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Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that resemble a QR code. When you hold your phone camera up to a QR code, light strikes the image sensor as only a first step to revealing the data hidden behind the black-and-white matrix. The receiver here is doing something different: directly altering its own memory using the photocurrents produced by the beamed array of light. And unlike the data behind a QR code, which might point to a simple web address, this optical code could convey the parameters of an AI model . The new receiver design, presented last month at

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For years, India was the world’s largest app download market but one of its toughest places to make money. That is beginning to change as Indian consumers spend more on AI, entertainment, and other premium apps. India’s mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending during the second quarter of this year, up 35% from a year earlier, according to a [new report](https://sensortower.com/blog/india-mobile-app-market-q2-2026) by Sensor Tower. The app-market intelligence firm said the gains were increasingly driven by generative AI, streaming, and productivity apps rather than gaming, as Indian consumers became more willing to pay for digital subscriptions. The record quarter builds on a broader trend of rising app monetization. India’s revenue per download has more than

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Google has rolled back its brand-new AI-powered Google Earth image generator worldwide less than 24 hours after launch. As I [reported on July 30](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulmonckton/2026/07/30/google-earth-nano-banana-ai-image-upgrade/), Google recently added the ability to reimagine any Google Earth imagery based on Gemini text prompts. For example, users could use the feature to visualize the city of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius, or turn famous landmarks into illustrated infographics populated with data pulled directly from Gemini's multimodal output. ## How Google Earth AI Was Exploited Unfortunately, the launch didn't go entirely as planned after investigative journalist Henk van Ess and newsrooms including NPR and Futurism proved that the tool could be used to genera

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## First, What An AI Agent Actually Is A chatbot answers you and an [AI agent acts](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/05/21/do-your-ai-agents-have-governance-most-dont-and-theyre-live/) for you. If you give an agent a goal instead of a question, it plans the steps, calls tools, runs code, reads and writes files, logs into services, and keeps going until the goal is met or it gives up. All without checking back after each move. That last part is the business case. It is also the risk. An agent needs four things a chatbot never gets: credentials, tool access, network reach and permission to act unsupervised. Hand over all four and you have a worker who never sleeps, never asks whether a task seems odd, and never notices it has wandered somewhere it should not be. Every enterprise

RAM (random access memory) chips and NVRAM (non-volatile random access memory) chips are seen for sale in a computer centre in Hong Kong on July 28, 2026 (Peter PARKS) Print-outs of articles about the global memory chip shortage are pinned beside a price list at a Hong Kong computer shop, offering an explanation to confused customers feeling the pinch. Price rises for goods such as laptops and smartphones, with cars potentially next, have been an unwelcome side-effect of the artificial intelligence gold rush -- and the squeeze is far from over. Samsung Electronics' chief financial officer said this week shortages of microchips that store digital data will likely deepen in 2027 and stay tight through 2028. The crunch has been nicknamed "RAMaggedon" after the components called RAM, or "rando

The thoroughly excellent [_Super Robot Wars Y_](https://www.forbes.com/sites/games/2025/09/05/super-robot-wars-y-switch-review-an-excellent-entry-for-newcomers/) gets its final update and DLC pack in the next few days. Firstly, the free update to version 1.40 increases the pilot level cap to 200 and adds two new missions to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the _Super Robot Wars_ series and its lifetime sales of 20 million units. There will also be a new "Boost" mode included to make the game a bit easier. Secondly, the next DLC pack, called the _Anniversary Expansion Pack_, will include 33 new area missions, 12 new weapons, five new playable units (including the [Gundam Calibarn](https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/X-EX01_Gundam_Calibarn) from [_Witch from Mercury_](https://www.forbes.com/si

The first of the two PlayStation Portable _Super Robot Wars Z_ games is getting remastered, and I really cannot contain my excitement. While this is being touted as the first remaster for the _Super Robot Wars_ series, that's not technically true. This is because the original 1991 Game Boy game was remastered on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita back in 2014. Pedantics aside, this remaster of [_Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-hen_](https://www.mechadamashii.com/reviews/reviews-super-robot-wars-z-2-hakai-hen-910/) is genuinely wonderful news. Following the very successful _Super Robot Wars Z_ on the PlayStation 2, the series got two more entries on the PlayStation Portable before it jumped to the PlayStation 3. _Hakai-hen_ was also followed by [_Saisei-hen_](https://www.mechadamashii.com/re

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Snap is banning AI-generated videos from Spotlight to keep the feed focused on human creativity. Content edited with Snapchat's own AI tools is still allowed. LinkedIn, meanwhile, has rolled out a dedicated "AI slop" reporting button. The article Snap and LinkedIn are fighting back against a flood of low-quality AI content appeared first on The Decoder .

