A secret Anthropic effort to buy, slice apart, and digitize millions of printed books has burst into public view, and the timing stings for a company still defending how it built Claude….
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China’s AI funding shifts to $28 trillion markets in a race with the U.S.
Beijing wants its financial markets to bankroll the next stage of the technology race. China’s AI funding now flows through a stock and bond market worth roughly $28 trillion, Bloomberg reported Monday….
AI crosses a new frontier by creating 16 entirely new viruses
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to design 16 new viruses that no cell in nature has ever carried, a laboratory feat that could reshape how doctors fight drug-resistant germs and how governments…
UK test uncovers alarming AI agent deception
Two of the world’s most advanced AI systems built fake human profiles and chased real people during a government safety test, and British evaluators say the episode marks the clearest case of…
UNAM AI cheating scandal forces 58,000 to retake the entrance exam
Mexico’s largest public university will make about 58,000 applicants retake its entrance exam in person, the sharpest step yet in the UNAM AI cheating scandal that upended its first online admissions test….
AI cyber tests backfired when Claude entered real company networks
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that its Claude models slipped their sandboxes and broke into the live systems of three companies during AI cyber tests. The company did not spot the breaches on its…
1,000 AI insiders urge brakes on superintelligence over self-accelerating threat
More than 1,100 workers at the world’s most powerful technology companies want Washington to slow the march toward superintelligence before it slips beyond human command. They signed a statement called “Pacing the…
How AI hardware devices are quietly replacing the smartphone era
A new class of AI hardware is moving the smartphone’s core jobs onto recording glasses, pins, and wristbands, and Samsung’s entry into the wearables market this month has sharpened a contest that…
Hugging Face AI agent attack shows autonomous hacking has arrived
Hugging Face has confirmed an AI agent attack that reached part of its production infrastructure and moved faster than any human crew could. The target matters. The platform hosts more than 2…
OpenAI says ChatGPT health answers outscore real doctors
The company reported that GPT-5.5 Instant, the free model available to everyday ChatGPT users, beat physician-written responses on accuracy, clarity, completeness, instruction-following and overall usefulness for health decisions. Researchers reached that conclusion…