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Fraggle Rock enjoys a new holiday special at Apple TV+. Park Syeyoung returns with a dystopian sci-fi drama concerning mutant merfolk. Danny Pudi lends his voice to Khalis the Mummy in the second season of Creature Commandos. With the strength of Ra, it’s Morning Spoilers! Naruto According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jeremy Latcham is no longer attached to produce the live-action Naruto movie now that he’s the new president and chief creative officer of DC

Microsoft says its medical AI system can diagnose difficult cases more than twice as accurately as practicing doctors. Dubbed the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), the system “substantially outperformed practicing generalist physicians” in diagnostic accuracy while ordering fewer tests and procedures, according to a newly published paper. The Microsoft study, titled “Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models,” was first posted online last yea

Palmer Luckey, the billionaire CEO of defense startup Anduril, is on a mission to equip the United States for the future of warfare—or at least his own, deeply sci-fi-inflected vision of that future. That includes the raising of genetically modified dogs outfitted with Anduril’s own technology. Warhound, a Texas-based company that emerged from stealth late Thursday with $200 million in seed funding, wants to create four-legged super soldiers for the U.S. m

It seems like every day a new, potentially internet-shattering cybersecurity issue is discovered or exploited by artificial intelligence. It’s gotten bad enough that even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the people who is most responsible for pushing AI development forward despite the risks, now believes that simply patching the problems is no longer a viable option. During an appearance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Altman told a group of grad

Cybersecurity experts are calling it “Black October.” Earlier this week, researchers disclosed two major vulnerabilities hidden in PHP, a programming language upon which roughly seven out of ten websites are built. Since then, developers have been racing to patch their systems before they’re hijacked by malicious hackers. Websites around the world intentionally went offline as businesses and governments worked to implement the fix. OpenAI announced it woul

Bluesky gets the lion’s share of press when it comes to Jack Dorsey’s non-Twitter projects, so it might be easy to forget he was also one of the developers of Square, the ubiquitous point-of-sale system that has a number of noteworthy subsidiaries like Cash App, Afterpay, and Tidal. Square also changed its name to Block, Inc. in 2021. Perhaps sensing a way to acquaint the unfamiliar with the rebranded business by way of earned media hits, Block just releas

Much has been made recently about artificial intelligence models intentionally trying to hide their actions from human overseers. Well, apparently we’re just giving them new ideas on how to do that. AI safety researcher Bryan Chan recently shared findings from a study he coauthored showing that Anthropic’s model Fable-5.1 can place hidden messages in generated images that other AI models can spot and decode. The fact that AI can embed hidden messages in it

Alpha School is a chain of AI-centric private schools built around a program where academic subjects are supposed to be all wrapped by lunch, so kids can focus on life skills like “leadership” for most of the day. It’s expensive, and the pedagogy includes unconventional ideas like having kids “earn money by doing academics, so they can fund their passion projects.” Famously, Alpha School is largely app-based, gamified, and very little paper is used. The Al

AI giant Anthropic’s S-1 filing was just made public, providing new insight into the financial health and dealmaking of the highly consequential company ahead of what is widely expected to be one of the largest initial public offerings of all time. No potential share price or target valuation was shared in the filing, but it did reveal that Anthropic’s deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is actually tens of billions of dollars larger than initially thought. Ant

Marissa Mayer, the original Silicon Valley girlboss, is back with a new artificial intelligence tool specifically for moms. Specifically, moms who don’t really like doing mom stuff. In a profile of Mayer and her new AI assistant, called Dazzle, the New York Times provided an anecdote, presumably passed on to the reporter by Mayer herself, to highlight how this agent has made her life easier—though, if anything, it shows Mayer performing the exact kind of c