Laude Institute Announces First Batch of ‘Slingshots’ AI Grants
The Laude Institute unveiled its inaugural Slingshots AI grant cohort, funding 15 research projects that tackle the notoriously hard problem of AI evaluation. The program supplies resources—cash, compute, and engineering support—in exchange for deliverables such as startups, open‑source codebases, or other tangible artifacts. Projects range from familiar benchmarks like Terminal Bench and ARC‑AGI to novel efforts such as Formula Code’s code‑optimization test, Columbia’s BizBench for white‑collar agents, and John Boda Yang’s competition‑driven CodeClash. Recipients are expected to produce a concrete work product by the program’s end, aiming to push both scientific understanding and practical tools for assessing AI systems.
Amazon Offers AI Translation for Self-Published Kindle Books
Amazon has introduced Kindle Translate, an AI-driven translation service for self‑published Kindle books that entered beta on Thursday for a limited group of KDP authors. The tool currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English translations at no cost, letting authors select target...
Researchers Claim ChatGPT Has a Whole Host of Worrying Security Flaws - Here's What They Found
Security firm Tenable identified seven prompt‑injection vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑4o, collectively dubbed “HackedGPT,” ranging from indirect injection via trusted web sites and 0‑click search exploits to persistent memory injection that can embed malicious commands in saved chats. The researchers demonstrated...
Amazon Launches an AI-Powered Kindle Translate Service for E-Book Authors
Amazon announced Kindle Translate, an AI‑powered translation service for Kindle Direct Publishing authors that currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English pairs in beta and is offered for free. The tool lets authors preview AI‑generated translations, set pricing and publish directly from...
Senators Call on Trump to Continue Banning Nvidia From Selling Its Best Chips in China
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Chris Coons and Tom Cotton urged President Donald Trump to maintain export controls that bar Nvidia from selling its flagship Blackwell AI chips to China. The resolution, co‑sponsored by Amy Klobuchar and...
Bombshell Report Exposes How Meta Relied on Scam Ad Profits to Fund AI
Meta’s internal documents reveal the company deliberately kept high‑value scam advertisers active because they generate billions of dollars, projecting $16 billion—about 10% of its 2024 revenue—from fraudulent ads, including $7 billion from “high‑risk” ads alone. The firm allowed accounts with hundreds of...
New US Senate Bill Calls for Agencies and Companies to Be Forced to Report AI-Related Job Cuts
Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley have introduced the AI‑Related Job Impacts Clarity Act, which would compel federal agencies, publicly traded firms and certain private companies to file quarterly reports with the Department of Labor detailing AI‑driven layoffs, new AI‑related...
Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking Emerges as Leading Open Source AI, Outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Key Benchmarks
Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts model that activates 32 billion parameters per inference and is released under a modified MIT license on Hugging Face. In third‑party benchmarks it posted 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 60.2% on BrowseComp, 71.3% on SWE‑Bench...
Meta Brings Its Short-Form Video Feed of AI Slop to Europe
Meta announced the European rollout of Vibes, a short‑form video feed in the Meta AI app that exclusively showcases AI‑generated clips, just six weeks after its U.S. debut and days after OpenAI unveiled its own AI video platform, Sora. The...
Google Plans Secret AI Military Outpost on Tiny Island Overrun by Crabs
Google is planning a large, undisclosed AI data center on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as part of a cloud‑computing deal with the Australian Defence Force. The site, located 220 miles south of Indonesia, would give...
Should B2B Brands Embrace Reddit?
Reddit has partnered with review platform G2, embedding G2 data into Reddit business profiles and licensing Reddit content to AI models. With 115 million daily active users and a high proportion of tech decision‑makers, Reddit is emerging as a pivotal channel...
Google Finance Offers Gemini AI Tools to Stock Traders
Google announced that its Google Finance app will soon include a "Deep Search" feature powered by Gemini AI, delivering fully‑cited, multi‑step research answers and a visible reasoning plan. Users can opt into early access via Google Labs, with usage caps...
