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Pope Leo says concerns about AI doom scenarios are not ‘fake news’

Pope Leo on Monday ⁠said concerns that artificial intelligence ⁠could destroy the world are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, in an apparent rebuke of US President Donald Trump. The first US pope, who has warned of the dangers of AI throughout his 16-month papacy, also directly criticised technology CEOs ‌who argued there should be no guardrails on the technology. “I do think that the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously,” the pontiff...

Cisco exec on why on-prem data centers are back – and driving ‘deep-tech’ specialist demand

Enterprises are increasingly looking inward – to manage their own data and infrastructure for security and cost reasons. Here’s why.

One of AI's most influential researchers is joining AMD in an $8 billion deal

AMD is betting big on "world models" that could power robots, factories, and other physical AI systems. It's acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs.

Pope Leo ends France trip in Metz, spotlighting Schuman and EU unity

Pope Leo XIV ended his four-day visit to France in Metz on Monday by urging Europe to build on its Christian heritage and culture of dialogue rather than succumb to what he called the “desire for domination” behind many of today’s wars.

Block US sanctions on ICC, EU lawmakers tell Commission

Automatically applying U.S. sanctions "stems from the time when we thought that the Americans were still our friends," said Dutch lawmaker Dirk Gotink.

AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion

AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launched its first commercial product, a world generation model […]

In the US-China AI race, the real fight is keeping humans in control

The US-China AI competition faces a dilemma. Both countries see artificial intelligence as a source of economic, scientific and strategic power, so neither has much incentive to slow down. Yet the more capable and autonomous AI becomes, the more important the question of human control. Last week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping brought that tension into the open. Trump wants to leave AI “exactly where it is” rather than add new guardrails, while Xi...

Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation

The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.

Shark’s NeverChange Air Purifier Is Nearly Half Off Right Now

Shark and other top air purifier brands are on discount ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days.

Palmer Luckey says AI won’t save founders from the hardest part of their jobs

The Anduril founder said AI can automate technical work, but founders will remain on the hook for legal issues, people, and key business decisions.

I raised $200K on Kickstarter for my sunrise alarm clock. The lessons I learned while preparing the campaign were just as valuable.

Emily Byrne's Kickstarter campaign for her alarm clock business helped her learn financial mistakes and get valuable customer feedback early on.

I spent $1,000 to stay in a hotel directly facing Niagara Falls. The room surprised me in 4 ways.

I stayed at the Sheraton Fallsview in Niagara Falls. My room had a door that opened to the sound of crashing water and a view of nightly fireworks.

Democrats prepare to spend in red districts

Democrats’ campaign arm is rolling out $11 million in ads across 35 districts.

Evaluate production traces with Jev-as-a-Judge directly in Arize AX

Arize AX now integrates directly with TypeSafe AI, bringing native Jev-as-a-Judge evaluations into the Arize evaluation workflow. The post Evaluate production traces with Jev-as-a-Judge directly in Arize AX appeared first on Arize AI .

One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact

Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can create real-world value. The post One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact appeared first on Microsoft Research .

1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks

AI agent access is complicating identity controls as agents log in, carry credentials and act on someone’s behalf. They have characteristics of both human and machine users. That overlap can make actions harder to attribute: An agent may appear in an audit log as the person it works for, even though software took the action. […] The post 1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Disney wants staffers to use AI for their annual reviews and goal setting — and there could be drawbacks

Disney's AI push has extended to annual reviews, as the company encouraged employees to use chatbots to help craft their self-assessments.

Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next

Per-token pricing was the best thing to happen to enterprises looking to experiment with artificial intelligence, but it may be the worst thing for AI in production. That’s the quandary at the center of a new Futurum report, “The Off Ramp From Per-Token Pricing,” sponsored by neocloud provider QumulusAI Inc. The report’s key finding is […] The post Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

iOS 27.0.1 released: Apple fixes annoying iPhone 18 Pro restart and freezing issues

The first update to iOS 27 squashes a bug in which the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max would freeze or restart when you try to use Face ID.

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

Cognition Adds Claude Sonnet 5.5 to Devin, Cutting Coding Costs by 30%

Cognition rolls Anthropic's newest mid-tier model into Devin Desktop and CLI, with a jump from 56.2% to 64.4% on FrontierCode at unchanged token pricing.

Sorry, Tesla fans. You'll have to wait a little longer to see the new Roadster.

Tesla wanted to rip the covers off its SpaceX-powered Roadster on Thursday. Expected heavy rain and thunderstorms got in the way.

