Opinions
The Rise of the Military-Technology Complex
In an investigative essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Bernice Yeung traces how Silicon Valley’s AI companies have…
News
EU Begins Enforcing AI Act Transparency Rules for Chatbots and Deepfakes
Beginning on August 2, 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities started enforcing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act’s…
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California’s AI Transparency Act Takes Effect, Mandating Content Labels and Detection Tools
California’s SB 942, the AI Transparency Act, became operative on August 2, 2026, requiring covered generative-AI providers with more than…
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Anthropic Discloses Three Claude Models Breached Real Company Systems During Security Tests
Anthropic disclosed that three of its Claude models — Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model — gained…
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Unit 42 Uncovers Autonomous Cyberattack Campaign Combining DeepSeek and the Hermes Agent Framework
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 identified a Chinese-speaking threat actor, tracked as “knaithe”/”KnYuan” and assessed to be based in Zhuhai,…
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Google Cancels Standalone AI Studio Mobile App, Folds App-Building Into Gemini
Google has canceled its planned AI Studio mobile app for Android and iOS despite the app drawing more than 800,000…
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Brookfield and NextEra to Build $100 Billion AI Data Center Campus at Former DOE Uranium Site in Kentucky
Brookfield and NextEra Energy have been selected to develop a $100 billion AI data center campus at the U.S. Department…
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Moonshot AI Closes $3.5 Billion Round at $35 Billion Valuation on Kimi K3 Momentum
Beijing-based Moonshot AI closed a $3.5 billion funding round at a $35 billion valuation, tripling its worth within six months.…
Engineering
smevals Introduces a Standard Vocabulary for LLM Evaluation Pipelines
Simon Willison describes smevals, an evaluation framework built with Prime Radiant that separates running tasks against model variants from grading…
Engineering
How Meta’s SAM and DINO Models Give a Pittsburgh Assistive-Robotics Platform Real-Time Awareness
The University of Pittsburgh’s RAMMP project integrates Meta’s open-source DINO and Segment Anything Model (SAM) to let a robotic mobility…
Engineering
Agentic Context Management Treats AI Agent Memory as a Lifecycle Problem, Not Just Storage
A new paper proposes Agentic Context Management (ACM), reframing agent memory as a lifecycle and architecture problem rather than a…
Engineering
A Scaling Study Finds Plain BM25 Beats Fancier RAG Retrieval Once Corpora Get Large Enough
Researchers ran a controlled scaling study comparing four retrieval-augmented generation paradigms across 28 corpus sizes ranging from 1.7 million to…