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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.
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.
Microsoft spent the first phase of the AI coding boom pushing its engineers to use the tools. Now it wants The post The blank-check AI coding era is dead. Hereβs what comes next. appeared first on The New Stack.
Doist CTO GonΓ§alo Silva doesnβt pretend to know where AI is headed. The pace of change has made it harder The post Why Todoist says less AI can deliver more appeared first on The New Stack.
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Writing code and building applications is only half the battle in tech. The other half is making sure potential clients, recruiters, and search engines actually know who you are. If you are a developer or creator, you have probably faced the temptation to pick a catchy studio name or cool alias for your website. I did the exact same thing when I launched Kami Presents. However, I recently made the decision to migrate my entire personal portfolio to kamranmushtaq.com. In this post, I will break d...
AI-powered search is exposing a growing weakness in conventional SEO reporting: a brand can shape an answer without receiving a visit. When systems such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini reference a company, product or source in an AI-generated response, the user may get what they need before clicking through. That makes rankings, impressions and organic sessions incomplete measures of brand influence. A Search Engine Land guide to measuring brand visibility sets out an oper...
In the last few weeks two protocols were drained through the same class of bug: an access-control exploit. RISEx lost ~$673k. WEMIX.FI Lend lost ~$730k. Different codebases, same shape of mistake - a state-changing function that should have been restricted to an owner or role, but wasn't. This is, year after year, one of the most common ways money leaves a smart contract. And it's one of the few high-impact bug classes a static tool can actually catch before deploy - because it's a property of t...
Translation remains necessary for international websites, but it is no longer sufficient as a market-entry strategy. In AI-enabled search, a global site must account for how Google results, local entities, and large language models interpret relevance in each market. That means localization decisions should increasingly follow market-specific search signals rather than applying a uniform language layer to a U.S.-targeted site. The practical shift is architectural as much as editorial. Local sear...
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I was optimizing the Lua transpiler for my modding language grug and ran into a really weird LuaJIT performance bug. The same benchmark could randomly run 20Γ slower, and it turned out a LuaJIT NYI (Not Yet Implemented) could silently blacklist an unrelated hot loop. I wrote up the investigation here. It goes from the benchmark mystery through LuaJIT's trace recorder internals, and ends with a PR to get unpack off LuaJIT's NYI list. Feedback is very welcome! :) submitted by /u/MyNameIsTrez [link...
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Context My multiplayer game Lights Out is based on a 2D grid. Entities can only ever be in exactly one grid tile. This makes the rule evaluation really simple and understandable. However, it doesn't really feel nice to play (which you know if you've ever played any of the PuzzleScript games). At the same time, the more content is in the game, the more complex and arbitrary the game rules become. I therefore introduced the Movement Transaction System into the code base to deal with this. This inc...
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 news comes a year after Secret Mode laid off a 'small number' of staff when it went independent.
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 / ...
Take-Two Interactive's quarterly earnings call had plenty of new information about GTA 6, including why the game won't have an early access perk. Speaking to investors, CEO Strauss Zelnick was also asked why Take-Two Interactive is selling fewer special versions of GTA 6--so far only the $80 standard and $100 ultimate editions are available to preorder--and why early access wasn't offered as an additional perk, when it is available for its line of 2K sports games like NBA, WWE, and PGA Tour. Zel...
If you're jumping on the Fields Of Mistria 1.0 release, you'll no doubt be looking for some support in your farming endeavors. Crops can be tricky to master, as you'll need to know the right time to plant them, accounting for seasonal restrictions and regrowth time. From the moment you set foot on your new farm, you'll be presented with a bag of turnips and a bag of tulips. These are two out of four of the main plant types in Fields Of Mistria--vegetables and flowers, alongside tree fruits and f...
You can now check if you were picked for the closed network test for The Duskbloods, but you won't get an email invitation as you might expect. To see if you can take part in the playtest of From Software's Switch 2 multiplayer title, you'll have to go to the website for the network test. From there, click on the three-line menu on the top right of the page and select "Account" to go to your personal page. Once there, you'll see your selection results--the page will tell you either way. Unfortun...
A base PS5 or Xbox Series X|S console costs far more today than it did almost six years ago, but despite that, GTA 6 publisher Take-Two Interactive doesn't believe that the more-expensive gaming hardware will slow down its business or sales of the upcoming game. Speaking to investors as part of a briefing on its recent financial quarter, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick did mention that lower-priced gaming hardware would still be preferable, but the current state of the technology could have a surpr...
Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise.
A new update "makes quiet voices louder overall," but doesn't let you hear players from farther away.
It's not just about the sanctity of copyright law anymoreβJapan's foreign ministry is apparently worried that the US government is damaging the brands.
Strauss Zelnick says Take-Two will still put out physical editions "now and then," but for the most part, the era of games on discs is already over.
Blizzard set out to avoid the mistakes of the past with D.Mon.
Ouch, that's gotta sting.
The super-portable G16 is, in many ways, better than everβbut the memory crisis has priced it out of top contention.
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.
Avnet and Weston Robot have partnered to launch an AI-powered autonomous inspection platform for complex industrial environments. The post Avnet and Weston Robot partner to launch edge AI inspection platform appeared first on The Robot Report.
Acquiring the IP from this core supplier allows GAM to vertically integrate its supply chain and expand its manufacturing capabilities. The post GAM Enterprises to produce Schaefflerβs PSC gear reducers appeared first on The Robot Report.
Fueled by Autodesk, UF opened a robotics lab for industrialized construction to fight housing shortages and labor declines. The post University of Florida opens new robotics lab dedicated to industrialized construction appeared first on The Robot Report.
The funding will support Moove's expansion of its autonomous fleet ownership and robotics-first depot infrastructure βNests.β The post Moove raises $250M to build infrastructure for autonomous vehicles appeared first on The Robot Report.
Autonomy is no longer just about robotic motor skills. It encompasses machine awareness, dynamic decision-making, multi-vehicle coordination, and spatial precision at a large scale. The post Why perception is the key to scaling industrial autonomy 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...
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser 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.
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
SpaceX and Tesla are building a massive semiconductor fab in Texas that will depend on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.
Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case.
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¦]
Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie recommendations. Disney Plus, like other streaming services, can recommend shows to watch based on your viewing history. But the company says this new [β¦]