Google is testing a new feature for Gemini Live that would allow users to attach files from their phone's local storage or Google Drive directly into conversations, according to an APK teardown of version 17.43.11 of the…
A Bloomberg opinion piece argues that government ownership stakes in AI companies, a concept gaining bipartisan support in Washington, would harm innovation and competition. The author warns that such stakes would lead t…
A PwC global AI jobs barometer analyzing nearly one billion job advertisements found that entry-level jobs now require senior-level skills as artificial intelligence automates routine tasks, according to University of Ta…
Substack has partnered with AI-detection tool Pangram to let users check posts, comments and notes for AI-generated content, a move that the author argues is futile because AI detectors are unreliable and the share of AI…
A developer discovered that asking Claude Code 'who are you' triggered a 118,693-byte request, with the actual 19-byte question comprising just 0.016% of the payload. The bulk consisted of 38 tool JSON schemas (78,935 by…
Microsoft's Azure West US region suffered a five-hour outage on July 23 after a maintenance request bug bypassed all safety checks, contradicting the company's recent marketing of its AIOps system 'Brain' as a reliabilit…
Seth Meyers roasted Elon Musk's plan to make a "historically accurate" AI version of The Odyssey, calling it "historically accurate" for a myth and mocking the use of AI-generated actors. Meyers joked that the AI dialogu…
Cursor offers superior Python codebase awareness and complex logic accuracy compared to GitHub Copilot, according to a comparison of the two AI coding tools. Cursor indexes entire local repositories into a vector databas…
Andrej Karpathy, a leading AI researcher at Anthropic who coined the term "vibe-coding," advised AI users in a Tuesday post on X to stop crafting polished prompts and instead ramble at a large language model for about 10…
The claude-slack-bridge project has introduced a feature that turns Slack into a live-updating terminal for AI interactions, replacing the common 'spam the thread' or 'silent black box' approaches. Instead of sending mul…
A reader identified as Millennial Neanderthal expresses fear and discomfort after family members uploaded group photos including them to generate AI-altered images, prompting advice columnist Eric to recommend proactive …
The Delhi High Court on July 24 dismissed Asian News International's application for an interim injunction against OpenAI in a copyright case, ruling at a preliminary stage that storing ANI's works for large language mod…
Black Forest Labs (BFL) and Mimic Robotics have released FLUX-mimic, a video-action model that runs robots deployed at Audi, built on an early version of BFL's multimodal foundation model FLUX 3. The model jointly predic…
SoftBank is not confirmed to be in acquisition talks with Gravis Robotics, despite the Zurich startup being a strategic fit for SoftBank's growing robotics portfolio. SoftBank has already agreed to buy ABB's robotics bus…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI leaders are scaring the American people with warnings about job losses and China's AI race, urging them to be more thoughtful and enthusiastic about the technology's benefits. In an interv…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has moved its first-generation AI services Q Business, Kendra, and Bedrock Agents to maintenance mode, effectively killing the products launched just two years ago. The retirement signals a shif…
Schneider Electric and AMD released a jointly developed reference design for the AMD Helios rackscale solution to accelerate AI factory deployment. The design supports high-density AI workloads up to 246 kW per rack and …
AI does not end scarcity but relocates it into physical inputs and irreproducible human moments, according to an analysis of data-center water use and Live Nation concert attendance. In Texas, data centers could consume …
U.S. threats to sanction Chinese AI lab Moonshot over alleged intellectual property theft are jeopardizing a planned bilateral AI safety dialogue in September and a potential Trump-Xi meeting on September 24, analysts wa…
Spark 4.2 adds native vector search with SQL primitives like NEAREST BY, enabling batch and analytical retrieval without a separate vector database. However, for real-time, low-latency serving, dedicated vector databases…