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- OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with ind...
- Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
- Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and un...
- Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.
- The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history...
- Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its prom...
- Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta sp...
- Retro gaming is being overrun with AI Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected pr...
- Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a ...
- Designing an AI serving harness built to last The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capab...
- Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren't enough to address their concerns. "This does nothing to...
- Meta turns Muse sharing back on Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to find. The researchers said they had been able to find Muse pages like a marketing company's internal revenue review ...
- Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which yo...
- Discord now formats Markdown previews right Discord's latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with "a bunch of symbols," according to the company. LLMs and AI agents often rely on Markdown files for inst...
- The Foundations of Scalable AI A scalable AI system requires a strong foundation. Data, engineering, platforms, operating models, and governance must converge to work as one. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Future conference explores what it takes to ...
- In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people's AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrel...
- Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed ...
- Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Stev...
- Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’ Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets - ...
- OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2 million, followed by A...
- Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.
- Making the case for context-aware AI Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships t...
- AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a m...
- Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding...
- Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee co...
- Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's av...
- The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
- Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to use an AI agent on the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits. The embrace o...
- OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
- Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
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