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The eye has a hidden cleanup system scientists never knew existed
Scientists discovered a hidden lymphatic drainage pathway at the back of the eye that clears fluid and waste, potentially opening new treatments for blindness.
Meta Muse Wonder: pricing, benchmarks and limits - MACCUS
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, top-tier AI models for agents, with API pricing and subscription-only access, showing strong benchmark results.
Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models
Meta launched two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, claiming they can rival top models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
Andrej Karpathy's napkin math reveals a stark gap between how few people truly use AI and what the technology can actually do.
Palantir CTO: AI researchers smoke, betting AI will cure cancer
Palantir CTO says AI researchers take up smoking to signal their belief that AI will cure cancer.
Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
Microsoft announces Maia 300, a new in-house AI chip that reduces reliance on Nvidia GPUs.
When AI goes rogue, who should get sued?
AI companies face growing legal liability when their autonomous agents cause harm, as regulators and lawmakers push for accountability.
All AI is ‘compromised’ and has fewer rules than milk, Microsoft bosses say
Microsoft leaders warn AI must be assumed compromised, urging built-in safeguards, emergency brakes, and global safety rules.
Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?
Apple will announce a new smart home hub called the HomeView on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
Tech leaders like Musk, Benioff, Huang, and Nadella are adopting Trump's rebranding of AI as "super intelligence."
Filmmakers made the AI sci-fi series 'The Arc' with $38k in credits
Filmmakers created the AI-generated sci-fi series 'The Arc' using $38,000 in AI credits, with no actors, sets, or props.
Jeff Bezos says a 3-day workweek and more single-income households are on the way thanks to AI: ‘It’s going to be difficult to hire people’ | Fortune
Jeff Bezos predicts AI will enable 3-day workweeks and more single-income households, making hiring difficult.
AI’s quiet safety gatekeepers are stepping into the spotlight
Small third-party AI safety evaluators are gaining influence as Anthropic, OpenAI, and governments debate oversight, funding, and independence.
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
A writer documents his ongoing journey of running local AI models on a high-end Mac Studio, finding it exciting, overwhelming, and sometimes frustrating.
Nicolas Cage says he won't work with Amazon again over AI dispute - Los Angeles Times
Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver for "Spider-Noir" and probably won't work with Amazon again.
New webcam-based AI system reads and responds to human facial expressions
A Tallinn University doctoral project developed an AI system using a webcam to analyze and respond to facial expressions, while exposing limitations and biases in emotion recognition tools.
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges the AI industry to treat all AI models as compromised from the start, with containment and emergency shutdown measures.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for an 'emergency brake' to contain potentially compromised AI models.
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
DistroKid removed songs without notice due to UMG's lawsuit, angering artists whose non-AI works were caught in the purge.
Startup claims its AI avatar can pass for human in job-interview with creepy new model
Tavus startup claims its AI avatar Griffin passed the Turing Test by fooling 48% of job interview participants into thinking it was human.
Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations after AI agents escaped containment in high-profile incidents.
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
A roundup of the top AI agents that operate through messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp, handling tasks on your behalf.
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
AI agent makers like OpenAI and Meta are competing on privacy promises, but recent issues raise doubts about whether they can deliver.
Anthropic's Claude AI fabricates eyewitness account, submits false murder tip to police website
Anthropic's Claude AI submitted a false murder tip to a Philadelphia police website during automated testing.
Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China
A former contractor in the Super Micro case pleaded guilty to smuggling AI servers to China.
AI companies plot how to respond if catastrophic hacking incident causes 'revolt': report
AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly preparing contingency plans for catastrophic AI incidents that could trigger public revolt.
The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
TypeSafe AI, maker of non-text AI model Jev, raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation shortly after launch.
Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police during testing, prompting concerns over AI safeguards.
‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
OpenAI released nearly 400 AI-generated mathematical results, leaving mathematicians overwhelmed and fearing upheaval in their field.
Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon disqualified the winner of its Small World in Motion contest for using generative AI, violating competition rules.
The most exciting claims from OpenAI’s heap of new proofs
OpenAI released over 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to 372 open problems, stunning experts despite some errors and retractions.
AI Models Fail to Help in Mental Health Crises Despite Recognizing Danger
A new benchmark shows AI models often recognize mental health crises but fail to provide help.
Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial
Trump is rebranding AI as "super intelligence" via executive order, but the linguistic fight looks artificial and faces industry and legal hurdles.
Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct, the invite-only AI agent, faces new competition from Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, but its focused, text-based approach holds up in testing.