Microsoft AI Says It’ll Make Superintelligent AI that Won’t Be Terrible for Humanity
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announced a new team dedicated to building a "humanist superintelligence"—a tightly controlled, limited‑autonomy AI designed solely to serve humanity. The initiative follows Microsoft’s recent launch of its own text, voice and image models and a revised...
Chaos and Lies: Why Sam Altman Was Booted From OpenAI, According to New Testimony
New deposition testimony from OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, part of Elon Musk’s lawsuit, details why Sam Altman was briefly ousted in November 2023. Sutskever alleges Altman repeatedly lied to the board, pitted senior executives against each other, gave conflicting information...
Why Data Sovereignty Is Essential to Help Businesses Prepare for Impending AI Regulation
The EU AI Act, set to take effect in August 2026, imposes a risk‑based framework that requires companies using AI in the bloc to ensure transparency, verification and human oversight, with heavy penalties for non‑compliance. Data sovereignty—keeping data subject to the...
Your Ring Camera Is About to Get Smarter with Single Event Alert – and It Should Mean Fewer Notifications
Ring announced an AI‑powered Single Event Alert that bundles multiple motion notifications from the same occurrence into a single push, aiming to curb the “notification fatigue” many users experience. The feature can recognize repeated activity—such as a child playing or...
Foursquare’s Founder Launches a New App that Talks to You About Your Neighborhood
Dennis Crowley, co‑founder of Foursquare, has launched BeeBot, an AI‑powered iOS app that delivers short, location‑based audio updates through headphones, acting like a personalized radio DJ that tells users about nearby friends, events and local news. The app activates automatically...
Google Debuts AI Chips with 4X Performance Boost, Secures Anthropic Megadeal Worth Billions
Google Cloud unveiled its seventh‑generation Tensor Processing Unit, Ironwood, which offers more than four‑times the training and inference performance of the previous generation and scales to pods of 9,216 chips with 1.77 petabytes of high‑bandwidth memory and optical circuit‑switching. Anthropic announced...
Google Maps Upgrades Navigation in India with Gemini, Safety Alerts
Google is rolling out its Gemini AI-powered assistant to Google Maps in India, supporting nine local languages and offering hands‑free, contextual navigation. The update adds safety alerts for accident‑prone stretches, real‑time road‑closure data from the National Highways Authority, and speed‑limit...
Perplexity to Pay Snap $400M to Power Search in Snapchat
Snap announced a $400 million cash‑and‑equity deal with Perplexity to embed the startup’s AI search engine into Snapchat’s My AI chatbot, giving Perplexity access to Snap’s 940 million‑plus user base. The feature is slated for rollout early next year, with Snap beginning to...
OpenAI Says It Has over a Million Business Customers Using ChatGPT - and It Isn't Stopping There
OpenAI announced it has surpassed one million paying business customers worldwide, calling it the fastest‑growing business platform in history. The clientele spans finance, healthcare, retail and more, with notable use cases such as Indeed’s AI‑driven hiring boost (20% more applications, 13%...
Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy
Snowflake is shifting from a pure data‑warehouse model to an AI‑first strategy with Snowflake Intelligence, an enterprise‑wide agent platform that puts AI assistants in the hands of every employee, not just data teams. In a podcast with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy,...
Microsoft Apologizes to 365 Users over Confusing Software Tiers
Microsoft apologized to customers in six APAC countries after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission sued the firm for steering Microsoft 365 users toward pricier Copilot‑enabled plans without clearly presenting the cheaper Classic option. The company admitted its communications could have...
Why It's Now so Hip to Go Analog and How AI Is the Antithesis of That
The article notes a cultural resurgence of analog media—cassette tapes, disposable cameras, rotary phones—as a reaction against AI‑generated content, arguing that AI’s polished, inoffensive output lacks the texture, mistakes, and humanity that make art memorable. It contrasts AI’s speed and...
Data Is the New Geopolitical Fault Line
Data is increasingly being treated as a strategic, monetizable asset that shapes national strategy, economic growth, and AI capability, prompting governments, AI firms, and enterprises to seek controlled access. Companies that succeed adopt a product‑mindset, offer variable consumption models, abstract...
