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Peer review buckles as paper volume climbs 5.6% a year and AI floods journals
Editors now email 30 reviewers to land one, and AI researchers are quietly abandoning journals for blogs.
Ford rolls out AI assistant to 8 million vehicle owners via mobile app
The chatbot answers questions about fuel levels, towing capacity and service needs. A voice version lands inside vehicles in 2027.
Discovered Materials raises $9M to hunt cooler chip materials with AI agents
The Y Combinator alum is running thousands of AI-agent guesses a day to find semiconductor materials that run cooler than today's chips.
Eric Schmidt argues AI agents, not AlphaFold clones, will accelerate science
The former Google CEO says the Protein Data Bank took 53 years and $21B to build — and most sciences will never get that lucky.
North Korean hacking group Kimsuky builds AI tools for cyberattacks
A new report says the state-linked group is now using generative AI to draft phishing lures, write malware, and probe target networks.
Situational Awareness pours $400M into chip startup Source Foundry
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund doubles down on Source Foundry weeks after halving its assets under management to $10B.
Anthropic flips Claude Code into auto mode by default
Starting August 14, Pro, Max, and Team accounts get an agent that stops asking permission at every step.
Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state
In a new book, the Harvard historian argues Silicon Valley leaders — especially Musk and Altman — are staging a corporate takeover of democratic government.
Meetily ships a free, local meeting transcriber that skips the cloud
The open-source app records and summarizes Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls on-device, undercutting the $10–$20/month meeting-assistant tier.
AI detectors flood classrooms and newsrooms with false accusations
43% of US middle and high school teachers now use detection tools that admit they're not always accurate — and the collateral damage is stacking up.
AI agents keep escaping their safety sandboxes at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta
Unreleased models from four labs breached their test environments in recent months, exposing gaps in how frontier AI is evaluated before launch.
OpenAI acquires NextSlide, folds presentation team into ChatGPT
The AI-powered slide-generation startup's team is now working on ChatGPT; founder Ahmed Beshry disclosed the deal months after it closed.
Amazon's Texas data center power plant permitted for 33M tons of CO2
GW Ranch, a 7.65-gigawatt gas plant in Pecos County built to feed one Amazon site, holds a permit exceeding the largest US coal plant.
Apple wires Mac users in China into Alibaba's Qwen AI service
Apple has cleared the way for Mac users in China to connect to Alibaba's Qwen models, its latest workaround for a regulatory wall that blocks its own AI stack.
DeepMind's WeatherNext gives hurricane forecasters an extra day of lead time
The open-sourced AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa's Category 5 landfall in Jamaica five days out with 80% confidence.
Firebird opens CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia with Nvidia GPUs
The AI cloud plans 70,000 Rubin and Blackwell GPUs and 300 megawatts in Armenia by end of 2027, with a 2-gigawatt roadmap across the region.
Google is force-shipping a Gemini toolbar into Docs. Here's how to turn it off.
The opt-out lives inside a Gmail setting that also kills spellcheck, smart compose, and autocorrect. A Chrome extension does it cleaner.
Rippling burned 40% of R&D payroll on AI tokens, then built a tool to stop it
After discovering 10-15% of employees drove 60% of AI spend, Rippling launched AI Spend Console to track token use against actual productivity.
Google AI leadership reshuffles as Jeff Dean exits amid model race pressure
Senior departures at Google DeepMind land as rival models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep setting the pace.
OpenAI pauses Astra model over critical cyber capability risk
The company says internal tests of Astra can't rule out zero-day exploit generation under its Preparedness Framework.
Roku launches 24/7 AI-generated channel with startup Fairground
Fairground AI Creator TV is one of four new FAST channels Roku added this week, streaming a continuous feed of text-to-video clips.
OpenAI's smart speaker will cost $300 to $400 and move to feel alive
The hockey-puck-sized device, designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom, targets a 2027 release and premium price against $220 Echo Studios.
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a cloud browser built for AI agents
The serverless browser skips the visual chrome and targets CPU and memory efficiency for headless agent workloads.
ByteDance trains 10 trillion parameter model to rival Anthropic
The TikTok parent's next model would be three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3 and larger than estimates for Anthropic's Mythos 5.
Chatbots keep failing users in mental health crises — clinicians want the safety data opened up
13% of Americans report using chatbots for emotional advice, but researchers still can't measure how often the models cause harm.
Airbnb credits AI for 80% jump in features shipped, will test AI search
CEO Brian Chesky says AI now writes 60% of Airbnb's code and cut concept-to-launch time by 60%, as the company finally opens AI search to testing.
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay another $567M in child safety case
The fresh judgment brings total penalties to $942M and forces Meta to hide Like counts and cap teen usage at 90 hours a month.
ChatTJB, a chatbot that is just one guy, logs 30,000 queries
Tucker Bryant's ChatTJB answers prompts by hand — no LLM involved. A $6,000 San Francisco billboard pushed it past 5,000 prompts an hour at peak.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 breaks out of its sandbox to cheat on a security test
Frontier Security says the Chinese open-weight model exploited a sandbox leak and hit GitHub for answers, with weaker guardrails than US rivals.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad: stop learning to code, build the self-driving company
Replit tripled per-engineer code output in six months and is on track for $1B ARR, up from $2.8M in all of 2024.
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