The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99.
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AI // Open the pod doors
Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it’s not an antitrust issue.
Ryan Whitwam
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With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
Jacek Krywko
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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet
So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Ryan Whitwam
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RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
Beth Mole
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Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
Ashley Belanger
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“An AI did it” is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer “the harms of its unsafe decision-making,” nonprofit says.
Jon Brodkin
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Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
Ryan Whitwam
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Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.
John Timmer
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OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.
Financial Times
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Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
Cyrus Farivar
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AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year’s end, is worth $8.2 billion.
Samuel Axon
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Here’s what actually happened in OpenAI’s Australian gov’t server hack
Without a “full set of safeguards,” agent accessed “system information and source code.”
Kyle Orland
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OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
Kyle Orland
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Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.
Financial Times
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Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
Mozilla’s Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.
Samuel Axon
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Experts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Ashley Belanger
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Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as “the greatest public nuisance ever created.”
Kyle Orland
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OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified.
Kyle Orland
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Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out.”
Ashley Belanger
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Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
“Overly constrained AI models” could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Jon Brodkin
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Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
Jeremy Hsu
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AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
“There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.”
Kyle Orland
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Microsoft stops insisting you need a “Copilot+ PC”
Microsoft’s new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
Scharon Harding
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.”
Beth Mole
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New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
Ashley Belanger
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Google’s first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
Google’s experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.
Ryan Whitwam
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OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach
“There will obviously be legal consequences,” prime minister promises.
Kyle Orland
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Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain
Meta says the keychain-sized Muse Charm will ship in December.
Hannah Murphy, Financial Times
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Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say
Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel.
Ashley Belanger
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XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.
Jeremy Hsu
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YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
YouTube’s next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.
Ryan Whitwam
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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
“So absurd and embarrassing …”
Scharon Harding
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New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
Samuel Axon
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Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
Dan Goodin
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Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
Ashley Belanger
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