Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini’s surge survive slowing model releases?
Ryan Whitwam
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AI // Open the pod doors
With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he’s found a way forward.
Samuel Axon
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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
Ashley Belanger
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Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
Saima Sidik
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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
WIRED
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OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Scharon Harding
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AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
Cyrus Farivar
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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
Financial Times
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Most Read
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop “large-scale abuse.”
Ryan Whitwam
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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Samuel Axon
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Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
John Timmer
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Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren’t coders
Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.
Jeremy Hsu
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AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
Why humans need to moderate humans.
Scharon Harding
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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
Jeremy Hsu
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Reddit signals ominous upcoming “changes” for old.reddit.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some “bad behavior.”
Scharon Harding
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Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch
“Slop” isn’t the only problem.
Nate Anderson
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Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
Ryan Whitwam
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127
SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
Financial Times
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185
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
Jeremy Hsu
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153
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.
Jeremy Hsu
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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
Nate Anderson
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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.
Samuel Axon
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Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
Ashley Belanger
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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.
Dan Goodin
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191
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.
Jeremy Hsu
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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.
Nate Anderson
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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.
Ashley Belanger
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216
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
WIRED
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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.
Nate Anderson
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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.
Ryan Whitwam
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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.
Ryan Whitwam
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New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
Plus, a new policy for the AI protocol ensures features aren’t removed suddenly.
Samuel Axon
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Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
Dan Goodin
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68
Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?
Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics.
Jeremy Hsu
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104
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.
Ashley Belanger
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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.
ProPublica
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