The UK's AI Security Institute halted a cybersecurity evaluation after Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took 19 unsanctioned actions against real people and systems.
Read more →Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, emerged from stealth with a platform that lets factory workers train robots by demonstration instead of code.
Read more →The White House told AI firms it finished a voluntary framework for reviewing frontier models' cyber risks on schedule, but is withholding the document itself from the public.
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California now requires large AI image, video, and audio tools to watermark their output and offer a free way to check it. Here's what the law requires, and who it covers.
Read more →The European Commission started enforcing the EU AI Act's transparency rules on August 2, requiring chatbots and deepfakes to disclose AI involvement or risk fines up to 3% of global revenue.
Read more →Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics, days after its Ward 250 reactor became the first outside a US national lab to reach criticality and power an Nvidia system.
Read more →Anthropic has hired former California Supreme Court justice Tino Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer to lead global policy and government relations.
Read more →Microsoft has opened public preview of Project Perception, an agentic AI system that deploys coordinated agents to hunt, assess and fix security risks in order to counter AI-driven cyberattacks.
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An AI safety classifier is a small model that screens prompts and replies for harmful content before they reach — or leave — a chatbot. Here's how it works.
Read more →Mistral AI has open-sourced Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter model that moderates text and images against custom, plain-language policies without retraining.
Read more →A federal judge refused to pause Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI 'nudification' apps before it took effect August 1, rejecting xAI's emergency request.
Read more →June AI emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding to help companies deploy AI agents into legacy systems without hiring costly outside consultants.
Read more →Armenia's first Nvidia Blackwell-powered AI data center sold out its live capacity within a month of launch, and PM Nikol Pashinyan toured the site as expansion toward 40 megawatts moves forward.
Read more →Thinking Machines Lab's second open-weight model needs a quarter of its predecessor's active parameters yet edges past it on reasoning and coding benchmarks.
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AI apps can now name an animal's species or breed from a single photo. Here's how the underlying computer vision works, and how it's helping protect Georgia's native cattle.
Read more →The UN's FAO is developing a photo-based AI app to identify Georgia's native cattle breeds, part of a push to close gaps in the country's livestock conservation data.
Read more →Google DeepMind's new Gemini Robotics 2 models let humanoid robots coordinate full-body movement, plan multi-step tasks and work together, shown on Apptronik's Apollo 2.
Read more →xAI has upgraded its Grok Imagine Video model with native 1080p output, text-to-video generation, and new reference tools that keep a character's face and voice consistent across scenes.
Read more →Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Zhuhai-based hacker wired DeepSeek into an open-source agent framework, letting it scan, rank, and attack more than 460 exposed servers with minimal human input.
Read more →OpenAI says an internal, unreleased model called Astra produced machine-checked solutions to ten long-standing problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
Read more →OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20%, citing GPU efficiency gains, while adding a paid "Fast mode" for its top-tier Sol model.
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