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Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage Ξ¦X174, pronounced βFYE-ex-1-7-4β. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data [β¦] The post Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli appeared first on AI News.
Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every βExploreβ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, thatβs not a small detail; itβs the whole algorithm. But hereβs the point: the more AI controls over how you see the content, the more it [β¦] The post How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch appeared first on AI News.
Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the companyβs plans. The arrangement would require larger companies that generate revenue from offering the model as a service to reach a commercial agreement with Alibaba. The exact revenue-sharing rate has [β¦] The post Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI appeared first on AI News.
MIT researchers and collaborators found that AI explainability tools in the health sector can produce sharply different results depending on who uses them. When applied to skin disease diagnosis, non-experts improved their accuracy with AI assistance, although the improvement largely came from deferring to the model. Primary care providers showed a different pattern: they performed [β¦] The post Why health AI interfaces must adapt to user expertise appeared first on AI News.
But cutting your runtime token burn is just the first problem.
With the vocabulary and the failure modes in place, here's the build.
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps weβre taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
In the early days of Claude Code, it felt like you either had to approve everything the coding agent did The post Auto Mode will soon be the default in Claude Code β because humans canβt be trusted appeared first on The New Stack.
OpenAI is reducing work on Astra after internal testing indicated the upcoming model may have reached a cybersecurity limit that no The post The AI model OpenAI wonβt release yet β and what it found in testing appeared first on The New Stack.
β Security researchers this week disclosed an npm supply-chain attack affecting more than 400 packages, including projects connected to Keyv and The post The npm attack that turned provenance attestations into camouflage appeared first on The New Stack.
Meta this week announced Muse Code, its first coding agent designed to tackle complex software engineering tasks, like planning changes, The post Metaβs new coding agent is cheap (but itβll cost you your data). appeared first on The New Stack.
Enterprise engineering teams are converging on a common architecture for AI-assisted software development. Coinbase, Shopify, and Ramp have each built The post Coinbase, Shopify and Ramp all built their own coding agents. All three still pay Anthropic. appeared first on The New Stack.
βAI kill switchβ entered the public conversation because it gives people a simple way to talk about a complex fear. The post The βAI kill switchβ assumes you know what you are trying to shut down appeared first on The New Stack.
Teams testing prompts in ChatGPT before moving them to Codex or Work may notice the difference on longer tasks. OpenAI The post GPT-5.6 Sol just got better in one place and stayed the same everywhere else appeared first on The New Stack.
Cloudflare launched its CloudflareOS open-source AI workspace platform this week, promising every employee a secure workspace equipped with AI tools The post Why AI tools know nothing about your company β until now appeared first on The New Stack.
AWS on Thursday launched Dogwood, an open-source policy language and reference interpreter that lets developers govern sequences of AI agent The post Your AI agentβs next tool call may be valid but wrong. AWSβs Dogwood promises to fix that. appeared first on The New Stack.
Choosing a coding agent may soon no longer mean having to pick a new editor or terminal, too. That scenario The post Free agents: How AWS Kiro could untie agents from editors appeared first on The New Stack.
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Inference APIs return a small, stable set of failures, and most integrations handle them with a blanket retry that makes two of them worse and hides a third. Knowing which is which takes about ten minutes and saves an outage. The shape of an error Both major dialects return a JSON body with a structured error object alongside the HTTP status. In the OpenAI dialect it is {"error": {"message", "type", "param", "code"}}; Anthropic returns {"type": "error", "error": {"type", "message"}}. The status ...
βSchedule it for the Friday after nextβ is one of the most dangerous strings you can hand a language model, because it will confidently return a date, that date will be well formatted, and there is roughly no chance anyone downstream will check it. The model has no clock Start with the thing that is easy to forget: a language model is a pure function of its context. It has no system clock, no timezone database access at inference time and no notion of when βnowβ is. If the current date is not in...
Ask a model to analyse a dataset and it writes code, the code runs, real numbers come out, and a paragraph explains what they mean. Three independent things had to be right. Only one of them tells you when it was not. Three places to be wrong The code can be wrong. If it crashes you find out immediately, which is the benign case. The dangerous case is code that runs cleanly and computes something other than what you asked. The statistics can be wrong. The code faithfully executes a procedure who...
Cost dashboards usually fail in one of two directions: a single total that nobody can act on, or forty panels that nobody reads. Five charts, each answering a question somebody actually asks out loud, is about the right size β and each of them is a query you can run today. Three audiences ask genuinely different questions of the same data, and a dashboard that ignores the split ends up serving none of them. Finance asks what this month will be and why it differs from last month. Engineering asks...
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In which famed designer Stone Librande chronicles the design process of SimCity (2013) and the one-page design paradigm.
Those sales were delivered across three console generations.
We're breaking down what developers need to know about working with localizers to bring their games to different languages.
Plus: You need to listen to the new single from The Avalanches.
The company's annual hardware forecast remains unchanged despite that downturn.
Tripledot says the acquisition will better position it in 'the age of AI in gaming' and give it access to talent in Israel.
