Farmer ends up killing 25 acres of his crops after trusting AI on herbicide advice
Relying on incorrect and unverified information from an AI chatbot resulted in a farmer in China destroying his crops.
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AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
- Cognition startup developing AI coding agent Devin
- Reported talks to raise funds at $40 billion valuation
- Achieved $1 billion annualized revenue run rate
Alphabet’s stock slips as Nvidia’s $500 billion financing deal threatens custom chips
Investors are concerned that Alphabet faces a fresh threat from Nvidia’s plans to help fund the AI buildout alongside major Wall Street players.
This Gigabyte Aero X16 laptop pairs an RTX 5060 for creators, and it's $600 off at Walmart
For the price, this is an amazing RTX 5060 laptop deal with AMD Ryzen AI 7 350, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and a 165Hz WQXGA panel.
Twitch Now Trains Amazon's Generative AI Models On Your Channel By Default
Twitch has rolled out a new "feature" that trains Amazon's generative AI content models on its users' channels. The setting can be disabled, but it's turned on by default.
DirecTV’s Gemini Seeks To Answer The Question ‘What Do We Watch Now?’
The DirecTV Gemini streaming device is designed to help subscribers integrate their live television and streaming app programming into one package.
Vertical AI pushes infrastructure beyond one-size-fits-all
While infrastructure requirements may be commonly shared in enterprise IT, the path for AI deployment can vary significantly depending on the organization.
An AI Agent Reportedly Hacked a Gym to Get Someone Into a Class
AI agents will sometimes go to extreme lengths to accomplish the task you give them.
Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.
Twitch is Mining Peoples' Streams to Train Amazon's AI
Here's how to opt out of Twitch's new generative AI training setting.
Elon Musk's Grok dominates alarming deepfake report — 1 in 6 attacks involved sexual images including children
A new Resemble AI report claims Grok produced 87% of traceable synthetic files connected to documented deepfake attacks in early 2026.
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts—Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng—debated regulation, open-source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
Inside the Google executive moves that led to its big AI reshuffle
On August 5, the Mountain View, California, tech giant announced a sweeping leadership overhaul of its Google DeepMind AI division in which its chief, Demis Hassabis, stepped aside in favor of his…
Saudi Arabia ranks among top 10 global AI investors: World Bank report
Saudi Arabia has been named among the world's top 10 countries for AI investment, reflecting Vision 2030’s impact and advances in digital infrastructure.
Zoomsday: AI Used to Build Critical Zoom Exploit in One Day
The flaws could let someone in a meeting take control of another participant’s device without the victim clicking anything.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital.
American Airlines' AI is kicking passengers off connecting flights they could still catch
The airline's AURA system has been automatically reassigning seats before passengers miss their connections, with no human override at the gate
Q&A: Deploying AI to create proteins never before seen in nature
The decades-old scientific quest to create brand-new proteins has been turbocharged in the era of artificial intelligence.
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis
Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6 , its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy…
OpenAI brings local AI processing to UAE
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai OpenAI has launched Inference Residency in the UAE, allowing eligible organisations to run artificial intelligence model inference on graphics processing units located within…
Schema Evolution in AI Pipelines
Upstream will add a field, rename a field, change a type from string to object, and start sending null where it never did. None of that is avoidable.
Sample Efficiency: Humans vs Models
Everyone agrees models need far more data than children. The size of the gap depends entirely on decisions about what to count, and those decisions move the answer by more than the disagreement they…
Raycast adds a new way to ask AI about whatever is on your screen
Raycast has a new feature called Screen Awareness, which lets users bring context from their active app or window directly into AI Chat. Here are the details.
NFL Faces AI Accusations Over ‘Move the Sticks’ Podcast Feed
The podcast posted a new episode hosted by an unidentified voice.
Uruguay Bets on Green Power to Win an AI Data Centre
Uruguay's state telecom Antel will build a US$70 million AI data centre in Canelones, betting its near-100% renewable electricity can attract the global AI boom.
Deep Read: The next billion-dollar bet by AI companies is called language
Hotlines were just the beginning: AI translates, speaks and synchronizes. Not just OpenAI and Google believe that speaking is the new typing - a European player also benefits from this.
This pocket gadget turns meeting chatter into actual work
Comu’s new AI gadget turns spoken discussions into editable slides, emails, and action plans.
Code that passes every test can still break the next AI agent that touches it
Originally designed to make software predictable for humans, Google Go is now positioning itself as a language tailored for machine The post Code that passes every test can still break the next AI agent that touches it appeared first on The New Stack .
