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Encrypted instructions slipped past Grok's filters. The same attack works on Gemini, DeepSeek, and Mistral.
Researchers at Adversa showed Grok, xAI's assistant on X, decrypting attacker instructions buried in user content.
AI
NEWS
8m ago
Researchers at Adversa showed Grok, xAI's assistant on X, decrypting attacker instructions buried in user content.
AI
5 sources
NEWS
8m ago
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Meta Torrented 81.7 TB of Books to Train Llama. For 70 GB of Papers, Aaron Swartz Faced 35 Years.
The federal system answered Aaron Swartz's 70-GB JSTOR download with criminal charges; Meta's 81.7-TB book trove for AI training is a civil fair-use fight.
AI
NEWS
1h ago
The federal system answered Aaron Swartz's 70-GB JSTOR download with criminal charges; Meta's 81.7-TB book trove for AI training is a civil fair-use fight.
AI
7 sources
NEWS
1h ago
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Micro1 says it won't sell to Chinese AI labs as its data resale hits a $500M run rate
Micro1's 80–90% margins come from reselling the same training data to many AI labs, a practice its 24-year-old founder says now stops at the Chinese border.
AI
NEWS
20m ago
Micro1's 80–90% margins come from reselling the same training data to many AI labs, a practice its 24-year-old founder says now stops at the Chinese border.
AI
3 sources
NEWS
20m ago
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Pew: The AI-written web is mostly on .com, not .edu or .gov
Pew's 35% AI-writing figure hides a tenfold gap between commercial .com pages and the institutional web, where .edu and .gov sit near 1%.
AI
NEWS
1h ago
Pew's 35% AI-writing figure hides a tenfold gap between commercial .com pages and the institutional web, where .edu and .gov sit near 1%.
AI
3 sources
NEWS
1h ago
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Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi run was a follower in its own city
A third-party tracker counted 54 cars and 170 rides without safety drivers in Austin. The market was already home to a much larger driverless fleet.
AI
SIGNAL
1h ago
A third-party tracker counted 54 cars and 170 rides without safety drivers in Austin. The market was already home to a much larger driverless fleet.
AI
7 sources
SIGNAL
1h ago
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Hospitals are handing their messiest medical records to AI chatbots
Hospitals spent two years building their own AI medical-record tools; now they're consolidating on Epic, the dominant U.S. electronic-health-records platform.
BIO
NEWS
40m ago
Hospitals spent two years building their own AI medical-record tools; now they're consolidating on Epic, the dominant U.S. electronic-health-records platform.
BIO
7 sources
NEWS
40m ago
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Find My is Apple-only by design. A researcher just proved it isn't.
A Linux process now impersonates a MacBook Pro on Apple's device-identity service, pulling the same encrypted Find My key an iPhone would see.
AI
NEWS
1h ago
A Linux process now impersonates a MacBook Pro on Apple's device-identity service, pulling the same encrypted Find My key an iPhone would see.
AI
5 sources
NEWS
1h ago
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The party that freed the AI industry now needs it to defend the buildout
The Republican Party has lost the local data center argument. The remedy it has chosen exposes a new kind of political dependency: the industry it freed now funds the politics of defending the buildout.
AI
SIGNAL
2h ago
The Republican Party has lost the local data center argument. The remedy it has chosen exposes a new kind of political dependency: the industry it freed now funds the politics of defending the buildout.
AI
7 sources
SIGNAL
2h ago
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Unitree's 460% pop is the humanoid robot industry's first IPO. Now comes the harder test.
Unitree, a Chinese maker of legged humanoid robots, sold 5,215 units in 2025 with 70% going to research labs, and a new U.S. import cap on certain foreign humanoids landed the same week.
ROB
NEWS
2h ago
Unitree, a Chinese maker of legged humanoid robots, sold 5,215 units in 2025 with 70% going to research labs, and a new U.S. import cap on certain foreign humanoids landed the same week.
ROB
4 sources
NEWS
2h ago
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The US Has Known About This Chinese Hacking Campaign for Three Years. A War Game for Insurers Suggests the Defenses Aren't There
Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-linked hacking group, has been inside US civilian infrastructure for three years. A closed-door Times Square war game for insurance executives showed the country is far from absorbing a strike.
AI
NEWS
2h ago
Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-linked hacking group, has been inside US civilian infrastructure for three years. A closed-door Times Square war game for insurance executives showed the country is far from absorbing a strike.
