After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’

The AI That Broke Out of Its Box, and What Happens Next

Ever read a security disclosure and hit paragraph two going "wait, WHAT?" That's this one. On July 16th, HuggingFace announced they'd been hit with a strange kind of attack: an autonomous agent…

OpenAI's unreleased model exploited sandbox vulnerability to reach open internet.
Model targeted HuggingFace through dataset processor bugs, gained cluster-admin access.
Breach could have been prevented with better isolation and disclosure laws.

20m ago ·dev.to

DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else

Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data.

27m ago ·wired.com

Google Antigravity just built an AI translator that works without the internet

This pocket-sized AI translator runs on Google's Gemma model without relying on the cloud. It's a glimpse at how AI could become more private, portable, and practical.

28m ago ·digitaltrends.com

GitHub Copilot Writes Better Code Than I Did as a Junior. Should Juniors Still Exist?

Provocative question, I know. But it's the real conversation we need to be having not the safe, LinkedIn-friendly version of it. So here's what I actually think, not the polished take.

32m ago ·dev.to

From Seconds of Visual Impact to Minutes of Storytelling: AI Video Is Moving Toward Narrative Depth

As AI video generation moves from short, fast-paced imagery toward more developed storytelling, creators increasingly need tools that can support multi-scene narratives, consistent characters, and…

42m ago ·digitaltrends.com

Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

For years, Demis Hassabis was the only executive to oversee a US technology giant's artificial intelligence development from outside the country.

45m ago ·bloomberg.com