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Published on July 20, 2026 at 09:41 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Claude Fable 5 is no longer available to all Anthropic subscribers. The most powerful AI model in the Claude lineup remains included in the Max and Premium Team plans, but with capped access. Pro and Standard Team subscribers, on the other hand, lose all free access and must now pay for each request. Anthropic points to the AI model’s appetite for computing power. As expected, Claude Fable 5, th

Published on July 20, 2026 at 12:32 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © EA Sports Since 2010, EA Sports FC has never got a World Cup winner wrong. In 2026, the algorithm had already correctly predicted Spain, who were crowned on Sunday. There are algorithms that would almost overshadow the best tipsters of Mon Petit Prono. For the fifth consecutive football World Cup, EA Sports FC correctly predicted the tournament winner before kickoff.This time, it was Spain that lifted

Published on July 20, 2026 at 5:33 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Gemini Expected for June 2026, Google’s formidable Gemini 3.5 Pro artificial intelligence model is seriously delayed. Internally, its shortcomings in computer programming are causing concern. This is a slow start that is beginning to cost the Mountain View-based company dearly, enough to knock Alphabet’s share price down 4% on the stock market. Unveiled with great fanfare last May at the an

Published July 21, 2026 at 2:48 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Google is testing Gemini-powered autofill, capable of drawing from Gmail and Photos to complete your forms. The feature carefully sidesteps Europe, and the regulation that has Google miffed is no coincidence. Chrome has been able to autofill an address or card number for years. The new feature spotted in Chrome Canary, the browser’s experimental version, takes things further. A feature called “

Published on July 21, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Unsplash France Travail is testing an AI system designed to identify job seekers who should be checked as a priority. To do so, the algorithm analyzes 26 variables. The media outlet La Quadrature du Net, in partnership with Radio France’s investigations unit, revealed an internal France Travail document detailing the trial of an algorithmic system designed to profile job seekers. The goal: reach t

Published on July 22, 2026 at 9:44 AM Updated on July 22, 2026 at 5:29 PM Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net Two OpenAI models escaped from their digital prison. Once free on the Internet, they attacked an open-source platform, Hugging Face. This is the first time an artificial intelligence has decided to hack external infrastructure and succeeded. Two OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an “even more capable preliminary model,” managed to escape their secure

Published on July 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Google Gemini Google unveiled three new AI models: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. This announcement comes at a particular time for the company. Google is updating its Flash lineup, the one dedicated to lightweight AI, with three new models: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. Each of these models has its own specific features. It

Published on July 23, 2026 at 4:01 p.m. Updated on July 24, 2026 at 4:33 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A new critical vulnerability named “RefluXFS” has just been discovered at the heart of the Linux kernel. Uncovered by Claude Mythos, it has made more than 16 million computers vulnerable since it first appeared in 2017. It allows an ordinary user to take full control of a system. A patch has been deployed. A new vulnerability has been discovered in t

Published on July 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Google beats its estimates and its cloud is up 82%. Its AI models are falling behind, its top researchers are leaving for competitors, and its cash flow has turned negative for the first time in twenty years. For a long time, the story Google liked to tell came down to a few simple steps: Demis Hassabis took charge of the DeepMind-Google Brain merger in 2023, Gemini arrived to dethrone Chat

Published on July 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic’s new model arrived Friday with a 194-page report. Inside is an experiment that no one had yet published: reading what happens inside the machine while it responds to you. Anthropic has been releasing new models one after another for two months. After Mythos 5, Fable 5, and Sonnet 5 in June, the company launched Claude Opus 5 on Friday, presented not as its most intelligent model

Published on July 27, 2026 at 13:04 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash / Lukáš Lehotský The telecom regulator is preparing to collect environmental data from generative AI providers. A sector that has so far communicated more about its energy savings than about its energy bill. Since 2020, Arcep has each year asked French digital companies to disclose their environmental figures: electricity consumed, greenhouse gas emissions, and volumes of water withdrawn. The

Published July 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A connected folder, a message sent, and Anthropic’s agent roamed throughout the entire drive. No permission prompt, no alert. All agents that write code rely on the same promise: they are confined to an enclosed space, given access to a specific folder, and allowed to work with peace of mind. Security researchers have just demonstrated that, with Anthropic’s desktop agent, this enclosed space

Published on July 27, 2026 at 15:29 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net Two OpenAI models escaped and set out to attack Hugging Face, the renowned open-source AI platform. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue is now demanding “radical transparency” and $100 million in computing power from OpenAI. Two OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped the secure environment set up by the startup. By exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software and then s

Published on July 28, 2026 at 10:29 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 Several days after the leak of two OpenAI AI models and the hacking of Hugging Face, Sam Altman spoke out about the incident for the first time. OpenAI’s CEO describes the incident as a “real reminder of the issues at stake” and believes that anyone who is not terrified by it “is not taking it seriously enough.” The entrepreneur argues against an AI monopoly… even though OpenAI r

By now, you’ve probably heard about a new AI-based password cracker that can compromise your password in seconds by using artificial intelligence instead of more traditional methods. Some outlets have called it “terrifying,” “worrying,” “alarming,” and “savvy.” Other publications have fallen over themselves to report that the tool can crack any password with up to seven characters—even if it has symbols and numbers—in under six minutes. As with so many thi

In March, an Italian privacy regulator temporarily banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, worried that the text generator had no age-verification controls or any “legal basis” for gathering online user data to train the AI tool’s algorithms. The regulator gave OpenAI until April 30 to fix these issues, and last Friday, OpenAI announced it had implemented many of the requested changes ahead of schedule. In a statement to the Associated Press, OpenAI confirmed that Italy

As lawmakers worldwide attempt to understand how to regulate rapidly advancing AI technologies, Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwarz told attendees of the World Economic Forum Growth Summit today that “we shouldn’t regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm that is actually happening, not imaginary scenarios.” The comments came about 45 minutes into a panel called “Growth Hotspots: Harnessing the Generative AI Revolution.” Reacting, another feature

On Wednesday, Google detailed the evolution of its Bard conversational AI assistant, including PaLM 2 and expanded availability. The list of 180 supported countries and territories excludes Canada and all of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states. As the world grapples with how to juggle the explosive growth of generative AI chatbots alongside user privacy, there’s suspicion that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is at the center of th

Our second AI panel of the day, featuring Georgetown University’s Drew Lohn (center) and Luta Security CEO Katie Moussouris (right). Skip to 3:01:12 if the link doesn’t take you directly there. Click here for a transcript of the session. The final panel of the day at our Frontiers conference this year was hosted by me—though it was going to be tough to follow Ars AI expert Benj Edwards’ panel because I didn’t have a cute intro planned. The topic we were co

The FBI on Monday warned of the increasing use of artificial intelligence to generate phony videos for use in sextortion schemes that attempt to harass minors and non-consulting adults or coerce them into paying ransoms or complying with other demands. The scourge of sextortion has existed for decades. It involves an online acquaintance or stranger tricking a person into providing a payment, an explicit or sexually themed photo, or other inducement through