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Published on June 22, 2026 at 17:03 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Android (montage by 01net) The FSFE submitted a request to the European Commission to prohibit the automatic downloading of AI components on Android without user consent. The organization also calls for ending mandatory identity verification for all Android developers in order to preserve interoperability and free software. On June 15, the FSFE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending free sof

Published on June 23, 2026 at 08:44 Comment 6 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s AI deemed too powerful to be made public, has just exposed a 29-year-old security flaw. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to steal the credentials or passwords of other users sharing the same network. Present since 1997, it went unnoticed by human audits and traditional security tools. Claude Mythos, the most powerful version of Anthropic’s AI, continues to ac

Published on June 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) The Model Capability Initiative program is designed to track Meta employees’ activity. The collected data, some of which is confidential, was accessible to any employee of the company. For reference, Meta deployed the Model Capability Initiative program, an internal system designed to capture employees’ mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in order to train Meta’s artif

Published on June 23, 2026 at 5:24 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Tesla Tesla filed the “Megapod” trademark in the United States. This turnkey modular data center project marks a strategic turning point for Elon Musk, with a focus on infrastructure and energy rather than chips. Tesla is poised to open a new chapter in its diversification strategy around artificial intelligence. On June 18, 2026, Elon Musk’s company filed the “Megapod” trademark with the USPTO, t

Hasta la vista, baby Microsoft terminates its Tay AI chatbot after she turns into a Nazi Setting her neural net processor to read-write was a terrible mistake. Ars Staff – Mar 24, 2016 10:28 am | 181 Credit: Microsoft Credit: Microsoft Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Microsoft has been forced to dunk Tay, its millennial-mimicking chatbot, into a vat

Biz & IT Tay, the neo-Nazi millennial chatbot, gets autopsied Microsoft apologizes for her behavior and talks about what went wrong. Ars Staff – Mar 25, 2016 8:15 pm | 201 A user told Tay to tweet Trump propaganda; she did (though the tweet has now been deleted). A user told Tay to tweet Trump propaganda; she did (though the tweet has now been deleted). Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscri

Microsoft today accidentally re-activated “Tay,” its Hitler-loving Twitter chatbot, only to be forced to kill her off for the second time in a week. Tay “went on a spam tirade and then quickly fell silent again,” TechCrunch reported this morning. “Most of the new messages from the millennial-mimicking character simply read ‘you are too fast, please take a rest,’” according to the The Financial Times. “But other tweets included swear words and apparently ap

Google has been controversially granted access to confidential patient records by the NHS—the UK’s national health service. According to a scoop from New Scientist magazine, the ad giant’s artificial intelligence company DeepMind inked a data-sharing deal with three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust. Roughly 1.6 million patients at three hospitals—Barnet, Chase Farm, and the Royal Free—will have their data analysed by Google’s AI system each

Google’s DeepMind AI division will face off against humanity’s number one Go player, Ke Jie, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Ke Jie is currently the top-ranked Go player in the world. DeepMind’s Go-playing program AlphaGo played against Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol in March. Lee lost to the computer 4-1. Although Lee was the world’s top-rated Go player between 2007 and 2011 and is widely considered to be one of the greatest Go players the world

Issac Asimov has a rival. Luxembourg MEP Mady Delvaux has, together with the European Parliament’s legal service, drawn up her own Laws of Robotics—and the report is eminently sensible, despite alarmist claims. It makes reference to Asimov’s three laws, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Prague’s Golem. “People have fantasised about the possibility of building intelligent machines, more often than not androids with human features; AI seem poised to unleash a

In the future, the US Air Force hopes to have armed drones flying in formation with human pilots, responding to their verbal and digital commands to fight the enemy and strike targets. That would require an artificial intelligence capable of interpreting commands and applying knowledge of combat tactics—something that is already being proven in a project funded by the Air Force Research Lab. ALPHA, an artificial intelligence trained by a retired Air Force

LAS VEGAS—On a raised floor in a ballroom at the Paris Hotel, seven competitors stood silently. These combatants had fought since 9:00am, and nearly $4 million in prize money loomed over all the proceedings. Now some 10 hours later, their final rounds were being accompanied by all the play-by-play and color commentary you’d expect from an episode of American Ninja Warrior. Yet, no one in the competition showed signs of nerves. To observers, this all likely

Biz & IT Microsoft releases open source toolkit used to build human-level speech recognition Microsoft wants to put machine learning everywhere. Ars Staff – Oct 25, 2016 7:55 pm | 26 Credit: Microsoft Credit: Microsoft Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Last week, Microsoft announced a speech recognition breakthrough: a transcription system that can ma

Robotics, 5G tech, smart energy, and artificial intelligence will—as promised late last year by the UK’s prime minister Theresa May—be showered in R&D cash from a multi-billion pound taxpayer-funded pot. The PM said in November that £2 billion per year would be set aside for research and development up to 2020—the end of the current parliament’s term. Number 10 said: “This fund is part of £4.7 billion of additional R&D funding announced by the prime minist

Humans must become cyborgs and develop a direct high-bandwidth connection with machines or risk irrelevance and obsolescence, says Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Musk’s latest cheery thoughts were imparted at the World Government Summit in the UAE. “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk said, according to CNBC. The main thrust of Musk’s argument seems to hinge on the limited b

Biz & IT How do you build a robot army? A deep dive into building robots from scratch and their controlling hive mind. Bob Dormon – Feb 15, 2017 8:32 am | 22 Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Depictions of the future in books and film are usually influenced by what’s going on at

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IBM’s Watson Internet of Things (IoT) unit has teamed with audio giant Harman’s Professional Solutions group to create an adaptive artificial intelligence service that can act as an “in-room cognitive concierge.” In less tech-jargon, that’s an AI able to respond to voice commands and questions based specifically on the context of the room its sensor is located in. The technology is currently being demonstrated as a cognitive conference room assistant, and

Biz & IT Microsoft’s bid to bring AI to every developer is starting to make sense The APIs are getting good enough to be built into production systems. Ars Staff – May 10, 2017 11:05 pm | 39 Credit: Microsoft Credit: Microsoft Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav SEATTLE—For the third year in a row, Microsoft is heavily promoting machine-learning service

Policy UpVote: Fake news and AI factchecking, with Full Fact’s Will Moy Given the almost infinite scale of the Internet, do we need robot fact-checkers to police it? Kelly Fiveash & Rowland Manthorpe – May 12, 2017 7:34 am | 0 Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav In the run-up to the UK's June 8 General Election, Ars Technica UK and Wired UK are going to