There is a revealing moment in the maybe-apocalyptic 2023 film Leave the World Behind when Ethan Hawke’s character, George, finds himself driving around in unfamiliar territory after getting in his ca…
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the AI platform and open-source AI model repository, for $12.9bn, according to a report in US tech title The Information, which cited a person with knowledge of …
Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control and a spoken daily brief. Its DMA settlement requires it to let rival assis…
Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarter …
OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agent…
An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonuse…
Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU are addressing the same shortage of advice through ru…
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licence may not qualify for the EU AI Act’s open-source exe…
A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make it understand her and moved to another practice. The NHS Accessible Information Standard has required practices to identify and meet …
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts’…