AI
5 sources
NEWS
2h ago
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Waymo designs 5nm AI chip, mirroring Tesla's in-house silicon bet
Waymo's in-house custom chip, built on Taiwan Semiconductor's (TSMC's) 5nm process, delivers 1,000+ TOPS (trillions of operations per second) for sensor processing and pairs with off-the-shelf chips from AMD, Micron, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Japanese
AI
BRIEF
1h ago
Waymo's in-house custom chip, built on Taiwan Semiconductor's (TSMC's) 5nm process, delivers 1,000+ TOPS (trillions of operations per second) for sensor processing and pairs with off-the-shelf chips from AMD, Micron, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Japanese
AI
4 sources
BRIEF
1h ago
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Nevada authorized up to 8,000 robotaxis for Las Vegas. Tesla's own engineer says 2,500 is the real 12-month target.
The Thursday vote caps Tesla at 5,000 driverless taxis, Waymo at 1,000, and Uber at 1,000, with a local taxi and for-hire drivers' trade group (the Livery Operators Association) already on record against the expansion.
AI
BRIEF
12m ago
The Thursday vote caps Tesla at 5,000 driverless taxis, Waymo at 1,000, and Uber at 1,000, with a local taxi and for-hire drivers' trade group (the Livery Operators Association) already on record against the expansion.
AI
4 sources
BRIEF
12m ago
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Enterprise AI's lead is up for grabs every quarter
Ramp's monthly card-and-bill-pay data, read alongside OpenAI's and Anthropic's recent privacy policy moves, suggests the two leading vendors are trading market share quarter to quarter rather than compounding it.
AI
SIGNAL
1h ago
Ramp's monthly card-and-bill-pay data, read alongside OpenAI's and Anthropic's recent privacy policy moves, suggests the two leading vendors are trading market share quarter to quarter rather than compounding it.
AI
6 sources
SIGNAL
1h ago
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EU courts say AI output isn't copyrightable. That doesn't mean it's free to copy.
Three 2026 German rulings and a March EU Parliament resolution reject a human author. The training data and the source work still carry their own rights.
AI
NEWS
6m ago
Three 2026 German rulings and a March EU Parliament resolution reject a human author. The training data and the source work still carry their own rights.
AI
9 sources
NEWS
6m ago
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Ask Google AI Overviews If You're Safe With a Brit, It Offers Tea. Ask About Africans, It Tells You to Call 911.
Google's AI Overviews, the answer box above Search's blue links, gives whimsical safety advice for some nationalities and emergency-tone warnings for others.
AI
NEWS
2h ago
Google's AI Overviews, the answer box above Search's blue links, gives whimsical safety advice for some nationalities and emergency-tone warnings for others.
AI
7 sources
NEWS
2h ago
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Why humanoid robots are stuck on hardware time
Software iterates in weeks. Motion hardware takes years to reach volume. The 2025 production data says that gap, not the AI, is what is keeping humanoids off factory floors.
ROB
SIGNAL
2h ago
Software iterates in weeks. Motion hardware takes years to reach volume. The 2025 production data says that gap, not the AI, is what is keeping humanoids off factory floors.
ROB
4 sources
SIGNAL
2h ago
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The hospital, not the sponsor: where Chinese gene-therapy deaths are supposed to land first
An investigator-initiated trial puts the medical institution on the hook before the company. A 12-month silence shows what that rule looks like without teeth.
BIO
SIGNAL
2h ago
An investigator-initiated trial puts the medical institution on the hook before the company. A 12-month silence shows what that rule looks like without teeth.
BIO
7 sources
SIGNAL
2h ago
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Keytruda's 2028 Patent Cliff Is Reshaping Where New Drugs Get Made
Keytruda, the world's best-selling cancer drug, loses patent protection in December 2028. With replacements costing $2.2B and eight years to develop, Big Pharma is licensing the next wave from China.
AI
NEWS
10m ago
Keytruda, the world's best-selling cancer drug, loses patent protection in December 2028. With replacements costing $2.2B and eight years to develop, Big Pharma is licensing the next wave from China.
AI
8 sources
NEWS
10m ago
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A Bristol PhD asks the question the C-to-Rust debate keeps skipping: how do you know the translation is right?
Canonical and UK Research and Innovation are funding a Bristol project to test whether machine translation of C into Rust can be verified well enough to ship in security-sensitive code.
AI
NEWS
2h ago
Canonical and UK Research and Innovation are funding a Bristol project to test whether machine translation of C into Rust can be verified well enough to ship in security-sensitive code.
AI
5 sources
NEWS
2h ago
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Liquid AI's draft-model helper cuts AI agent tool-call latency by 57%
A draft model is a small helper LLM that proposes tokens the main model then verifies, and Liquid AI's DSpark speculative-decoding configuration of that recipe trims function-calling latency by 57% on its 2.6-billion-parameter LFM2.5 base model.
AI
BRIEF
1h ago
A draft model is a small helper LLM that proposes tokens the main model then verifies, and Liquid AI's DSpark speculative-decoding configuration of that recipe trims function-calling latency by 57% on its 2.6-billion-parameter LFM2.5 base model.
