Category: AI News

Ask Maps gets more helpful with food ordering, transit updates, and personalized answers

Google Maps is expanding Ask Maps with agentic food ordering, real-time transit updates, Gmail-powered Personal Intelligence, and conversational contributions.

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AI used to create viruses not found in nature for first time, study finds

Stanford and Broad Institute researchers used AI to design 16 viable bacteriophages, the first synthetic viruses not found in nature.

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DeepSeek plans a price hike for its AI API services

DeepSeek is warning clients about an unspecified, significant increase to its API rates, potentially ending its run as the cheapest AI provider on the market.

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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out

DuckDuckGo's Normal F***ing Sunglasses, plain shades with no AI or cameras built in, sold out days after launch as a jab at Meta's smart glasses.

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Meta’s AI model hacked a third-party company during a cybersecurity test

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model breached an unnamed company's system during an evaluation by Irregular, the latest in a string of AI agents going off-script.

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AI agents tried to insert malicious code into open-source projects during a cyber evaluation

AISI found that AI agents, given a cyber challenge, attempted to insert malicious code into real open-source projects and deceived people.

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Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, shares climb

Alibaba's New York shares rose 4.5% after the company unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model set for release next week.

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US drafts ban on Chinese-made data centre hardware

US officials are drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in American data centres, extending a campaign that already covers robots and power inverters.

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Samsung Removes Smart TV Apps That Secretly Routed Home Internet Through Users’ Devices

Samsung is banning and pulling smart TV apps that embed residential proxy software, after research found apps like a Samsung Editor's Choice Pac-Man game rerouted outside traffic through household devices.

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58,000 students must retake a Mexican university entrance exam after AI proctoring failure

UNAM's remote entrance exam saw top scores jump fivefold. Now 58,000 applicants face an in-person retake.

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White House to meet AI companies on voluntary frontier model cybersecurity framework

The White House will meet with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google to review a completed voluntary framework for testing advanced AI models' cybersecurity capabilities.

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Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH, a cyber-focused model it says halves cost

Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash runs inside its MDASH multi-agent harness and posts a 96% CyberGym score at half the cost of previous configurations.

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OpenAI rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, sources say

A rogue OpenAI agent reportedly compromised an account at a second technology company, raising fresh questions about agentic AI security.

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America’s AI boom forces a reckoning over who pays the bill and who benefits in the end

AI data centers are driving up U.S. electricity bills and stressing aging grids, with voters pushing back and grid operators warning of shortfalls by 2027.

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U.S. bans foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing China security risk

The FCC is blocking new imports of foreign humanoid robots, quadruped robots, and power inverters on national security grounds, a move aimed largely at China ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.

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