An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn’t solved it — but the company’s models made more progress than you might expect.

Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes
Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes

Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes code references for an “Apple Reference Image” system that can embed provenance metadata into iPhone photographs at the point of capture – enabling users to prove where […]

AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Electric Bills. Who Pays?

Who pays for the enormous grid investment required to serve data centers — the companies building them or consumers?

‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts
‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts

Zoom has patched a major security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to hijack anyone’s device during a meeting. In a blog post on Tuesday, researchers at A Security say they uncovered the flaw using “fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models,” as reported earlier by Wired. The exploit involved Zoom’s annotation feature, […]

Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty item is confirmed!” an email about my retainer cleaning tablets read. Shoppers have posted other iterations of the redacted emails as well: “Ordered: […]

Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations

Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by default.

Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’
Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’

Spotify will soon label AI artists and remove their music from your recommendations. The change, which will start rolling out in mid-September, means you’ll see an “AI Persona” badge on an artist’s profile across the app if they do “not represent a real person.” The music streaming platform will allow artists to disclose that they’re […]

This New Open-Weight AI Model Is Built for Video and Robots

A new open world model from LTX shows how open-weights models can be used and customized by anyone.

ChatGPT Might Help You Win More At Powerball, Not More Often

Can ChatGPT help you win Powerball? AI cannot improve the odds, but it may help you avoid popular number patterns and reduce the risk of splitting a jackpot.

Enterprise Brain Replaces AI Agents As Microsoft And UnifyApps Race

Your AI agents forget everything between sessions. That’s why they stall. Microsoft and Glean are racing to build the enterprise brain that finally makes them remember.