Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google” One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model. AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software Study finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.” AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus. Nvidia’s big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies. Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop. “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished. Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties. Mistral says “Le Chonk” can challenge the best AI models Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight. 1. Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules 2. Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone 3. SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink 4. Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here 5. AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more. OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it’s easy to circumvent. OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming. MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another. Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 The tool can free up over 12GB of storage. AI glasses face their first major government crackdown Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders. Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Meta says FDA isn’t sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ. Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution. US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue. The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99. Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it’s not an antitrust issue. With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key. Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro. RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy. Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests. “An AI did it” is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack OpenAI makes others suffer “the harms of its unsafe decision-making,” nonprofit says. Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments. Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool. OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip. Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship. AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia The deal, which is expected to close by year’s end, is worth $8.2 billion. Here’s what actually happened in OpenAI’s Australian gov’t server hack Without a “full set of safeguards,” agent accessed “system information and source code.” OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models. Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm. Interview: Firefox’s chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome Mozilla’s Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web. Experts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips. Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development State says LLMs threaten civilization as “the greatest public nuisance ever created.” OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified.