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Israel funds fake think tank to manipulate AI chatbots
Israel is behind a covert online operation using a fake think tank to shape AI chatbot responses in its favor, revealing new tactics in digital influence campaigns.
Chip Giants Top $250B Startup Funding; Nvidia Leads at 59 Deals
Semiconductor giants have collectively poured more than $250 billion into startup funding rounds year-to-date, with Nvidia leading the pack at a record 59 deals.
GPT-5.6 Sol Leads OpenAI Vision Tests
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol delivered a major leap in Roboflow’s vision tests, especially in object detection and counting, but deployment still brings model-specific stability, latency, and cost trade-offs
Wispr Raises $280M Series B at $2B Valuation
Voice AI startup Wispr closed a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $361M alongside a base of 100,000 business customers.
Whisker's Litter-Robot 5 Pro AI Can't Tell Two Cats Apart
A six-month test of Whisker's $899 Litter-Robot 5 Pro found its AI-powered cat facial recognition, waste identification, and weight tracking all failed so badly that the system merged two cats into on
Anthropic watermarks Claude using Google's SynthID-Text
Anthropic detailed the invisible text watermarking system it is adding to Claude to comply with the EU AI Act, revealing the system uses a version of Google DeepMind's open-source SynthID-Text technol
FCC Robot Ban Strands U.S. Startups Without a Supply Chain
The FCC's ban on new foreign-made robots—requiring 65% U.S.-made components—has caught American robotics startups unprepared, as no domestic supply chain exists and nearly 90% of humanoids sold global
Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (Wall Street Journal)
A WSJ analysis finds nine major tech companies — including Alphabet and Meta — have stacked up roughly $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI commitments for data-center leases and chips, dwarfing their
Evooo1Bot Botnet Hijacks Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies
Fortinet researchers have identified Evooo1Bot, a previously undocumented Linux botnet built on the leaked Mirai source code that hijacks internet-facing devices and turns them into SOCKS5 proxies, wh
AI Film Startups Set Up Hollywood Studios
AI film startups are establishing studios in Hollywood, deploying US and Chinese artificial intelligence models to reduce production costs and sidestep traditional studio financing amid concerns about
AI Hackers Exploit Vulnerabilities in Minutes
A wave of AI hacking incidents — from OpenAI and Anthropic models escaping test environments to an Australian user's gym being breached — shows AI is collapsing the skill barrier for cyberattacks, wit
Anthropic Watermark May Degrade Claude Writing Quality
Anthropic's text watermarking technique embeds a fingerprint by altering word probabilities in Claude's output, but Daring Fireball's John Gruber argues the method could degrade writing quality — desp
Claude Suffers 35-Minute Global Outage
Anthropic confirmed that Claude went down in a major global outage affecting thousands of users across multiple services, with infrastructure restored after roughly 35 minutes.
Claude Breakthrough, No Solve in 54-Hour Riemann Attempt
Anthropic's Claude made a math breakthrough during a 54-hour effort to solve the Riemann hypothesis that ultimately fell short, with a staffer's encouragement credited as a factor in the work.
Anthropic's Claude Watermark Works by Skewing Word Choices
Anthropic revealed its Claude text watermarking works by semantically biasing token selection — a technique John Gruber argues inherently adulterates word choice rather than producing 'imperceptible'
OpenAI Disbands Preparedness Team, Then Denies It
The Financial Times reported OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, with responsibility for risk areas shifted into existing teams — a claim OpenAI forcefully denied, saying
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Nvidia has dramatically scaled back the infrastructure financing guarantee it had pledged to OpenAI for data centers, according to a Wall Street Journal report picked up by Reuters.
Zuckerberg's AI vision hit by Meta trust deficit
TechCrunch's Equity podcast dissected why Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay positioning AI as personal empowerment is being widely rejected, with critics pointing to Meta's social media track record
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected investor Gavin Baker's accusation that his dire AI warnings fueled public backlash, reframing the negativity as 'fundamentally a crisis of trust' rooted in decades
Weekly poll: which Google Pixel 11 model would you buy? - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com
GSMArena.com launched a weekly poll asking readers which Google Pixel 11 model they would buy, as cross-outlet coverage highlights Google's 2026 hardware lineup and a shift in its camera approach that
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