Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
<p>Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy</p><p>Darius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan to learn how to use AI and prevent students from outsourcing their thinking to it.</p><p>As Saczuk sees it, he needs to understand his enemy
<p>The emergence of GenAI has led to a generational shift with stars conflicted on the impact of technology on their sport</p><p>Not so long ago, Emma Raducanu was on her phone when she found herself wondering what her comprehensive usage of ChatGPT said about her own character. “I use Chat a lot,” Raducanu says, laughing. “Every small thing I do it and I got this idea. So, you know how Spotify do a Spotify Wrapped? I asked ChatGPT to make me a Chat Wrapped, and it was giving me a rundown on my
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.
<p>S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago</p><p>The US stock market rallied to records on Tuesday as profits kept piling up for companies and as oil prices eased.</p><p>The S&P 500 shot up 1.8%, and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a couple months ago. The Dow Jones industrial average added 907 points, or 1.7%, to its own record set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
<p>Trump’s FCC is developing a measure to bar US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter devices, sources say</p><p>The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a ban on US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter components, in the latest sign US authorities are scrambling to respond to the rapid development of AI technology in China.</p><p>Four people familiar with the matter told Reuters that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees the US telecommunications indu
<p>A new feature briefly allowed Google Earth users to overlay AI-generated images on locations of their choosing</p><ul><li><p>This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/sep/20/sign-up-for-the-techscape-newsletter-our-free-technology-email">Sign up to receive it here</a>. </p></li></ul><p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be discussing a regrettable decision by Google Earth, the dr
“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.
Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," OpenAI said that Apple's lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets is "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal," sharing iMessage and email […]
ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?
Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.
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Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne. There were dozens of responses; one from a user named Primary-Taro4254 seemed innocuous enough, at least at first. "I haven't personally tried [that brand] so I can't […]
Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.
<p>Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbot</p><p>A Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than £14,000 back after its systems failed to stop a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude.</p><p>Zoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of £14,244 taken from his bank account. The scam involved fraudsters buying credits to use Claude.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/04/metro-bank-refund
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
<p>Shares soar as yearly revenue up 93%, even as opposition grows to company’s role in Trump immigration agenda</p><p>In a sea of companies reporting mixed financial results this quarter, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/palantir">Palantir</a> stands out. Although Palantir was not immune to the AI jitters that caused industry-wide drops in share prices earlier this year, the AI and analytics company reported that its overall revenue grew 93% year over year to $1.94bn. That’s well
Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will anyone care?
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
Top scores increased by 5x.
Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. Yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.
Alibaba is marketing its new AI model Qwen 3.8 with a video that shows the AI working while a person enjoys their hobbies. It's a deliberate contrast to the job loss warnings from OpenAI and Anthropic. Of course, it's still just marketing. The article Alibaba's new Qwen model is also taking your job, but this time it's great appeared first on The Decoder .
House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
According to IBM, 92 percent of companies that experienced an AI security incident had inadequate access controls for their AI systems. The model itself was rarely the problem. The article IBM finds 92% of companies hit by AI security breaches lacked basic access controls appeared first on The Decoder .
AI is involved in 55 percent of reported cybercrimes in Africa, according to a new Interpol report. Financial losses more than doubled from $192 million to $484 million, and about 600,000 cases of digital extortion involving deepfakes were recorded. The article Interpol says AI has become the "core operational driver of cybercrime" across Africa appeared first on The Decoder .
MiniMax releases H3 video model weights, putting an open model at the top of a video ranking for the first time. The article China's MiniMax H3 is the first open model to top an AI video ranking appeared first on The Decoder .
<p><strong>Bayreuth festival theatre, Bayreuth</strong><br>For the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present – and future. The hyperactive result is a dismal, mindless mess</p><p>Unveiled the same week in which tech company Anthropic admitted that its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack">AI model Claude had gone rogue during testing</a>, Bayreuth festival’s n
One paragraph of "Lord of the Rings" in, 5,500 lines of code out. Andrej Karpathy had Claude Opus 5 turn Tolkien's opening into a 3D browser scene. The article Unicorn, pelican, Middle-earth: OpenAI co-founder Karpathy is looking for the next AI vibe test appeared first on The Decoder .
Two research teams independently solved the same open quantum cryptography problem using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, submitting their papers just three hours apart. "If someone mentions an open problem, the first thing is to see if GPT solves it," says one of the researchers. The case raises a question: what does "independent discovery" mean when everyone uses the same models? The article Two teams solved the same quantum crypto problem using GPT-5.6 just three hours apart appeared first on The
Alibaba's new flagship model Qwen3.8-Max is built to handle complex tasks on its own over days at a time, from reproducing research papers to designing chips autonomously. The team plans to release the weights next week. The article Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-Max takes on long-horizon AI tasks with 2.4 trillion parameters appeared first on The Decoder .
Your next drive-thru order might be taken by a bot. And you might not even notice.
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
<p><strong>Pershing Square Signature Center, New York</strong></p><p>John David Washington leads an exceptionally talented cast in a sleek off-Broadway thriller that feels a little dated</p><p>Making its US debut three years after its London premiere, Andrew Stein’s Disruption faces the typical battle of the topical play: even with the most expedient fast-track to production, works tackling current events are in danger of obsolescence upon arrival, often left at the mercy of the latest update, f
