AI Pulse
The latest on AI from across the internet.
- Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
- AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?
- Lawsuit says Oura sleep tracking has 'a coin flip's chance of being correct'
- Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
- Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI
- Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company
- Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
- GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
- Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
- Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
- YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases
- Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google
- Looking beyond natural sequences
- Go 1.27 brings support for generic methods
- AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
- Galaxy Z Fold 8 camera trouble? 4 settings I recommend changing now
- A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
- This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World
- ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
- The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look
- Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
- Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup
- Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick
- OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
- This excellent HP laptop is nearly 50% off at Best Buy - and comes with a cheap TV
- Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians | Letter
- A new start after 60 in an old occupation | Brief letters
- RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn
- Apple escaped Android's 'toxic hellstew' - now Siri AI is creating a new one
- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
- AI a 'force multiplier' for low-skilled threat actors: 4 ways organizations should respond
- Sony's new Bravia 6 OLED TV aims to bring flagship visuals to the $1,300 price point
- Why the departure of OpenAI’s data center chief is not a good look
- Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
- Writing with AI
- Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?
- How to keep kids on task at school when using these crucial, but distracting, devices
- This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’
- Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
- Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
- Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town
- Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale
- Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
- AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
- Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
- Kyndryl, Broadcom expand partnership to push private clouds for AI work
- Claude Opus 4.6 Found a Gym API Flaw — Then Exploited It in 9 of 10 Tests
- Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
- Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
- AI can detect heart disease in women using mammograms, study suggests
- Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
- How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
- Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more'
- Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? - video
- AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts
- Is your really old iPhone still worth anything or just e-waste? How to tell
- Top 7 AI SEO Agencies for Tech Companies in 2026
- Plaud's first AI earbuds have arrived - what they can do
- Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
- Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
- How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
- ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should you let it?
- Visa ships a security AI that patches production code before any human reviews it
- Our Favorite Management Tips on Learning from Failure
- The economy looks stable. The Chicago Fed president isn’t relaxing
- When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
- How Facebook and Instagram will change after Meta's $18B settlement - and where the money is going
- Scaling enterprise AI without breaking the bank: A CIO’s guide to AI unit economics
- Nvidia eyes $12.9 bn Hugging Face deal to expand AI platform control
- The 5 best Linux alternatives to Windows in 2026 (that aren't Mint)
- AI can be made to read an email much differently than you do
- OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
- Bentley takes us for a ride in its new EV, the Torcal
- AWS acquires DuckLabs, but what does it want from the team behind DuckDB?
- To rein in wanton AI spending, we need AI ‘nutrition labels’
- The Identity Crisis No One Planned For: Governing Non-Human Agents at Enterprise Scale
- Submit Your Questions: The Great Data Center Backlash
- Mark Zuckerberg is buying Meta a seat at the AI table. Does he know what to do with it?
- A spreadsheet is not a strategy
- Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead
- AI is making your gadgets more expensive and less powerful
- Why AI TCO is so tricky — and how to start calculating it
- AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions
- Black Box: The Chatbots: a new series from The Guardian Investigates – trailer
- India’s data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing
- Why every country wants a data center — and most will lose
- Revolut built EURR stablecoin to own Europe’s euro stables on-ramp 🪙; Anthropic’s $30T IPO pitch is 650x the business it runs today 🤯; Stripe now owns the $140B startup Legal OS ⚖️
- Google Adds Pay-As-You-Go Gemini Enterprise
- 20 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for
- OpenAI’s Jalapeño Benchmark Promises Faster, Cheaper AI
- How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves
- The best iPad Air cases of 2026: Expert tested
- AI coding agents vs. big balls of mud
- Why digital twins need memory as much as AI agents
- How to implement HMAC authentication in ASP.NET Core
- It’s time to stop sleeping on quantum computing: 48 experts on what to watch for next
- Human-in-the-loop AI is becoming the default, not the exception
- Critical infrastructure’s long, undefended tail exposed by UK energy attack
- Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll reveals
- With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.
- Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
- The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
- Agentic AI warning from NCSC
- ScotAccount increases accessibility
- DWP engineers hack onboarding
- Tech4Communities launches in Hounslow
- Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – podcast
- Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I – podcast
- Meta’s plans to replace workers with AI fell flat, report says
- GLM-5.3-Flash will likely handle 45% of your AI workloads
- Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
- Consumers don’t trust AI advice. They turn to it anyway.
- Pacsun’s Gen Z playbook: Listen, learn, and let go
- An update on US consumer sentiment: Holiday budgeting begins
- Nvidia buys Hugging Face 💰, Inside OpenAI 🤖, making LLMs faster ⚡
- Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
- London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour
- Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well
- RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
- Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale
- AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
- New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
- Salesforce, Anthropic partner to deliver Claudeforce
- Salesforce just put its entire CRM inside Claude — and says you’ll never need its app again
- Years of OpenAI Equity Are About to Unlock. Here’s What to Do Before They Do.
- Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"
- Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions
- Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
- How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
- Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
- Apple sets its iPhone 18 event for September: A new foldable and CEO could steal the show
- What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
- OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
- OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm
- The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
- Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations
- This 120Hz tablet replaced my Kindle and iPad for $220 - here's why I recommend it
- The Humanoids at China’s Robot Games Were Faster Than Usain Bolt—but I’m More Impressed by Their Tweezer Mastery
- Google Brings AI Agents to Big Law With Gemini Enterprise
- OpenAI Brings Back 5-Hour Codex Limit for ChatGPT Plus
- OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used in Covert Influence Campaign
- How to Choose an AI Visibility Tracker in 2026
- How to sideload Android apps on your phone in 2026 - and what's behind the changes
- UK government set to adjudicate on ‘risky’ tech purchases
- The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class
- Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
- US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
- Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
- Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’
- Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future
- Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9
- Will plug-in solar plus batteries solve your power problem? I did the math
- Ukraine extends its drone campaign, burning this Russian e-commerce warehouse to the ground
- The fix for the AI agent that hijacked a company's DNS: it can propose the change, but it can't approve it
- Effective Patterns for Advanced MCP Usage
- Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
- What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora
- Google Pixel 11 review: Why the base model is still my favorite, even this year
- Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
- Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
- July was the worst month for ransomware victim claims in 2026 - or was it?
- Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
- What will we get out of the AI boom? The data suggests lots of noisy, energy-hungry datacentres and not much else
- Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
- Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features
- Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
- CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July
- Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
- Mac Studio 2026: Apple Goes All In on Local AI With M5 Ultra
- Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
- 15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
- Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade
- Fitbit’s Founders Have a New Wearable, But It’s Not Really for Fitness
- Meta settles for $18B in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
- Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
- Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
- Google adds pay-as-you-go Gemini pricing as enterprises seek control over AI spending
- 4 AI development skills you need, according to Andrew Ng - and what experts say he's missing
- The SaaSpocalypse is a people problem
- Inside McDonald’s New Strategy
- Research: To Get Employees to Use a Benefit, Make Signing Up a Little Harder
- This simple antivirus tool is the easiest way to scan your Linux PC for threats - for free
- A Formula for Calculating Your Company’s Geopolitical Exposure
- Hope and concern swirl for Ohioans around ‘world’s largest datacenter’
- New Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box
- The clock is now a control surface: AI’s impact on time synchronization in OT
- I built my own secure network in the cloud to access my home PCs remotely - for free
- NemoClaw’s AI can be poisoned through a browser tab
- Rivian’s new R2 lives up to the hype
- IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
- Microsoft warns patch window is collapsing, urges shift to network-level containment
- The best reading tablets of 2026: Expert tested
- Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes
- Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
- The reachability gap: Why the company your AI agent breaks into has no one to call
- AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet
- Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
- How Does a RAG Reranker Really Work?
- When Smaller Models Win
- 10 steps to implement an effective AI training program
- Meet Eloise, the Florida donkey taking on the data center boom
- Corporate America is embracing AI more slowly than the hype suggests—but the pace is increasing
- Apple Updates Mini and Studio, AI Computers, OpenAI Jalapeño
- Why the global push to break free from Big Tech keeps falling short
- Before you automate anything, learn to measure it
- Have an old PC monitor laying around? Turning it into a TV is easier than you think
- Who is accountable when your AI agent goes rogue?
