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Researchers have proposed a novel defense against the misuse of AI image generators, embedding protective backdoors directly into diffusion models to prevent them from being personalized to generate unauthorized portraits or replicate artistic styles. The paper, titled PersGuard and published on arXiv, introduces what its authors describe as the first backdoor-based framework for preventing malicious […]

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that the company describes as the world’s first open 3T-class system and the largest open-weight AI model ever released. The model, which went live on July 16 through the Kimi app, Playground, and API, activates 16 of 896 experts per token using Stable LatentMoE, with […]

Imagine searching your own name online and finding your home address, phone number, previous addresses, relatives, and an estimate of your income — all on a website you have never visited. For most people in the United States, that is not a hypothetical scenario. It is the business model of the data broker industry. Data […]

Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, aligning its AI-powered research and note-taking tool with the broader Gemini brand while adding significant new capabilities including native code writing and execution. Originally launched as Project Tailwind in 2023 and described by many reviewers as possibly the best AI product Google has produced, Gemini Notebook is now […]

Linus Torvalds has drawn a firm line in the open source debate over artificial intelligence, declaring that the Linux kernel is not an anti-AI project and telling developers who object to AI-assisted coding that they are free to fork the project or leave. “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has […]

The AI inference bottleneck is shifting. As workloads evolve from single-turn question-answering into persistent, multi-step agentic systems, the most critical constraint is no longer GPU availability; it is context memory. “Why context management has become a primary bottleneck, more than GPU availability or compute efficiency, is the question of 2026,” said Jeff Harthorn, AI applied […]

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Starship V3 rocket on Thursday evening after several Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster failed to ignite as the countdown reached zero at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas. The rocket’s automated flight computer initiated a hold and abort call at T-0, triggering a delayed launch scrub. […]

Samsung has revealed the Fluid AI Design System, a Red Dot Design Award 2026-winning concept that imagines a future where AI does not simply live inside apps but becomes the interface itself. The concept combines an AI agent with a generative user interface that reshapes itself in real time based on the user’s current task, […]

Elon Musk spent $1 billion on gas turbine company to power xAI data centers Elon Musk has quietly acquired APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based company that operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines with more than 1 gigawatt of generation capacity, in a deal worth about $1 billion (about £770 million). The transaction surfaced […]

A growing backlash against automatically enabled generative AI features has found its sharpest articulation yet in a Wired opinion piece arguing that technology companies should stop forcing users to opt out of AI and instead default to opt-in for sensitive features. “Opt-out toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features” have become standard practice across the […]