Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
…Alongside these agentic additions coming to Search, Google also announced a new underlying model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, as the global default model for AI Mode answers, as well as improvements to…
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A24 Knows You’re Mad About the Google AI Collab
…Generative AI images are regularly—and accurately—described with the sticky epithet “slop.” Because generative AI clients and large language models are not human, they cannot judge, or discern good and bad…
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
…Google DeepMind tagline ‘to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity,’” the DeepMind employee told WIRED. “The direction of travel is to further militarization of the AI models we’re building here.” Increasingly…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Look Hell-Bent on Disruption
…It's no longer difficult to envision a near future in which local AI models are routinely used for inference across a wide range of work projects. As agentic models become easier…
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
…Earlier this year, Musk criticized Anthropic’s AI models in a post on X, calling the company’s policies “misanthropic” and “evil,” and alleging without evidence that the AI models showed racial…
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
…The Thor chip can run powerful AI models that allow the bot to make sense of its environment and control its movements, while the body features Unitree’s motors, actuators, and sensors…
Apple Will Pay $250 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Siri’s AI Features
The announcement comes just before Apple is supposedly set to finally unveil some form of AI-enhanced Siri at its developer conference in June, which would mark another swing at detailing a…
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
…The companies announced in late March that Crusoe would be building new buildings on the Abilene campus, including a power plant, to support Microsoft’s AI infrastructure. (Microsoft declined to comment.) There…
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
Isomorphic Labs, the UK-based biotech spinoff of Google DeepMind, will soon begin human trials of drugs designed by its Nobel Prize–winning AI technology. “We're gearing up to go into…
OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts
…OpenAI says the launch is part of its broader cybersecurity strategy announced earlier this month. “People are turning to AI for deeply personal questions and increasingly high-stakes work,” the company said…