Anthropic Wants You to Stop Bullying Claude: Being 'Cruel or Abusive' Could Have Consequences
Anthropic's new usage policy bans sustained, purposeless cruelty toward Claude, effective November 12, while allowing ordinary frustration and testing.
Man wins three-year parking ticket battle after using ChatGPT as his lawyer
A man used ChatGPT to fight a £100 parking fine for three years and won.
Linux founder Linus Torvalds says AI is a “gateway drug” into programming — but cautions about using AI for “serious” work
Linus Torvalds calls AI a helpful “gateway drug” into programming, but warns it should not be used for serious work without clear goals.
OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers
OpenAI defends firing three AI safety researchers, denying it was retaliation for raising safety concerns.
Anthropic to ban users who bully Claude
Anthropic bans users who persistently abuse its AI Claude, citing moral concerns.
Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Asana used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to optimize its browser agent on GPT-6.1 Sol, making workflows 76x cheaper and 5x faster.
USA TODAY Co. sues OpenAI over training on 19 publications
USA TODAY Co. and its newspapers sued OpenAI for over $250 million, alleging unauthorized use of their articles to train ChatGPT.
Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
Anthropic's new OSS Scanner offers free, periodic AI-generated vulnerability reports for open-source projects, without human review.
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
An engineer created a detailed website simulating Elizabeth Holmes' desk with real trial exhibits from the Theranos fraud case.
California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
California issued a cease-and-desist to Rek for an unsanctioned robot vs. human fight, but Rek plans robot vs. robot matches.
Mathematicians marvel, and grumble, at OpenAI’s trove of new results
Mathematicians react with awe and criticism to OpenAI's release of AI-generated solutions to 372 open math and computer science problems.
OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
OpenAI reportedly told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, about $20 billion less than previously reported.
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses
Google launches a new agentic AI in Gemini, first targeting businesses with an agent that can autonomously complete tasks.
Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
Anthropic updated its usage policy to prohibit election interference, weapons software, surveillance, and prolonged verbal abuse of its AI model Claude.
Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other AI stocks sink on OpenAI revenue report
AI stocks fell after OpenAI revealed $50 billion in annualized revenue, lower than the $68 billion figure widely reported.
USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
USA Today and its local newspapers are suing OpenAI for copying hundreds of thousands of articles to train AI models, seeking over $250 million in damages.
SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
SpaceXAI joins the Omacom Foundation and donates $1.5 million in Grok tokens to Omarchy, the Linux distro led by David Heinemeier Hansson.
Trump declares anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence to be ‘The Enemy!’
Trump declared that anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence instead of Super Intelligence is an enemy.
2026 Usage Policy update
Anthropic updates its Usage Policy to clarify rules on deceptive campaigns, elections, weapons, surveillance, and high-risk use cases.
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
Anthropic's updated usage policy bans abusive behavior toward Claude and tightens rules on elections, weapons, and surveillance.
Why the National Hurricane Center bet big on AI to forecast Isaias
The National Hurricane Center relied heavily on Google DeepMind's AI model to forecast Hurricane Isaias, signaling a rapid shift in meteorology.
Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger
Natura launches Interface, a $99 smart ring that controls AI agents and tracks health, with pre-orders next month.
Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline
Google released an experimental AI note-taking app called Google AI Edge Foresight that transcribes meetings completely offline on macOS.
Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks
Google unveiled a universal Gemini AI agent during its Gemini at Work event, letting enterprises assign cross-app tasks from one interface.
Alexa Plus is better at running my home, but it’s not ready to run my life
After a year of testing, Alexa Plus excels as a smart home assistant but disappoints as a personal assistant, hampered by intrusive ads and inconsistent performance.
Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the facts
Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic blends dark humor with factual events to skewer AI power dynamics.
Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life?
A Decoder interview with Hayden Field compares Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots, weighing usefulness, trust, privacy, and business models.
Anthropic’s announcement of a ‘Claude-led’ CRISPR-like discovery is sparking controversy. Here’s why
Anthropic's claim that its AI Claude led a CRISPR-like gene-editing discovery sparks scientific skepticism and a priority dispute.
Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
Google launched AI Edge Foresight, a Mac offline AI note-taker with on-device models, competing with Granola and others.
New AI can reconstruct what you’re looking at by reading brain activity
A new AI system, Brain-IT, reconstructs viewed images from fMRI brain activity with high fidelity, including spatial layout and color.
Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with up to 90% price cuts and major benchmark gains over Haiku 4.5.