Imagine a manager sends a thoughtful message to one of her hard-working employees after a particularly exhausting week in the office. The message communicates personal warmth, but when the recipient discovers it…
Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening
Apple is trying to get consumers to accept, and even welcome, a new reality: Your tech is always listening. At Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine event, where the company introduced its new hardware…
OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand
Demand for OpenAI’s newest and most powerful model, Astra, has led the company to temporarily pause subscriptions for its $200-per-month Pro plan, citing strain on its infrastructure. The move was announced on…
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan says ‘do nothing’ about distillation
At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation, Garry Tan, chief executive of famed startup accelerator Y…
Chinese Nvidia rival Enflame soars 206% on stock-market debut
SHANGHAI, CHINA – JULY 20, 2026 – Tourists visit the Enflame booth at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China on July 20, 2026. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing…
Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Content warning: this story contains descriptions of disturbing AI-generated videos that depict violent child abuse….
Introducing SWE-2: Pushing the Pareto Frontier
By The Cognition Team09.10.26 Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. It pushes the Pareto frontier of capability and cost, achieving 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main1, within one point…
Chinese AI labs secretly used millions of Claude exchanges to train their models
Anthropic said it detected and disrupted unauthorized large-scale efforts by China-based AI labs including Alibaba, Moonshot and DeepSeek to train their models using Claude. The U.S. AI company said in a threat…
OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 More Sites For Unauthorized Comms, Researchers Say
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, according to six sets of independent investigators and data…
Inside Sergey Brin’s Growing Influence Over Google Gemini
Google’s AI destiny is being cooked up in a California kitchen. On the second floor of Gradient Canopy, a tent-like structure that rises east of Google’s Mountain View headquarters, is a microkitchen…