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London’s first public robotaxi service is now live. Starting today, UK riders can hail a self-driving vehicle via the Uber app, through a partnership with autonomous driving company Wayve – though a safety operator will initially remain in the driver’s seat. At launch, the rides will take place aboard
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If you’re part of the growing majority of Americans who oppose AI data centers, the US government and Big Tech have a message for you: Get over it. The backlash against these massive AI server farms — notorious for guzzling energy and water — has been countered in recent days by
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AI and ML Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable A recent survey shows national security pros believe there’s a one in ten chance humans lose control of AI in the next decade, and few believe we’re
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Adding insult to injury A human ransomware crook used frontier AI models to breach an enterprise network in less than 10 hours, an intrusion Unit 42 says would normally take human operators around two weeks. The human attacker then told negotiators that they used frontier models and agentic attack frameworks
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ai and ml AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet) Google on Wednesday announced the release of Gemini 3.8 Flash in an attempt to reclaim its reputation as a top-tier model maker in the process. The company's commitment to the
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Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend If you see a mushroom in the forest and you're wondering if it's safe to eat or poisonous, don't ask an AI. Polish software engineer
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The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data Microsoft is set to launch the next iteration of C# this November. Redmond recently unveiled a preview of C# 15 that introduces tighter restrictions on data types alongside enhanced memory safety protections. Perhaps the
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Despite what we saw with OpenAI’s models going rogue, creating message boards, and breaking into Hugging Face, only one advanced AI model - Anthropic’s Claude Mythos - completed the full cyber kill chain autonomously in Booz Allen’s tests. This doesn’t mean autonomous AI attacks are overhyped.
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Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds EXCLUSIVE What's old is new again as VMware will soon release an updated version of vSphere Standard, the low-end server virtualization bundle that it hasn’t significantly changed for years and
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ai and ml While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often Meta will release an open weights version of its flagship AI model Muse Spark "soon," CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised in an X post
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Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city’s first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK
