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<p>The Michigan Senate candidate is calling for public ownership and other reforms, offering a potential antidote to ideological gridlock</p><p>The Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in modern American politics. He’s praised by progressives, begrudgingly tolerated by moderate Democrats and largely demonized by Republicans.</p><p>He’s also uniquely positioned to forge an all-too-elusive thread of political kinship between the

The leak reveals undercover agents, surveillance groups, and sensitive DHS access.

<p>Human practitioners warn computer-generated offerings lack the empathy and connection central to divination</p><p>“This journey isn’t just about algorithms or data,” an AI psychic named Urban Mystic recently told me. The chatbot, featuring an AI-generated profile photo of a smiling woman surrounded by palm trees, also said I will get married soon, that I have a pink aura and that I may have been an herbalist in a past life.</p><p>“It’s about connecting on a soulful level,” the chatbot said.</

Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one […]

Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

Just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind is releasing Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points. Google says the model is built for extended agent workflows and the full cyber defense lifecycle. Because of those advanced security capabilities, access is limited to selected security experts at first. The article Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just two weeks after Argon with gains across the board appeared first on The Decoder .

To experiment with AI’s predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways.

But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.

The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission.

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.

Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools also help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens. Android development is becoming agent-centric too. The article Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs appeared firs

At DevDay Exchange in Berlin, OpenAI mostly repeated what it had already announced, but it did share a few new details. The AI assistant Dots should roll out more widely in Europe "in a few weeks," and weekly Codex users in Germany have grown twentyfold since January. A clear subtext ran through the sessions and the repeated nods to ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users: OpenAI wants developers to build their businesses directly on its infrastructure. The article OpenAI teases Dots for Europe, but

Anthropic is adding pre-built templates to Claude for Legal. These interactive overviews and tables simplify setup for legal teams and speed up routine work like contract reviews, while more than 60 integrations let firms connect their own databases directly. The article Claude for Legal now verifies sources automatically, then hands the file to a lawyer appeared first on The Decoder .

Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.

Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech recognition model that handles transcription, speaker recognition, and translation and takes its instructions as text prompts. It leads several benchmarks and uses only a sixth of the active parameters of its strongest open rival. Nvidia is also shipping a dataset with more than 800,000 hours of speech, along with tools for fine-tuning. The article Nvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe combines transcription, translation, and speaker re

South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.

<p>Several Mississippi homes have been purchased near datacenters and one resident said realtor outlined target to buy more than 400</p><p>People in a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mississippi">Mississippi</a> neighborhood, many of whom dislike a nearby power plant central to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>’s artificial intelligence ambitions, have received a stark offer – to sell their houses to his company and make way.</p><p>Real estate

<p>AI tools are making it easier to modify and recreate games, raising questions about piracy, copyright and how far the technology could disrupt the industry</p><p><strong>• </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/ng-interactive/2021/nov/24/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming"><strong>Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here</strong></a></p><p>If your social media algorithms have clocked that you’re into video games, s

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like ElevenLabs.

<p>Billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming service, this Turkish show looks like the result of the prompt ‘make it cinematic’</p><p>Just as the world reels from Elon Musk’s AI-powered <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/27/elon-musk-ai-odyssey-movie-grok-christopher-nolan">The Odyssey remake</a> – though “remake” feels rather generous for a seven-minute splat of synthetic sludge – another bucket of AI gunk is dropped on to our faces. For Prime Video’s

The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.

<p>Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them</p><p>A summer of extreme heat, entire villages obliterated in Nepal, a super <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/elnino">El Niño</a> breaking records, Exxon <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-raises-2050-global-emissions-forecast-sees-slower-coal-decline-2026-09-17/">publicly saying</a> we may reach 3C by 2050 – could it possibly be any wors

Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the "16-bit pet care game" is not really a game, but "a daily journal disguised as a pet." Users should talk, not type, with […]

Anthropic manager Felix Rieseberg says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do. He'd rather see prototypes that show taste, empathy, and principled thinking, since in his words, "hunger beats tenure." That sounds empowering, but it pushes the bar for newcomers toward entrepreneurial thinking and assumes a hustle mentality not everyone brings to the job. The article With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is n

Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party software as part of a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR, and IT data but disputes how deep the breach went. The incident shows how vulnerable even leading AI labs are through their external software dependencies. The article AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense appeared first on The Decoder .

Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.

<p>The author believes we are at a turning point as a species – and even in the shadow of big tech it’s up to us how we want to proceed<strong><br></strong></p><p>‘I am a storyteller by trade,” writes Jeanette Winterson on the first page of her 2021 book <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/23/12-bytes-by-jeanette-winterson-review-how-we-got-here-and-where-we-might-go-next">12 Bytes</a>, an idiosyncratic and thought-provoking series of essays in which she considered just how artif

Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.

One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.

<p>Labor government under pressure to create social media watchdog as new online safety standards bill passes lower house</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/oct/28/inflation-abs-labor-anthony-albanese-parliament-greens-david-shoebridge-one-nation-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia politics live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adj

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

Additionally, the N1 chip brings Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.

<p>Three-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research finds</p><p>AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes.</p><p>Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated, in what is thought to be the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the