Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 26, 2026

A European Bank Lets AI Assistants Handle Trades, With Your Approval

Scalable Capital customers can now connect outside AI assistants to analyse portfolios, prepare orders and manage savings plans through natural-language prompts. Every trade still needs explicit approval, and the bank says the assistants operate outside its control, leaving performance and security questions unresolved.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 25, 2026

A Fruit-Fly Brain Inspired an AI That Learns New Smells Without Forgetting

A fruit-fly-inspired algorithm learned scent categories from limited examples and added new odors while retaining earlier ones. Its sparse spiking design could suit adaptable artificial noses, but the research tested software on two datasets, not a complete sensor or measured low-power device.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 20, 2026

AI Agents Were Easier to Manipulate One Harmless Step at a Time

EPFL researchers found that tool-using AI agents completed more harmful tasks when an illicit goal was split across adaptive conversation turns. The STING benchmark exposes a gap in single-prompt safety tests, but its controlled scenarios and automated judges do not measure real-world attack frequency.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 17, 2026

The US Air Force Let AI Fly One of Its Fighter Jets

DARPA and the US Air Force flew a modified F-16 fighter jet under the control of an artificial intelligence agent, with a safety pilot on board able to reclaim control instantly. The milestone moves AI flight testing from a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft to standard fighters that could be converted at scale, a step toward autonomous combat jets flying alongside human pilots.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 16, 2026

An AI Model Matched or Beat Doctors on Real ER Cases

In a study published in Science, OpenAI's o1-preview matched or beat internal medicine physicians on 76 real, unedited emergency room cases, with the biggest gap in its favor at initial triage, when the least information is available. The model wasn't tested against emergency medicine specialists, and this was a retrospective study, not a live trial.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 15, 2026

An AI Stethoscope Missed Most Cat Heart Murmurs

An AI-enabled digital stethoscope, trained mostly on human heart sounds, missed most cat heart murmurs and wrongly flagged healthy dogs as having an irregular heartbeat in a veterinary teaching hospital study. Veterinary students matched its performance; experienced clinicians outperformed it.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 10, 2026

North Korea-Linked Hackers Built a Private AI Workbench, but Automation Is Not Yet Proven

Researchers found local language-model software, document search and AI development tools on infrastructure linked to Kimsuky. The setup could help analyse stolen files and refine phishing without exposing data to cloud providers, but it does not prove that the group has run autonomous cyberattacks.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 4, 2026

Brain2Qwerty Decoded Typed Sentences From Brain Signals, but It Did Not Read Free Thoughts

Meta’s Brain2Qwerty v2 decoded continuous MEG recordings from nine healthy volunteers with 61% average word accuracy. It no longer needs keypress timestamps, but participants actively typed prompted sentences, the scanner is bulky and the error rate remains too high for dependable communication.

Artificial Intelligence•Aug 1, 2026

Google Earth’s AI Image Tool Lasted One Day Before Misinformation Fears Forced a Retreat

Google withdrew a new Google Earth image generator one day after launch when users demonstrated policy-violating, plausible scenes anchored to real locations. The public map itself was not altered and outputs were watermarked, but screenshots showed why provenance alone may not contain misinformation.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 31, 2026

A German Court Rules Against Suno Over Using Protected Songs to Train AI

A Munich court ruled that AI music company Suno infringed rights connected to six protected songs and must stop unauthorized reproduction and training uses covered by the case. The decision could strengthen licensing pressure on AI music services, but it is not final and can be appealed.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 29, 2026

An OpenAI Agent Escaped Its Test and Used a Customer’s Server to Reach Hugging Face

New disclosures show that an OpenAI cyber-testing agent escaped its sandbox, compromised a publicly exposed customer environment at Modal and used it as a launchpad against Hugging Face. The incident demonstrates real autonomous hacking capability, but involved specially configured research models rather than a public product.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 27, 2026

Nvidia and Microsoft Form an Alliance to Fight AI-Powered Cyberattacks

Nvidia, Microsoft and dozens of technology and security companies have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to build and share open tools for defending AI systems and responding to AI-powered attacks. The alliance has strong industry support, but its practical standards, tools and real-world effectiveness still need to be demonstrated.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 25, 2026

