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AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse

Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. "So…

Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers

Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security. In a more…

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is its…

AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words

Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descript…

AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue

A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causi…

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess

A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causi…

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a…

AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms

AWS's Strands Agents team released Strands Decider 2B, an Apache-2.0 decision model built on Qwen3.5-2B-Base. It returns choices, yes/no pro…

Nvidia agent safety push raises questions about who governs AI autonomy

The AI chipmaker’s new safety platform adds controls around AI agents, while enterprises remain responsible for defining their authority and…

Cloudflare Releases Clef and Clef-flash: Open-Weight Decision Models That Return Typed Probabilities Instead of Text

Cloudflare has released Clef (27B) and Clef-flash (9B), open-weight decision models that return typed probabilities instead of text. They ar…

Gemini 4 Argon is late, but Google’s expertise may be an advantage

As a top cloud provider, Google has deep experience integrating its infrastructure with the other Google products that enterprises use.

A Coding Guide to Google Research’s Kauldron: Configs That Are Plain Data, Components Wired by String, and a JAX Trainer You Can Read End to End

In this comprehensive coding guide, we explore Google Research's Kauldron—a JAX training library optimized for research velocity and modular…

Meta expands Muse to small businesses

The move comes as agentic AI plays an increasingly big part in business operations, sparking oversight concerns.

Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist can…

Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print

Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you…

ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and…

Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, re…