Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

IBM research finds many EMEA executives lack visibility into AI dependencies, raising risks around cost, outages, vendor lock-in, and sovereignty. The post IBM Report: Most EMEA Executives Don’t Fully Understand Their AI Dependencies appeared first on TechRepublic.

Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.

In Shenzhen, workers at IO-AI Tech control humanoid robots using a VR rig reminiscent of Ready Player One.

The official launch takes place next week.

Neat is using agentic AI, intelligent framing, and flexible room modes to turn passive video endpoints into “thinking spaces,” giving IT a blueprint to modernize meeting rooms for hybrid work. The post Modernizing Meeting Spaces: How Agentic Control and Intelligent Framing Redefine Hybrid Work appeared first on TechRepublic.

AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led coalition to shape rules …

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries  —  A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials …

<blockquote cite="https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline#footnote-2"><p>What happened in 2025 was this: <strong>the economics of code production were turned upside down</strong>. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline#footnote-2">Charity Majors</a>, AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/charity-majors">charity-majors</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming">ai-assisted-programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a></p>

Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.

Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done.

Apple will move new Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email relay addresses to private.icloud.com, requiring developer updates. The post Apple to Merge Private Mail Domains for Sign In and Hide My Email appeared first on TechRepublic.

Ryan Merket / RuntimeWire: Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas  —  Joshua Baer (@joshuabaer), the founder and CEO of Capital Factory, died Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas, KXAN reported …

Clair Health's wearable will cost $369 and will an app-based subscription of $9.99 per month

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Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital  —  French startup emerges at a time when tech sovereignty has become a major talking point in defence

Michael Peel / Financial Times: Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions  —  Two health models displayed clinical value across a range of diagnostic and treatment decisions, studies show

Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational Gemini interactions.