· 12 days ago· Ars Technica AI
Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal
Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal.
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· 12 days ago· AI Alignment Forum
Risk from fitness-seeking AIs: mechanisms and mitigations
Current AIs routinely take unintended actions to score well on tasks: hardcoding test cases, training on the test set, downplaying issues, etc. This misalignment is still somewhat incoherent, but it increasingly resembles what I call "fitness-seeking"—a family of misaligned motivations centered on p
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
We just got a new reason to believe the Trump phone is real(ish)
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This time we've discovered a little more evidence that the phone is on its way to a release. Trump Mobile's T1 Phone has just passed another milestone on
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Dreame’s rocket-powered car can do 0–60 in 0.9 seconds because you can just say things now
The NEXT 01 JET Edition Car at the Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge When I first heard that a vacuum company had released a rocket-powered electric vehicle with physically imp
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help
Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called "Copy Fail" that allows any user to give themselves administrator privileges. The exploit, publicly disclosed as CVE-2026-31431 on Wednesday, uses a Python script that works across all of the vulnera
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Players from the NBA, NFL, and MLB call for a ban on betting ‘unders’
The unions backing professional NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and MLS players are calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to ban prediction market platforms from allowing users to bet on a player's underperformance or injury, Sports Business Journal reports. In their letter, the unions cite
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
This accessory can snap a Steam Controller to your phone — or almost anything else
Valve's new Steam Controller goes on sale on Monday for $99, and accessories-maker Mechanism will be ready. As far as we know, Mechanism's new Basegrip is the very first way to attach a Steam Controller to your phone - as well as Mechanism's lineup of accessories, including mounts for hanging handhe
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Dreame — the vacuum company — just ‘launched’ its own phones
This is just one of 29 different Aurora Lux designs. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Dreame, a Chinese manufacturer best known for its robot vacuums but with ambitions to do much more, says it's making smartphones now. I'm not sure I believe it. The company showed off two phones at its own N
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Amazon’s built-in AI price history expands to show the entire last year
Amazon's built-in price tracking feature now allows you to see how much a product's price has changed over the past year. To use the feature, open the Amazon app and select the "Price history" button next to the item's price, or ask Amazon's AI assistant Rufus. The expansion comes just weeks ahead o
· 12 days ago· Towards Data Science
How to Get Hired in the AI Era
What people actually look for when hiring juniors that stand out. The post How to Get Hired in the AI Era appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· 12 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Musk v. Altman is just getting started
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company
· 12 days ago· MIT Technology Review
Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era
Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference explores why security must be rethought wit
· 12 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Did you know you can’t steal a charity? Don’t worry. Elon Musk will remind you.
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company
· 12 days ago· MIT Technology Review
Operationalizing AI for Scale and Sovereignty
Companies are taking control of their own data to tailor AI for their needs. The challenge lies in balancing ownership with the safe, trusted flow of high‑quality data needed to power reliable insights. This conversation from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference examines how AI factories unl
· 12 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks
The deals come as the DoD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
My $5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I take my beauty rest seriously. So seriously that, after months of tes
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic
The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the Defense Department has left out Anthropic - which
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Some of Xteink’s credit card-sized e-readers are losing their best feature
The X3 is Xteink’s smallest e-reader. | Photo: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge The Xteink X4 and X3 are excellent alternatives to Kindles and Kobos if you want an e-reader that's as easy to slip into your pocket - just not out of the box. Both devices come with stock firmware that's clunky, limited, an
· 12 days ago· The Verge AI
Aurzen’s tiny trifold projector is almost 40 percent off right now
Not all trifolds are created equal — just ask our own Allison Johnson, who recently spent time with Samsung’s ill-fated Galaxy phone. Aurzen’s Zip projector is the kind of trifold gadget we can fully get behind, though, and it’s currently on sale at Amazon for $259.99 ($140 off). You can also pick i
· 12 days ago· Towards Data Science
Churn Without Fragmentation: How a Party-Label Bug Reversed My Headline Finding
A data quality case study from English local elections on categorical normalisation, metric validation, and why raw labels should never define analytical groups. The post Churn Without Fragmentation: How a Party-Label Bug Reversed My Headline Finding appeared first on Towards Data Science.