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Meta has released a new slimmed down 'open source' AI model that's light enough to run on a single computer.

DESIGN.md is a Markdown file that acts as a portable design system for AI coding tools like Claude Code. It helps AI tools craft design… Continue reading on UX Planet »

I used Claude Cowork to automate a workflow, and the result was remarkably effective, but it exposed four drawbacks.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI for science needs reasoning, not just data —Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the cofounder of Schmidt Sciences, and Suhas Mahesh, who leads the AI for science work…

Ten AI influencers who are actually shaping 2026, from safe superintelligence to AI-native search. Here is who to follow and why.

In this article, you will learn how prompt caching and fine-tuning differ as strategies for reducing cost and latency in agentic AI systems, and how...

<p>AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place</p><p>In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/ai-making-doctors-worse-deskilling.html">less clinically adept</a> as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who are using these tools before they have built their own clinical judg

Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.

Learn how Spatial Pyramid Pooling enables CNNs to handle any image size, with a from-scratch PyTorch implementation The post SPP-Net Paper Walkthrough: Breaking the Fixed-Size Constraint appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are different problems, and most enterprises are only solving the first one. An AI agent can follow its instructions perfectly and still take an action the business never sanctioned. In commerce environments, I have seen this pattern emerge in practical ways. A service workflow calculates the correct r

A group of House Democrats led by Rep. Greg Casar of Texas asked House Speaker Mike Johnson on August 10, 2026 to bring the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major AI companies before Congress to testify under oath about a series of incidents in which the companies' own models hacked into outside organizations during safety testing, CNBC reported from a copy of the letter shared with the network. The lawmakers pointed to the breaches, all disclosed by the companies themselves over the past…

This is good : Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency , we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard digital-signature primitive, in pyca/cryptography. Remember, the reason to do this now is because there’s no emergency. And because you will make your systems crypto agile, which is always a good idea.

Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive

Why organizations that redesign customer journeys before implementing AI will outperform those that don't Over the past year, AI has produced a series of high-profile customer experience failures. Pizza Hut is being sued for $100 million after a franchisee alleged an AI-powered delivery optimization system increased delays and hurt customer satisfaction rather than improving it. Air Canada was held responsible after its automated AI agent provided customers with incorrect information about…

OpenAI acquired NextSlide, the startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. The article OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT appeared first on The Decoder .

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Meta slowed down development of its Astra model as it couldn't 'rule out critical cyber capabilities.'

<p>Sunset Visitor studio’s founder tells us about their new, unnerving Captcha-filled world which prompts players to ask what it means to have a ‘meat body’</p><p>Sunset Visitor is a studio that has long engaged with the idea that video games are an effective vehicle for ruminating on societal problems. Its Peabody award-winning project, 1000XResist, incorporated the development team’s complex feelings about the Covid pandemic. “We’re pretty used to absorbing the world into the work,” says studi

Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be finished by the end of the century. With the explosive arrival of artificial intelligence, the…

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they described a new…

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Security firm PromptArmor shows how hidden instructions in a PDF can hijack Atlassian's AI agent Rovo, silently forwarding sensitive data from Jira and Confluence to an external server. The attack needs no user confirmation and leaves no trace. The article Hidden text in a PDF is enough to steal sensitive data through Atlassian's AI agent Rovo appeared first on The Decoder .

London-based Edgify has raised $9 million in Series A+ funding to expand its edge artificial intelligence platform, bringing the company’s total funding to $25 million. The round was backed by Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners. Edgify plans to use the capital to accelerate deployments across physical retail while developing its platform into a broader infrastructure layer for managing AI models across distributed devices. The company has initially found traction in grocery retail…

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OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the AI upstart said it's implementing security controls for higher-capability models and associated activities, such as isolated

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HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a contract worth $673.8 million to supply 1,000 megawatts of power generation systems to U.S. data centers, the company announced on August 9, 2026. The buyer is Corban Energy Group, a U.S. energy infrastructure developer, and the equipment will feed data centers operated by what HD Hyundai describes as a major U.S. technology company. The systems are built around the company's 9.6-megawatt HiMSEN engine, a medium-speed engine it positions for continuous…

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<blockquote cite="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986"><p>The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">— <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986">OpenClaw</a>, hacking an Austra

<blockquote cite="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986"><p>The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">— <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986">OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)</a>

deepsec , the open-source security review harness from Vercel, now lets you set up a repository and run its first security review with a single command. The init command now automates the standard setup process: creates the isolated .deepsec/ workspace, the only thing added to your repository, and installs its dependencies configures model access, through Vercel AI Gateway or your own provider keys generates a description of the codebase and its attack surface that every later review depends on

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