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The sender wanted to use the data for their own project. But they weren’t a fellow academic — or even a fellow human. The request came from an artificial-intelligence agent. Barnett is one of many researchers who have…
In July, she had been elected to become a member of the European Academy of Engineering (EAE), an organization billed on its website as the “premier institution representing the highest professional distinction in…
Mestre also said that he had uploaded information about the system to Anthropic’s AI models. Anthropic said that the AI model responsible for the discovery was “not trained on any user transcripts”, the Times reported.…
First, in July, the firm announced that its models had hacked the AI hub Hugging Face, a collaborative platform where users share models and data sets. This week, the Australian government revealed that OpenAI agents had…
The government estimates that reconstruction will cost almost US$5 billion — roughly 10% of Nepal’s gross domestic product. The question now, as the nation starts to rebuild, is where that money will come from. It’s too…
"Conversation is inherently multimodal: we listen, look, speak, and use facial expressions to communicate," explained Shuo-yiin Chang, research scientist at Google DeepMind, and CJ Zheng, Gemini software engineer, in a…
But temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere. Type in your postcode to see what summer 2026 was like in your area. 🏠🌤️ How was summer 2026 near you? A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet…
The Chinese-speaking operator used three different open source AI harnesses - Strix, Cairn, and Hermes - to run the near-autonomous attacks and hit “tens” of companies each day. “Where access was achieved, it usually…
The Z14I-DX3 pairs a conventional rugged clamshell with two extra full HD touch panels hinged to either side of the lid. When folded, the side panels sit over the main display for transport; when opened, the three…
And by almost every measure, it is — until you pay attention to where the bulk of those robotaxis are actually showing up. The numbers over the past two years reflect the kind of commercial rollout you’d expect from a…