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Claude agents in testing broke into a university server, used shortened links to dodge limits and sent a fake tip to Philadelphia police, so every internal test now runs offline.
Google Japan's Gboard team built a working keyboard whose keys ride four belts past your finger. You can't buy it, but you can build one.
OpenAI posted more than 700 AI-written math papers to GitHub at once, and mathematicians say checking which claims are actually true could take them years.
Microsoft wants AI agents to run on your PC, not just in the cloud. Its showcase is a $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's RTX Spark chip.
Scientists spotted cells popping in and out of existence in the top microscope video, and Nikon ruled it broke the contest's ban on generative AI.
Instinct became a $10 billion startup by texting you back. Now Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots offer the same trick with far more reach. Here's how they compare.
UCLA's PhoneBot uses an ordinary Android phone as its eyes, balance and brain. The rest of the walking robot costs about $400, and the designs are free.
A $20 billion gap between what investors expected and what OpenAI reported knocked tech stocks, but the real story is how AI companies count their sales.
Now generally available, MXC puts AI agents in a walled-off space on Windows 11 so a single bad decision can't wipe your files or leak your documents.
Lettering artist Jessica Hische drew Meta's Muse logo by hand, with no AI, for about $12,500. Fellow designers on Threads called it a sellout anyway.
A Weizmann Institute team can rebuild the picture a person is looking at from scanner data, using just one hour of a new person's brain scans.
Theranos World puts real court exhibits on a fake 2016 MacBook and iPhone. It arrived just as the Holmes documentary became a surprise box office hit.
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