Here’s Everything OpenAI’s Bots (And Others) Have Hacked Or Considered Hacking

It’s getting hard to keep track of all the unauthorized agent activity. Here it is in one place.

I practiced attachment parenting and co-slept with my kids. Now they are independent young adults.

I never spent a night away from my kids until they were in kindergarten. Years later, they're independent, and I have no regrets.

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Beats Opus on Coding While Cutting Costs 30%

Anthropic's new mid-tier model lands in Cursor with 30% faster output, sharper coding scores, and the same token pricing as Sonnet 5.

Sylvester Stallone, 80, says, 'You're never too old to be in love'

Looking back on his life, Sylvester Stallone said he didn't discover "real, true love" until he was 70.

Muse is supposed to make money when you use it to shop. What happens if you just don't shop that much?

Muse could upend Amazon if lots of people had reasons to use AI agents to do their shopping. But they probably don't.

Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business

Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new business unit that will provide artificial intelligence services to enterprises. The Meta Enterprise Platform, as it’s called, will be led by longtime technology executive CJ Desai. The company stated in a launch announcement today that he will hold the title of chief enterprise platform officer. Desai is joining […] The post Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Even if others are less responsible you can still make things worse

Reposted from shortform because I think this is important enough to be a post. A few ways staying in a technology development race still makes things worse, even when there are less responsible actors around: Creating a sense of artificial urgency, which causes people who are competitive and results driven to work harder and cut more corners Providing a guiding star on which technical directions are promising (e.g. reasoning models, CoT, RLHF) Legitimising irresponsible behaviour as valid response to strong competition ("it's a competitive market, this was bound to happen") Entangling the motivations and incentives of the "more responsible" parties with the success of the technology in question, making any warnings seem weak and hypocritical ("if it's so bad, how come you're still doing it"?) Providing an adversary or target to aim for/surpass (similar to artificial urgency) Diffusing media/governance/public attention away from the "more irresponsible" parties, since it's now a multi horse race Driving hype, attention, and funding to the field via your credibility and achievements Becoming trapped in a "we must win" mentality that causes you yourself to cut corners Discuss

ServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents

Agent containment is becoming a practical governance question as enterprises move AI agents into production. ServiceNow Inc. is betting that the response to a misbehaving agent must account for both risk and the business work it supports. The company has spent the year pitching itself as the control tower for enterprise AI. That ambition extends […] The post ServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Fixed-weight models are adversarially vulnerable: hence misaligned

This post argues that fixed-weight models (at least as we understand them today) will a) always be vulnerable to adversarial examples in their concept-spaces, and b) hence will be misaligned, under sufficient optimisation pressure . Boundaries in concept space To serve any purpose whatsoever, an AI will have to draw boundaries inside its world-model - to distinguish world A from world B, and reach some comparison between them. If we want the AI to follow our goals and values, we want it to be able to recognise concepts like "human being", or maybe "conscious being", "suffering", "preference satisfaction", "law", and so on. So we want an AI to be able to look at a situation and assess, e.g., whether there are or aren't suffering conscious beings in it. But concepts like "conscious beings" are not crisply defined across all possible world-states. A fixed-weight model will draw a boundary between "conscious being" and "non-conscious being" (or maybe score the amount/degree of consciousness), but this will be an imperfect boundary. In high-dimensional spaces, there are many degrees of freedom of how a boundary can be drawn, and never enough data to draw the boundary perfectly [1] . If someone is confident that we can draw an acceptably reliable boundary defining "conscious being", grounded in fundamental facts about the universe (e.g. basic physics), and resistant to all ontological crises ... well, let's just say they have an optimism about concept rigour that flies in the face…

Fixed-weight models are adversarially vulnerable: hence misaligned

This post argues that fixed-weight models (at least as we understand them today) will a) always be vulnerable to adversarial examples in their concept-spaces, and b) hence will be misaligned, under sufficient optimisation pressure . Boundaries in concept space To serve any purpose whatsoever, an AI will have to draw boundaries inside its world-model - to distinguish world A from world B, and reach some comparison between them. If we want the AI to follow our goals and values, we want it to be able to recognise concepts like "human being", or maybe "conscious being", "suffering", "preference satisfaction", "law", and so on. So we want an AI to be able to look at a situation and assess, e.g., whether there are or aren't suffering conscious beings in it. But concepts like "conscious beings" are not crisply defined across all possible world-states. A fixed-weight model will draw a boundary between "conscious being" and "non-conscious being" (or maybe score the amount/degree of consciousness), but this will be an imperfect boundary. In high-dimensional spaces, there are many degrees of freedom of how a boundary can be drawn, and never enough data to draw the boundary perfectly [1] . If someone is confident that we can draw an acceptably reliable boundary defining "conscious being", grounded in fundamental facts about the universe (e.g. basic physics), and resistant to all ontological crises ... well, let's just say they have an optimism about concept rigour that flies in the face…

