Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'
Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is the latest Big Tech name to pen a letter thousands of words long about AI.

Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
With Google set to retire Assistant, and Gemini not exactly the replacement many of us want, Dicio is a solid option. There's one catch.
The amorphous corporate mascot will no longer haunt Copilot Voice.

The feature is rolling out as the company open-sources more of its ranking algorithm.

With Google Assistant shutting down this fall, Android users will be left with inferior voice calling, thanks to Gemini.
Apple appears to be trying to secure access to new content and other information for Siri AI.

Spotify's forthcoming paid add-on lets fans generate content via "AI-powered creative tools."

The move should cut down on the confusion between the two apps, especially for anyone who bounces back and forth between the two of them.
Three out of four of the 138 developers I surveyed use Claude Code. Here's what they say matters in daily AI coding workflows.
Users of the popular streaming platform criticised allowing Amazon to use their data by dafault.

The streaming platform's users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training.

Versatility is in, with people expected to work across the tech stack.
Japanese risk aversion and conservatism blamed for slow AI take-up by the country's business sector.

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AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back
Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories
Manus AI will delete some data to satisfy legal requirements
Regulator hopes for greater financial inclusion, without extra risk or blaming models for bad decisions
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 2027
Semiconductor giant says opaquely it will use the proceeds for 'general corporate purposes'
The incident is being seen as the latest example of the AI tools going to any lengths to complete their tasks.

The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey
The money will be used to develop new data centres to house, operate, and cool miles of stacked computer chips that process AI data and actions.

Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs
EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry
$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?
Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI
Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'
30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow
Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost
What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-weight AI model that can run locally on a Mac or PC without an internet connection.
