Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don't bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path.To overcome this brute- [...]

Your robot can’t be smart, fast, and free. Evolution solved that already.

Here is a constraint that almost no one building physical AI says out loud, even though every one of them is quietly fighting it. A robot’s intelligence wants three things at once. It wants to be sm [...]

Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites

Google has filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation it calls the Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group sent more than 2.5 million fraudulent text messages to Android users ov [...]

I put the new Siri AI through a 10-round test on my Mac - here's how it did

I tried the new Siri on my Mac, and although it's off to a promising start, Apple still has more work to do. [...]

AWS enters the context layer race with a graph that learns from agents, not manual curation

Building a context layer between enterprise data stores and AI agents is bespoke work, with no standard service to automate or maintain the graphs over time. Amazon is making a direct play to change t [...]

'Most organizations do not have an AI investment problem, they have a data problem': New study warns infrastructure demands could be what's really holding AI back

Existing infrastructure "was not designed for continuous intelligence" – all companies, big or small, need to reinvest in their data platforms. [...]

Leaked licences show Bulgaria greenlit surveillance exports to governments accused of repression

Bulgaria’s export control authority licensed a Sofia-based surveillance firm to sell phone-tracking tools, interception systems, and monitoring infrastructure to intelligence agencies in countries w [...]

Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives, monitors the Windows clipboard for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and seed phras [...]

'Half a million hours of Ukraine conflict drone footage' to be used to train and deploy new AI models for autonomous targeting drone swarms

Enabled Intelligence set to use 500,000 hours of Ukraine war drone footage to train AI drones with real-world data. [...]