A Stanford study estimates that the mean amount Americans would need to give up generative AI for a month rose to $124.50. The median is far lower, revealing a widening
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Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership so GPT-6 models can work with Rovo and the Teamwork Graph, bringing company context into planning, coding and agent workflows.
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Pinterest Beauty Guides analyse hair and nail Pins, then generate salon language, step-by-step guidance and product suggestions. The
Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program so approved security teams can use more capable Claude cyber functions
OpenAI has added native audio uploads to ChatGPT for paid users. Meetings, interviews and lectures can be transcribed,
Researchers built a soft robot that stores energy from daily heating and cooling as pneumatic pressure. One outdoor
A flexible tensegrity robot can tumble over rough terrain, descend a two-metre cliff and survive a 5.7-metre drop onto asphalt. Its body bends, senses and recovers instead of treating every fall as failure.
Read articleA meta-analysis found no single productivity effect from robot presence. Interactive robots were linked with faster task performance,
A Stanford study estimates that the mean amount Americans would need to give up generative AI for a
In a randomised experiment, generative AI sharply narrowed the performance gap between adults with different education levels. The
A 41-country Stanford study finds AI-adopting firms are shifting their workforce mix towards senior staff. The risk may
AI safety careers extend beyond research scientists. Engineering, evaluations, cybersecurity, policy, governance and operations all offer routes into work focused on understanding and reducing AI risk.
Read articleThere is no single route into AI. A useful career plan starts by choosing whether you want to
AI law careers now span legal practice, privacy, governance, product work and lawtech. The strongest route combines real
OpenAI says a coordinated model-extraction campaign generated 16,000 suspicious requests across two July days. The company says attackers
Google is giving Gemini 4 Argon to a limited group of cyber defenders before a wider release. The
Barclays says Claude now helps more than 16,000 employees find internal answers and processes about 120,000 market emails a day. The bank also wants half its developers using Claude Code by year end.
Read articleA Nature study turns scientific papers into AI agents that can run methods, answer questions and collaborate. In
MIT researchers built a robotic optics lab that assembled a working laser from loose components in 30 minutes.
A Cornell-led project is developing orchard robots that could pollinate flowers, thin fruit, weed and harvest apples. The
Albertsons is expanding ChatGPT from a Safeway shopping experience into selected internal teams and retail workflows. The October
Stanford researchers have built oversight frameworks that teach AI agents when to act alone and when to ask a human. The goal is useful autonomy without forcing people to approve every routine step.
Read articleFood companies can see how pooled data could help AI spot rare safety risks earlier. Cornell researchers found
MIT researchers argue that one shared hiring algorithm does not automatically harm job seekers. Their models suggest the
California’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into cybersecurity incidents and model risks. The
A Stanford-led audit found AI models scored differently through developer APIs and consumer chat interfaces, suggesting benchmark results
MIT researchers used a two-stage AI controller to make an insect-scale flying robot 447% faster, with 255% greater acceleration and 10 consecutive flips in 11 seconds.
Read articleA study of 609 young adults found AI transparency changed the link between rational reactions to in-feed adverts
Six experiments found people were more willing to behave dishonestly towards AI agents, partly because they expected less
A study of 847 female online shoppers linked AI nudges and social cues with addictive shopping behaviour, while
A peer-reviewed comparison found AI financial advice showed less projection bias than human advisers but tended to recommend
University of Maryland researchers taught a robot system to learn how objects should move from ordinary videos, then translate those motion patterns into commands for a specific robot.
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Nvidia’s new 64GB DGX Spark starts at $4,999 and can link two boxes into a 128GB local AI
Anthropic is putting $100 million behind a programme to train 10,000 engineers who can turn Claude projects into
HardFlow steers flow-matching generative models so their final outputs satisfy formal hard constraints. The method was tested on
Carnegie Mellon researchers developed LAMP, a planning framework that lets teams of robots reason about the object's route
NielsenIQ says 51% of US consumers in its recurring tracker used at least one AI-powered tool to support shopping in the previous month. The figure covers recommendations and assistants, not simply autonomous purchases.
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Anthropic is interviewing Claude users about what they want from AI and letting participants publish the complete transcript.
Microscopic robots equipped with temperature sensors and artificial cilia can coordinate their movements to pump fluid and reshape
Researchers analysed real ten-minute speed dates using facial, audio and language signals. Their models found suggestive patterns, but
A survey of 360 university students in China found that those who saw generative AI as more empowering
A new US executive order directs major federal online services towards America.gov, a conversational front door for questions and transactions. Existing phone, mail, in-person and agency-specific routes are supposed to remain available.
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Meta has expanded Muse into a small-business agent that connects with tools such as QuickBooks, Shopify, Slack and
A quantum-optical spin glass stored and recalled far more patterns than a classic associative network in a small
A randomised trial found junior patent lawyers gained most while using AI, yet senior lawyers showed the clearest
MIT Sloan researchers found that AI projects can stall when employees are left to absorb testing, review and
Scientists report saving nearly seven hours a week with AI, but faster analysis is creating a backlog of ideas waiting for verification and experiments. The bottleneck is moving rather than disappearing.
Read articleMIT engineers built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by one layer of living muscle cells. The slow laboratory
The European Commission has opened a targeted copyright consultation covering AI training, licensing and synthetic imitations of performers.
A survey of 11,000 consumers suggests many people grant AI access even while feeling uncomfortable about it. The
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 is over 30% faster and can cost less per completed task while keeping