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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
Surgeons at UCLH removed a pituitary tumour with an AI reading the live endoscope feed and color-coding the structures that must not be touched. The interesting part is not that AI was in the room. It is what it was looking at.
Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage shirt genuinely stops YOLO object detectors from registering that a person is there. The pattern is not decoration, it is math. Here is what it beats, and the much longer list of what it does not.
California’s DMV has issued its first heavy-duty autonomous vehicle testing permits to Aurora and Kodiak, and trucks are already on public roads. The permits come with a safety driver, a speed limit rule, and a lawsuit filed eight days earlier.
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21 year old platform Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artificial intelligence.” Here is why it is closing now, and who is already replacing it.
Instinct’s AI assistant sent an email without approval and kept summarizing an inbox after access was revoked. Days later, investors valued it at $2.5 billion.
Nvidia’s AVO agent harness scored a perfect 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark using the same Claude Opus 5 model that scores just 30% on its own, without changing a single model weight.
In 1960, three researchers fitted every population estimate from year 1 to 1958 into one equation and it blew up on Friday, November 13, 2026. The math was sound, the date was a private joke, and the curve broke two years after the paper ran.
Pew Research Center sampled roughly 490,000 web pages to put dead internet theory to the test. Ten percent of the live web shows signs of AI authorship. Among pages published since ChatGPT launched, it is 35 percent.
Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance grew from 37 to more than 120 members in two weeks and published its first SAFE security guidelines at Black Hat. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google still are not in it.
Cherokee Nation banned hyperscale data centers on tribally owned and trust land after a task force found 64% of citizens opposed them. The same survey found 73% of those citizens use generative AI, and the report says so out loud.