San Francisco-based startup Instinct has generated significant buzz in the AI community this week with its powerful personal assistant, which is currently in private access. While early testers have praised the agent for its ability to handle complex tasks “like magic,” a growing chorus of security experts and early adopters is raising serious questions about […]
LONDON — Inherent, a London-based AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, said its newly released agent, Faraday, outperformed Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 at independently reproducing the findings of published scientific papers — while running on a model with just 27 billion parameters, a fraction of its rivals’ scale. The claim, made […]
Google on Thursday introduced a new interactive “Preferred Sources” button for online publishers, allowing readers to mark a website as a favorite and receive more of its content across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. The move is the latest effort by the search giant to address the growing traffic losses publishers have faced as […]
In a cheeky marketing campaign, Liquid Death teamed up with former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce to propose a solution to the environmental impact of AI data centers, which require massive quantities of water to prevent servers from overheating. “AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water,” Kelce quips in the video. “That’s why […]
Micro1, a four-year-old startup supplying training data to AI labs and corporations, has grown its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, according to a person familiar with the company. The startup retains roughly 60% to 70% of that figure, putting its net annual run rate between […]
Over one-third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s release in November 2022 show significant signs of AI authorship, according to a new study from Pew Research released Thursday. The report, which analyzed nearly half a million English-language webpages from the Common Crawl archive, found that 35% of pages published after the AI chatbot’s launch were likely […]
Meta’s experimental AI-powered gaming app, Pocket, is now available to all users in the United States, marking the company’s latest push to make AI creation tools mainstream. The app, which quietly launched in Brazil last month, allows users to generate small, interactive games using simple AI prompts, then publish them to a scrollable feed for […]
Australian cybersecurity firm Apate is running a global operation that turns the tables on online fraudsters: a fleet of nearly 200,000 AI-powered personas that pose as gullible victims, waste scammers’ time, and extract actionable intelligence for banks, telcos, and crypto analytics firms. The company’s bots field hundreds of thousands of calls and chat conversations daily, […]
Vivodyne, a biotech startup spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, is betting that the future of AI-driven medicine hinges on a simple but elusive resource: high-quality data from living human tissue. The company, which has raised just under $80 million from investors led by Khosla Ventures, last week opened what it calls […]
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor company now operating under SpaceXAI, launched Origin this week, a new code hosting platform that directly competes with GitHub. The move comes as GitHub, the long-dominant code host, faces a growing wave of user frustration over recurring outages and performance degradation — including a worldwide incident on the same day […]
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