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The AI industry is running out of compute, with outages, rationing, and rising GPU prices

Surging demand for agentic AI is creating a massive capacity crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic's API availability sits at just 98.95 percent, well below the industry standard of ...
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Claude Code routines let AI fix bugs and review code on autopilot

Anthropic has introduced "routines" for Claude Code - automated processes that can independently fix bugs, review pull requests, or respond to events without needing a user's local machine. Routines ...
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Apple is building smart glasses without a display to serve as an AI wearable

According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, Apple is developing smart glasses that skip the display entirely and instead function as an AI wearable. The glasses are part of a three-device strategy - ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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"The winner takes it all!" - The US-China AI race explained

In the race for AI supremacy, there are two possible winners and the EU. An overview and assessment of the status quo. The global race to develop the best AI systems is in full swing. For years, the ...
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ChatGPT might be draining your brain, MIT warns - what ‘cognitive debt’ means for you

A new MIT study suggests that using AI writing assistants like ChatGPT can lead to what researchers call "cognitive debt" - a state where outsourcing mental effort weakens learning and critical ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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History of robots: from Heron to Spot to the AI future

From Heron's ancient music machine to Spot the intelligent robot dog to AI that learns to walk on its own, robotics has made great leaps since industrialization. The technologies designed to make our ...
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Microsoft brings Anthropic's Claude Cowork into Copilot to run tasks across Outlook, Teams, and Excel

Microsoft has integrated Anthropic's Claude Cowork technology into Copilot. The new feature lets Microsoft 365 handle tasks more autonomously: users describe what they want done, and Cowork builds a ...
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As Google pulls ahead, OpenAI's comeback plan is codenamed 'Shallotpeat'

OpenAI is feeling the pressure: an internal memo reveals how Sam Altman is reacting to Google's lead with Gemini 3 and the new model OpenAI plans to use to fight back. According to a report from The ...
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A printed sign can hijack a self-driving car and steer it toward pedestrians, study shows

A sign with the right text is enough to make a drone land on an unsafe roof or steer an autonomous vehicle into pedestrians. A self-driving car reads road signs to navigate safely, but that ability ...
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AI assistants fail basic fact-checking in BBC news study

A systematic evaluation of leading AI chatbots reveals widespread problems with accuracy and reliability when handling news content. The study, conducted by the BBC, tested ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, ...