By tapping into your data and context at a machine level, Kora could streamline some of the current speed bumps of using AI tools on a desktop. “All your context, all your memory is on your machine,” says Franck De Girolami, one of Kora’s cofounders. He gives the example of someone designing a project with…
Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, is launching its own robotics division, with an eye toward automating security at both the home and the office. The company announced Ring Robotics on Tuesday, debuting two new devices that are sure to stir more than a little bit of controversy. The first new device is a home…
Devon Thomas hardly seems like a renegade. Members of his bible study group, he tells me, would probably describe him as unfailingly kind and polite. And yet Thomas is doing something that many in the AI world consider borderline blasphemous. His new company, Abliteration AI, removes safeguards from the world’s most powerful open-weight models. It…
In early fall, I felt my anxiety rising from its usual baseline. Was it September’s back-to-school energy? The looming midterm elections? Nope, I realized with annoyance: It was AI—again. Only this time, instead of its purveyors warning of massive job displacement, they were foretelling mass extinction. Who needs jobs when we’re all dead? Curiosity soon…
Nvidia’s stock slid more than 4% on Monday, the first trading day after its board said it would investigate CEO Jensen Huang over his relationship with Alice Huang, an executive U.S. intelligence believes was spying for China. Securities lawyers were already moving. At least four firms, including Schall, Brown & Schwartz and Levi & Korsinsky,…
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient model. Meta Muse Ember is a hosted multimodal reasoning model built for the repetitive steps inside agents. Meta lists tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction and long document parsing as targets. It scores 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with Claude…
A security researcher has found more than 100 serious vulnerabilities in publicly available UK government code, putting sensitive data at risk as a result of poor cyber hygiene. The UK government has defaulted to openly publishing code it produces with public money for around a decade because it’s transparent, and making it easier for code…
Otter.ai, the AI-powered note-taking tool, announced Tuesday that it’s expanding its multilingual capabilities, including a new multilingual transcription feature that can follow conversations as speakers switch between languages during the same meeting. The company is also adding support for 27 languages, its largest language expansion to date. Once the rollout is complete, Otter will support…
California voters have rejected Proposition 40, the state’s proposed one-time tax on billionaires, the Associated Press reported Monday. The measure failed after an expensive campaign that pitted labor unions against some of tech’s wealthiest figures. It was also opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Nic Carter lives about as far from Silicon Valley as you can…
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI to mathematically prove, or “formally verify,” a number of the Signal protocol’s key cryptographic guarantees—a landmark development for the widely used cryptography and AI itself. Conducted as a sort of proof-of-concept project in just four weeks, the work is significant in two ways. It serves as further independent validation…
