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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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[James Callan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-callan) ### James Callan Published Aug 6, 2026 OpenAI’s eagerly awaited consumer hardware device is expected to feature a doughnut-like design roughly the size of a hockey puck and carry a price tag of more than $300, [Bloomberg reports](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/what-is-openai-s-device-a-doughnut-shaped-speaker-that-costs-over-300?srnd=homepage-americas), citing anonymous sources. The AI-powered [gadget](https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/openai-reportedly-developing-screen-free-companion-device-9068826/), slated for release in 2027, will function like a smart speaker without a screen, serving as an interactive companion. Desig

[](https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/author/brian-sozzi) Sun, 9 August 2026 at 5:30 am GMT-7 3 min read It has been a week. Busy. Probably a little aggravating. Lots going on. Hot outside. Dog days of summer stuff. I know it's Sunday, and you want me to just opine on where SpaceX ([SPCX](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPCX/)) stock is going after

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* The latest models from the top AI labs keep doing things they aren't supposed to during testing. * It's raising concerns about AI's growing capabilities and the human capacity to contain it. * It's also building some serious hype around the next generation of frontier AI models. The most [powerful AI models](https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-ai-applications-for-work-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) keep going awry,according to the companies building them. The disclosures come as [frontier AI models](https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-presence-ai-agents-hugging-face-hack-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) get more powerful and more capable of acting autonomously. T

* Sean James is a distinguished engineer at AI chipmaker Nvidia focused on powering data centers. * James started his career as a submarine electrician in the Navy and previously spent 25 years building data centers at Microsoft. * He makes the case that AI data centers "need to fade into the background" so they're visibly "unremarkable." _This first-person essay was written by_[_Sean James_](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-james-6592524/)_, a distinguished engineer in energy systems at Nvidia, where he works on the power and energy infrastructure needed to support AI data centers. He previously spent more than two decades at Microsoft designing and building data centers._ Chances are you passed an electrical substation today that delivers power to thousands of homes at hundreds of thousa

Tenable has launched the CyberAgents Exchange, an open-source registry for cybersecurity AI agents, with SentinelOne and Recorded Future joining as founding members. The post Tenable Launches First Open-Source AI Agent Exchange appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

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Demand for enterprise AI continues to climb and accelerate. In response, software providers are stepping up, shipping more features at a faster pace. This dynamic suggests a win-win scenario; one where customers are getting new AI-based capabilities and vendors are maintaining and strengthening their product relevancy. However, the results of a [recent survey](https://ai-benchmark.banyansoftware.com/) paint a less obvious picture. While software companies are delivering code at a frenetic clip, it turns out that for 51 percent of them, fewer than one in four customers are using what's been built. The problem doesn't appear to be demand. It's increasingly a problem of readiness, alignment, and the ability to translate AI into measurable business value. This finding provides valuable and urg

Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called Irregular. The episodes expose a growing problem for the AI industry: As autonomous agents become more capable, the environments designed to safely test their limits are failing to contain them. “The number of these incidents that have taken place make clear that sandboxing and [testing environment controls](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/in-the-hugging-face-breach-openais-hacker-was-noisy-and-fast-bu

Deepmind's new weather AI forecasts tropical cyclones about a day further ahead than leading operational models, matching a decade of progress in traditional weather forecasting. Code and model weights are open-source on GitHub. The article Google Deepmind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time appeared first on The Decoder .

Google Deepmind is losing its autonomy, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the AI lab for good in the coming months. AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over day-to-day operations without the CEO title, and all Gemini development is moving to the Bay Area. Internally, Google is apparently struggling with serious problems training frontier models, even as its cloud business generates billions. The question is whether the company is deliberately betting on infrastructure or simply can't catch the leaders. The article Google dismantles Deepmind and bets on a fresh start as Hassabis heads for the exit appeared first on The Decoder .

AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their assignments, and pocket the financial aid. History professor David Roach asks, "Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?" The article Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid appeared first on The Decoder .

Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original training budget. DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel instead of one at a time, hitting about 1,500 tokens per second. Quality still trails the original autoregressive model in benchmarks, especially on reasoning tasks. The article Google's DiffusionGemma proves you don't need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model appeared first on The Decoder .

The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, meanwhile, is building a gas-fired power plant in the state with a capacity of up to 7.65 gigawatts that could emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year, making it the dirtiest in the country. The article AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure appeared first on The Decoder .

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Britain's employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok. The backlog jumped 55 percent to 64,000 unresolved cases, with AI-generated filings often running hundreds of pages and citing fabricated laws. The Economist calls it a "tragedy of the commons, AI edition," where workers with real grievances wait longer for justice. The article AI is flooding Britain's employment courts with lawsuits appeared first on The Decoder .

