Tag: AI

Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise Summary The article argues that achieving net zero by 2050 is effectively impossible at the required speed and scale…

Baidu robocabs break even on one metric in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere Summary Chinese web giant Baidu says its robotaxi operations in Wuhan have reached break-even…

AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders Summary Cloud services firm Fastly has published a report showing that automated AI crawlers and…

Google’s $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations Summary Google has added a limited agent to its AI Mode for Search that can locate restaurant availability and…

Summary Microsoft has moved more legacy configuration options out of the traditional Control Panel and into the Windows Settings app. In Windows 11 Insider Preview build 27928 (Canary channel) time…

Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal Summary Google has joined other big AI vendors in offering steeply discounted pricing to US federal agencies under the…

Honey, I shrunk the image and now I’m pwned Summary Security researchers at Trail of Bits have demonstrated an image-scaling prompt-injection attack that hides malicious instructions inside high-resolution images so…

Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason Summary Anthropic has deployed an experimental classifier that scans a proportion of conversations with its Claude AI to…

Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot Summary Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has reversed course and rehired 45 customer service employees it had planned to replace…

DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Summary DeepSeek’s V3.1 is a point release trained using the UE8M0 FP8 datatype, optimised for compatibility with a…