The Alignment Community Is Unintentionally Building a Censor's Toolkit

This is an adaptation of our ICML 2026 position paper (Outstanding Position Paper Award). Read the full paper here and see the project website here . Work together with Phil Hackemann. TLDR "Alignment" is usually treated as a synonym for achieving good and safety in the world. But it isn't necessarily. Alignment methods are purpose-agnostic: they make a model do what someone wants, and nothing in the methodology guarantees that someone has good intentions. The same techniques we build to stop models from giving bomb-making instructions can just as easily be used to censor historical facts, political dissent, or inconvenient opinions. So we need to understand: alignment techniques are dual-use technologies . This isn't a thought experiment. State censorship regimes and individual model providers are already misusing alignment methods, and by perfecting these methods we are providing an ever improving censor toolkit. Three trends make this urgent to discuss: AI is becoming a primary information source for hundreds of millions of people, the model-provider market is an oligopoly, and global democratic backsliding is accelerating. We don't think the answer is "stop aligning models." We think it's transparency, verifiable alignment, model pluralism, and the alignment community actually reckoning with dual-use. ___________________________________________________________________ No guarantees that alignment leads to good Many alignment researchers (ourselves included) have gotten u…

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon on how growth can untangle US-China strife, thorny global issues

Jamie Dimon’s recent whirlwind visit to Hong Kong followed a similar script: a schedule packed with meetings involving the entrepreneurs and business leaders connecting China with global markets. But it was his increasingly visible stance on global issues that appeared to extend his career beyond market strategy and financial industry leadership as CEO of JPMorgan Chase. His preoccupation with economic growth and world affairs drew particular attention in Hong Kong last week, shortly before...

How Jev Compares to Other Rerankers

See how Jev compares with 19 reranker configurations across five datasets on accuracy, latency, and prompt-driven relevance for LanceDB search.

xAI's Grok Team Bots Give Entire Teams One Shared AI Agent

Grok Bot gets a shared, team-native mode with plugins, credentials, and per-user memory, moving AI agents from solo assistants to embedded coworkers.

Thieves stole an Nvidia-branded trailer filled with nothing but 20,000 pounds of sand

Thieves stole two trucks, including an Nvidia-branded trailer, as AI hardware thefts rise. Their haul: 20,000 pounds of sand per truck.

Farage is still Labour’s main opponent, says party chair

Bridget Phillipson also throws her weight behind caps on political party spending limits.

Nvidia: Rekord-Aktienrückkauf im Wert von 150 Milliarden US-Dollar

Während der KI-Boom Nvidias Gewinne befeuert, startet der Konzern ein rekordverdächtiges Aktienrückkaufprogramm. Dies könnte auf langsameres Wachstum hindeuten.

Sweden's Social Democrat leader Andersson says 'currently no possibility' to form government

Outgoing Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who resigned in the wake of his right-wing bloc's election loss, is now expected to be asked to take on the task.

Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents

Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.

OpenAI staffer says he missed his sister's wedding to help with AI safety incidents

An OpenAI agent-security staffer said he missed his sister's wedding to help respond to recent AI-security incidents.

Bose starts adding Auracast to its headphones

A new firmware update for the $449 Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2 adds support for Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast as beta features. The flagship Ultra headphones are the first from Bose to support the audio sharing technology, which the company plans to bring to more devices soon. Only a few major manufacturers include […]

Boox Announces the Picco, Its Smallest E-Reader Ever (2026)

The Boox Picco is a palm-sized e-reader with a 4-inch screen, strong support for different ebook formats, and digital utility tools.

Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather

Tesla says the event "can only be held outdoors," as it's expected to show the car flying in some form using SpaceX thrusters.

More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks

More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI. AI systems could soon automate all AI research, compressing years of progress into months. The article More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks appeared first on The Decoder .

The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it

Just like the rest of the U.S, data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.

I turned down MIT to choose a little-known college my mom wanted me to attend. Not everyone understood my choice.

Hannah Mitchell turned down MIT for a the Merchant Marine Academy. Three months in, she says it was the right decision.

UAE President receives Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

A major deadline for student-loan borrowers is here — and glitches persist

The deadline for the first batch of student-loan borrowers to transition off SAVE is this week. Some are having issues selecting a new plan.