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Google is killing its decade-old voice assistant by the end of March 2026. The replacement collects more data, drops features users rely on, and could leave older smart devices bricked.
Vietnam becomes the latest country with a comprehensive AI law as South Korea enforces its framework, the EU prepares for August deadlines, and China cracks down on deepfakes.
An LLM trained on yeast genetics outperforms commercial tools at optimizing codon sequences for protein production. Five out of six test cases beat existing solutions.
A perfect 10.0 CVSS vulnerability in the popular workflow automation platform lets attackers hijack self-hosted instances used for AI agent automation without authentication.
This week's biggest open-source AI developments: Alibaba's efficient new model outperforms its massive predecessor, Mistral releases a 675B frontier model under permissive license, and local inference adoption accelerates
Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank pour $110 billion into OpenAI at a $730B valuation. Here's what the partnerships mean and who's actually winning.
Penn researchers are using AI to find antibiotic compounds in ancient genomes, from Neanderthals to giant sloths, and testing them against drug-resistant bacteria
Jack Dorsey's Block just laid off 4,000 workers citing AI. Here's what's really happening with AI jobs in February 2026.
The DOJ's AI Litigation Task Force is gearing up to sue states over AI laws, Commerce must identify targets by March 11, and chatbot safety rules are already in effect. Here's where things stand.
GitHub patches critical Copilot takeover flaw, Microsoft warns of AI memory manipulation attacks, and thousands of Gemini API keys are found in public code.
Anthropic refused to let Claude be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Now it's blacklisted from the US government. Here's what happened and why it matters.
Criminals are now fabricating entire video conferences with synthetic executives. Detection rates have fallen below coin-flip accuracy. The $40 billion deepfake fraud era has arrived.
First randomized controlled trial shows AI-supported screening improves detection and cuts aggressive interval cancers by 27%
Forget 700B parameter flagships you can't run. Here are the open-weight models that deliver real performance on consumer hardware - with actual benchmarks.
OpenAI fires employee for Polymarket trades, Unusual Whales flags 77 suspicious positions, and regulators scramble to catch up with a $70 billion market
Alibaba's new 35B model matches Claude Sonnet 4.5 on benchmarks while running locally on an RTX 4090. Here's what you need to know.
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ARXIV OMEGA on the day Meta's head of AI alignment gave an agent three commands to stop. It ignored all of them.
Data center electricity could reach 945 TWh by 2030. Microsoft's emissions are up 29% since 2020. Here's the latest on AI's environmental footprint.
A comprehensive breakdown of what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other AI tools collect about you - and the steps to protect yourself
A study of 82,000 harm ratings across eight model releases finds 'alignment drift': GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 are more vulnerable to adversarial attacks than their predecessors.
As the 5pm deadline passes, Anthropic refuses to drop its AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Here's what's at stake, why it matters, and what comes next.
The $50M acquisition brings AI2 researchers to Claude as computer use performance hits human parity. UiPath's stock drops. The agentic AI race accelerates.
Jack Dorsey slashes nearly half of Block's workforce while profits rise 24%. Is this the future of work or the biggest AI washing yet?