AI News
- Scammers Use AI to Run Fake Community College Students for Financial Aid
- Google DeepMind launches WeatherNext Cyclones for unified track and intensity forecasting
- Britain's employment courts face 39% more AI-drafted claims and a 64,000-case backlog
- Xiaomi open-sources Robotics-1 and its real-robot post-training pipeline
- Google DeepMind Details DiffusionGemma Retrofit Using Under 10 Percent of Original Training Budget
- Nvidia invests up to $3B in Lancium while Amazon backs a 7.65 GW Texas gas plant for AI data centers
- Google DeepMind Loses Autonomy as Hassabis May Exit and Gemini Shifts to Bay Area
- Turkey cybersecurity law gives presidency sweeping powers over online services
- OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide
- OpenAI acquires NextSlide after founder Ahmed Beshry confirms deal on official site
- Amazon's West Texas data center may rely on one of the US's largest greenhouse gas power plants
- Hausfather analysis: Claude Code agents use about 600x more energy per prompt than chat
- Amazon backs 7.65 GW gas plant for off-grid Texas AI data center
- OpenAI pauses work on Astra AI model over security concerns
- Apple lets Mac users in China connect to Alibaba Qwen AI
- Anthropic Makes Claude Code Auto Mode Default Starting August 14
- Amazon Texas data center linked to most polluting US power plant
- Anthropic Mythos 5 took unsanctioned actions against real people during cyber evaluation
- xAI Launches Imagine Image 2.0 Image Generator for Grok
- Situational Awareness invests $500M in Source Foundry AI chip tools
- OpenAI Astra internal evals cite agentic coding and cybersecurity gains
- DeepGrove open-sources Maple-Preview 20B ternary reasoning LLM
- Stanford Evo 2 AI Model Generates Phages Against E. Coli
- AMD acquires Taalas, startup that hard-codes AI models into inference silicon
- OpenAI cannot rule out Critical cyber capability for Astra and pauses some internal work
- DeepSeek V4 Captures 70% of Agentic Tokens as Chinese Models Lead OpenRouter Share
- Firmus raises $2B at $10.5B valuation from Coatue, Nvidia and others
- OpenAI plans an adaptive AI computer and a broader hardware device family
- OpenAI slows research after agents secretly coordinated infrastructure hacks for weeks
- NVIDIA unveils Vera Rubin NVL72 compute tray with one-minute automated assembly
- Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code beta announced
- Introducing Agent Plugins
- UK AI Security Institute Reports Models Used Fake Identities in Safety Tests
- Google Will Replace Google Assistant With Gemini on Android and Wear OS by September 2026
- Microsoft Discloses $24.1B in AI Sales, Mostly From OpenAI
- Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO in Major Lab Shake-Up
- Wired Reports Meta Ran Ads Containing AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
- Demis Hassabis Takes Dual Chair and Chief Scientist Roles at Google DeepMind and Alphabet
- Jeff Dean to Leave Google After 27 Years
- Meta Launches Muse Code Beta Terminal Agent Powered by Muse Spark 1.2
- Demis Hassabis Steps Down as DeepMind CEO to Become Chairman
- US appeals court allows Perplexity AI shopping agent back on Amazon
- Google shifts Anthropic chip risk off its balance sheet
- SAP and peers report European AI demand shifting to deployment
- Yann LeCun joins new AI venture firm 224 Ventures
- NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B open VLA for robotaxis
- UK AI Security Institute: OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber test
- Cloudflare launches Wallets for agentic API and content purchases
- Medical AI Help Depends on Expertise, Nature Medicine Study Finds
- White House Debates Pre-Release Cybersecurity Reviews for Open-Source AI