E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row. It's a significantly higher estimate of AI's e-waste than previous studies have found because the authors of the new report factor in all the infrastructure needed to support servers in data centers. The broader scope provides a clearer picture of junk AI leaves behind, according to the nonprofit Basel Action Network (BAN), which published the paper today. "AI may feel weightless, but every model dep … Read the full story at The Verge.

A modern storefront can look healthy while malicious JavaScript quietly siphons revenue, hijacks clicks, or rewrites analytics. See how Cloudflare's machine learning models surface evasive client-side attacks for analyst investigation.

Something of a consensus has emerged from the developer fraternity in 2026 — GitHub, a platform built substantively for human The post “Everyone’s in a race to replace GitHub”: Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete appeared first on The New Stack.

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AI agents on foundation models often misapply healthcare and life sciences decision frameworks, citing the right guideline but applying it incorrectly. This post shares 38 open-source agent skills across 11 HCLS domains that close this gap, with installation steps, three worked use cases, and a 410-prompt evaluation showing a 70-86% win rate.

Integrate NVIDIA Resiliency Extension (NVRx) into PyTorch FSDP training on Amazon EKS to overlap checkpoint I/O with training and recover from GPU faults in seconds. This post covers async checkpointing, in-process restart, and ft_launcher in-job restart, with H100 benchmarks at 2 to 8 nodes showing 99%+ training efficiency and second-scale recovery.

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Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude. Bring a quick question, or hand over a report due at noon, and Claude takes it from there, even after you’ve closed your laptop. [...] This is rolling out to Pro and Max plans first, in the Claude app on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks to existing and new users on these plans. I guess this means Claude is becoming a general agent in its own right. On the one hand, this saves me some work, in that I was planning to finally figure out the boundaries between Cowork and regular Claude and write a follow-up to my piece on Understanding ChatGPT Work. I have a…

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According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with NVIDIA to make it happen. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely left enterprise machines to other manufacturers since. But the growing demand for compute power as the AI industry continues to expand has apparently led the company to believe there is an opening for its powerful but efficient ARM-based M processors. Its Mac Mini and Mac Studio have proven popular with AI developers, which has led to shortages. The server product, whether it's called Xserve or something else, likely won't debut until 2029. Word is that … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Mike Johnson cancels votes on Thursday, meaning House members will avoid voting on impeaching Pete Hegseth US politics live – latest updates The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, announced on Wednesday that he would again cancel votes scheduled for Thursday, sending lawmakers home one day early ahead of the midterm election recess. The latest change to the legislative schedule means House members will avoid voting on Republican Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and comes amid a frenzied attempt to propose legislation on artificial intelligence. Continue reading...

OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.

Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with all of the devices and event history in your Google Home ecosystem," Taylor Lehman, group product manager at Google Home & Nest, said in a blog post. According to Lehman, Home MCP integ … Read the full…

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This article is brought to you by VicOne. Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears to have failed? As AI and robotics continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, modern robots perceive through multimodal sensors, interpret context using AI models, and translate those interpretations into physical action. As they move into dynamic environments, their safety increasingly depends on the integrity of the data guiding their decisions. That dependence creates risks that conventional safety assessments may not fully capture. Recent research has demonstrated that manipulating what a robot sees, hears,…

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Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all of its AI productivity tools available from any chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will be available through the new single interface as well. According to Anthropic, Claude "can now figure out what a task needs, so what Cowork and Design can do is available from any conversation, with the context, sk … Read the full story at The Verge.

Lars Janssen says self-driving vehicles would be a boon for him as he has an eye condition and can’t drive, in response to an article by Adrian Chiles. Plus letters from Richard Connell and Michael Fuller Adrian Chiles (Driverless cars are taking us on a road to nowhere, 10 September) wants to know who asked for driverless cars. I did. I have an eye condition called nystagmus and will never be able to drive unless a “tech-bro willy-waver”, or anyone else, finds a cure. Fortunately, not every driver is as reckless as the ones Chiles despairs of, and the most careful of all may not even be human. Waymo, Google’s sister company, says its cars have far fewer crashes causing injuries than human drivers. In July, the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that its cars had 68% fewer cr…

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We should not treat models as though they have feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to our welfare. Consciousness is the foundation of our ethical, legal, and political systems. To invite another entity to share any flavor of these rights isn’t justified by the evidence and will make the AI containment and alignment challenge even harder. — Mustafa Suleyman, A warning about ‘model welfare’ Tags: ai-ethics, generative-ai, ai, microsoft, llms

Every knowledge program seems to begin with the same request. A senior engineer is leaving in six weeks, and someone asks her to document the process she’s carried for years. She returns a clean flowchart of the happy path. The drawing is accurate and may even be elegant. It leaves out the thresholds she watches, […]

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.

The pace of frontier AI model development spurred Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to publish an essay last weekend, calling for The post The most important AI job in history? How developers might become “employee-like” evaluators to align AI with human values appeared first on The New Stack.

Zoom is aiming to diversify its product offerings amid declining enterprise adoption. However, the video communications vendor faces fierce competition.

AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch post explains how the system prompt optimizer's reflector engine works and shares benchmark results for the Single Agent and Sub-Agent Reflectors.

Learn how to automate end-to-end PII detection and redaction from scanned documents at scale using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation with a custom blueprint, AWS Step Functions, and AWS Lambda. A custom blueprint redacts sensitive fields with field-level precision, and a token matching quality check raises recall across degraded and handwritten documents.

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, resulting in higher revenue. Efficient scaling means throughput grows proportionally as hardware gets added, requiring fewer resources to serve users at scale. Continuous optimization means generating more value from infrastructure investments. […]

The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast AI companies could get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default under sweeping reforms being considered by the Albanese government. Your posts and online presence are up for grabs and Labor is facing pressure from big tech to make that legal. Continue reading...