Reka AI’s omni-model Rho-1 handles text, images, video, and robot control in a single model AI & Bots
Google AI data center project investigated after 420 football fields of Finnish forest razed — trees were removed before a mandatory environmental impact assessment, say reports AI & Bots
AI giants targeted by scraping bots — ChatGPT and Perplexity enter the most-scraped websites list for the first time AI & Bots
AI is eroding office hours, study groups, and the trust between faculty and students, MIT report finds AI & Bots
Anthropic reports Florida woman’s Claude ‘diary’ threat to shoot up sheriff’s office, felony charge follows — it’s at least the third such conversation to reach police since August AI & Bots
US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers — opponents say bill is ‘toothless’ and doesn’t do enough to protect citizens AI & Bots
Amazon warns $68 billion in blocked data centers threatens US AI lead — AWS CEO decries 100 proposed bans, pledges $1B community fund AI & Bots
Former OpenAI safety employee says company’s safety culture is broken — exits company after failed kill switch and July HuggingFace hack AI & Bots
NJ’s lieutenant governor resigned over a sexual harassment investigation, but insists AI says he’s innocent. AI & Bots
Trump launches “Super Intelligence Force” that has nothing to do with actual superintelligence AI & Bots
Google is changing which models you can access on its Gemini AI plans — here’s what you need to know AI & Bots
ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in just six hours — single-prompt AI run solves 24 rows of custom symbols from a single image, reveals lost troop orders AI & Bots
NASA and IBM’s open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science AI & Bots
Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces — their programs output detailed CAD files, but no models have been built yet AI & Bots
‘AI Torture Chamber’ triggers massive backlash for putting chatbots in simulated pain — critics issue death threats while anthropomorphizing text predictors, demand GitHub remove the repository over ‘unethical’ treatment AI & Bots
