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AI scientists are emerging as a new interface for scientific computing. These agents can read papers, write code, generate hypotheses, call APIs, inspect files,... AI scientists are emerging as a new interface for scientific computing. These agents can read papers, write code, generate hypotheses, call APIs, inspect files, and iterate on results. But science isn’t software engineering. There is no test suite that turns green when a hypothesis is correct; discovery is iterative, uncertain, and grounded in the physical world. You can’t take a general coding… Source

I’m sorry Sony, your AI isn’t very good at photography. When Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII last month, it promoted the phone by sharing some of the worst photos taken on a Sony camera in years. These weren't just any photos, though: they were taken with Sony's new AI Camera Assistant. After a week with the Xperia 1 VIII, I'm here to tell you that the AI assistant is exactly as bad as Sony made it look. After Sony first showed me the AI Camera Assistant during a press briefing for the Xperia 1 VIII, I said it looked "like an improved version of Google's Camera Coach." It's pretty clear I go...

Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs is building a video-first hiring platform that combines AI interview agents with short-form video profiles, creating something that feels like a cross between LinkedIn and TikTok.

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.

For the past three years, "Meta" and "Ray-Ban" have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore. Yesterday, I slipped on several pairs of Meta Glasses - no Ray-Bans - in three different styles and seven colors. One style, I was told several times by various enthusiastic Meta spokespeople, is a collaboration with socialite and reality TV star Kylie Jenner. Meta could've struck out on its own from the get-go, but teaming up with EssilorLuxottica and the Ray-Ban brand was a savvy move in entering the smart glasses space. Previous smart glasses looked straight out of a sci-fi flick, o...

Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

OpenAI presents Meta-Harness, a framework for autonomous code self-improvement in long-horizon workflows with enterprise-grade reliability controls.

The big three memory makers may come to regret opening up the door to Chinese memory makers; Microsoft, meanwhile, is very incentivized to use Chinese models.

Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the ground, it looks like a…

a quiet day lets us reflect on some numbers from Jamin Ball.

Telecom operators are adopting AI across network operations, customer care, and back-office workflows, but most are still early in the journey to autonomy. In... Telecom operators are adopting AI across network operations, customer care, and back-office workflows, but most are still early in the journey to autonomy. In network operations, for example, automation typically sits in the Level 2–3 band of TM Forum’s autonomous networks levels taxonomy, streamlining execution of predefined solutions in selective network domains. Reaching Level 4–5 autonomy… Source

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.

Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform into an AI-native company.

New survey research reveals how users around the world experience AI's cultural blind spots. Learn why multilingual AI is not enough, how users adapt when AI lacks cultural awareness, and what it will take to build AI that serves global communities.

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the impact of a paper can be so much higher if you publish a readable version to accompany the formal one. Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell present some fascinating research into the challenge of having models distinguish their own privileged text (here wrapped in role tags like <system> , <think> , and <assistant> ) from untrusted user input wrapped in <user> . The bad news: they confir...

This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance , describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark regions of an image to remove and the model imagines what should fill the space. The released model required PyTorch and NVIDIA CUDA , but since it described itself as 0.2B I decided to try and get it running using WebGPU in a browser. TL;DR: I got it working, and you can try the demo at simonw.github.io/moebius-web/ . Read on for the details. The finished tool Here's a video demo of the finished tool...

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data centers, including during their construction, and for the power generation requirements of the massive facilities. Also, as Gizmodo points out, Nvidia's blog post doesn't mention the cost of building this style of data center vs. one using less ef...

US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.

OpenAI boardmember Zico Kolter and Gray Swan CEO Matt Fredrikson join swyx to explain why AI security is not just “cybersecurity with AI”

The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. "It was big and airy, and there was a fireplace," she said. The kitchen was small but well equipped and looked like it had been recently renovated. She dropped everything to see the apartment, and when she got there, she learned that five other women, all around her age, had viewings scheduled after h...

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April the company said it had built an AI model called Mythos…