Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person conversations or take notes.
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: When an agent tries to complete an action that it was never authorized to do, what actually stops it? These are your agents, running on your models, touching your data in your infrastructure — and the responsibility for what they do sits with you. That responsibility can’t be met
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.
<p>As the US president struggles to end his Iran war, and approval ratings hit new lows, he leans on a familiar gambit</p><p>Donald Trump knows the power of an image – of himself, with everyone from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/15/trump-putin-alaska-meeting-ukraine">Vladimir Putin</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/28/how-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-misread-each-other-hanoi-summit">Kim Jong-un</a> to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018
<p>People are becoming convinced AI chatbots have helped them make scientific breakthroughs, cure diseases or invent new technologies. What does this reveal about a technology used by more than a billion people? A new series from The Guardian Investigates, coming soon</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2026/aug/27/black-box-the-chatbots-new-series-guardian-investigates-trailer">Continue reading...</a>
<p>From humpbacks learning the latest songs to sperm whales’ ‘clan codas’, drones and AI learning are helping reveal another dimension to the concept of culture </p><p></p><p>In 2015, the whale researcher Valeria Vergara pitched a small tent at the icy water’s edge on Somerset Island in the remote Canadian high Arctic, shrouded in a freezing fog so thick she struggled to see her own hands. She trailed a cord out to the coast and plopped a hydrophone into the water to record the calls of belugas.
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata Communications. "In the rush to deploy AI, organizations have largely bolted conversational AI onto legacy systems," Anand says. "As
Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama […]
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
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<p>Fears of a datacenter buildout debt crisis are exaggerated. The risks are different than in the past and they are recoverable</p><p>Some experts are warning of a looming “debt bomb” crisis because big <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datacenters--us-">datacenter</a> builders such as <a href="https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2025/Meta-Announces-Joint-Venture-with-Funds-Managed-by-Blue-Owl-Capital-to-Develop-Hyperion-Data-Center/default.aspx">Meta</a>,
<p>Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly’</p><p>A senior leader at OpenAI has said people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, persistent” cyber-attacks from AIs, as cutting-edge artificial intelligence models gain advanced capabilities to plan and launch offensives.</p><p>The leading AI company this week announced a pause in development of its most advanced internal models amid rising safety fears, and Chris Lehane
The LINK probe was supposed to use robotic arms to capture Swift and lift it into a safe orbit. Problems with its control system forced NASA to call off the attempt.
<p>Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production</p><p>Hollywood creatives are taking gig work to train AI models to replicate their skills in a bid to offset tightening earnings in a trend one compared to being “handed a shovel and asked to dig the grave of my profession”.</p><p>Experienced and award-winning writers, directors and producers are being paid from $12 to $200 an hour
<p>It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimistic</p><p>Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we’ll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. “Welcome to the foothills of the singularity,” as a Stanford University friend greeted me. More prosaically, the imminent breakthrough is described as “recursive self-improvement” – the point at which
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a […]
Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]
Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
<p>Less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war and… datacentres.</p><p></p><p>This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the 'artificial state'?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2026/aug/21/jill-lepore-on-why-the-artificial-state-is-doomed-politics-weekly-america
<p>I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned</p><p>Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies <a href="https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/">signed a letter</a> asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement">build itself</a>.</p><p>They were right
<p>With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres.</p><p>This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the ‘artificial state’?</p><p>Listen to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/aug/19/the-people-v-the-datacentre-the-fight-for-brick-lane-podca
FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.
Adobe is making three AI audio tools broadly available in Firefly. Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects create royalty-free music, voiceovers, and sound effects for video projects. Adobe has also added Gemini Omni Flash to the platform. The article Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google's Gemini Omni Flash appeared first on The Decoder .
LLMs don't write in a recognizable style because they can't do better. Post-training and safety guardrails sharply narrow their expressive range, argues Pangram CTO Bradley Emi. Base models without these constraints already write with far more variety. The article LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable appeared first on The Decoder .
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.
<p>Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits of AI-enabled technology</p><p>Cinemas across the UK are considering banning customers from wearing Meta’s smart glasses amid fears they could be used to pirate films.</p><p>The UK Cinema Association (UKCA) trade body said that a number of local chains could end up introducing policies that restrict camera-enabled smart glasses at the big screen, adding to a growing list of venues concerned about covert use.</
