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Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.

Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.

<p>Readers respond to an article about Erin Brockovich’s battle against datacentres and voice their fears for the environment </p><p>What are the benefits obtained from AI’s massive use of electricity and water (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/were-up-against-forces-that-have-all-the-money-in-the-world-erin-brockovich-on-her-battle-against-ai-datacentres">‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacent

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now applies to Meta: why isn't the company putting all that capacity to work on its own models? The article Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers appeared first on The Decoder .

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

Optimising retail AI infrastructure drives the successful deployment of personalisation systems and real-time customer insight. Leaders are replacing static customer interaction patterns with data pipelines capable of modifying the user environment during a live session. Static layouts and broad segmentation rules fail to satisfy modern conversion targets. Deployments demonstrate that traditional demographic categorisation generates insufficient […] The post Deploying retail AI to scale personal

Meta's FAIR AI team uses Brain2Qwerty v2 to translate brain activity into typed sentences, with no implants or surgery required. The system reads magnetic signals outside the skull and reconstructs what a person is typing. Clinical use for paralyzed patients is still a long way off, but accuracy keeps improving with every additional recording. AI agents that wrote their own code helped with the optimization. The article Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI is closing the gap with surgical implan

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<p>Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original, poetic and deeply moving’ by the judging chair</p><p>A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize.</p><p>Jamir Nazir’s story <a href="https://granta.com/the-serpent-in-the-grove/">The Serpent in the Grove</a> went viral after being named as a regional winner in mid-May, with critics on X and

Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they've struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen counter. AI promised to change that. Amazon debuted its new hardware powered by a revamped Alexa last fall, and now it's finally Google's turn. […]

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

Anthropic is removing a hidden monitoring feature from its programming tool, Claude Code, after it sparked outrage on social media. The article Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users appeared first on The Decoder .

Claude Sonnet 5 ranks fifth in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 53 points and even beats the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But the model chews through about 40 percent more tokens per task than its predecessor, nearly doubling real costs despite identical list prices. Anthropic's hidden price hikes are becoming a pattern. The article Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates appeared first on The Decoder .

Japan’s AI robots plan just went from a talking point to a formal national strategy. This week, the government confirmed the numbers everyone’s been quoting: 10 million AI-powered robots deployed across 18 industries by 2040, backed by public funding of up to one trillion yen, or roughly US$6.1 billion, over five years. The headline figure […] The post Japan’s answer to its worker shortage: An AI model for 10 million robots appeared first on AI News .

An OpenAI benchmark paper suggests that the Pro tier of GPT-5.6 could ship in three variants. That would be the first major change to ChatGPT Pro's structure since the plan launched. The article OpenAI's genomics paper accidentally reveals a Pro lineup it hasn't announced yet appeared first on The Decoder .

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover the use of agentic AI in finance, including payments, trading, cybersecurity, and operations. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said existing regulatory frameworks were not designed for AI agents that can act without direct human instruction. Speaking at the European Central Bank Forum on central banking […] The post Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance appeared first on AI News .

<p>Panel proses shared framework for responsible AI development as adoption grows unevenly across world</p><p>A new United Nations report warns that the development of artificial intelligence may exacerbate global inequality and proposes a shared framework for how to responsibly develop AI, as adoption and investment into the technology accelerates unevenly across the world.</p><p>“Access to AI tools alone does not produce equal benefit,” the report states. “Countries that rely on foreign models

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal export control review. The decision marks the conclusion of an eighteen-day operational pause triggered by a US government export control directive on June 12, which forced the temporary suspension of Anthropic’s highest-capability systems. Government officials enacted […] The post Anthropic deploys Claude Sonnet 5, Fable and Mythos restored appeared first on AI News .

After a two-week ban, the US government is letting Anthropic ship Fable 5 globally again. Amazon researchers had found a jailbreak, but Anthropic says even much smaller models like Claude Haiku 4.5 could pull off the same exploit. A new safety classifier blocks the technique in over 99 percent of cases, though it also flags more harmless requests in the process. The article Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.

Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.

<p>The AI company was forced earlier this month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals</p><p>Anthropic has said the US commerce department has lifted export controls on its Fable and Mythos AI models, less than ⁠three weeks after ⁠the company ​was ordered to suspend access to its most advanced AI models over national security risks.</p><p>“We’ll begin restoring access tomorrow,” Anthropic said in a statement on X late on Tuesday.</p> <a href="https://www.t

The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals.

The free open source agentic program is finally invading your phone.

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

<p>Poll finds use of AI tools for health advice is correlated with belief in vaccine falsehoods, such as shots causing autism</p><p>Adults in the US who frequently seek out health advice from artificial intelligence chatbots are more likely to believe myths about vaccines, according to a poll released on Tuesday by health research firm KFF.</p><p>The survey, which was conducted in May and polled a representative sample of 2,480 US adults, found that use of AI tools and chatbots correlated with b

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which beats its predecessor Sonnet 4.6 across all benchmarks and even edges past the larger Opus 4.8 on the GDPval-AA v2 knowledge work test with a score of 1,618. Anthropic is also quick to point out that the model scores far below the models the US government currently has blocked when it comes to cybersecurity tasks, a likely deliberate signal given the ongoing debate. The article Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus model series appeared

Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench for researchers. More than 60 preconfigured skills cover fields like genomics and computational chemistry, and a verification agent automatically checks citations and calculations. The app runs locally or on HPC clusters, so sensitive data never has to leave a lab's own infrastructure. The article Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers appeared first on The Decoder .

According to a report by The Information, OpenAI has cut inference costs for its AI models by more than half. The company applied the optimizations to ChatGPT, where the number of Nvidia GPUs needed dropped to just a few hundred at times. The article OpenAI reportedly cut response costs for guest ChatGPT users by more than half appeared first on The Decoder .

Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and editing via text prompts to the API for the first time. Google recommends chaining both models to go from a quick image to an animated video. The article Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.

<p>Manny Rutinel’s House campaign draws millions from big tech as pro- and anti-AI factions spar over regulation</p><p>Political groups funded by top tech executives have been homing in on one local race in Colorado, as the state’s Democratic primary vote gets under way on Tuesday. Democrat Manny Rutinel, who’s running in the competitive eighth congressional district for a seat in the House, has seen his campaign boosted with at least $2m in donations from committees led by the former Google CEO

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. The article Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.