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Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 24d ago
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
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SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
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Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
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US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
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As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
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Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
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Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.
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Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.
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High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
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AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
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How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.
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Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required
The last two versions of Chrome have included more patches than the previous 23 combined.
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Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety
Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.
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With a stateless makeover, new MCP spec targets enterprise scale
Plus, a new deprecation policy ensures features aren't removed suddenly.
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Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?
Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics.
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Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.
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Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.
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What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.
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Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation
Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.
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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
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“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
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Verizon seeks AI profits with mini data centers, $1B dark fiber deal with Google
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.
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Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
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Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."
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Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
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Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
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AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say
Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.
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AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
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AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
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Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
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OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
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Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
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Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.
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Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
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Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
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San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
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It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
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xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
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Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
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Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.
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Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
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OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
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