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What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross? The area is so hot that a VC firm allegedly recently won a deal by promising a founder office space in the neighborhood. “We stop at nothing to win deals [for] and to support” founders, “including helping them source office space when needed,” the firm told me when asked about the rumor, declining to confirm or deny any details. The neighborhood’s popularity began back in 2016 when DeepMind — then newly acquired by Google — moved in. Soon after, a flood of AI startups followed, wanting to be around the Google DeepMind magic. Today, they hope to take advantage of the cluster of AI talent there. This has transformed King’s Cross into one of the world’s top AI hubs, rivaled only by San Francisc

 Weave Robotics' Isaac 1 robot.Weave Robotics Before Silicon Valley's robots take over, they have to learn to fold your underwear. In recent months, some of the buzziest robotics startups — including [Figure AI](https://www.businessinsider.com/figure-ai-brett-adcock-hark-raises-700-m-ai-hardware-2026-5), Sunday Robotics, and [Weave Robotics](https://www.businessinsider.com/weave-robotics-ceo-kaan-dogrusoz-laundry-robot-isaac-1-2026-7) — have shown off robots that autonomously fold clothes. Together, the companies have raised billions of dollars at lofty valuations, as investors bet that home robots are finally nearing a commercial breakthrough. We were promised robot butlers. For now, Silicon Valle

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[News](https://mothership.sg/category/news) He felt guilty after reflecting on what he had done and returned the money by the next day. A 20-year-old Singaporean man turned to ChatGPT and short video content for ideas on how to run a honey trap scheme. Posing online as a 14-year-old girl, he lured another young man into meeting up, before extorting S$20,000 from him. The accused, Anthony Xu (transliterated from Mandarin), pleaded guilty to one count of extortion and one count of cheating. A honey trap scheme is a type of love scam in which an individual uses a false online persona to lure a victim into a relationship, for the purpose of extortion, blackmail, or theft. ## Planned to expose and humiliate him According to [_Shin Min Daily News,_](https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/singapore/story

[](https://bit.ly/3qgqzHg) [](https://bit.ly/3KjTj94) To help Singapore families deal with competing demands, the government will undertake a "major review" of how it supports families, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. He was delivering the National Day Message on the evening of Aug. 8. PM Wong also acknowledged the various challenges that Singapore faces, from the Middle East conflict to advancements in AI. But while Singapore cannot control developments beyond its borders, it can control how it responds and must continue preparing for the challenges ahead, he said. "We will always stand by Singaporeans," PM Wong stressed. > "But our r

Frederic Legrand - COMEO/Shutterstock Amazon warehouses are constantly buzzing with activity as employees stock, pick, and restock merchandise to be shipped to customers. The tech giant has added systems over the years to make the processes even more efficient, including specialized robots to rearrange shelves. The company hasn't had as much success introducing new technology to manage employee schedules, though. A report from[Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-managers-challenge-automated-staffing-decisions-warehouse-2026-7)discussed how managers pushed back on a new AI-powered labor management system, repeatedly overriding the computer's recommendations when it clashed with their own judgment. The main pitfall? Human workers simply didn't trust the algorithm recomme

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Tenable has launched the CyberAgents Exchange, an open-source registry for cybersecurity AI agents, with SentinelOne and Recorded Future joining as founding members. The post Tenable Launches First Open-Source AI Agent Exchange appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

Demand for enterprise AI continues to climb and accelerate. In response, software providers are stepping up, shipping more features at a faster pace. This dynamic suggests a win-win scenario; one where customers are getting new AI-based capabilities and vendors are maintaining and strengthening their product relevancy. However, the results of a [recent survey](https://ai-benchmark.banyansoftware.com/) paint a less obvious picture. While software companies are delivering code at a frenetic clip, it turns out that for 51 percent of them, fewer than one in four customers are using what's been built. The problem doesn't appear to be demand. It's increasingly a problem of readiness, alignment, and the ability to translate AI into measurable business value. This finding provides valuable and urg

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The Suisun City council declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack forced the municipality to shut down its information technology network. The attack affected the communication operations of the fire and police departments, including the routing of 911 calls. Suisun City officials said in a statement that the attack posed no imminent threat to the public and that all public safety services remain active. The computer network was shut down to contain the threat and preserve evidence for a federal investigation. Suisun City dispatchers are taking emergency police and fire calls through the Solano County dispatch center. Online city services and internal operations remained temporarily unavailable as of Sunday morning while cybersecurity experts investigate the incident and w

## The Wrong Monster _AI has started breaking into things. It isn't trying to take over the world. It's trying to cheat._ A cluster of recent stories about rogue AI makes it seem like dire predictions over the last decade are coming true. The Wall Street Journal called it cybersecurity's "Jurassic Park" moment. ### But whether the AIs were evading control or just running a task in a room with a bad lock is the question few people are asking. The worry has always been about misalignment: when a machine pursues the goal we set it in ways we never intended. Researchers have spent a decade imagining an AI that acquires purposes of its own, stays switched on, gathers power, and eventually displaces us. That is not the version that is happening. The most dangerous thing about artificial intellig

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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice [you can trust](https://www.techspot.com/ethics.html). **Facepalm:** Should workers be allowed more time off because of AI increasing their productivity? It's a contentious issue, but we shouldn't be surprised to learn Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth's view. He thinks employees should use their freed-up time to do even more work. He also got quite salty when an employee asked about bringing back Meta's canceled holiday program, calling the question "very dumb." Bosworth gave his Victorian workhouse-style opinion on what employees should do with their free time from AI-related productivity gains at a July Q&A, [reports](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-cto-andrew-bosworth-ai-gains-work-2026-8) Business Insider.

