Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an...
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Agentic Pentesting Guide Targets the Five-Day Exploit Window
Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days, according to Mandiant, part of Google Cloud. The median organization takes 43 days to patch one, per Verizon's DBIR 2026. A new free...
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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually...
Pacing AI won’t solve the governance gap
In May 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the agreements known as SALT I after years of negotiations over weapons capable of destroying both countries. Even with mutual annihilation as an...
Why AI inference must become a commodity
The future of artificial intelligence inference isn’t premium; it’s ubiquitous and commoditized. That may sound odd coming from someone in the AI semiconductor business. Conventional wisdom suggests...
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview...
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff...
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once....
Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background
Tencent's Gander processes speech, images, and text while handling tasks in the background. A "cerebellum" keeps the conversation going, while a swappable "brain" searches files, writes code, or...
Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within...
Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly " killing all humans ," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were...
Runway wants to turn AI video generation into a live stream you control in real time
Runway wants to stream AI video as users prompt it, rather than make them wait for finished clips. The approach builds on GWM-1, its world model that generates video frame by frame. Beyond creative...
Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Surveys by Epoch AI and Ipsos suggest AI is becoming part of everyday life for more Americans. The share of US adults using AI almost daily more than doubled between March and August 2026, rising...
Simulated students that make realistic mistakes help AI tutors learn faster
Microsoft and the University of Illinois built StudentSim to replicate individual students from limited data and give AI tutors fast, low-cost feedback. In tests covering 60 students across chess...
Trump announces "AI Force" and plans for an "AI czar" as he pushes unchecked AI growth
Trump announces an "AI Force" modeled after the Space Force and plans to appoint an "AI czar" with a "high IQ." He claims AI could reach 25 percent of US economic output, rejects new regulation, and...
Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO
Anthropic is reportedly delaying its IPO from October to November 2026 to present strong Q3 results. Investors expect a roughly $2 trillion valuation, but rising infrastructure costs, including $1.25...
AI governance moves from observability to provable control
As artificial intelligence agents move from experimental tools into production systems, enterprise governance is being forced to answer a harder question. It is no longer enough to know what an agent...