Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg
Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work
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Amazon and Twitch Face Class Action Lawsuit After Introducing Opt-Out Setting That Uses Streamers' Content to Train AI
Twitch and Amazon are facing a class-action lawsuit after the streaming platform rolled out a feature that automatically trains its generative AI on streamers’ content unless they opt out.
AI Security Test Targeted Real Companies After a Naming Error
An AI security test reached real company systems after a naming error, revealing why organizations need stronger access controls for autonomous AI agents.
AI in Warehousing: How AutoScheduler Drives Supply Chain Efficiency
Keith Moore, CEO of AutoScheduler AI, dives into how AI-powered warehouse orchestration is revolutionizing supply chain operations.
ChatGPT Ads Are Expanding: What CPC Bidding Means for Advertisers in 2026
OpenAI has moved ChatGPT Ads from an early US pilot toward a broader self-serve advertising platform. On May 5, 2026, the company opened Ads Manager to all US advertisers and added cost-per-click…
James Talarico Blasts Ken Paxton for 'Made With AI' Texas Data Center Plan
Data centers have become a central issue in the battle for the Senate in the Lone Star State.
- James Talarico criticizes Ken Paxton for AI-generated data center plan.
- Paxton's plan includes federal legislation against Chinese tech in data centers.
- Talarico accuses Paxton of corruption and accepting data center industry donations.
Anthropic’s Playground vs. OpenAI’s: The week-old tool beat the six-year incumbent
On August 18, Anthropic replaced its Workbench, the prompt-testing tool in its developer Console, with Playground. Anthropic did more than The post Anthropic’s Playground vs.
UAE among 'most ambitious' AI markets, new report highlights
The UAE's governance and investment in AI have created ripe conditions for businesses to make the most of the technology, a report says.
Water Supply Poisoning Risk Via AI Cyberattack Is Real, Expert Warns
AI is accelerating cyber threats targeting systems that control water treatment plants, and energy facilities.
Businesses must reinvent their processes and workforce to scale agentic AI adoption
Only 15% of US-based organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated, multi-agent adoption, according to the latest Deloitte research.
One Project Ate the Shared Free Tier: A Per-Project Quota Pattern for LLM Gateways
Three projects shared one gateway, one API key, and one 10-million-token allowance. On day nineteen, a batch job that summarized support tickets consumed 7.1 million tokens in four hours, and every…
- Three projects shared a single gateway with a 10-million-token allowance.
- Batch job consumed 7.1 million tokens in four hours, exhausting quota.
- MonkeyCode implemented per-project quota layer to prevent future issues.
'Same compute, fewer resources - More compute, same energy': AMD says it is on track to make AI four times more energy efficient
AMD says two of its 2030 racks will match 570 from 2024 using twenty times less power and reducing carbon intensity by twenty-eight times.
10 Million Free Tokens: A Token-Budget Field Test on a Free Server
A teammate received a free AI coding allowance last month. He burned it in two days. Not on complex architecture. On repeated full-file rewrites. Each rewrite consumed thousands of tokens.
- Ten million tokens allow diverse AI coding tasks, from generation to refactoring
- Budgetharness.py logs requests for token cost tracking in CSV format
- Free server handles short tasks well but struggles with long completions
Apple’s new AI shopping assistant can help you choose your next iPhone or Mac
Apple's AI powered virtual shopping assistant is quietly appearing in the Apple Store app for select iPhone users, letting them check trade in values, compare products, and get purchase help.
The AI race is moving fast. What does that mean for employees' summer vacation?
After former OpenAI staffer Miles Brundage argued that "rest is important," AI employees weighed in on PTO online.
- Rapid AI industry fuels debate on vacation time
- Anthropic employee shares Edinburgh Festival Fringe trip photo
- Some AI workers feel work has consumed their lives
AI-generated music to be banned from ARIA charts
Songs created mostly or entirely by artificial intelligence will be excluded from Australia's official music charts from this Friday.
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
- Malicious LLMs can exploit inference engines to control host machines.
- CVE-2025-9141 vulnerability in vLLM's XML-based tool parser enables arbitrary code execution.
Enhancing confidence in AI enhanced brain tumor imaging by measuring uncertainty
MRIs are among the most accurate imaging tests used to diagnose brain tumors, and MRI-based monitoring of tumors guides critical treatment decisions.
Saudi minister explores AI and gaming partnerships with global firms in Paris
Communications minister Abdullah Al-Swaha meets global tech leaders in Paris to advance AI, gaming, and quantum computing as part of Vision 2030 goals.
Democratizing institutional knowledge: Building an AI-powered knowledge management system with AWS
Learn how to build a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system on AWS that captures and delivers institutional (tribal) knowledge through a voice-first AI avatar.
ChatGPT vs. Gemini: Which Chatbot Is Better at Seeing the World Around You?
I put these multimodal models through a camera test.
Risks using AI in classrooms 'go beyond cheating', education expert says
AI use in schools has prompted the NSW government to ban take-home assignments for senior students after an influx of cheating using AI tools. But a leading expert says cheating is not the only issue.
Clueless AI CEOs Still Baffled Why Everybody’s So Mad About AI All the Time
"It is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom." The post Clueless AI CEOs Still Baffled Why Everybody’s So Mad About AI All the Time appeared first on Futurism .
I made my kids a voice-mode AI tutor to help them with spelling and math. It saves me time to have more fun with them.
A father of two elementary school-aged kids created an AI tutor to quiz them until they felt confident to do well on their tests.
Goldman Sachs Safeguards Apprenticeship Culture in AI Era
Goldman Sachs aims to ensure that new artificial intelligence tools don’t lead to a loss of knowledge within the institution, Chris Churchman, head of the company’s digital platform for institutional…
UK to use Ukraine battlefield data to train AI to protect sensitive sites
London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters and foreign states targeting UK defence sites, railways and energy plants under a deal struck between London and Kyiv.
