Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave…
Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs. In…
Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch
The main event was the tech giant’s highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI
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The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
Apple’s revamped Health app will calculate your ‘health age’ and readiness score
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
Apple has a new way to prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could "kill us all"
When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it’s often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model. But AI researcher…
Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change
On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion…
Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that…
Is AI Music Going Legit? Suno Launches New Models Built on a Major Label Catalog
Suno’s advanced new music-generating models were trained on Warner Music Group’s songs. WMG isn’t revealing the size of the catalog it turned over or whether artists had the ability to…
Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a religious mania that almost ended his life. In July,…
Meta’s New AI Agent Wants to Get Personal With You
The new Meta Muse agent can complete tasks and do your online shopping.