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Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool

Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?

AI and ML17 Sep 2026 | 14

Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine

QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms

AI and ML17 Sep 2026 | 3

If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots

personal tech 'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world

Personal Tech16 Sep 2026 | 20

AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so

security This is a test - it is only a test

Security16 Sep 2026 | 17

OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things

ai and ml Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?

AI and ML16 Sep 2026 | 18

Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free

AI AND ML Frontier-level AI runs everywhere, so attacks will never stop

AI and ML16 Sep 2026 | 41

Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze

Security Gartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner

Patches16 Sep 2026 | 13

TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom

ai and ml 'Jev' doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions

AI and ML16 Sep 2026 | 10

Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS

ai and ml Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!

AI and ML15 Sep 2026 | 4

America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them

ON-PREM Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources

On-Prem15 Sep 2026 | 36

ZTE AI Smart Display makes global debut at IBC 2026, pioneering a new era of proactive home intelligence

PARTNER CONTENT: Bridging 4K entertainment, whole-home IoT, and agentic AI to shift smart living from command-based controls to predictive care

AI and ML15 Sep 2026 |

Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail

AI AND ML American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance

AI and ML15 Sep 2026 | 23

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute

COLUMNISTS Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter

Columnists15 Sep 2026 | 22

Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that

saas Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner

SaaS15 Sep 2026 | 61

The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss

AI AND ML Beijing’s response is to ‘firmly grasp technological sovereignty’ and broad regulations

AI and ML15 Sep 2026 | 3

COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it

AI AND ML Australia Taxation Office sees footling with Copilot as a way to develop ‘muscles’ for real AI work

AI and ML15 Sep 2026 | 9

Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input

ai and ml Redmond outlines 'aspirational' goals for model behavior, but gives itself a pass if it gets things wrong

AI and ML15 Sep 2026 | 2

Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs

databases Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go

Databases14 Sep 2026 | 31

OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems

Security Ruby are you ok? Ruby are you ok? Are you ok Ruby?

Security14 Sep 2026 | 12

Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

ai and ml There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 | 45

ZTE shines at GSMA M360 ASEAN 2026, building digital trust and an inclusive future for ASEAN in the AI era

PARTNER CONTENT: Four pillars for the AI era: ZTE unveils next-gen computing strategy and network innovation at GSMA M360

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 |

ZTE showcases full-scenario AI interactive flat panel solution at IBC 2026, delivering new AI-powered user experiences

PARTNER CONTENT: From conference rooms to all spaces: How ZTE is redefining smart collaboration with multi-scenario AI

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 |

Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand

ai and ml Bitcoin farms, aluminum smelters, and other old infra is more lucrative to repurpose as a datacenter

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 | 16

MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation

AI AND ML Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 | 11

The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture

ai and ml Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 | 33

AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner

AI and ML Model-makers move too fast and don’t care when they break things

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 | 10

Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’

AI AND ML Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created

AI and ML14 Sep 2026 | 19

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

security RIP, you won't be mourned

Security13 Sep 2026 | 73

AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money

ai and ML Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life

AI and ML11 Sep 2026 | 53

Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

SYSTEMS Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree

Systems11 Sep 2026 |

Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

PUBLIC SECTOR TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace

Public Sector11 Sep 2026 | 10

DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean

AI and ML DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it

AI and ML11 Sep 2026 | 21

OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time

ai AND ml GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid

AI and ML10 Sep 2026 | 1

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

security Everyone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun

AI and ML10 Sep 2026 | 28

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

DEVOPS Shopify acquisition will give open-source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'

Devops10 Sep 2026 | 6

Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

security Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!

Cyber-crime10 Sep 2026 | 7

OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

ai and ml New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services

AI and ML10 Sep 2026 | 13

AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button

AI AND ML Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium

AI and ML10 Sep 2026 | 32

NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools

AI AND ML Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite

AI and ML10 Sep 2026 | 8

AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

AI AND ML Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills

AI and ML10 Sep 2026 | 27

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

ai and ml Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's

AI and ML09 Sep 2026 | 40

AI models don't kill people – people kill people

AI AND ML AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve

AI and ML09 Sep 2026 | 126

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

software Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Software09 Sep 2026 | 21

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

public sector Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month

Public Sector09 Sep 2026 | 6

US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models

AI AND ML Spooks and CISA point to ‘industrial-scale distillation’ by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players

AI and ML09 Sep 2026 | 43

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic

ai and ml Vend it like Altman

AI and ML08 Sep 2026 | 7

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

AI+ML See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad

AI and ML08 Sep 2026 | 9

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Security Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access

Security08 Sep 2026 | 3

Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle

ai and ml DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check

AI and ML08 Sep 2026 | 10

Mistral bags €3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion

AI AND ML Samsung-led round values the French model maker at more than €21B

AI and ML08 Sep 2026 | 5

Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns

RESEARCH Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'

Research08 Sep 2026 | 2

Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

ai and ml This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development

AI and ML07 Sep 2026 | 6

Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds

OS PLATFORMS Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong

OS Platforms07 Sep 2026 | 19

Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

off-prem PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more

Off-Prem07 Sep 2026 | 7

Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you

AI and ml Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases

AI and ML04 Sep 2026 | 59

ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

security Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters

Cyber-crime04 Sep 2026 | 19

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

ai and ml Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

AI and ML04 Sep 2026 | 46

AI and ML

Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool

Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine

AI model watermarking changes agent behavior

Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head

OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times

If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots

AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so

OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things

Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free

Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze

TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom

Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS

America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them

ZTE AI Smart Display makes global debut at IBC 2026, pioneering a new era of proactive home intelligence

Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute

Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that

The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss

COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it

Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input

Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs

OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems

Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

ZTE shines at GSMA M360 ASEAN 2026, building digital trust and an inclusive future for ASEAN in the AI era

ZTE showcases full-scenario AI interactive flat panel solution at IBC 2026, delivering new AI-powered user experiences

Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand

MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation

The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture

AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner

Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money

Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean

OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button

NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools

AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

AI models don't kill people – people kill people

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle

Mistral bags €3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion

Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns

Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds

Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you

ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident