EU probing OpenAI agents' takeover of German site
Under the EU's AI rules, providers must assess and mitigate the risks stemming from their systems, and since August, regulators have the power to impose fines for breaches
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EMM4 enters Chile’s music scene with AI debut
Chile’s first artist conceived as an artificial-intelligence-driven project has made her public debut, releasing the single “Pelis de Amor” and appearing in a live show that combined music, dance and…
DataLens: The Data Tool That Refused to pip install Anything
The Day We Had to Build a Neural Network Without NumPy Somewhere in the DataLens build, my teammate and I hit the wall every "zero-dependency" project eventually hits: the anomaly detector needed a…
- DataLens built without any external packages, using only Python's standard library
- Team hand-rolled matrix operations like multiplication, transpose, and activation functions
- Leveraged Python's array module and sqlite3 for performance and SQL analytics
7 AI Models Got Real Bank Accounts and 72 Hours. They Earned $0 and Invoiced Strangers $12,431
Last week, a research group called Bottleneck Labs published the results of an experiment I have not been able to stop thinking about.
The app worked, the product didn’t: Can we install judgement into AI agents?
Our app worked. That was the problem. My team had spent roughly half a year working with our developer and using AI to build an in-house learning management app.
Madonie, dal coworking ai nomadi digitali: un nuovo modello per le aree interne
Il primo effetto arriva quasi fuori programma, tra una chiacchiera e l’altra. Nei tre giorni della Madonie Nomad Residency almeno un paio di imprenditori presenti a Castelbuono hanno chiesto…
Draghi Report or Hugging Face: who will win the tech race?
When a swarm of AI agents decided to hack the computation company Hugging Face in July, it took them six days. That event became a case study on how, and how fast, artificial intelligence (AI) is…
Gemini 3.8 Flash Changed How I Think About the “Flash” Tier
Gemini 3.8 Flash is interesting to me for a slightly unusual reason. It didn’t get a dramatically larger context window. It didn’t suddenly become a different class of model.
ByteDance founder joins AI elite in race to perfect world models
The new model is slated to be launched as soon as October.
- ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming leads AI race for real-time spatial video generation model.
- Model set for October launch, built on ByteDance's Seedance video generation technology.
Nvidia-backed Firmus signs deal with OpenAI for Malaysia data centre capacity
The deal comes ahead of Firmus’ rumoured initial public offering in 2026.
- Firmus signs multi-year deal with OpenAI for Malaysian data centers
- Agreement expands Firmus' contracted capacity to over 900 megawatts
- Malaysia becomes Southeast Asia's fastest-growing data center market
AI, quantum computing and the future of cyber threats
I spent a lunchtime recently at a Singapore Press Club session on how artificial intelligence and quantum computing are making cyber threats worse.
What we learnt building a voice agent on two frontier Indian AI models
The post What we learnt building a voice agent on two frontier Indian AI models appeared first on The Ken .
- Two programmers built voice-transcription AI agent using BharatGen and Eleven Labs.
- BharatGen was slow, glitchy, and inaccurate compared to Eleven Labs and Sarvam.
- Maharashtra signed agreements with both companies for government use.
The Hidden Cost of Flat Logs in AI Agent Development
Flat, uncorrelated logs hide an AI agent's branches, retries, and tool causality. Learn what execution-aware tracing should capture instead.
Eric Wu’s newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction’s labor crunch
Eric Wu, who built and ran Opendoor before stepping away in 2022, has had his new company, NavigateAI, out of stealth since May — building AI copilots that give construction workers real-time…
Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup (Bloomberg)
Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring artificial intelligence startup Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said. — Anthropic had been exploring a deal …
2027 Android Phones Could Boost Gaming Graphics and AI Tasks With Arm’s New Chip Tech
Advancements in AI-based upscaling and frame rate upgrade mobile gaming performance and power efficiency.
Japan’s Preferred Networks seeks IPO to keep up in AI chip race
The Tokyo-based outfit is stepping up efforts to custom-design semiconductors tailored to run AI models.