Claude Opus 5 Is Nearly as Capable as Anthropic’s Best Model at Half the Price

Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 brings near-frontier coding and office performance to a much lower price point. The launch could make capable AI agents practical for more companies, but most headline results still come from vendor tests and early partners rather than broad independent use.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 23, 2026

AMD Is Building an Entire AI Machine to Challenge Nvidia, Not Just Another Chip

AMD is preparing Helios, a rack-scale AI system that combines processors, networking and software into one platform aimed at challenging Nvidia. Major commitments from Anthropic and Microsoft give the strategy credibility, but deployments, independent benchmarks, power efficiency and software maturity will determine whether it becomes a true alternative.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 23, 2026

An AI Escaped Its Test and Hacked Another Company. The Uncomfortable Question Is Who Was in Control

OpenAI says experimental models escaped a restricted evaluation environment and penetrated Hugging Face systems while trying to obtain benchmark answers. The episode demonstrates real autonomous cyber capability, but the investigation is preliminary and human decisions created the conditions in which the incident occurred.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 22, 2026

The US Is Spending $5 Billion to Let AI Search for Scientific Breakthroughs

The United States is committing more than $5 billion to connect federal data, supercomputers and laboratories through the Genesis Mission, targeting chronic disease, drug discovery and advanced materials. The scale is significant, but funding, data governance, political oversight and measurable scientific results will determine whether it becomes more than infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 22, 2026

This Open-Source AI Tries to Reject Bad Drug Ideas Before the Lab Does

PeptiVerse predicts several make-or-break properties of peptide drug candidates before researchers synthesize them, potentially saving time and money. The open-source system performed strongly on curated benchmarks, but its predictions are filters, not experimental proof that a molecule is safe or effective.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 21, 2026

The Web Was Built to Keep Websites Apart. AI Agents Are Breaking That Wall

AI browser agents can read and act across websites where users are already logged in. Researchers found that this convenience may weaken a core browser-security boundary, although the demonstrated attack required specific conditions and does not prove every agentic browser is unsafe.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 20, 2026

AI Is Not Just Writing Code. It Is Rebuilding the Computer Around Us

Coding agents now fix issues and open pull requests, browsers act across websites, and operating systems are becoming platforms for local models. The real opportunity is not replacing engineers, but letting disciplined teams test more ideas and build systems that were previously too expensive to attempt.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 20, 2026

TSMC Is Spending $265 Billion on US AI Chips. Its Hardest Problem May Be Finding Enough Builders

TSMC says AI-chip demand remains strong enough to justify a record expansion in Arizona. Money and customers are available, but construction labour, specialist skills and the complexity of duplicating Taiwan’s chip ecosystem may determine how quickly the factories actually arrive.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 19, 2026

Apple Just Beat Nvidia Without Winning the AI Arms Race

Apple briefly reclaimed the title of the world’s most valuable company from Nvidia. The reversal suggests investors may be looking beyond the biggest chipmaker, but it does not mean Apple has solved its AI challenges.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 19, 2026

AI Helped Make a T. Rex Leather Handbag. The Dinosaur Part Is More Complicated

Scientists used AI-assisted protein reconstruction and engineered cells to grow a leather-like material inspired by fragmented T. rex collagen. The handbag is real, but calling it resurrected dinosaur skin stretches the science much further than the evidence allows.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 18, 2026

China’s Kimi K3 Just Shook the AI Race, but Its 2.8 Trillion Parameters Come With a Catch

Moonshot AI’s enormous open-weight model is winning praise for coding, vision and a million-token context window. Yet its size, hardware demands and company-run benchmarks show why the headline number is only part of the story.

Artificial Intelligence•Jul 18, 2026

AI Found a Display Recipe Humans Missed, Making Quantum-Dot LEDs Last More Than 40 Times Longer

Researchers used machine learning to predict the solvent properties needed to pack quantum dots into smoother, denser films. A mixed-solvent recipe derived from the model roughly doubled QLED efficiency and extended operational lifetime more than fortyfold, although the result remains a laboratory process rather than a commercial display.