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This Week in AI & Tech

The stories shaping AI, automation, and business technology — hand-picked every day from the world’s most trusted newsrooms. Every headline links to the original reporting.

Sources: MIT Technology Review · WIRED · Ars Technica · The Verge · IEEE Spectrum · The Guardian · Google · NVIDIA · MIT News · BBC News · The Hacker News

AI & Machine Learning

The Verge

Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites

After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no…

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AI & Machine Learning

Models, tools, and the companies building them.

AI & Machine Learning

The Guardian

Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California

A modern-day prospector promised rural Imperial thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue – but his plan has set off a firestorm of resistance Sebastian Rucci zoomed in on a map in late 2024…

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AI & Machine Learning

Ars Technica

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites

The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.

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AI & Machine Learning

WIRED

Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds

The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.

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AI & Machine Learning

MIT Technology Review

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose…

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AI & Machine Learning

IEEE Spectrum

Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design

This article is brought to you by COMSOL . These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries. Despite the plethora of localized fulfillment and distributi on…

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AI & Machine Learning

The Verge

A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a…

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Research & AI Labs

Announcements straight from the labs and research teams.

Research & AI Labs

MIT News

Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation

The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.

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Research & AI Labs

NVIDIA

Be There for the Beginning: Celebrate the Launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark

A new beginning for Windows PCs starts tomorrow with the launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark — one PC built for creators, gamers and AI agents. All are invited to celebrate with NVIDIA and partners at launch…

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Research & AI Labs

Google

Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.

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Tech & Business

How technology is reshaping companies, work, and markets.

Tech & Business

BBC News

AI giant Anthropic woos potential investors ahead of stock market debut

It comes as some investors have become concerned about the amount of money being spent on AI infrastructure.

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Tech & Business

BBC News

'I applied for 200 jobs' - How 'spray and pray' AI job applications can backfire

Graduates are increasingly using AI to misrepresent themselves in job applications, research suggests. But some say their peer group has no choice.

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Tech & Business

BBC News

How long will humans be needed for translation?

AI dominates the translation business, but for high-stakes work, humans are still needed.

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Cybersecurity

Threats, breaches, and what they mean for your data.

Cybersecurity

The Hacker News

Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud…

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Cybersecurity

The Hacker News

Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address…

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Cybersecurity

Ars Technica

Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware

The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.

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