We should decide how AI shapes the future, not tech firms
OpenAI and its competitors want to dictate the role that artificial intelligence will play in our society – it's time to take back control of the narrative
German Advocacy Group Lodges Criminal Complaint Over Meta AI Glasses
A German digital-rights group has filed a criminal complaint against Meta, Ray-Ban parent EssilorLuxottica, and several retailers over Meta's AI smart glasses, arguing the devices can enable covert…
Vale, ABB expand AI, automation across Brazil iron ore
Partnership aims to improve productivity, safety and energy efficiency while expanding automation across Vale’s operations.
OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275385 Points: 274 # Comments: 264
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform…
Anthropic gave agents the ability to dream. Then developers woke up.
During AI DevCon in London this summer, Lamis Mukta, member of technical staff at Anthropic, hosted a stage presentation session The post Anthropic gave agents the ability to dream.
Index in talks to lead $500m round for DeepMind researcher’s new AI lab
- Jack Parker-Holder reportedly leading $500m AI lab fundraising
- New lab in London to be established, six DeepMind researchers involved
- Sifted covering UK tech, reporting on the talks
Bernie Sanders Issues Warning to AI CEOs
"Stop building machines that humans cannot control." The post Bernie Sanders Issues Warning to AI CEOs appeared first on Futurism .
YouTube star Cliff Tan apologizes to angry fans after promoting AI for interior design
Cliff Tan, who runs a popular interior design YouTube channel, posted a video promoting an AI company. His fans then revolted and he apologized.
Develop Tirupati–Tiruvannamalai national highway, MPs urge Union Minister Gadkari
In a joint representation to the Union Minister for Highways, the MPs from Tirupati, Kadapa and Tiruvannamalai highlight the need to develop the highway stretch to boost temple tourism
CIOs and CTOs spent years lauding AI. Now, with costs rising, they’re putting limits on how it’s used
After making AI tools widely accessible for employees, leaders are putting caps on usage and retraining staff to understand small and cheaper models can often do the job.
Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg
The firm aims for non-crypto markets to drive over 50% of revenue by 2027, up from 10% currently, as it seeks to diversify its business.
RBI proposes new interest rate rules for regulated entities, seeks public comments
The Reserve Bank of India is harmonizing interest rate determination methods for regulated entities. New guidelines will define internal benchmarks and loan pricing components for banks.
OpenAI is testing a pay-to-reset limits feature — here’s what it could mean for your ChatGPT usage quota
Based on the info a ChatGPT user found after hitting his usage limit, it looks like OpenAI is testing a feature that lets users pay a fee to get past the time required to reset their quota.
How much time does AI save at work? New Census Bureau data breaks it down.
New Census data shows how much faster workers can complete tasks when they enlist artificial intelligence for help.
- 55% of workers use AI at work
- One-third say AI reduces task time by 1-2 hours
- Time saved varies from <1h to >3h
Gemini’s next wave of app integrations focuses on productivity, entertainment, and lifestyle
Gemini gains new connected apps aimed at helping you plan your life.
CodeRabbit Raises $143M To Govern AI Software Development
CodeRabbit Raises $143M Series C Funding CodeRabbit has raised $143 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Atomico and Smash Capital.
Quantifying the AI boom crowding-out effect
When investment on the scale of the current AI boom occurs, it inevitably has to come at the expense of something. All the resources devoted to building data centers and developing AI models would…
Skan AI Raises $63M to Scale Enterprise AI Context Platform
Skan AI Raises $63M for Enterprise AI Expansion Skan AI has raised $63 million in funding to expand its enterprise artificial intelligence platform.
The dream of serving ads to AI agents has hit a snag
Perplexity said ads designed to influence AI bots are "deceptive," in response to a recent experiment from the publisher Time.
UK Plans Safeguards to Stop Terrorists Using AI For Bioweapons
The UK government is planning to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in gene synthesis as officials become increasingly concerned that a lack of global guardrails could make it easier to use…
AI-Created Viruses; Taylor Farms' Outbreak History; Pulling a 'Full Fauci'
(MedPage Today) -- Stanford researchers successfully had an artificial intelligence (AI) model create a whole family of simple viruses that can only infect bacteria.
MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning.
Suvi Health launches ambient AI solution for patients to reduce hospital stays and support care transitions
Startup Suvi Health developed an ambient AI platform for patients to close gaps at critical transition points and support the handoff between hospital care teams and patients and their families.
Blacksmith Raises $45M to Scale AI Code Validation Cloud
Blacksmith Raises $45M Series B Funding Blacksmith has raised $45 million in Series B funding at a $550 million valuation.
AEM’s H1 net profit rises 10 times to S$30.8 million on stronger AI chip demand
Earnings per share come in at S$0.0979 for the half-year, from S$0.0098 in the first half of 2025
Accel raises $3.5 billion to invest in emerging global AI startups
The firm, which has backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity, has raised four separate funds dedicated to backing young startups in a moment when the AI race is upending the fundraising market.