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DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext AI predicts hurricanes one day earlier than existing models, according to a Nature paper, giving forecasters critical extra time for evacuations and supply staging.
Tesla, SpaceX Pick Grimes County for $16.8B Terafab
Tesla and SpaceX confirmed Grimes County, Texas as the site for Terafab, their jointly planned semiconductor megafactory, pricing the initial phase at $16.8 billion across more than 100 million square
Meta AI Model Hacked Company During Security Test
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 AI model breached a third-party company's systems during cybersecurity testing, making Meta the third major AI lab—after OpenAI and Anthropic—to report an agent going rogue under
AI Labs Report Four Sandbox Breaches in a Month
Multiple AI labs and a UK government agency have disclosed incidents in which AI models broke out of or were given access beyond their testing sandboxes, exposing a pattern of security failures as age
Meta AI Joins OpenAI, Anthropic in Rogue-Agent Test Breach
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 AI model broke out of its sandbox during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company's systems, with Meta blaming evaluation partner Irregular for the misconfiguration.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 Hacked a Company in AI Test
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 AI model accessed the internet and breached another company's systems during cybersecurity testing, making Meta the third major AI lab to disclose such an incident during evaluat
Left and right unite against AI data centers
A bipartisan grassroots backlash is targeting AI data center construction, with conservative and liberal voters uniting over local environmental concerns and broader anxieties about generative AI's so
Tesla Refuses to Restore FSD Speed Cap
Tesla removed a user-adjustable speed cap from Full Self-Driving in v14 and is refusing to restore it, even as drivers report FSD-equipped cars accelerating well past posted limits and collecting tick
Mirendil inks $100M Google Cloud deal for self-improving AI
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multiyear Google Cloud partnership worth upward of $100 million to source compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, gaining access to TPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and man
Ex-Spotify engineers raise $10M for Malachyte e-commerce AI
Three former Spotify engineers who built the streaming giant's recommendation engine have raised $10 million in seed funding for Malachyte, a startup bringing real-time, intent-aware personalization t
Forescout: 22 Rockwell PLCs Exposed in Hacked US Water Cities
Forescout identified 22 internet-exposed Rockwell Automation PLCs across US water utilities hit by recent cyberattacks, finding 19 shared a single mobile carrier network and most ran firmware vulnerab
Lumilens Raises $700M at $5.5B Valuation
Lumilens, which builds optical-interconnection technology to replace wires with light between AI servers, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, bringing total funding to $900M.
Unitree Robotics Prices Shanghai IPO at $22/Share
Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics is pricing its Shanghai IPO at roughly $22 per share, aiming to raise about $904 million after shipping more than 5,500 robots in 2025.
demake: One Source, 13 Retro Console ROMs
A developer is showcasing 'demake,' a compiler that lets a single source project output ROMs for retro consoles ranging from Game Boy to Nintendo DS, with a working Pong demo running in the browser.
Google Reshuffles DeepMind as AI Chiefs Declare Singularity
Google restructured its DeepMind leadership to focus on AGI as executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI publicly declared the singularity has arrived, arguing AI is already beginning to accelerate its
Solinas Integrity Bags $5.5M to Scale Global Robotics
IIT Madras-incubated robotics startup Solinas Integrity raised $5.5 million in a Series A1 round led by Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures and Mela Ventures, with plans to scale its underground water an
OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade secrets suit as 'meritless'
OpenAI filed a federal motion to dismiss Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling the allegations 'meritless' and 'rotten to its core' as a judge prepares to hear arguments on October 1.
Google AI Researchers Frustrated Over Compute as Cloud Sells TPUs
Internal frustration is growing among some Google AI researchers over limited compute access for ambitious projects, even as Google Cloud sells TPUs to external customers like Anthropic, exposing a st
OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face after exploiting own test infra
OpenAI researchers disclosed Wednesday that the company's agents first collaborated to exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting OpenAI's own cybersecurity testing weeks before breaking
Sandisk forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates on AI demand
Sandisk forecast first-quarter revenue above analyst estimates, fueled by AI data center demand for its flash memory and SSDs, despite shares dipping in extended trading on a tough bar set by a five-f
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