Some of those departing worked at the Washington studio for multiple years.
The 'extended preview' will be available exclusively on Netflix for six hours before heading to YouTube.
The indie publisher claims public trading has created a 'valuation disconnect that does not take account of the lifetime and long-tail revenue delivery inherent in the video games business.'
The Fortnite item shop has always been kind of annoying, because it's never had a consistent inventory you could browse like a normal store. There are more than 2,000 Fortnite skins that have been sold in the item shop, but only a few dozen are available on any given day. But Epic has never been content with just the FOMO angle--the company has been dinged by regulatory agencies all over the world for its "dark patterns" and coercive sale techniques. In some very significant ways, the Fortnite i...
Weβre currently experiencing a huge renaissance of Magic: The Gathering popularity. The 33-year-old card game designed by Richard Garfield introduced the world to the concept of the trading card game itself: a game where players would collect individual game pieces and craft a deck that represented spells they would cast and creatures they would summon. It was a wild new form of player expression that greatly impacted the world of tabletop gaming for all time. Magic: The Gathering also told play...
When Sony dropped the announcement that it was going to be ending physical disc production for PlayStation 5 in early 2028, I saw many posts on social media lamenting how this decision would have an outsized impact on certain groups and institutions. People without reliable internet, lending libraries, gaming tournament organizers, gamers in developing countries--how would the decision to move to download-only games affect these people? I reached out to several folks, some of whom I knew while o...
Otome has a long history, as vibrant and complex as any other video game subgenre. For decades, most of that history has been obscured in North America. The good news is now is the best possible time to get into Otome. The massive success of Love and Deepspace has more than proven that there is a huge audience for games focused on romances with men, and more of these games get translated (and made in English) than ever before. And, should you get interested in retro offerings, there are now fan ...
Can the Steam Machine truly become my all in one solution for gaming?
Since the Not-E3 blitz of summer gaming showcases, things have been relatively quiet since then. Amidst that break, THQ Nordic dropped a new showcase full of trailers to show what the publisher has on the way from its various studios. While it wasn't focused on big-name games like the ones you'd find in dedicated Xbox and PlayStation showcases, THQ Nordic instead has titles in very specific niche genres and IP. https://youtu.be/ToLh5Ruefxk Several of them are already available via early access o...
During the latest investment call for Grand Theft Auto 6's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, CEO Strauss Zelnick weighed in on the future of AI in game development. While Zelnick acknowledges that even his company will utilize AI, he reiterated his belief that the emerging technology won't replace anyone. "Those [AI] tools are not going to replace anyone," said Zelnick. He also expanded on the company's approach, which he characterized as focusing on creating entertainment rather leading wit...
Tarik Skubal has been one of the best starting pitchers in all of baseball over the last few years, winning two consecutive Cy Young Awards as a member of the Detroit Tigers. But the Tigers have been having a rough season, and the team dealt Skubal to the Dodgers at the trade deadline this past weekend. Now, MLB The Show 26 is celebrating Skubal's move to Los Angeles with a special Diamond Dynasty card, so everyone can play as the biggest villain in baseball. Coming later today around noon PT / ...
If you're stuck on this early puzzle, we can give you some hintsβor the complete solution.
Just when you thought videogame marketing couldn't get sillier, people are going to wind up stealing a trailer.
Demon's Field.
Would Xuanzang have liked John Wick?
Mark Darrah thinks Larian succeeded because it wasn't afraid to do its own thing.
Strauss Zelnick reckons that the quality of the experience will more than justify the price.
Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise.
Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail. The post Building robots that survive the warehouse appeared first on The Robot Report.
Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills. The post Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot appeared first on The Robot Report.
Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains. The post Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints appeared first on The Robot Report.
The latest agreement expands HII's HYPER Program, which Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics joined earlier this year. The post HII signs up to $900M agreement with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.
Robin is deployed across 30 different health systems, and Expper has plans to deploy 10 more in different states. The post How Robin, the robotic companion, keeps patients calm during hospital visits appeared first on The Robot Report.
A download looks at examples of advances in autonomous mobile robots in material handling and automated storage applications. The post Report looks at advances in autonomous mobile robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
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.Actuate 2026: 18β19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026: 27 Septemberβ1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHHumanoids Summit Seoul: 22β23 September 2026, SEOULEnjoy todayβs videos! The DARPA Lift Challenge is taking place through this weekend. There are a couple of ve...
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
The MovinkPad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.
Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.
Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.
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The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.
You put together the concept β from a founder mixer, an after-hours panel, a themed party, a morning run, whatever fits your goal β and the TechCrunch team helps put it in front of the attendees already in town for Disrupt.
In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.
Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off. Restart is operated by Moonrock, a content marketing agency, though its editorial mission [β¦]
It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it [β¦]
The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. [β¦]
OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue [β¦]
Thereβs something magical about using instant cameras that smartphones canβt match. You can capture a moment, print it out, and then give the photo as a gift or hold onto it. Image quality wonβt be all that good, but imperfections are part of the allure. We tested instant camera models from popular brands and landed [β¦]