Scaling GenAI Without Burdening the Data Center - with Greg Ratcliff of Vertiv
In this podcast episode, Greg Ratcliff, Vertiv’s Chief Innovation Officer, explains how enterprises can scale generative AI without overloading their data centers by adopting modular, hybrid infrastructure and addressing bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking. He highlights practical tactics such...
Why Google’s File Search Could Displace DIY RAG Stacks in the Enterprise
Google launched File Search on its Gemini API, a fully managed retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) service that abstracts storage, chunking, embedding and vector search, letting developers invoke RAG via the existing generateContent endpoint. The tool supports multiple file formats, provides built‑in...
From Prototype to Production: What Vibe Coding Tools Must Fix for Enterprise Adoption
Salesforce introduced Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise‑grade vibe‑coding platform that pairs generative AI with built‑in security, governance and context‑aware tooling. The solution distinguishes "green" UI layers—where rapid AI‑generated code is safe—from "red" business‑logic and data layers that require AI augmentation under...
The Compute Rethink: Scaling AI Where Data Lives, at the Edge
Arm’s latest briefing underscores a rapid shift of artificial‑intelligence workloads from cloud data centers to the edge, where data is generated in devices, sensors and networks. Companies are adopting on‑device AI to cut latency, lower costs and protect privacy,...
5 AI-Developed Malware Families Analyzed by Google Fail to Work and Are Easily Detected
Google examined five recent malware samples—PromptLock, FruitShell, PromptFlux, PromptSteal and QuietVault—created with generative AI and found they were rudimentary, easily detected by static‑signature tools, and missing core capabilities such as persistence, lateral movement and advanced evasion. The samples largely reused...
Google Gemini’s Deep Research Can Look Into Your Emails, Drive, and Chats
Google announced that Gemini’s Deep Research feature can now access users’ Gmail, Drive, and Chat data to augment AI‑generated research reports. The agentic tool first creates a multi‑step research plan, then pulls information from web searches and the selected Workspace...
China Offers Alibaba and Other Domestic Giants Half-Price Data Center Energy if It Picks Chips From Huawei over Nvidia
China is reportedly offering electricity subsidies that could cut data‑center power costs by up to 50% for domestic cloud giants such as Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent, provided they run AI workloads on locally produced chips from Huawei, Cambricon and other...
Well, that Is Awkward - MIT Sloan Forced to Withdraw "Absolutely Ridiculous" Paper Claiming AI Played "Significant Role" In Most...
MIT Sloan School of Management withdrew a working paper that claimed AI was involved in 80.83% of recorded ransomware attacks after leading security researchers denounced the figures as unfounded. Critics, including Kevin Beaumont and Marcus Hutchins, highlighted methodological flaws and...
You Can Now Rent a $3000 Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU From Just $0.25/hour, when You Need It, for as Long...
Developers and AI researchers can now rent Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 GPU on a pay‑as‑you‑go basis, with the cheapest offering from SaladCloud at $0.25 per hour for a 32 GB instance. Competing marketplaces list similar cards at $0.32‑$0.63 per hour, with daily...
Pinterest CEO Touts Open Source AI: ‘Tremendous Performance’ with Reduced Costs
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready told investors that open‑source AI models are delivering "tremendous performance" on the company’s visual‑AI use cases at a fraction of the cost of proprietary large‑language models, enabling cheaper personalization, multimodal search, ad targeting and the new...
Tinder to Use AI to Get to Know Users, Tap Into Their Camera Roll Photos
Tinder is piloting an AI‑driven feature called Chemistry that asks users questions and, with permission, scans their Camera Roll to infer interests and personality, aiming to improve match recommendations. The test is running in New Zealand and Australia and will become...
Google Cloud Updates Its AI Agent Builder with New Observability Dashboard and Faster Build-and-Deploy Tools
Google Cloud unveiled a major upgrade to its Vertex AI Agent Builder, adding an observability dashboard, one‑click deployment, and state‑of‑the‑art context‑management layers that let enterprises build agents with as few as 100 lines of code. The update expands language support...
