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A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.
Ratel Robotics makes uncrewed ground vehicles for Ukrainian defense. Credit: Viktor Kharyton, Swarmer Ukrainian companies have demonstrated their ability to develop and field autonomous systems at a fraction of the price of Western defense contractors, according to Swarmer Inc.…
Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the narrative AI…
Comau designed its MyCo family of cobots for quick installation, easy programming, and rapid redeployment. | Source: Comau Comau SpA yesterday said it has designed and validated an order-preparation system tested in Decathlon’s e-commerce fulfillment operations. The system is…
Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress. This is now starting to change as academic labs and startups…
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the platform through a…
I turned my Muse assistant into a purple cat. | Screenshot: The Verge Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can "take the busywork off your plate" by helping you with…
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day,…
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. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter…
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60…
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes…
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both…
Monumental’s Pisa robot, which is in charge of laying bricks and mortar. | Source: Monumental Currently, 92% of contractors have a difficult time filling roles in construction, according to the Association of General Contractors. At the same time, the U.S. is short 4.5 million…
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI…
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
Unitree offers its G1 humanoid robot for $13.5K. | Source: Unitree Shares of Unitree Robotics have fallen nearly 40% from their first-day closing price on Aug. 19 2026, erasing roughly $20 billion in market value from that point and about $35 billion from their peak. The…
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device's new camera sensor to "sign every pixel it sees." The…
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.