artificial intelligence Landmark Report Warns of Malicious AI Threats and Urges Better Defenses A comprehensive study by 26 leading researchers examines how bad actors exploit artificial intelligence across digital, physical, and political domains, offering key strategies to forecast and prevent these emerging security risks.
boston dynamics Boston Dynamics SpotMini Resists Human Interference to Open Door Boston Dynamics releases a video showing its SpotMini robot autonomously opening a door while a human tries to stop it with a hockey stick. The demonstration highlights the robot's ability to handle physical disturbances, though it still requires initial human guidance.
boston dynamics Boston Dynamics SpotMini Robot Overcomes Human Interference to Open Door Boston Dynamics releases a new video showing its SpotMini robot successfully opening a door while a human repeatedly hits it with a hockey stick. The test demonstrates the robot's ability to adapt to unexpected external forces and stay on task.
waymo Arizona Approves Waymo for First Fully Driverless Ride-Hailing Service Waymo receives approval from Arizona regulators to launch the nation's first ride-hailing service without a human driver behind the wheel.
waymo Waymo Secures Permit for First Commercial Driverless Ride-Hailing Service Waymo receives approval from Arizona to operate as a Transportation Network Company, allowing the company to charge riders for driverless trips. The Alphabet unit plans to launch the commercial service in Phoenix this year.
nlp New Deep Contextualized Word Vectors Advance Natural Language Processing Researchers introduce deep contextualized word representations that capture complex syntax and semantics using a bidirectional language model. These new vectors significantly improve performance across six major NLP tasks.
google cloud Google Cloud Launches Cloud TPU Accelerators in Beta for Faster ML Training Google makes its custom Cloud TPU hardware accelerators available in beta on Google Cloud Platform to dramatically speed up TensorFlow machine learning workloads.
artificial intelligence Major AI Facial Recognition Systems Show Significant Gender and Skin Tone Biases A new MIT and Stanford study reveals that commercial facial-analysis systems from major tech companies exhibit severe error rate disparities, failing frequently for darker-skinned women while remaining highly accurate for light-skinned men.
intel Intel Breaks Drone Flight World Record at PyeongChang Opening Ceremony Intel sets a new Guinness World Record by flying 1,218 Shooting Star drones simultaneously during the PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony. The spectacular display forms Olympic rings and various sports animations to kick off the Winter Games.
reddit Reddit Bans Deepfakes Community Amid Wider Platform Policy Update Reddit officially bans the popular r/deepfakes subreddit and updates its site-wide policies to explicitly prohibit involuntary pornography. The social network takes this step alongside other major tech companies cracking down on AI-generated fake videos.
artificial intelligence Experts Predict Steady AI Growth With Modest Economic Impact in 2026 A new collection of 17 expert forecasts anticipates continued rapid improvements in AI models and massive corporate spending, but warns that the broader economy will not feel the full effects just yet.
artificial intelligence New York Passes RAISE Act to Mandate Safety Frameworks for Frontier AI Models Governor Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act, requiring major AI developers to publish safety protocols and report harmful incidents within 72 hours. The law creates a new state oversight office and imposes hefty financial penalties for non-compliance.
anthropic Tech Giants Unite to Form Agentic AI Foundation and Open-Source MCP Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI co-found the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to oversee the Model Context Protocol. Major tech companies back the initiative as MCP adoption surges past 10,000 active servers.
anthropic Anthropic and Accenture Form Dedicated Business Group to Scale Enterprise AI Anthropic and Accenture are expanding their partnership to help businesses move AI from testing into full production. The collaboration includes a new dedicated business group and training for 30,000 Accenture professionals on Claude.
anthropic Anthropic and Snowflake Forge $200 Million Alliance for Enterprise AI Agents Anthropic and Snowflake are expanding their strategic partnership with a $200 million agreement to bring Claude-powered AI agents to global enterprises. The collaboration focuses on enabling complex data analysis across structured and unstructured data while maintaining strict security standards.