OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days
OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days

OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform’s production infrastructure.

Humans actually prefer talking to an AI than a support person, says gas giant as it cuts jobs

British Gas is cutting 1,300 customer service roles as its CEO argues that people are moving toward digital channels and AI tools.

Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts
Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts

On July 23, President Donald Trump stood in the White House and promised that electricity bills for American families would “actually come down,” even as power-hungry AI data centres spread across the grid. T he vehicle was an expanded version of the R…

A Florida pastor asked ChatGPT if he was okay. It nearly got him killed.

A Florida pastor is suing OpenAI after ChatGPT dismissed his symptoms as harmless for weeks, he later suffered a near-fatal blood clot doctors blame on the bot’s advice.

Scientists made robots curious like toddlers, and it helped them learn language twice as fast

Researchers at OIST gave a virtual robot curiosity, and it learned language twice as fast, playful detours and toddler grammar slip-ups included.

Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled
Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled

Elon Musk told investors on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call that Optimus will be “the hardest product to scale manufacturing that we’ve ever made at Tesla,” warning that the humanoid robot has no existing supply chain and that every component is n…

AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia

AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, t…

AMD and Cerebras partner on low-latency, high-throughput AI inference — EPYC processors in Helios rack-scale infrastructure paired with Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) solutions

When AMD’s Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.

Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in

Travis Kalanick is back, and Uber is helping to fund him. The founder Uber forced out in 2017 has raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial-AI and robotics company he has built in near-total stealth for years. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Its …

AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude

AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first …