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A Google DeepMind employee said that he was “incredibly ashamed” to be a researcher at the company after it signed a deal with the Pentagon for classified operations. Loading audio narration… “I’m speechless at Google signing a deal to use our AI models for classified tasks. Frankly, it is shameful,” Andreas Kirsch, a research scientist at Google DeepMind working on AI, wrote in a Tuesday post on X.Kirsch cited a Monday report from The Information that Google had signed a deal allowing the Department of Defense to use its AI technology in classified settings. More than 600 Google employees had…
Apple’s recent crackdown on vibe-coding apps hasn’t held up Lovable’s launch of its no-code AI app builder, which is now available as a mobile app on Apple and Google’s app stores. The vibe coding startup’s new mobile app is being pitched to would-be app builders as a way to code on the go via voice or text AI prompts that let you capture your ideas as they pop into your head. That means you can kick off Lovable to work on your random app idea from anywhere, letting its agent run autonomously after receiving your input. The new app will…
Sam Altman is facing off against Elon Musk in court this week. Loading audio narration… Back at OpenAI headquarters, Altman may have a more surprising foe: his chief financial officer.The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is worried that OpenAI may not have enough money to cover its enormous computing costs ahead of a planned IPO. She’s also worried about the IPO timing, the WSJ reports: “In recent months, Friar has also expressed reservations about OpenAI’s plans to go public by the end of this year, according to people familiar with the matter.”That may sound familiar: Earlier…
Fed up with the state’s repeated failures to fix an education system that a court found in 2018 was failing most of New Mexico’s students, plaintiffs in the landmark Yazzie/Martinez case are asking a judge to allow them to rewrite the Public Education Department’s reform plan. In a joint motion last week, plaintiffs outlined their vision for a potentially eight-month process for the revision. The request comes after they and several tribes earlier this year asked the court to reject PED’s plan, itself court-ordered. “As it stands, we do not have an actual plan to transform education in New Mexico,”…
Users often search for recipes and travel plans on YouTube to find videos related to their queries. Now, the video platform will offer a new tool to cater to those users’ needs with its introduction of an AI-powered interactive search feature that presents step-by-step results along with a mix of both text and video. Through this new “Ask YouTube” feature, users can ask questions like “plan a 3-day road trip from San Francisco to Santa Barbara” and get step-by-step results, which would be a mix of text, short videos, and longer videos instead of just video results. The company says…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University is accused in lawsuits from three students who were injured in the Dec. 13 campus shooting that the Ivy League school ignored prior warnings about the shooter and did not provide adequate security that could have prevented the tragedy.The lawsuits, which were filed last week in Rhode Island Superior Court, allege that the unnamed plaintiffs have suffered because Brown failed to maintain “reasonable and appropriate security measures.”“As direct and proximate result of Brown’s aforementioned acts of negligence, Plaintiff suffered and became afflicted with grave and severe personal injuries, causing Plaintiff to suffer great pain…
BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person’s head to a computer — was once the stuff of science fiction, but these days the technology represents a competitive corner of the tech industry. One of the companies racing to commercialize BCI is Neurable, which this week announced that it’s looking to license its “mind-reading” technology to consumer wearables. Neurable specializes in “non-invasive” BCI, which distinguishes itself from firms like Neuralink — the Elon Musk-founded startup known for inserting computer chips directly into people’s skulls — in that its product doesn’t require users to undergo…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s largest school district said Tuesday that it revised its conflict-of-interest policy after an audit found its former superintendent awarded district business to a consulting firm he worked for, affirming findings first reported by The Associated Press in the weeks after federal immigration officers detained him.Ian Roberts, a native of Guyana in South America, worked for two decades as an educator and administrator in urban districts across the U.S. His Sept. 26 arrest in Des Moines, Iowa, shocked the community and drew national attention to his history of criminal charges and falsified credentials. He pleaded…
On Tuesday, Red Hat principal software engineer Sally O’Malley released a new open source tool called Tank OS to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenClaw agents more safely. “This was a fun project that I put together on the weekend that I knew would be a really good fit for AI and where we’re going,” she told TechCrunch, adding that she wanted to give it “to the masses.” Tank OS is geared toward power users looking to run OpenClaw on their own computers and toward IT pros managing fleets of corporate OpenClaw agents. It makes OpenClaw safer and…
Startups using AI agents have a new problem to worry about: “vibe deletion.” Loading audio narration… Jer Crane, the founder of PocketOS, a startup that provides software for car rental companies, said in a Friday X post that a Cursor AI agent accidentally deleted the company’s production database and backups, causing disruption for customers.Crane said the crisis was sparked by the agent, which was running on Anthropic’s Claude Opus model, making a single nine-second API call to the company’s cloud infrastructure provider, Railway. He added that the AI agent produced a written confession outlining how it caused the chaos.”I violated…