“With the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit them,” said Amelia Glaese, the OpenAI vice president who oversees its safety work. That is the company describing its own unreleased model. A…
A developer revitalized his smart TV performance by using Claude Code to debloat it.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the same model with different safeguards, cutting cache read prices by 75% and reporting 52.6% on a scientific research benchmark against 24.7% for its predecessor. Its outputs carry a watermark r…
John Deere has launched JD, an AI assistant that answers plain-language questions from a farm’s own machine and field data, alongside a ten-point voluntary Farmer Data Commitment. In the EU those commitments are largely obligations under the Data Act, …
Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agents, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says. European governments have spent two years moving the other way, onto sovereign suites ch…
Toyota will put a rival to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving on its 2028 models and sell it as “Level 2++“, a marketing label that keeps the driver in charge, with a guardrail layer over the neural network. Europe approves this class of system under UN Regulat…
Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and Denver is its first commercial deployment in a city with real snowfall. Under EU rules an automated driving system’s weather envelope is part of a type-approved operational design domain…
John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the mem…
Twenty three year-old Spencer Mateega pivoted his YC startup into the fastest unicorn in the accelerator’s history, fueling AI’s shift toward human reasoning data.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday….