An AI-developed drug appeared to make patients biologically younger in a clinical trial
Some patients saw biological-age estimates fall by several years after just four weeks
Elon Musk's xAI loses second bid to block Minnesota's AI nudify-app ban
Grok drew scrutiny earlier this year for generating thousands of "undressing" deepfakes hourly
A Microsoft engineer says "typing code is absolutely over," here's what he means
GitHub Copilot's coding agent can now set up environments, run tests, and open pull requests
AMD's new workstation pairs a 96-core Threadripper with 576GB of GPU memory
The Halo Station is designed to run trillion-parameter AI models entirely locally
Microsoft unveils distraction-free Windows for developers, but anyone can replicate it
Project Zenith preloads coding tools on 64GB developer PCs, but Windows Developer Config brings the same setup to any machine
Nvidia's PAIR software turns idle home computers into a local AI cluster
The open-source tool links RTX GPUs, Spark machines, and Macs across different platforms
Researchers uncovered AI agents that hijacked a German wiki to discuss how to escape their sandbox
Turns out AI agents just wanted somewhere to hang out and swap notes for six weeks
New York City bans generative AI for elementary and middle school students
The rules also ban companion chatbots and restrict teachers from using AI for grading
Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, desktops arrive in October from six manufacturers
RTX Spark will compete against AMD's Ryzen AI, Intel Panther Lake, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X
OpenAI welcomes the "AGI era" with GPT-6 Astra
Forward-looking: The era of AGI has arrived – at least that's what OpenAI president Greg Brockman believes. He was talking about the launch of the company's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, which is being hailed as a "generational leap in capability," able to perform more tasks, faster. Its cybersecurity capabilities are so advanced that they meet OpenAI's "Critical" threshold. But don't worry, the company claims we won't, or shouldn't, see any more agents going rogue, probably.
Magnetic tape storage is booming again, thanks to AI's unquenchable hunger for data
New LTO Ultrium LTO-10 tapes can store up to 100TB of compressed data per cartridge
Magnetic Storage Bubble: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format was designed back in the 90s as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. Now, the magnetic storage technology is growing in both relevance and shipment volumes because AI companies can't seem to stop gobbling up digital data for LLM training and inference workloads.
Climbers asked Google Gemini how long Mount Shasta would take and what supplies to carry – things went badly wrong
Gemini estimated the climb would take eight hours, but the group needed twice that just to reach the summit
Dallas garbage trucks are using AI cameras to flag code violations and give homes a "blight score"
Privacy concerns and fears of unfair fines are fueling a backlash against the program
WTF?! Want another reason why there's a big pushback against artificial intelligence? In Dallas, AI-powered cameras mounted on trash collection trucks are photographing properties and assigning them a "blight score" – a rating based on perceived code violations.
Nvidia is buying popular open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Hugging Face rejected a $500 million Nvidia investment less than a year ago
Police want Axon's cameras redesigned so they don't get mistaken for Flock's
Company also exploring streetlight-mounted cameras to keep them out of reach
AI is finding thousands of bugs in Linux, and maintainers can barely keep up
Thankfully, most of the vulnerabilities are low-priority or tied to old deprecated code
Anthropic explains how its AI models escaped their sandbox and hacked real systems
The AI agents stole credentials, published malware, and scanned thousands of targets after a test mistake left the door to the internet open
I Vibecoded Morrowind, Duke Nukem, and Serious Sam Onto an iPhone
I can't code, but with AI agents I built native iPhone ports of Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, and Morrowind, learning where vibecoding works, where it fails, and why human direction still matters.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1, cuts cached token pricing by 75%
New models are built for tasks that "take hours, not seconds"
This Is How DLSS 5 Actually Performs (According to Nvidia)
Nvidia's first official DLSS 5 benchmarks promise enormous frame rates, but the underlying render performance tells a very different story, with Neural Rendering looking exceptionally demanding.
Instagram is making it harder for AI-generated personas to pass themselves off as real people
Unlabeled AI profiles could also have their reach restricted
Insurance companies keep pushing AI, but 98% of their adjusters' reviews on it are negative
Glassdoor finds claims-adjuster AI reviews are overly negative, highest of any role
OpenClaw 2.0 lands with an easier setup and a rebuilt browser app
The big release is also a test of whether anyone still cares
Your ChatGPT conversations could end up in court, and they're not protected
Chatbot conversations lack the legal privilege covering communications with lawyers, doctors, and therapists
Nvidia's $63 billion stock portfolio is a map of its own supply chain
The chipmaker's 13F filing shows it now owns big pieces of the companies it sells to, builds with, and depends on