Israel's Project 720 brings Google, Microsoft, Amazon AI solutions to education system - feature
The Education Minister told The Jerusalem Post that current regulations guarantee privacy, while the new AI implementation policy allows only adaptive and scalable solutions.
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data
A new algorithm learns to anticipate the unprecedented scenarios that critical infrastructure and global supply chains are least prepared for.
Physical AI’s moment has arrived – but moving from demo to deployment is the hard part. AWS wants to fix that
Physical artificial intelligence is emerging as the next major phase of AI. These systems not only generate content or analyze data but also perceive, reason about and act in the physical world.
Grok Bot vs. Hermes: Where each draws the security boundary
Put several AI bots to work, and a mistake by one may not stay within its assigned task. For example, The post Grok Bot vs. Hermes: Where each draws the security boundary appeared first on The New Stack .
No Discount Survives an AI That Can’t See It
Loyalty benefits used to show up at checkout: a card swiped, a code entered, a discount applied after the decision was already made. That moment is moving earlier, into the conversation where an artificial intelligence agent is still deciding where to buy. Synchrony announced an enterprise collaboration with OpenAI on Aug.
Nvidia's AI inference chip from its $20 billion Groq deal enters full production
The chip, which came from Nvidia's $20 billion Groq acquisition, can generate 3,400 tokens per second in benchmarking tests
Medellin Prepares to Host the First Artificial Intelligence Week in the Americas
Medellin is preparing to become a meeting point for experts, companies, students, researchers, and public-sector representatives during the first Artificial Intelligence Week in the Americas.
ET AI Hackathon 2026: A platform to build, innovate and lead
Get ready for AI Hackathon 2026, brought to you by The Economic Times and Posspole Catalyst! This nationwide competition aims to uncover the brightest applied AI minds tackling real-world challenges.
I tried Meta's new free vibe coding app to make my own games, and it was surprisingly fun
You can now code your own mini games and 'gizmos' with no experience. Creating is just half the fun.
'Bhashini' Breaks Language Barriers At UP-Japan Investment Summit With AI Support
Lucknow, August 24: Under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh government is continuously leveraging technology and innovation to position the state as a leading global…
Is Russia using Nvidia minicomputers to power AI drones? Report reveals how Moscow may be getting access
Ukrainian investigators say Russian forces have used Nvidia’s Jetson Orin computing modules in drones capable of identifying targets and making strike decisions without direct human confirmation
Amodei vs. Altman: How the Race for AI Dominance Is Increasing the Risks
Anthropic founder Amodei and OpenAI CEO Altman once worked together to build a Super AI. Now, they are competing to be first. And that race is proving dangerous.
States are starting to ban the secrecy behind AI data centers — here's why you should care
AI data centers have quietly been built behind NDAs, shell companies and code names. Now states are pushing back and demanding more transparency.
Mahama calls for tighter regulation of AI in healthcare
By Ashiadey Dotse President John Dramani Mahama has called on African health regulators to strengthen the regulation of digital healthcare and artificial intelligence (AI) to protect patients and improve access to quality healthcare.
'I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating': Dr. Dre weighs in on how he's using AI to make music
During an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Dre made it known that he uses AI to create music—here’s more on his and other music makers’ stance on the rising tech.
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence (The Register)
Nvidia's $20 billion bet on Groq's LPU tech sure looks like it was a good one. On Monday, the GPU giant offered the first glimpse …
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
AWS Agent Registry gives your organization a centralized, searchable catalog for agents, tools, and skills. It works with the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) standard to enable cross-environment…
Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks
Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop
Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Connect
Learn how to build a voice ordering system for restaurants that answers a phone call and takes an order end to end, with no app, no website, and no sign-in.
- Amazon Connect AI host takes phone orders without app or website
- Amazon Connect Agentic Voice handles speech processing in real-time
- Backend services integrated via Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Embattled Flock CEO Begs for “Compromise” As Backlash Spills Over
Let's be reasonable about unchecked mass surveillance, people! The post Embattled Flock CEO Begs for “Compromise” As Backlash Spills Over appeared first on Futurism .
NVIDIA Vera CPUs To Power SpaceXAI Agentic Workloads
(RTTNews) - NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA), an American tech giant, announced on Monday that SpaceXAI will use its new Vera CPUs to accelerate agentic AI workloads, expanding infrastructure for Grok and…
How to Choose the Right AI Video Model for Your Project (Not the "Best" One)
Picking the "best" AI video model is the wrong question. Here's the checklist I run to match a model to the shot, the budget, and the deadline.
How developers build AI for good with Gemma 4
A look at the winning entries from the Gemma 4 Good Challenge.
Celebrate 110 years of national parks with Maps, Search, and Gemini
What people are searching in the leadup to National Parks Week — plus, how Google can help turn your wanderlust into a well-planned adventure.
AI Marketing Strategies: From experimentation to execution with Samsung, Bayer, David’s Bridal and Dolce&Gabbana Beauty
When we convened in February, marketers’ approaches to AI were still nascent. Over the past several months, many iconic brands have moved from early experimentation to strategies and tactics that put…
LinkedIn's 'seems like AI slop' button is a hit
Over a million people have hit LinkedIn's "seems like AI slop" button. The platform is starting to share feedback to posts widely suspected to be AI.
Who is Dali Rajic, OpenAI’s new chief revenue officer?
OpenAI is counting on the veteran sales exec known as 'Croation Sensation' to shore up its enterprise revenue ahead of a likely iPO. He's got his work cut out for him.