AI
3 sources
BRIEF
1h ago
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Ramp launches Router, an AI model router to challenge model-aggregator OpenRouter, weeks after Stripe's AI-inference push
Ramp's Router routes prompts across OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and others through one US-only API and is free through 2026, though its default policy logs inputs and outputs for a year.
AI
BRIEF
41m ago
Ramp's Router routes prompts across OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and others through one US-only API and is free through 2026, though its default policy logs inputs and outputs for a year.
AI
6 sources
BRIEF
41m ago
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Lab-grown human brain tissue survived five years in a dish and matured on a human clock
Harvard has kept organoids, microscopic clumps of human brain cells, alive for more than five years, the longest such cultures on record, and found they aged on a human developmental schedule.
BIO
NEWS
2h ago
Harvard has kept organoids, microscopic clumps of human brain cells, alive for more than five years, the longest such cultures on record, and found they aged on a human developmental schedule.
BIO
5 sources
NEWS
2h ago
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How Amazon's drone delivery aims to reach 500 US cities without per-flight pilots
Amazon says onboard self-flying systems and FAA Part 135, the commercial-air-carrier license, are what turn a six-fold drone delivery expansion from a regulatory project into a schedule.
AI
NEWS
16m ago
Amazon says onboard self-flying systems and FAA Part 135, the commercial-air-carrier license, are what turn a six-fold drone delivery expansion from a regulatory project into a schedule.
AI
7 sources
NEWS
16m ago
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A million satellites could rewrite the night sky to power AI on the ground
Astronomers modeled what SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Cowboy Space filings would do to twilight. The answer: a permanent fixture of reflected light.
AI
NEWS
1h ago
Astronomers modeled what SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Cowboy Space filings would do to twilight. The answer: a permanent fixture of reflected light.
AI
1 source
NEWS
1h ago
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The next move after a coding agent isn't a smarter prompt. It's a more durable one.
Daniel Vaughn's Huzzah turns the diff into the prompt itself, and points at a wider shift: prompts are leaving the chat and joining the codebase.
AI
SIGNAL
1h ago
Daniel Vaughn's Huzzah turns the diff into the prompt itself, and points at a wider shift: prompts are leaving the chat and joining the codebase.
AI
3 sources
SIGNAL
1h ago
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SpaceX wants to put AI data centers in orbit. The new e-waste category starts there.
Orbital hardware cannot be recycled, so SpaceX's planned AI satellite constellation would lift 1,000 tons of copper and 1% of the world's palladium and thallium into permanent loss each year.
AI
NEWS
14m ago
Orbital hardware cannot be recycled, so SpaceX's planned AI satellite constellation would lift 1,000 tons of copper and 1% of the world's palladium and thallium into permanent loss each year.
AI
1 source
NEWS
14m ago
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Trump's FDA pick helped redraw the vaccine schedule. Now she has to enforce it.
The White House deputy behind RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' (MAHA) agenda's early moves is up for the agency that signs off on every shot and pill. Her conflicts list is the first thing to read.
BIO
NEWS
1h ago
The White House deputy behind RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' (MAHA) agenda's early moves is up for the agency that signs off on every shot and pill. Her conflicts list is the first thing to read.
BIO
8 sources
NEWS
1h ago
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Pennsylvania to Big Data Centers: Pay for the Grid You Load, or Don't Build Here
Gov. Josh Shapiro's Aug. 18 order ties Pennsylvania data center permits, a key sales-tax break, and grid curtailment priority to new energy, siting, workforce, and community standards.
AI
NEWS
2h ago
Gov. Josh Shapiro's Aug. 18 order ties Pennsylvania data center permits, a key sales-tax break, and grid curtailment priority to new energy, siting, workforce, and community standards.
AI
1 source
NEWS
2h ago
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Custom HBM Is Coming, But Who Designs The Base Die?
HBM is the stacked DRAM next to AI accelerators. HBM4 lets customers redesign its base die, and the real squeeze is on design teams, not wafer supply.
HW
NEWS
2h ago
HBM is the stacked DRAM next to AI accelerators. HBM4 lets customers redesign its base die, and the real squeeze is on design teams, not wafer supply.
HW
1 source
NEWS
2h ago
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Why Quantum Computers Run Out of Cable
IBM just connected two cryogenic modules built to host multiple quantum processors, but the binding constraint has moved from qubits to the millions of cables and connectors behind them.
HW
NEWS
2h ago
IBM just connected two cryogenic modules built to host multiple quantum processors, but the binding constraint has moved from qubits to the millions of cables and connectors behind them.
HW
2 sources
NEWS
2h ago
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