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OriginalThe AI assistant is a spec now, and Elon Musk just made it a fight
Your phone, TV, car and even your robot vacuum now ship with an AI assistant inside, and Musk's Grok is the loudest new entrant. Here's how the assistants actually differ, and why the one bundled with a device should be near the bottom of your buying checklist.
This week's humanoid demos: what they actually proved
Another week, another wave of slick humanoid videos and confident timelines. We watched them frame by frame and asked the only question that matters: what's genuinely new here, and what's the same staged demo in a fresh outfit?
On-device AI vs. the cloud in home robots
Every robot now claims to be "AI-powered" — but where that AI actually runs changes everything: how private you are, how fast the robot reacts, and whether it still works when your internet goes down. Here's the difference in plain English.
Lidar vs. vSLAM: how robot vacuums see your home
Two robots can carry the same suction motor and clean completely differently — because they navigate differently. Here's the plain-English difference between lidar and camera-based vSLAM, and which to pick.
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SyndicatedAnthropic wants governments to have the power to block dangerous AI deployments
Anthropic has published two policy frameworks calling for governments to have the legal authority to block dangerous AI deployments and for economic safeguards to protect workers as AI reshapes the labour market. The Advanced AI Framework covers safety regulation. The Economic…
Read at sourceA Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison
We implement an instrumented workflow for Microsoft SkillOpt end to end. We set up the repository, connect OpenAI-compatible model access, and configure the optimizer and target models. We evaluate the original seed skill as a baseline, then run a real optimization loop with…
Read at sourceOpenAI says China-linked accounts used ChatGPT to fuel opposition to US data centres
OpenAI said a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to China attempted to stir up local opposition to US data centres by posing as Americans and posting AI-generated content about rising electricity costs. The company nicknamed the campaign “Data Center Bandwagon” and said the…
Read at sourceIt blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts
Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale
Read at sourceGoogle's new open model DiffusionGemma generates text from noise instead of word by word
Google released DiffusionGemma, a 26-billion-parameter model that generates text not token by token but through diffusion, similar to how image AI turns noise into a picture. According to Nvidia, it hits about 1,000 tokens per second on a single H100 GPU, roughly four times…
Read at sourceGoogle AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation
DiffusionGemma is Google DeepMind's experimental 26B open model using text diffusion for up to 4x faster generation on GPUs. The post Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Read at sourceClaude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it…
Read at sourceAnthropic’s Mythos Safeguards Stoke Fears of a ‘Permanent Underclass’
Users are complaining about the sensitive guardrails built into the company's new "Mythos-class" model, Fable 5. They're also worried about might happen next.
Read at sourceOpenAI's IPO slips as Altman tells staff to expect a public offering "within the next year"
Sam Altman told employees he expects an OpenAI IPO "within the next year," but a delay to 2027 is possible. He frames it as caution around self-improving AI, though Anthropic's stronger growth numbers and imminent IPO may be the real reason to wait. The article OpenAI's IPO…
Read at sourceGemini app facing partial outage for some users
As of Wednesday morning (PT), the Gemini app is facing an outage for some users. more…
Read at sourceI turned off Google Photos' Ask Photos because search shouldn't pretend to be a chatbot
Google's attempt at reinventing the wheel deserves scorn
Read at sourceA growing youth movement wants people to delete ChatGPT — here's why
A youth-led movement called QuitGPT is urging people to delete ChatGPT and boycott OpenAI as concerns grow over the company's power, influence and future ambitions.
Read at sourceGoogle déploie trois nouveautés majeures pour Google Home
Grâce à une nouvelle mise à jour, les utilisateurs de Google Home pourront contrôler l’affichage des contenus multimédia par la voix. Les appareils Nest compatibles avec Gemini proposeront par ailleurs un suivi interactif et personnalisé de l’actualité.
Read at sourceOpenAI wants its biggest data center yet, and Nvidia would back the bill
OpenAI is negotiating to lease a planned 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio that could be financially backed by Nvidia, according to The Information. The article OpenAI wants its biggest data center yet, and Nvidia would back the bill appeared first on The Decoder .
Read at sourceClaude Fable 5: The first Mythos model is powerful, expensive, and heavily filtered
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first model in its new Mythos class. It leads nearly every benchmark, including SWE-bench Verified at 95 percent, but costs twice as much as Opus 4.8 at 10 or 50 dollars per million tokens. Strict safety filters block about nine percent…
Read at sourceGoogle Gemini was down — live outage updates and workarounds to try right now
Gemini users in the US and UK are unable to access the AI chatbot as a potential outage may be blocking access.
Read at sourceCISO Forum Webinar Today: 2026 Mid-Year Review
Learn more about protecting against unmonitored use of generative AI (Shadow AI) in business units and building and enforcing AI governance frameworks. The post CISO Forum Webinar Today: 2026 Mid-Year Review appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Read at sourceGermany's National Security Council greenights an AI Safety Institute modeled after the UK's AISI
Germany's National Security Council has decided to establish an AI security institute. The "DE-AISI" will test frontier models from Anthropic or OpenAI for security risks, following the British model. But as long as the EU doesn't have its own frontier models, it remains…
Read at sourceSiri AI may actively encourage users to take a break from it — something ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude told me they don't do
It's clear Apple's taking a very different approach to AI chatbots than some of its rivals.
