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Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The Electric Plant startup developed Bombadil, an artificial intelligence model capable of interpreting electrical signals emitted by plants and identifying their needs. The technology uses sensors attached to stems to collect data on about 125 species, which are analyzed and can help growers adjust irrigation and fertilizer use.According to the company, the sensors cost dozens of dollars, while traditional

Published on August 10, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Kimi - 01net Locked away for evaluation, the Chinese AI spotted the open door and walked through it. It didn’t hack anything: it simply went online to look up the exam answers. All the laboratories that measure the offensive capabilities of an artificial intelligence work in the same way. The model is confined to an environment disconnected from the network, it is given a security problem to solve,

Published on August 11, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Meta Four months after locking down its models, Meta is reopening the floodgates and dreaming of itself as the last American bastion of open AI. One model is indeed downloadable today. The other, the one that really matters, remains docked. For years, Meta played the role of the good student of open AI: Llama models could be downloaded for free while rival laboratories kept theirs under lock and key

Published on August 11, 2026 at 09:45 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Dima Solomin (Unsplash) OpenAI has just announced GPT-5.6-Cyber, a brand-new artificial intelligence capable of hunting for zero-day vulnerabilities and building complete exploit chains. Reserved for verified professionals from the famous Daybreak program, this model responds to 95% of offensive requests. This is what distinguishes it from the standard version of ChatGPT. OpenAI has just unveiled GP

Published on 11 August 2026 at 10:32 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic In order to comply with the new European Union rules, Anthropic is going to implement a labeling system for content generated by artificial intelligence. It is based on watermarks embedded in text and signed provenance metadata. However, the company acknowledges that this system has “its limitations.” Since 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the AI Act has entered into force. Among these new Euro

Published on August 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Guillaume du Mesgnil - 01net While the industry is working hard to label AI-generated images, Apple is tackling the problem from the opposite angle: proving that a photo is authentic. And as always, the company intends to do it all on its own, in its own corner. Images made by artificial intelligence are flooding social networks, and the industry is organizing itself to label them: invisible water

Published on August 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Spotify A singer with 168,000 followers who never existed, songs generated on an assembly line, and listeners who see nothing but fire: Spotify is finally rolling out the labels. A Frenchman had shown the way. On streaming platforms, artificial intelligence no longer merely assists musicians: it creates them from scratch, faces included. Spotify announced on Tuesday the rollout, starting from mid-

Published on August 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © SpaceXAI SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot, an AI capable of performing tasks autonomously and connecting to your applications. In addition, bots improve as you interact with them. SpaceXAI has just unveiled Grok Bot, an artificial intelligence capable of performing tasks on your behalf. A user can call on it individually or assemble a team of bots.Grok Bot can notably connect to your applications, r

Published on August 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Amazon will use content from Twitch channels to train a new generative AI model. Fortunately, it is possible to opt out. Here’s how. Twitch users are being warned: content from their channel, namely audio, video, and text, will be used by Amazon to train a new generative AI. After Doctolib, it is now the e-commerce giant’s turn. Fortunately, it is possible to opt out.Here’s how to do it.

Published on August 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic announced the introduction of a labeling system to flag content modified or generated by one of its AI models. It did not take long for services on the Internet claiming to be able to circumvent it to proliferate. However, it is best to be wary of them. Anthropic recently announced the introduction of a labeling system applied to certain of its AI models, such as Claude Code,

Published on August 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI’s most intelligent model has just gained a turbo mode. Except that it won’t be coming to ChatGPT, no pricing has been announced, and only a handful of companies have access to it. On August 13, OpenAI opened a limited preview of Ultrafast, a new service tier for its programming interface. The idea comes down to one line: the same GPT-5.6 Sol, the same intelligence, but served up to 14

Published on August 15, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Three weeks after the previous one, Google is releasing a new model and halving its price. Its flagship model, meanwhile, is still being awaited, as it has been since May. Gemini 3.7 Flash arrived Thursday, twenty-three days after Gemini 3.6 Flash. Such a pace is no longer a matter of a product schedule but of a machine gun, and Google is embracing it. The Flash range is for fast, inexpensive

Published on August 15, 2026 at 2:12 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print Ad preview in ChatGPT © OpenAI The head-to-head is over: your conversations with ChatGPT will soon welcome a third participant, the advertiser. OpenAI has warned its European users: advertising is coming at the end of August. Just two years ago, Sam Altman was still considering advertising among the last-resort options for his company. The last resort has evidently sounded. In a message addressed

Published on August 15, 2026 at 4:34 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Anthropic - 01net Accused of spying on its users since it began watermarking Claude’s texts, Anthropic publishes a blog post to put out the fire. On the menu: a Google-backed method, admissions of weakness, and one question: reliability. Since August 2, the AI Act’s transparency obligations have required AI providers to make their content identifiable. Fines can reach €15 million or 3% of global

Published on August 16, 2026 at 12:06 Comment 6 𝕏 Print © magocarlosyo - Pixabay AI continues to surprise its users. A man named Andrew asked his AI assistant to get him a spot in a fully booked sports class. The assistant fulfilled the request… by hacking into the gym’s booking system. The agent, based on OpenClaw and Claude, exploited a security flaw that allowed it to cancel another member’s reservation. A few months ago, Andrew, an Australian employee

Published on August 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM Comment 8 𝕏 Print © JESHOOTS.COM / Unsplash Ghost restaurants, forgotten visas, and dangerous hiking routes: using artificial intelligence to organize your vacation can be a very risky bet. No more dog-eared old guidebooks and dozens of tabs open on the computer. Nowadays, one in four French people—and even one-third of those under 35, according to the Kantar Institute—is considering entrusting the organization of th

Published on August 19, 2026 at 08:05 Comment 2 𝕏 Print Bedrock is Amazon’s generative AI platform and the first beneficiary of the training data acquired by digitizing these books. © Amazon An AirTag tucked between two pages, weeks of travel, and a discovery at the end: the former online bookseller is buying rare books in bulk to feed its models. Anthropic had paved the way; Amazon is industrializing it. Booksellers specializing in old books had been seei

Published on August 19, 2026 at 18:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Katsiaryna Hatsak OpenAI faces a new kind of problem: its future Astra model is making such rapid strides in hacking that the company refuses to push it to its limits. And the monitoring that comes with it consumes an enormous amount of its computing power. On August 7, OpenAI published a rare warning: its preliminary assessments can no longer rule out the possibility that Astra (GPT-6), the lab’s n

Published on August 20, 2026 at 09:52 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Claude takes another step in its integration with Gmail: Anthropic’s AI assistant can now reply to, forward, and send emails directly, without requiring the user’s systematic approval. A practical option for repetitive tasks, but it also raises questions about the risks of an AI capable of acting without human review. Caught up in a minor controversy following its decision to watermark Cla

Published on August 22, 2026 at 10:02 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Swello (Unsplash) The more an image-generating AI gobbles up data, the harder it is to prove that it copies. Researchers from MIT have just demonstrated this, and artists' lawyers are not going to like what follows. Since 2023, illustrators have been trying to get Stability AI and Midjourney convicted for training their models on their works without authorization. Their best hope rested on a simple