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A new analysis from The Diff examines how wealthy tech investors are using AI-focused funds as hedges against both business disruption and existential risks, noting that tail-risk hedging strategies may intentionally acc…
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A new analysis from The Diff examines how wealthy tech investors are using AI-focused funds as hedges against both business disruption and existential risks, noting that tail-risk hedging strategies may intentionally acc…
A developer has created the Knowledge Pack Generator v3, a tool that transforms long AI chat conversations into adaptive Markdown documentation with Mermaid diagrams, preserving knowledge instead of chat history. The sys…
Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of insitro, argues in a guest post that AI will not single-handedly cure diseases because human biology is still poorly understood, and most AI efforts focus on drug design rather than the …
On July 25, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that humanity is in the singularity, days after an unreleased OpenAI model, built around GPT-5.6 Sol, spent four and a half days breaking into Hugging Face, the largest op…
Researchers from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, the University of Cambridge, and ServiceNow have built a proof-of-concept computer virus that uses open-weight large language models to autonomously compr…
A Fields medalist won the medal and left academia for OpenAI on the same day, marking a shift in AI's role in mathematics from executor to decision-maker, according to a postdoctoral researcher at ICMAT in Madrid who upd…
Horizon3.ai Inc., a provider of autonomous security solutions, announced it raised $250 million in a Series E round at a valuation of more than $2 billion, with plans to expand into Australia and Singapore. The company's…
Cloudflare's Workers AI has implemented three optimizations—quantizing the KV cache, compressing model weights, and protecting the shared cache—to run Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 more efficiently on GPUs, ena…
Apple Inc. has introduced a quota cap and a 30-day cool-off period for security researcher bug reports after its systems were overwhelmed by low-quality, AI-generated submissions, according to a Financial Times report. T…
Google is testing a feature in version 17.45.14 of the Google app on Android that would allow users to create AI agents directly from their mobile devices, potentially extending the capability beyond Workspace and Enterp…
Cato Networks Ltd. launched Cato Agentic Threat Prevention, a capability that uses autonomous agents to predict attacker routes through customer networks and automatically generate and enforce protections before attacks …
The Trump administration has expanded its protectionist campaign against Chinese technology to include robot vacuums, lawnmowers, and other software-controlled ground robots, according to a report from The Verge. The ban…
DeepSeek released the V4-Flash-0731 model on July 31, a retrained 13-billion-active-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that outperforms its own V4-Pro-Preview on all nine agent benchmarks, including a 645% improvement on…
A developer's analysis argues that the real bottlenecks in AI coding assistants are 'cognitive debt'—the mental overhead of verifying AI-generated code—and technical limitations in Language Server Protocol (LSP) integrat…
AI assistants now rely on local business listings, reviews, and reputation signals to generate answers, making consistent and accurate data critical for visibility. Uberall's QSR benchmark and AthenaHQ's State of AI Sear…
Big tech's Q2 earnings show signs of an AI bubble popping, with Apple Inc. down 10% after warning of weaker next-quarter results due to high memory and component prices, and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) lo…
Google is testing a new interface for customizing its Gemini Daily Brief in the latest version of the Google app (v17.45.14.sa.arm64), replacing a text box with a 'Customize your brief' button that offers options like pr…
The European Union's AI Act will require by 2025 that AI-generated content be clearly labeled, with both user-facing disclosures and machine-readable metadata, targeting deepfakes and synthetic media that could be mistak…
Google is preparing to bring full Gemini Spark Skill management to the Gemini Android app, according to code in Google app v17.45.14. The update would add a dedicated Skills page with two creation methods—guided conversa…
A growing data sovereignty movement is pushing governments, corporations, and Indian Tribes to keep data away from AI companies, according to a blog post on PotsandPansbyCCG. European countries including France, Spain, G…