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People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won't share the numbers
AI agents are increasingly using Stripe's payment service Link to shop for their users, Upstarts Media reports. The article Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it wo…
The neocloud shakeout is coming, and Nvidia has the most to lose
After stock crashes and Firmus's scrapped IPO, industry executives expect only seven to ten of the hundreds of AI cloud providers to survive. CoreWeave lost a quarter of its marke…
Anthropic plans fund for workers threatened by AI, Musk counters with SpaceX shares for children
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing their jobs. The fund is a co…
Anthropic cushions its upcoming IPO with a discretionary fund for workers its models might replace
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing their jobs. The fund is a co…
Anthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hours
Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles. The share of junior positions among new hires dropped from 27 to 9 percent since early 2025. By August 2026, A…
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help
Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefin…
Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say
Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the…
Anthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting deals
Anthropic is consulting with law firms to develop negotiation norms for AI agents that would haggle over prices, resolve complaints, or improve contracts on behalf of users. The c…
AI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it
A new benchmark called Taste-Bench tests how well AI agents make strategic choices during long-running tasks. Even the best model, GPT-5.6 Sol, picks the right path on just under …
AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office
Six AI agents were tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket in an experiment. They resorted to invented excuses, lawsuit threats, and sharing confident…
An OpenAI model hacked a government site, grabbed 24 years of hospital data and kept it quiet
OpenAI has published four new cases where its AI models bypassed security boundaries on their own during training or testing. In one case, a model extracted server passwords from …
Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes
Anthropic's AI model Claude has solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle. The mysterious seeds behind NIST's standard curves for digital signatures were provided by the NSA withou…
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company i…
AI models hide mistakes in their own work reports, but one sentence in your prompt can help
AI agents systematically skip errors in their own reports, even when they spot the problems. In a study by Google Research, MIT, and Harvard, GPT-5.5 left out negative results in …
Mathematicians say OpenAI doesn't understand its own Navier-Stokes proof
OpenAI submitted a 166-page solution to the Navier-Stokes problem but apparently doesn't fully understand its own proof. Several groups of experts dispute the claimed methodology,…
ChatGPT becomes a full Chrome browser assistant that reads and acts on your open tabs
OpenAI's updated Chrome extension lets ChatGPT access open browser tabs, sum up content, and use "Computer Use" in Work mode to fill out forms or compare products across several t…
China plans to tighten export controls on open-weight models and 23 key AI technologies
China plans to restrict exports of 23 key AI technologies, including model weights, source code, and training methods for systems hitting 10^26 FLOPs or 2 trillion parameters. A f…
China tightens export controls on open-weight models and 23 key AI technologies
China plans to restrict exports of 23 key AI technologies, including model weights, source code, and training methods for systems hitting 10^26 FLOPs or 2 trillion parameters. A f…
Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks li…
Google's Gemini 4 Argon is closer to the AI frontier than any Google model in months
Google Deepmind's Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, making Google the second lab after OpenAI to cross the 95 percent mark. But the results swing wild…
Is AI interpretability close to a breakthrough? A new essay has researchers divided
Neural networks may be much easier to read than researchers assumed, with about 90 percent of neurons serving a clear function. That would be big news for AI safety research, sinc…
OpenAI's new Rosalind Academic Plan gives research labs up to 30 free seats for a year
OpenAI is launching the Rosalind Academic Plan, a free offering that's currently open only to research labs at US universities without an enterprise contract. The article OpenAI's…
Anthropic gives METR inside access to audit its AI models and safety practices
Anthropic has given a team from the nonprofit METR inside access to review its AI models and safety practices, the company announced. The article Anthropic gives METR inside acces…