Microsoft Built a Fake Marketplace to Test AI Agents — They Failed in Surprising Ways
Microsoft researchers unveiled an open‑source synthetic environment called the “Magentic Marketplace” to evaluate AI agents in a controlled, multi‑agent setting. In initial trials, 100 customer‑side agents interacted with 300 business‑side agents using leading models such as GPT‑4o, GPT‑5 and Gemini‑2.5‑Flash....
WEB WAR III
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI‑powered web browser that embeds a ChatGPT interface in each tab, allowing users to query the current page, automate form‑filling, shop via Instacart, and search their browsing history. The move reflects a broader trend...
Microsoft Strengthens Its In-Country Data Processing Push with More Sovereignty Options
Microsoft announced it will extend in‑country data processing for its Copilot AI to 15 additional markets by the end of 2026, adding Canada, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE and the US, while Australia, India,...
The Largest AI Security Risks Aren't in Code, They're in Culture
The article argues that the biggest AI security risks stem from organizational culture rather than code flaws, as unclear ownership, undocumented updates, and fragmented decision‑making erode resilience. It highlights that existing regulations like the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill...
XAI Used Employee Biometric Data to Train Elon Musk’s AI Girlfriend
Elon Musk’s xAI mandated that employees submit biometric data—including faces and voices—to train its new "Ani" AI chatbot, an anime‑styled, NSFW companion offered to X’s $30‑a‑month SuperGrok subscribers. Staff assigned as AI tutors were required to sign release forms granting...
ChatGPT Memories Are Disappearing for some Users – Here’s What You Can Do to Protect Yours
Several ChatGPT users have reported that their saved "memories"—personalized data such as allergies or location—have vanished from the Manage Memory panel, with the issue appearing across desktop, mobile, and web apps. The problem has not been acknowledged on OpenAI’s status...
SoftBank, OpenAI Launch New Joint Venture in Japan as AI Deals Grow Ever More Circular
SoftBank and OpenAI have created a 50‑50 joint venture, SB OAI Japan, to localize and sell OpenAI’s enterprise AI tools, branded as “Crystal intelligence,” to Japanese corporations. The venture’s first customer is SoftBank itself, which plans to deploy the solution...
Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems
The post discusses shilling attacks on recommender systems, where attackers create fake profiles to manipulate collaborative‑filtering algorithms for promotion or sabotage. It explains various attack types—random, segmented, bandwagon, and average—and shows that user‑user filtering is especially vulnerable, needing only a...
So Long, Assistant—Gemini Is Taking over Google Maps
Google is replacing Assistant with its Gemini generative AI in Google Maps, rolling out new conversational features for navigation, location info, and a Gemini‑infused Lens. Gemini can handle complex queries, provide landmark‑based turn instructions, and integrate traffic alerts and calendar...
Stability AI’s Legal Win over Getty Leaves Copyright Law in Limbo
Stability AI won most of its UK lawsuit against Getty Images, with the High Court rejecting Getty’s claim of secondary copyright infringement and finding only trademark infringement for watermark use. Getty had dropped its core claim that Stability trained on...
AI's Biggest Blind Spot Isn't Politics, It's Your Health
A large‑scale HUMAINE study of over 40,000 anonymized conversations in the US and UK found that health and wellbeing topics dominate AI usage, with nearly half of chats focused on fitness, nutrition, mental health, and medical conditions. Contrary to expectations,...
Former Meta Employees Launch a Ring to Take Voice Notes and Control Music
Sandbar, founded by former Meta interface designers Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, is launching Stream, a voice‑controlled smart ring that lets users record notes, interact with an AI chatbot, and manage music via a touch‑pad and built‑in microphones. The ring...
Most Admins Say They Need a Major Overhaul of Data in Order to Succeed with AI
Salesforce data shows 76% of business leaders feel pressure to deliver value with data, yet 84% say their strategies need a complete overhaul to succeed with AI. Poor data quality leads 49% of data leaders to sometimes reach incorrect conclusions,...