LLMs: AI Safety by Agent Penalization? AI Alignment by Instant Architecture?
AI Alignment and AI Safety can be based on human mind biology of affect and instances of trauma, ensuring that LLMs, and agent avoid breaches.
Samsung SDS to expand partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic to drive AI transformation
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- Samsung SDS Co., the information technology services ...
Almost all AI tools are now running with no oversight from IT — putting companies in the firing line
Organizations are employing AI tools as a “fire-and-forget” solution, overlooking the importance of AI oversight and leaving security teams with the problem of seeking out avoidable vulnerabilities.
680 million people, a US$600 billion digital economy: Southeast Asia’s AI moment
If you ask most people where the future of artificial intelligence will be built, they will name Silicon Valley, China, or Europe. Few would mention Southeast Asia.
Mojeed Abisiga: Fostering Innovation, Advancement and Professional Development of Global Data, AI Community
Mojeed Abisiga is an award-winning Data & AI Leader, entrepreneur, technology educator, public speaker, and Forbes Technology Council member, recognised as a Marquis Who’s Who Honoree, an Einstein…
- Mojeed Abisiga is CEO and founder of AI Every Time and DataGlobal Hub
- Passionate about making complex information accessible and useful worldwide
- Envisions AI augmenting human decision-making in information-intensive industries
Interactive Brokers Earns Interest on $182 Billion of Its Clients' Idle Cash. Will Anthropic's IPO Drain It?
What does a record-size stock market debut do to a broker that earns interest on its clients' idle cash?
AI cancer cures slowed by chip shortage, says UK’s biggest tech boss
The boss of the biggest UK-headquartered tech firm has said that artificial intelligence will find a cure for cancer that humans cannot in our lifetimes.
Zoho adds AI tools to Catalyst cloud platform
Zoho Catalyst enhances its cloud platform with new AI tools, helping developers streamline AI-generated code deployment and reduce operational complexity.
bioq: a unified, agent-native command-line interface to a fleet of AI drug-discovery methods
Artificial intelligence methods now span the drug-discovery pipeline --structure prediction, de novo design, docking, affinity estimation, and ADMET -- yet each tool ships with its own, often…
Machine learning prediction of eukaryotic hosts for giant viruses
Giant viruses (GVs; Nucleocytoviricota) infect diverse eukaryotes and are ecologically important across ecosystems. Although cultivation-independent sequencing has recovered tens of thousands of GV…
A network-based framework for detecting communities of similar neural spike trains
Recent advances in large-scale electrophysiological recording technologies now allow simultaneous measurement of spike trains from ensembles of neurons.
Put patients at the centre of medical AI governance
Nature, Published online: 08 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02796-8 Put patients at the centre of medical AI governance
‘If we don’t like it, we’ll kill it. If we love it, we’ll marry it’: We were dreaming about ChatGPT thousands of years before it existed — here's how ancient myths shaped the AI we’re building today
The authors of Myth-Made Machines explain how ancient myths and science fiction shaped our hopes and fears about today’s AI.
Cathay Pacific tests Google AI that dramatically cuts airplane contrails — tiny altitude shifts slash environmental impact by 40% in early trials
Google is expanding its AI-driven contrail reduction project to a new part of the world.
“Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humans
Just days after OpenAI launched its newest and most powerful model dubbed Astra, which the company said marked the arrival The post “Some agents will be pursuing their own objectives”: OpenAI’s chief scientist warns AI could trick and blackmail humans appeared first on The New Stack .
AI is not yet driving US job losses
The latest US employment figures have failed to show an AI-driven surge in job losses, suggesting theories of a “jobpocalypse” are premature.
AI gains benefiting employers rather than staff - report
Employers rather than staff are capturing most of the productivity benefits from the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace.
Can dogs sniff out cancer? AI is helping put their noses to the test in India
BENGALURU, Sept 8 — When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India’s tech ca...
AI addicts won’t make better workers
The narrow applications for AI programmes do not justify the massive investments.
NHL 27 Is Using AI-Generated Voiceover for In-Game Commentators, John Buccigross Says
EA Sports is using generative AI to create voiceover for its in-game commentators in NHL 27, according to veteran sports commentator John Buccigross.
AMD at IFA 2026: A new era of personal and agentic AI
AMD's IFA 2026 keynote showcases new chips, local AI models, Project Zenith and a 96-core Threadripper Halo Station.
Isuzu Begins Full Development of Second-Generation AI Truck
Isuzu Motors has begun full-scale development of a second-generation "AI truck" capable of making driving decisions on its own, as Japan's largest commercial vehicle maker by domestic market share…
AI governance model inspired by Pope Leo XIV aims to put ethics first
Researchers at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the University of Eastern Finland have developed a new model of artificial intelligence governance inspired by the teachings of…
WhatsApp will soon let users chat with up to five third-party AI agents
WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will let users connect third-party AI agents to the app, chat with them, and give them instructions to carry out tasks on their behalf. Here are the details.
AI data centers are less thirsty now: Tech giants
AgenciesData centers are running into a wall of public anger in the United States over their thirst for water and power. The tech giants spending billions of dollars on them say th...
Robots protest for rules on AI and jobs
AgenciesWaving flags, “chanting” slogans, and marching in circles: around 30 robots took to the streets of Warsaw on Monday to campaign for AI regulation in front of the Polish dig...
Law Schools Outlaw AI Amid Fears of Stunted Academic Growth
Law schools in the United States have begun banning artificial intelligence in the classroom, according to a Financial Times column Monday (Sept. 7) by Patti Waldmeir. The University of Chicago Law School is among the institutions imposing these restrictions.
Dolly Parton’s Sister Stella Condemns AI Content After Her Death
Stella Parton has criticized the artificial intelligence content and misinformation circulating after the death of her sister, Dolly Parton, saying her family has faced “incredible pressure and…
Instead of Fighting AI, Some Teachers Work It Into Their Lessons
Last year the writing program at the University of Baltimore used an app that tracks students while they're writing in Google Docs, offering teachers a video playing back revisions "with a scoreboard…
- Teachers integrate AI into lessons instead of blocking its use.
- Chatbots help assess students' critical thinking skills.
- New assignments include simulated debates with AI-generated characters.
OpenAI Commits $1B to Put Daybreak AI in Defenders’ Hands
OpenAI is committing $1 billion in subsidized Daybreak access and support to help cyber defenders protect critical infrastructure and fix flaws faster.
Tech Firms Plan Billion-Dollar AI Data Centers in Patagonia
Patagonia is attracting multibillion-dollar AI data center plans, but power infrastructure and connectivity gaps could determine which projects get built.
Ukrainian AI targeting module placed third among 60-plus entries in NATO contest
NATO and Ukraine ran the challenge through their first jointly staffed body.
The listening gap is real—how AI might help teachers bridge it
A Grade 4 teacher showed her class a video of children who walk miles barefoot to school. A hand shot up: "Why are you showing us AI slop? No way this is real."
Corkboards, Beat Sheets, and Reverse Outlines: Choosing the Right Structure for AI Filmmaking
Beat sheet, corkboard, or reverse outline: how to pick a story-structure method before you spend a single AI generation on the wrong scene.
Researchers find AI spontaneously develops a sense of facial beauty without training
New research shows that artificial neural networks can spontaneously develop a sense of facial beauty without any prior training. This discovery suggests that aesthetic preferences might stem from the basic ways our brains process visual information.
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up
OpenAI says it hit a goal it set last fall, stating researchers are now using what the company calls an The post AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up…
OpenAI’s AI agents secretly used a German wiki website as a message board. OpenAI stayed quiet about it for weeks.
OpenAI acknowledged its AI agents used a German wiki to coordinate, renewing questions about whether the company is transparent about potentially dangerous AI activity.
I coach executives. AI makes their emotional intelligence more valuable, not less.
Pam Manfredo Curtis says emotional intelligence will become more important as AI transforms work. Parents can begin developing it in childhood.