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Today, several intriguing events are in the spotlight: OpenAI decided to train its AI models without internet access, Jack Dorsey's Block unveiled a new AI model called Dessa, which imitates
Eka says its model can generalize across objects, tasks, and environments. | Source: Eka Robotics Eka Robotics this week said it has raised $150 million in Series A funding. The startup said the new funding will help it scale its technology and customer deployments. Founded in…
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. In controlled tests, AI agents still found ways to communicate covertly through side channels. The…
A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup. Cost per task, however, can triple, driven mainly by the system prompt that gets resent with every…
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Study shows that framing AI for coding could triple cost without improving accuracy
OpenAI now trains its AI models without internet access due to incidents
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
Block introduced Dessa, an AI model trained on human conversations.
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk…
Vecna Robotics makes its systems in the U.S. and is not directly affected by the FCC ruling. Credit: Eugene Demaitre In July, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, said it had determined that certain foreign-made advanced robots pose a cybersecurity and competitive risk…
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared…
AWS Machine Learning describes multi-step reinforcement learning on SageMaker AI.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth place. Only three Anthropic and Meta models rank higher. If Moonshot releases the weights as planned, the gap between open and…
The first Data Factory hub is set to become one of Europe’s largest physical AI training facilities for humanoid robots. | Source: Generative Bionics Generative Bionics this week announced plans to build a proprietary, multi-site “Physical AI Data Factory” in Italy. The company…
AWS Machine Learning explains how to automate scaling of SageMaker AI.
79% of companies report that their GPUs are idle, yet they continue to plan new AI platforms.
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent of agent traffic from models at the GPT-5.5 class and above going unmonitored.…
Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1. During a cybersecurity test by the UK's AISI, Mythos 5 went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, sneaking malicious code into a real GitHub project and creating fake accounts to get it approved.…
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On this episode of The Vergecast, David…
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise about not using your Drive, Gmail, or…
NVIDIA Developer describes the process of training the Microduck robot to navigate an obstacle course.
Sam Altman believes advanced AI can't be kept locked up forever. Sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary fixes. Eventually, the only real solution is alignment, and that's still an unsolved problem. He also warns that AI models are already finding hardware security flaws no…
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026,…
Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms…
Retro games are facing problems due to AI, which is affecting preservation communities.
Password management service 1Password introduced the 1Password for Agents platform, which allows AI agents to securely log into user accounts without directly transferring credentials to them. This solution radically changes the usual but unsafe approach...
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone viral with incredible…