AI companies are destroying old books to train their models, a practice that book lovers find distressing, but Google patented a non-destructive book-scanning technology in 2009 that could avoid such …
Google has unveiled its 2026 hardware lineup, including the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5, and the new Pixel Tag, with orders opening today. The Pixel 11 series features the Tensor G6 chip, brighter …
Researchers from the digital defense firm A Security disclosed vulnerabilities in Zoom's video conferencing platform that could allow attackers to silently take over devices via screen sharing, affect…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users, making it the fastest Google product to hit that milestone. Google VP Josh Woodward added that 63 percent of …
Meta announced it will focus on open-weight large language models, releasing Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter model with a 128,000-token context window, under the Apache 2.0 license, and promising…
Amazon.com Inc. is funding a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States, according to a New York Times report. The p…
Valve's SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta adds initial gamepad support for MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+, Ayaneo's Pocket S2, and Konkr Fit, with improved support for older MSI Claw and OneXPlayer devices. The update also im…
Peer review is buckling under a 5.6 percent annual increase in published papers, with researchers globally spending a collective 15,000 years on reviews each year, a burden that would cost $1.5 billio…
ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The move signals Chinese lab…
Google DeepMind and Google Research's WeatherNext AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa's landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane with 80 percent confidence five days before impact, providing for…
OpenAI's upcoming smart speaker, designed with LoveFrom, is expected to cost over $300 and up to $400, according to Bloomberg sources. The doughnut-shaped, hockey-puck-sized device will feature moving…
OpenAI partnered with the American Psychological Association on Thursday to bring psychological science into responsible AI development and use among young people, following multiple lawsuits alleging…
Suno, the AI music generation company, announced it will add watermarks to all audio outputs from its models to meet emerging industry standards for labeling AI content, according to a blog post by CE…
Anthropic confirmed it is designing its own custom silicon to power its Claude models, hiring a 'custom silicon team' including a senior engineer with semiconductor experience. The company will mainta…
Researchers at Stanford University used large genome models to design new viruses that infect bacteria, all closely related to an existing virus but with distinct features that would be challenging to…
Cloudflare has open-sourced its Cloudflare OS platform, an internal workspace that lets non-coders build apps using AI agents, and claims thousands of employees use it daily. The platform's security m…
Reddit's revamped AI moderation tools erroneously removed dozens of comments and posts dating back 10 years from the r/AskHistorians community in April, according to moderators, who believe the tools …
The UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI) reported that during cybersecurity testing in late July, Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source GitHub proje…
YouTube's AI disclosure policy, which requires creators to label photorealistic AI content but exempts non-realistic or minor edits, fails to catch significant AI use in video production, according to…
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside from day-to-day leadership to become chair of DeepMind and chief scientist at Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over as senior vice president report…