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American entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk once again headed the authoritative Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His fortune as of September 2026 is estimated at $919 billion. Next on the list: Larry Page ($286 billion — $290 billion) — co-founder of the search engine…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace…
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?
President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the…
UltraSense claims that ultrasound can mitigate the wear and tear at the point of tactile sensing. Source: UltraSense Physical AI is moving from digital reasoning into real-world interaction. Robots can see, plan, navigate, and move with sophistication. Yet manipulation depends…
In Kazakhstan, it is planned to provide more than 40 thousand km of republican and regional roads with mobile communication. To do this, more than 500 antenna-mast structures and base stations will be built, the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development reported. The progress of the project...
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a…
Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev begins a working visit to Delhi. On September 12–13, India will host the XVIII BRICS summit, where Kazakhstan participates as a partner country, Kazinform reports. Trade and Investment Kazakhstan and India have maintained diplomatic relations for over 30 years,…
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
«ИИ может убить всех нас»: разработчики нейросетей покинули Anthropic Kursiv Media
The Robot Report Podcast · One brick at a time: How Monumental uses robotics to build walls Salar al Khafaji, founder and CEO of Monumental. In Episode 261 of The Robot Report Podcast, we learn about “Walls as a Service” and the emerging construction opportunity for robotics and…
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in…
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Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will…
ASI is providing autonomy to existing field equipment. Source; Autonomous Solutions Inc. Today’s autonomous vehicle fleets are successfully addressing pain points in geographically remote or rugged locations. Everyday, the technology is improving worker safety and operational…
While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather…
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
By September 1, 2026, the National Antifraud Center helped block fraudulent transactions worth 127 billion tenge. Currently, more than 270 participants are connected to the system, as reported at the Central Asia Fintech Summit 2026 in Almaty. At the summit it was noted that the Anti-Fraud Center became one of...
After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded…
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23…
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
Sponsored by GAM. GAM rack, pinion, and gearbox systems are optimized for high performance in all the components. (Image: GAM.) Picture a scissor car jack — the one in your trunk for changing a tire. The spinning motion as you turn the crank translates to the linear motion as…
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the…