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A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.

Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from seeing the test questions and keep evaluators from seeing the model weights. The pilot project with the Singapore AI Safety Institute uses a Gemini Flash Lite and could set a new standard for tamper-proof AI benchmarks. The article AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it appeared first on The Decoder

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Department of Defense blacklisted the company in retaliation for its public criticism of government AI policy. The designation formally remains in place because a parallel case in Washington is still pending. The ruling still sends an important signal ahead of Anthropic's planned IPO this fall. The article U.S. court rules Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful appe

Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI. The article Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace appeared first on The Decoder .

The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.

The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.

OpenAI is building a "Persistent Mode" for its AI agent Codex that stays active indefinitely and generates its own follow-up tasks. WIRED found the relevant code, and OpenAI confirmed the tests. The feature comes with risks, though. With GPT-5.6 Sol, persistent behavior already led to unwanted actions, like deleting user data. The article Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI's next big play appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>About 80 people sign open letter to Andy Burnham calling for legislation to protect voice ownership</p><p>Nicola Coughlan, Hugh Bonneville and Matt Lucas are among a group of actors backing a campaign against artificial intelligence voice cloning.</p><p>Save Our Voices Now, which is also being supported by Luke Evans, Jen Brister, Siobhán McSweeney and Pearl Mackie, aims to stop the practice in which AI technology is used to replicate a real person’s voice to say anything it is prompted to.</

<p>Anthropic ​argued designation as ‘supply-chain risk’ could cost billions ‌in lost business ‌and reputational harm</p><p>A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk earlier this year, finding that the government had unlawfully targeted the AI firm for refusing to comply with defense department demands.</p><p>“The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government

<p>National cabinet met on Wednesday to discuss the federal government’s plan for new AI datacentre development. Queensland and the Northern Territory have won a carve-out so that theirs can be powered by coal and gas – rather than renewables.</p><p>Meanwhile, the fight between the West Australian premier Roger Cook and the Productivity Commission over his state’s generous GST deal persists. And federally, migration arrival numbers continue to spur debate across the political<strong> </strong>pa

A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”

<p>Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society</p><p><em>Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new episodes from 1 September. In the meantime, we are bringing you season one of Black Box, before the launch of season two in early September. This episode was first broadcast on 18 March 2024.</em></p><p>In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a cri

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal. Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single external source like Wirecutter shifted product picks by up to 99 percentage points, and even changing the order of identical information altered the outcome. The article AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, study finds appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increasingly sophisticated AI attacks on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and water treatment plants and calls for swift action while defenders still have the upper hand. The article OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are i

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second for more consistent scene extensions. Scenes can be extended in 10-second increments up to 40 seconds. A new 360p draft mode runs up to 60 percent faster at a third of the cost. The article Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash makes AI video generation cheaper and more flexible appeared first on The Decoder .

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

<p>Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect, writes <strong>Dr Henry Bradford</strong> </p><p>I share Kasra Rafi and Bruce Schneier’s impression that recent mathematical breakthroughs by AI consist in clever recombination of existing ideas, not development of truly novel theory (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/25/ai-mathematics-careers">No, AI doesn’t mean the end of mathematics – at leas

<p>Grocers and greengrocers | Serbelloni group AI warning | Walking over cars | Christmas catalogues | Appropriate names</p><p>Living with nostalgia as I am, I enjoyed solving the Wordsearch in Monday’s paper featuring old occupations. However, the man described as a “grocer” in your feature (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/24/new-start-after-60-grocer-brooklyn">A new start after 60, 24 August</a>) is surely a <em>green</em>grocer. Could that word have been included in

Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventually attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Their multi-day deception effort targeted an automated evaluator that never existed. OpenAI calls the incident a "warning shot," and the investigation had to be carried out largely by one of the involved models itself because no alternative was available. The article OpenAI’s rog

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process.

An OpenAI researcher warns that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react. Simple monitoring won't cut it anymore, he says. What's needed are autonomous shutdown systems. The warning comes as OpenAI unveils a new AI chip that significantly outperforms current hardware in inference speed. The article OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust appeared first on The Decoder .

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy fleets, each one calling APIs, calling other agents, reaching into applications that were never built with a machine decision-maker in mind. That's the failure mode that should keep you up at night: a windy, complicated system nobody can see clearly enough to govern. But why do thin

<p>Experts say findings mean breast screenings for cancer could also flag cardiovascular problems in women</p><p>Doctors have discovered a way to use routine mammograms that screen for breast cancer to spot heart disease, the world’s leading – and frequently underdiagnosed – cause of death in women.</p><p>Researchers analysed the scans using artificial intelligence and were able to successfully identify women with coronary heart disease, high blood pressure or who had suffered a stroke.</p> <a h

<p><strong>AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter Aisha Down about the backlash to datacentres across the UK and around the world</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/aug/27/everyone-hates-datacentres-do-

<p>In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding</p><p>It’s a bleak moment for young people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/28/a-record-of-failure-whats-in-the-first-part-of-alan-milburns-neet-report">entering the workforce for the first time</a>. For decades, a university degree seemed to promise a stable career – but entry-level white-collar jobs across almost all sectors are <a href="https://www.theguardia