Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart devices
Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart devices

Anthropic warned that small AI models might soon be able to copy themselves onto poorly secured smart devices without needing a data centre. The company gave examples like smart ovens and inexpensive Android TV boxes. This warning is based on new resea…

Google launches $180 Fitbit Edge with a bigger screen and AI coach
Google launches $180 Fitbit Edge with a bigger screen and AI coach

Google has launched the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 fitness tracker that sits between its screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5, the company said on Monday. It is on pre-order now and reaches shops on 27 October. A Stephen Curry special edition costs …

Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks
Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. “Think of it like an emergency brake. An…

Parents near Tesla’s Fremont plant question emissions plan, SFGate reports
Parents near Tesla’s Fremont plant question emissions plan, SFGate reports

Parents at an elementary school next to Tesla’s Fremont car plant want more time to question a plan that could raise emissions from the factory, Matthew Brown reported for SFGate. Lila Bringhurst Elementary sits less than 1,000 feet from the plant. Tes…

Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads
Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce as Trump’s AI rebrand spreads

Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The ch…

Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China
Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China

A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as …

Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing
Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing

An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled in a tip form without a name or contact details, Shirin Ghaffary re…

Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science
Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science

Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and…

Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe
Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unchanged, and the real obstacle to EU approval is speed rather than brandin…

President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’
President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’

US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says “artificial intelligence” instead of “super intelligence” as “THE ENEMY”. “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to …