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A public Lean 4 repository reports that a full formalization of the eleven-square packing optimality proof has passed a 7,920-module verification run with zero admissions.…
OpenAI has apologized to Australian lawmakers over its handling of the Medicare agent incident, intensifying debate over mandatory AI incident reporting.
South Korean authorities say AI appears to have been used in cyberattacks affecting seven financial institutions, intensifying concern about automated vulnerability discovery…
UC Berkeley AI professor Stuart Russell argues that optimizing powerful systems to imitate or satisfy human feedback may not solve the deeper…
Former researchers from leading AI labs warned New York City lawmakers about loss-of-control risks as the council considers reporting, validation and whistleblower…
The United States and 16 other countries have endorsed a Kyoto declaration calling for wider use of “Super Intelligence” in scientific research,…
Reflection has introduced Beam, a sparse 501B-parameter open-weight model with 23B active parameters aimed at coding, reasoning and agentic workloads.
Ideogram is strongest when readable text needs to be part of the generated image itself, making it especially useful for posters, social…
Adobe Firefly is most compelling for creators already working in Adobe’s ecosystem, where generation and generative editing can fit into a broader…
Canva's AI video stack now has three distinct routes: Magic Media makes short silent text-to-video clips, Canva AI Video creates longer clips…
Pika review of Pika 2.5, Pikaframes, creative effects, Pikaformance, pricing, credits, commercial rights, limitations and who should use it in 2026.
Adobe Firefly Video review of Generate Video, partner models, editing, generative credits, pricing, commercial use, limitations and who should use it in…
Foxconn reported record September and third-quarter revenue as cloud networking and AI server demand continued to expand.
USB-C names the connector; Thunderbolt adds a certified set of connection capabilities. Match the computer, accessory and cable to the data, display…
Google has paused product-vulnerability submissions to its OSS bug bounty program after a surge of automated reports, most of which it says…
Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire PTC for about $22.6 billion in equity value, combining energy technology, industrial software and AI-ready engineering…
Meta is turning Muse and its business-agent stack into a dedicated enterprise platform under former MongoDB chief CJ Desai, marking a new…
Google has paused product-vulnerability submissions to its OSS bug bounty program after a surge of automated reports, most of which it says…
South Korean authorities say AI appears to have been used in cyberattacks affecting seven financial institutions, intensifying concern about automated vulnerability discovery…
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon with an unusually restricted first release to trusted cyber defenders, pairing ambitious coding and cybersecurity claims…
Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire PTC for about $22.6 billion in equity value, combining energy technology, industrial software and AI-ready engineering…
Foxconn reported record September and third-quarter revenue as cloud networking and AI server demand continued to expand.
A report says Microsoft has reduced projected internal Claude spending while Meta’s Claude Code usage has fallen as both companies push their…
OpenAI has apologized to Australian lawmakers over its handling of the Medicare agent incident, intensifying debate over mandatory AI incident reporting.
UC Berkeley AI professor Stuart Russell argues that optimizing powerful systems to imitate or satisfy human feedback may not solve the deeper…
Former researchers from leading AI labs warned New York City lawmakers about loss-of-control risks as the council considers reporting, validation and whistleblower…
