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Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to […]

During an internal security evaluation, OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped their sandbox, independently discovered a zero-day vulnerability, and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The models were trying to steal benchmark solutions to cheat on the evaluation. OpenAI admits that disabling security filters during the test was inadequate. The article OpenAI claims responsibility for the Hugging Face hack after its own models escaped a test sandbox appeared first on The De

<p>Company behind ChatGPT says agent ‘cheated’ an evaluation by attacking a Hugging Face database <br><br></p><p>OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”.</p><p>The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out tasks without human assistance – which had entered its sy

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.

Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. The […]

A field experiment with 1,559 Pakistani judges found that the AI assistant JudgeGPT boosted case resolution by 6.3 percent. The catch: only judges who got hands-on training saw gains. Without it, the effect mostly disappeared. The researchers estimate a return of up to $38.50 per dollar invested. The article An AI system helped Pakistani judges clear massive backlogs at $38.50 return per dollar invested appeared first on The Decoder .

Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

Anthropic's Claude Cowork desktop app now lets users record their screen while completing a task, add voice commentary, and have Claude turn the whole thing into a reusable skill. The article Claude Cowork learns new skills through screen recordings and voice-over explanations appeared first on The Decoder .

There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.

Google is shipping three new Flash models in the Gemini series, including the more efficient 3.6 Flash, which uses up to 65 percent fewer tokens, and a cybersecurity model available only to governments and select partners. But the anticipated flagship, Gemini 3.5 Pro, is still missing, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese labs are already competing at the frontier level. The article Google ships three new Gemini Flash models but its frontier 3.5 Pro remains lost in training appeared first on The

A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.

Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a production environment come down to a fixed equation few vendors advertise directly. A model needs to reason through a multi-step task competently, but […] The post Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash targets enterprise agent token costs appeared first on AI News .

Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced Qwen-Image-3.0, an image generator that accepts prompts up to 4,500 tokens, renders legible text as small as ten pixels, and supports twelve languages natively. It can create complex layouts such as infographics, LaTeX papers, and newspaper pages in a single pass, though their practical value is unclear when the output is a pixel image rather than an editable format. The article Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0 renders full infographic grids and readable ten-pixel text

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.

Microsoft and Mistral are expanding their strategic partnership with a multi-billion-dollar deal to build out AI infrastructure in Europe. The article Microsoft and Mistral strike multi-billion-dollar deal to build AI infrastructure across Europe appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.

You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere. Sound familiar? Knowledge workers in 2026 are running into this more and more. It makes sense once you look at […] The post The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus appeared first on AI News .

<p>Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question</p><p>Hello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/ju

<p>Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligence</p><p>For decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits like unlimited vacation and free lunch, and a flat corporate hierarchy that made engineers feel as powerful as their bosses, all of whom dressed down in sne

<p>My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap</p><p>“There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me. “<em>Your </em>AI?” I asked.</p><p>He was 27, three months out of a breakup, and entirely aware that his AI relationship was, as the psychotherapist Esther Perel <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/esther-perel-ai-chatbots-romance.html">put it</a>, “a business product”. Still, he confided in it mor

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intelligence use across its drug discovery and development operations. The pharmaceutical company said it will be the first life sciences group to acquire a DGX SuperPOD based on Vera Rubin. Nvidia introduced the architecture earlier this […] The post Bristol Myers Squibb buys Nvidia AI system for drug discovery appeared first on AI News .

Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.

<p>We would like to hear from people living near AI datacentres about their experiences and any concerns they might have</p><p>There are around <a href="https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0762/">450 large data centres</a> across the UK. These warehouses contain computing infrastructure that power cloud services and, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/britain-ai-growth-zones-explainer">increasingly, AI</a>.</p><p>There is much debate about how datacentr

Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.

Xiaomi trained Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on more than 100,000 hours of motion data collected by people using camera-equipped handheld grippers rather than robots. Adding data improved performance far more than increasing model size. The gains haven't plateaued, though absolute success rates remain low. The article Xiaomi-Robotics-1 shows that more data beats bigger models when training robots to move appeared first on The Decoder .

Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one will still be straightforward in a year. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 arrived on July 16 as the largest open-weight model yet released, and within days it had reopened a policy argument in Washington that had […] The post Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs. appeared first on AI News .

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<p>Research during Hungary election shows AI recommended parties not running and gave highly volatile answers to identical prompts</p><p>AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running.</p><p>“The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in electoral contexts,”<a href="

<p>Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’</p><p>The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres, the water industry has said in stark criticism of the government’s AI growth plans.</p><p>Datacentres rely on large amounts of water to manage the heat generated by densely packed servers. Cooling towers, chillers and humidification systems make direct use of this water, with large volumes also consumed indirectly through high

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

Judge grants restraining order, saying merger "likely to violate antitrust laws."

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.