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Apple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
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Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
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Microsoft has new AI privacy rules for schools
Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New…
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AGIBOT to explain how to scale humanoids from the lab to the real world at RoboBusiness
AGIBOT’s semi-humanoid robot working in a pilot at Longcheer Technology’s Nanchang factory. | Source: AGIBOT While generative AI has redefined the digital world, the true frontier lies in the physical realm in translating embodied AI into scalable, commercial reality. For global…
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Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more…
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ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more…
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Vention opens Physical AI Lab for manufacturing in Montreal
Vention and its partners have invested in space and equipment for its new physical AI lab. Source: Vention To generate high-quality data for training the AI models that operate next-generation robots, you need scale. Vention Inc. today opened its Physical AI Lab in Montreal. The…
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Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
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Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
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Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.
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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
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Во Freedom SuperApp появится ИИ, который будет решать задачи клиентов
Быстрое развитие технологий позволяет Freedom SuperApp предоставлять клиентам одновременно десятки различных услуг, что в итоге может требовать обучения или помощи искусственного интеллекта (ИИ), считает мажоритарный акционер Freedom Holding Corp. Тимур Турлов. «Я искренне верю,…
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Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
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Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio
Maxton Hall. | Image: Prime Video Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it…
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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.
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Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the…
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Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
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Students who use AI generally score worse at school
Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially…
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В Казахстане начнут создавать роботов-гуманоидов: что известно о проекте - BES.media
В Казахстане начнут создавать роботов-гуманоидов: что известно о проекте - BES.media.
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Data of Kazakhstanis will be stored inside the country thanks to data centers – Freedom AI - Kursiv Media Kazakhstan: the latest news from Kazakhstan and the world
Данные казахстанцев будут хранить внутри страны благодаря ЦОДам – Freedom AI - Kursiv Media Казахстан: последние новости Казахстана и мира.
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Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’
A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman…
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What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would…
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Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft…
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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
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Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone
OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem - which relates to…
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Boston Dynamics veteran launches Dynamic Creatures to bring characters to life with robotics
Dynamic Creatures co-founder and CEO Marc Theermann (left) and co-founder and CTO Farbod Farshidian. | Source: Dynamic Creatures | Source: Dynamic Creatures Boston Dynamics is focused on commercializing robots for industrial work, but it’s always had time for some fun, too.…
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ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images
I used ChatGPT and its Sketch tool to make this AI-generated image of a cat. OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw…
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AI can’t outrun a humanoid’s hardware
Editor’s note: Andreas Friedrich, managing director technology and strategy, Allegro MicroSystems, will be speaking at RoboBusiness, which will be on Oct. 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif. He will dissect the critical technological advancements that are making next-generation…
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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.
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