- Revolut Research isn’t an AI Lab. It’s the clearest sign yet that fintech’s ultimate moat is proprietary data 🤖📊; Nvidia just became the buyer of last resort for its own chips 😳🖥️
- How to Effectively Solve 100+ Tasks with Claude Code
- Raised on AI
- Why CIOs should look to newsrooms to govern AI
- How E.l.f. perfected the TikTok Live playbook
- When an AI agent goes off the rails, file a bug to fix the documentation – then test the fix
- ICO says police use of facial recognition needs urgent attention
- AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
- AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
- London rollout of robotaxis delayed amid lack of guidance for firms to follow
- Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy
- Who is accountable when your AI agent goes rogue?
- Why Random Forest Needs to Be This Random
- Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
- Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
- Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 Adds Durable and Verifiable Execution for AI Agents
- Scottish data portal as a public beta goes live
- Is Agentic AI Just Automation?
- DVLA select Scrumconnect to drive transformation
- Land Registry heads down Route 101
- Around the world, people are rejecting divisive and dangerous politics. We can – and must – build on that | Gordon Brown
- AI datacentres must provide proof, not promises
- Nine CEO sees ‘world of growth in publishing’ as network slashes costs
- India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
- CW@60: My computers and me
- Black Box: episode 3 – Repocalypse now – podcast
- How to Format Your TDS Draft: A New and Improved Guide
- In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacy
- Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
- OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues
- The decision dividend: How AI creates economic value
- Cross-border payments: Out of the commodity trap, into the future
- OpenAI unveils chip ⚡, SpaceX $100B spaceport 🚀, knowledge compression 👨💻
- Your AI agents need performance management, too
- Universal adapter vs. travel charger: Confused? Here's the device you need most
- The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now
- World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
- AI Development Costs in 2026: A Realistic Budget Breakdown for Enterprise Projects
- X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping
- Garmin's new Fenix 9 Pro smartwatch is twice as bright as the previous gen - here's how they compare
- Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
- Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
- Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling ‘high-end’ AI servers to China
- Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations
- Google's anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android
- SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana
- Samsung vs Google Software Support: Which Android Phones Age Better?
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- Android's motion sickness feature is rolling out - how to see if you have it
- Some Spectrum internet customers can get free Amazon Prime - see if you're eligible
- Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils ‘Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at ‘negative impact’
- Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
- McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'
- Two unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania, officials confirm
- Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich
- SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport
- A New Towards Data Science: A Faster Site and a Brand-New Contributor Portal
- Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.
- Anthropic's Claude and Cowork will share memories about you now - unless you opt out
- The best early Labor Day Costco deals 2026: TVs, smartwatches, Apple devices, and more
- Why the threat from the rampaging AI machine went ignored | Letters
- Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts
- Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images
- GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations
- The Design System as the Control Plane for AI-Generated UI
- New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest
- Uber Fined $966M: The High Cost of Automation Without Oversight
- The best early Labor Day 2026 laptop deals: Apple, Lenovo, Dell, and more
- Taiwan Indicts Nine Over Alleged Nvidia AI Server Smuggling to China
- That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware
- 7 Ways an Ecommerce AI Chatbot Can Strengthen Online Sales
- You probably have Google Play points you can turn into gift cards - how to check
- I ditched T-Mobile for Mint and found 3 major drawbacks of smaller carriers - and their workarounds
- How I turned my ancient Windows PC into a Chromebook for free - with FydeOS
- Microsoft Teams’ New Policy Lets Admins Automatically Block Meeting Bots
- Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power
- Apple's M5 Ultra is its most powerful chip ever - with 4x faster AI performance than M3 Ultra
- AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
- Australia may face a rush of datacentre construction as AI firms look to avoid upcoming rules, experts say
- Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica
- Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap
- OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
- Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6
- Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal
- Tokenmaxxing Is Dead. The Governance Gap Isn’t.
- Apple’s latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899
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