Bitcoin miners tipped as key winners in $90b AI data center boom

Advanced AI models with unique hacking capabilities like Mythos should bring federal agencies that handle the government's sensitive information to a "reflection point," according to a CIA tech official.

Glendale Community College president Tiffany Hernandez apologized for the mistakes and eventually offered many students a do-over. | Screenshot: YouTube The use of AI-powered tools to announce students as they walk on stage during graduation and commencement ceremonies has grown in popularity over the past few years, but it's not always succeeding at the one job it's there for. Many schools have switched to these systems as a way to ensure names are being pronounced correctly, but during a recent livestream of a Glendale Community College commencement ceremony in Phoenix, Arizona, the AI announcer mispronounced some names and skipped others entirely as a result of timing issues as graduates walked across the stage. The ceremony was paused at least twice in an attempt to fix the issues, whi … Read the full story at The Verge.

Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led computer vision and AI at Tesla.

UpsideOnly's AI-driven model could democratize trading, reducing financial risk for retail traders and potentially reshaping market dynamics. The post Ex-FTX Europe exec launches UpsideOnly to let retail traders share in AI-generated profits appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims - and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII). The law immediately criminalized distributing NCII, whether in the form of real or AI-generated material, something many states at least partially do already. But its namesake takedown provision is more sweeping. Taking effect a year after the law's passage - on May 19th of 2026 - it requires on … Read the full story at The Verge.

Bug bounty platforms and software companies are struggling to handle a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports.

NextEra’s blockbuster deal with Dominion likely means higher bills for consumers.

Insider Brief Locus Robotics has acquired Vancouver-based Nexera Robotics as the warehouse automation company moves deeper into AI-driven robotic picking and manipulation. The company said the deal brings Nexera’s NeuraGrasp technology into Locus’ broader physical AI platform as the company expands the capabilities of its Locus Array fulfillment system. “The frontier of warehouse robotics today […]