Meta is reportedly considering a multibillion-dollar data center deal with Anthropic

It would open up a completely new business for the Facebook and Instagram maker. [...]

A mosquito-hunting killer drone is available for preorder – and I have questions

Y Combinator-backed startup Tornyol has built a tiny autonomous drone that tracks mosquitoes by sonar and kills them mid-flight, with preorders open now. We look at the tech, the pricing, and the ques [...]

Thinking Machines is coming for Anthropic’s intellectual vibe

With its new open-weight model, Inkling, Mira Murati’s AI lab is betting that customization will appeal more than raw power. [...]

An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.

The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted t [...]

Alibaba claims its new AI model is second best in the world

The 2.4 trillion-parameter model debuted at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, with open weights promised soon [...]

OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.

Starting next month, OneDrive and SharePoint will block screen captures when enterprise users open certain sensitivity-labelled PDFs in Microsoft Edge. The restriction applies to documents carrying a [...]

Writer's AI harness cuts token spend nearly 40% — without sacrificing accuracy

Enterprise AI is facing an ROI paradox. While throwing more compute at the strongest foundation model works well in product experiments, the costs become unbearable when the product is deployed in pro [...]

Xiaomi-Robotics-1 shows that more data beats bigger models when training robots to move

Xiaomi trained Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on more than 100,000 hours of motion data collected by people using camera-equipped handheld grippers rather than robots. Adding data improved performance far more tha [...]

US and China reportedly plan a fresh round of AI talks in September

The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the cleare [...]