When Microsoft announced its latest round of Xbox price bumps in June, it only gave US pricing. Now we know the pricing increases for the EU and UK, and they're dramatic. Depending on the model, Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170. The 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive is […]

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Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR following the company pissing off […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be [time to “pace the rate of AI development”](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate/) so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of [TechCrunch’s Equity podcast](https://techcrunch.com/podcasts/equity/), Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack in which [an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face’s systems](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/the-hugging-face-ai-break-in-as-told-through-an-increasingly-committed-bear-metaphor/). Sean noted that while a hack performed by an AI agent is novel, the hack itself was not “some new advanced thing.” “It was more like Nixon’s people breaking into Watergate than

_Welcome back to **TechCrunch Mobility**, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click [TechCrunch Mobility](https://techcrunch.com/newsletters/)!_ TechCrunch covered a couple of stories this week that illustrate the countervailing forces at play within the autonomous vehicle industry. The federal government is hitting the accelerator while state and local officials are pumping the brakes on autonomous vehicles. The **National Highway Traffic Safety Administration** made a series of autonomous vehicle technology announcements designed to cut red tape and accelerate the development and deployment of this technology (my article describes many of its actions). The one that got the

Theron Mohamed Sun, 2 August 2026 at 1:07 am GMT-7 3 min read * Steve Hanke says AI won't be the game changer many people imagine as it's "incredibly costly." * The leading economist said the water, power, and microchips needed to power AI limit its potential. * Hanke said that many companies won't replace people with AI because human labor will be cheaper. The idea that artificial intelligence will be free to use and virtually costless to provide is delusional and dumb, [Steve Hanke says](https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wall-street-jobs-hanke-johns-hopkins-class-buffett-investing-valuation-2023-11?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo). "This belief is based on a disconnect from reality, as well as a good dose of idiotic economic r

Zero Trust meets agentic AI in the wild. And what happens next should concern attackers and defenders alike. A Chinese threat actor used a DeepSeek-powered Hermes Agent to find and attack vulnerable servers. It selected targets, downloaded exploits and changed course when it failed. Per [Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/autonomous-ai-cyber-attack-campaign/), this time authentication stopped the agent before it compromised targets. But today's Zero Trust [cannot contain](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/07/31/who-owns-trust-zero-trust-is-about-to-fail-its-ai-test/) tomorrow's agentic AI attacks. Existing controls can verify access and block exploits. They cannot control how an agent interprets its authority and acts. * * * [Microsoft Issues Hotel

Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions. The push comes partly in response to the Hugging Face hack carried out by OpenAI models. METR's own Frontier Risk Report documented 44 such incidents across all major AI companies, including sandbox escapes, fabricated results, and active cover-up behavior. The article After Hugging Face incident, METR urges independent root-cause investigations into AI agent misbehavior appeared first on The Decoder .

Alex Bitter Sun, 2 August 2026 at 2:19 am GMT-7 3 min read * DoorDash's Dot [delivery robot](https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-row-humanoid-hub-location-fremont-silicon-valley-agility-tesla-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) can't physically pick up restaurant orders on its own. * The company is paying gig workers to cover the final feet between restaurants and the robots. * DoorDash said that it's offering the loading gigs to meet demand during busy times. DoorDash's delivery robots need a hand. Some workers in areas where DoorDash is using its [Dot delivery robot](https://www.businessinsider.com/doordashs-dot-delivery-robot-bets-on-cuteness-2025-9?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) are

As more big companies invest in glasses that record audio and video and pack AI on board, privacy concerns are only getting louder.

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VulnCheck counted how often security flaws found by AI actually get exploited. Out of 1,061 AI-discovered vulnerabilities in the first half of 2026, just 14 saw confirmed attacks. That's 1.3 percent, the same rate as vulnerabilities overall. But exploits are landing faster, with the median dropping from 120 days to 80. The article AI finds plenty of security flaws, but almost none of them get exploited appeared first on The Decoder .

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Meta AI wants to stop AI agents from forgetting errors they've already diagnosed and repeating failed steps during complex tasks. A separate memory agent maintains a structured memory bank and decides when to remind the main agent and when to stay silent. The system improved scores by up to 8.3 percentage points across two benchmarks. The article Meta AI uses a second AI agent as a memory coach to keep long tasks on track appeared first on The Decoder .

Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline. As a result, Italian startup Bynario was initially unable to report a serious macOS vulnerability worth up to $200,000 on the black market. The article A real macOS flaw worth $200K went unreported because Apple's bug bounty inbox was full of AI slop appeared first on The Decoder .

Illustrators have spent years sounding the alarm about generative artificial intelligence startups training their models on artists' work without permission. They've pointed out how the practice is tantamount to theft, and in response, many gen AI boosters have argued that it's necessary for the technology's evolution. This has led to contentious legal battles, but it's […]

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OpenAI's new enterprise offering, Presence, is designed to get AI agents into production for customer service and internal workflows. Unlike the existing Workspace Agents, Presence targets external deployments. For complex cases, OpenAI's own engineers step in. The article OpenAI Presence wants to make AI agents production-ready for businesses appeared first on The Decoder .

BERLIN (AP) — An experiment with artificial intelligence at the [annual Richard Wagner festival](https://apnews.com/article/bayreuth-festival-wagner-ring-cycle-632f318cdddeb8ce031dffa84e60a98c) in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused. Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with boos and whistles as they took to the stage at the end of Saturday evening's performance of "Götterdämmerung," German news agency dpa reported. However, there was warm applause for the singers and musicians, and particularly for conductor Christian Thielemann. Festival organizers said ahead of the performance that it would be the first time AI took part on stage at the event, "not as a character, but as

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