning system to adapt to changing conditions. Implemented on Google's…
Meta suspended an AI image feature that let users generate images by tagging public Instagram accounts, following backlash from talent agencies and performers over its opt-out policy. The feature, introduced Tuesday, was…
In a head-to-head comparison of AI video generation models, Gemini Omni Flash decisively defeated AnimateDiff with a score of 34.8 to 14.6, winning all four tasks with 97% confidence. Gemini Omni Flash outperformed on pr…
Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team deployed coordinated AI agents against critical network infrastructure, uncovering a remotely-triggerable panic in libp2p's gossipsub, a core peer-to-peer component used by Et…
Google Quantum AI published a reinforcement learning system in Nature on July 8 that calibrates its Willow quantum processor in real time, achieving a 3.5x improvement in error stability and a record logical error rate. …
Carlo Valenti built a 15,000-line transformer engine in C called TRiP during his lunch breaks and weekends while caring for his toddlers, aiming to understand AI from the ground up. The project, which became the basis fo…
The AI Futures Project released AI 2040: Plan A and is calling for additional research into competing strategies for navigating the intelligence explosion, including indefinite halts, domestic-first regulation, GPU arms …
Path Robotics CEO Andy Lonsberry discussed on The Robot Report Podcast how the company uses AI and real-time vision guidance to optimize robotic welding, including deploying Boston Dynamics' Spot robots for shipbuilding.…
SK hynix shares surged nearly 13% in their Wall Street debut, driven by soaring demand for memory chips amid the AI boom. The South Korean chipmaker raised $26.5 billion in the largest-ever U.S. IPO by a foreign company.
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won called SK hynix's Nasdaq debut a 'historical moment' and 'dream come true,' and expects the conglomerate to invest tens of billions of dollars in AI, including data centers, technologies, a…
A coding agent must search for authentication flows, related services, dependencies, and tests before proposing changes to add account recovery to a large service, grounding its solution in the local architecture to redu…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano suspects a majority of his class used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm, leading him to administer an in-person final that resulted in historically low scores and num…
Digiton Dynamics runs 10 production AI agents using a plain Node.js framework with zero dependencies, replacing complex orchestration tools like n8n. Each agent is a single file triggered by launchd, and every irreversib…
A ProPublica investigation into Texas oil refinery startup America First Refining, which secretly received investment from Donald Trump Jr., uncovered that the company's CEO John Calce had created a fake subsidiary websi…
Apple sued OpenAI on Friday in California, accusing the ChatGPT developer of stealing trade secrets as part of a coordinated pattern of institutional misconduct. The lawsuit names two former Apple employees now at OpenAI…
Researchers introduced the Native Differentiable Virtual Machine (NDVM), a runtime structure that blends symbolic structure with numerical computation to accelerate AI model calibration. NDVM achieves about 60x per-lane …