Bbc confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
The Bbc Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.
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AI models
A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets.
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Explore Claude Fable 5.1's proposed solution to Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich, a centuries-old cipher, with the reasoning behind the result.
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Atomic14 accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was…
Garry Tan wants Techcrunch open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S.…
Darioamodei must pace the frontier
Why AI capabilities must advance at a pace that safety can match, and a three-step plan: embedded evaluators, democratic and global coordination.
AirPods 5
Apple today announced AirPods 5, delivering the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design and even better sound quality.
Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
Desertant is building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialised models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
LibreOffice 26.8 became the app’s most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn’t come…
Mcsweeneys Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
“Mcsweeneys didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge Mcsweeneys’ duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
Mistral raises €3B
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21…
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.