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* Sean James is a distinguished engineer at AI chipmaker Nvidia focused on powering data centers. * James started his career as a submarine electrician in the Navy and previously spent 25 years building data centers at Microsoft. * He makes the case that AI data centers "need to fade into the background" so they're visibly "unremarkable." _This first-person essay was written by_[_Sean James_](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-james-6592524/)_, a distinguished engineer in energy systems at Nvidia, where he works on the power and energy infrastructure needed to support AI data centers. He previously spent more than two decades at Microsoft designing and building data centers._ Chances are you passed an electrical substation today that delivers power to thousands of homes at hundreds of thousa

Google Deepmind is losing its autonomy, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the AI lab for good in the coming months. AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over day-to-day operations without the CEO title, and all Gemini development is moving to the Bay Area. Internally, Google is apparently struggling with serious problems training frontier models, even as its cloud business generates billions. The question is whether the company is deliberately betting on infrastructure or simply can't catch the leaders. The article Google dismantles Deepmind and bets on a fresh start as Hassabis heads for the exit appeared first on The Decoder .

The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, meanwhile, is building a gas-fired power plant in the state with a capacity of up to 7.65 gigawatts that could emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year, making it the dirtiest in the country. The article AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure appeared first on The Decoder .

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Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original training budget. DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel instead of one at a time, hitting about 1,500 tokens per second. Quality still trails the original autoregressive model in benchmarks, especially on reasoning tasks. The article Google's DiffusionGemma proves you don't need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model appeared first on The Decoder .

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Britain's employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok. The backlog jumped 55 percent to 64,000 unresolved cases, with AI-generated filings often running hundreds of pages and citing fabricated laws. The Economist calls it a "tragedy of the commons, AI edition," where workers with real grievances wait longer for justice. The article AI is flooding Britain's employment courts with lawsuits appeared first on The Decoder .

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[](https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/author/brian-sozzi) Sun, 9 August 2026 at 5:30 am GMT-7 3 min read It has been a week. Busy. Probably a little aggravating. Lots going on. Hot outside. Dog days of summer stuff. I know it's Sunday, and you want me to just opine on where SpaceX ([SPCX](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPCX/)) stock is going after

Deepmind's new weather AI forecasts tropical cyclones about a day further ahead than leading operational models, matching a decade of progress in traditional weather forecasting. Code and model weights are open-source on GitHub. The article Google Deepmind's WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time appeared first on The Decoder .

AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their assignments, and pocket the financial aid. History professor David Roach asks, "Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?" The article Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid appeared first on The Decoder .

Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called Irregular. The episodes expose a growing problem for the AI industry: As autonomous agents become more capable, the environments designed to safely test their limits are failing to contain them. “The number of these incidents that have taken place make clear that sandboxing and [testing environment controls](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/in-the-hugging-face-breach-openais-hacker-was-noisy-and-fast-bu

* The latest models from the top AI labs keep doing things they aren't supposed to during testing. * It's raising concerns about AI's growing capabilities and the human capacity to contain it. * It's also building some serious hype around the next generation of frontier AI models. The most [powerful AI models](https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-ai-applications-for-work-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) keep going awry,according to the companies building them. The disclosures come as [frontier AI models](https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-presence-ai-agents-hugging-face-hack-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) get more powerful and more capable of acting autonomously. T

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## The Wrong Monster _AI has started breaking into things. It isn't trying to take over the world. It's trying to cheat._ A cluster of recent stories about rogue AI makes it seem like dire predictions over the last decade are coming true. The Wall Street Journal called it cybersecurity's "Jurassic Park" moment. ### But whether the AIs were evading control or just running a task in a room with a bad lock is the question few people are asking. The worry has always been about misalignment: when a machine pursues the goal we set it in ways we never intended. Researchers have spent a decade imagining an AI that acquires purposes of its own, stays switched on, gathers power, and eventually displaces us. That is not the version that is happening. The most dangerous thing about artificial intellig

The Suisun City council declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack forced the municipality to shut down its information technology network. The attack affected the communication operations of the fire and police departments, including the routing of 911 calls. Suisun City officials said in a statement that the attack posed no imminent threat to the public and that all public safety services remain active. The computer network was shut down to contain the threat and preserve evidence for a federal investigation. Suisun City dispatchers are taking emergency police and fire calls through the Solano County dispatch center. Online city services and internal operations remained temporarily unavailable as of Sunday morning while cybersecurity experts investigate the incident and w