Read at sourceGoogle's NotebookLM now runs its own cloud computer with code execution and agent-based research
Google is giving NotebookLM a major upgrade. The research tool now runs on Gemini 3.5 Flash, has its own cloud computer for code execution, and can find sources on its own via Google Search. In internal tests, the new system beat the previous version up to 78.2 percent of the…
Read at sourceTiming Trick Cuts Energy Used in LLM Training by Up to 14 Percent
OpenAI ’s fourth large language model (LLM), GPT-4 , took an estimated 50 Gigawatt-hours to train, or the equivalent of 5,000 American homes ‘ yearly power consumption. That was in 2023. Since then, the computational resources used to train frontier LLMs have only increased ,…
Read at sourceTop AI Coding Agents and Development Platforms in 2026: Atoms, Devin, Windsurf, Cursor, Warp, and More Compared
Software development has changed. Engineers no longer type most code by hand. They describe intent, and AI agents do the work. Modern tools plan tasks, edit across files, run tests, and open pull requests. Many now ship to production with limited supervision. No single tool fits…
Read at sourceTraduire en temps réel dans plus de 70 langues : Google présente Gemini 3.5 Translate
Google déploie Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, capable de traduire vos conversations en temps réel dans plus de 70 langues.
Read at sourceAnthropic Releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5: Same Underlying Model, Different Safeguards, New Mythos-Class Tier
Claude Fable 5 ships generally available with classifiers; Mythos 5 stays limited, cyber safeguards lifted, through Project Glasswing. The post Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5: Same Underlying Model, Different Safeguards, New Mythos-Class Tier appeared…
Read at sourceAnthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful AI Yet, With Cyber Safeguards
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety classifiers. Fable 5 goes to the public. Its twin,…
Read at sourceBuilding a Code Dataset Pipeline from NVIDIA Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 Metadata with Streaming, Pandas, and tiktoken
In this tutorial, we work with NVIDIA's Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 dataset as a large-scale metadata index for code pretraining research. We stream the dataset instead of downloading it, inspect its schema, and build a manageable sample. We analyze languages, file extensions,…
Read at sourceAnthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with major gains in coding and science
Anthropic ships two new models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, that claim to blow past the current Opus generation, especially in coding and research. Fable 5 finished a code migration for Stripe in one day that would have taken a team two months. Mythos 5 designed drug candidates…
Read at sourceGoogle Releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a Streaming Speech-to-Speech Audio Model Covering 70+ Languages Across Meet, Translate, and the Live API
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate streams speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages. It generates audio continuously, staying a few seconds behind the speaker. The model reaches developers via the Gemini Live API, plus Google Meet and the Translate app. The post Google Releases…
Read at sourceAI Can Help Track the World’s Shrinking Glaciers
Tracking how fast glaciers are shrinking is crucial for measuring the pace of climate change and projecting future sea level rises. This is normally a painstaking manual job, but a new approach that enables AI to analyze satellite images of glaciers anywhere in the world could…
Read at sourceFive things you need to know about AI
At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few things from our first AI10 list, an annual guide to the most important trends in this buzzy world,…
Read at sourceNVIDIA cuTile Python Tutorial: Building Tiled GPU Kernels for Vector Addition, Matrix Addition, and Matrix Multiplication in Colab
In this tutorial, we implement a hands-on workflow for NVIDIA cuTile Python, a tile-based GPU programming interface for CUDA-style kernels in Python. We prepare a Colab-friendly environment and check GPU, driver, CUDA, and cuTile availability before running kernels. We then…
Read at sourceAI Worm
Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm . The coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into. This is the closest to John Brunner’s original 1975 conception of a computer worm that…
Read at sourceThe Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos
On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into…
Read at sourceScientists are seriously asking if bees and ChatGPT are conscious
New studies suggest consciousness can't be judged solely by behavior, whether it's a chatbot discussing philosophy or a bee searching for nectar. Researchers are increasingly focusing on the internal mechanisms of brains and computers, concluding that today's AI is likely not…
Read at sourceHow courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one. She reads…
Read at sourceThe Classical Advances Needed to Make Quantum Computers Tick
Quantum computers promise to one day solve problems beyond the most powerful supercomputers imaginable. But it’s often underappreciated how much classical computing it takes just to operate these machines. As qubit counts rise, innovations in this supporting infrastructure will…
Read at source7 Ways New Engineers Can Flourish in the Age of AI
New graduates’ careers are unfolding in an era when AI is not optional. The most successful engineers treat artificial intelligence as leverage, not competition. Here are seven tips to help keep young professionals in demand no matter how quickly the field’s tools evolve. 1.…
Read at sourceAI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers
Researchers are using machine learning algorithms to decrypt historical pencil-and-paper ciphers.
Read at sourceWhy Aren’t We Measuring How AI Affects Humans?
As AI systems become more capable, a lot of resources and effort are being put toward measuring their abilities. Researchers look at technical evaluation metrics, subject AIs to reasoning tests, track their throughput, and much more. But there’s one key metric that often gets…
Read at sourceRehumanizing global health care with agentic AI
The global health care sector is under increasing strain.  Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care…
Read at sourceHow small businesses can leverage AI
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,sign up here. From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of…
Read at sourceNew Server Hopes to Break Through AI’s “Memory Wall”
Memory is arguably the most serious constraint on modern AI large language models (LLMs). According to one influential paper , LLM token generation is an inherently memory-bound task, meaning the rate at which models output text is limited by how quickly data can be read in from…
Read at sourceHow the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and…
Read at sourceFinding Success in Industry as a Chip Designer
I have been an application-specific IC (ASIC) designer for almost three decades. Over that time, I’ve moved through the full academic trajectory, from graduate student to full professor; later, I transitioned to industry after an unsuccessful stint at entrepreneurship. When I…
Read at sourceThe AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season
It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their task is to help shape AI, he was met with a resounding chorus of boos. “I…
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