The AI desk
Research, products, policy and the companies behind them — our own reporting alongside an editor-curated group of AI publications, each named on the story.
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
AI NewsGuided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone's camera at. By sharing your…
AI NewsA federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with…
AI NewsData centers consume large amounts of power and require upgrading infrastructure. But it's difficult to determine how much residential customers benefit and how much they actually pay for…
AI NewsTech company releases Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial…
AI NewsAdding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
AI NewsAt OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam…
AI NewsToday I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s…
AI NewsThe president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
AI NewsGuardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo When prompted, AI chatbots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim…
AI NewsThe FAA's ambitious overhaul of the air traffic control system comes amid rising public anxiety about AI. The CEO of the company that's building the software explains how it works.
AI NewsAndrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".
AI NewsSome experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations Years ago it would have been an elaborate operation…
AI NewsDoctors say clinical trials are needed to understand more after Ed Patrick identified a potential side effect of a Parkinson's drug.
AI NewsGrokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo…
AI NewsGoogle today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software…
AI NewsSix major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.
AI NewsSo much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
AI NewsAI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
AI NewsOpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
AI NewsIn her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
AI NewsTrump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
AI NewsOpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
AI NewsWhile AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt…
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