Your AI chatbot might have brain rot, and it could be making things worse for you

A new study finds that AI models trained on junk social media posts develop brain rot, skipping reasoning and picking up bad ethics.

Google DeepMind claims four AI agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours by writing 2,783 programs of their own
Google DeepMind claims four AI agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours by writing 2,783 programs of their own

Google DeepMind researchers say four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours, writing 2,783 programs with no human help.

Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople

Daytona runs sandboxes for AI agents, co-founder and chief executive Ivan Burazin told TNW. Its users include Meta, Cohere and Handshake, and the company has about 30 employees. Burazin, a Croatian citizen, started Daytona with two co-founders, one of …

Nvidia invests in four German startups as part of $10BN European investment pledge

Nvidia is investing in four German startups, it said yesterday, as part of a multi-billion-dollar investment across Europe, as the chip maker’s charm offensive across the continent continues.The US ch…

A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub

Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Construction…

Ganiga secures €2.5M to expand its AI-powered food waste technology

Italian deeptech startupGaniga has raised €1.5 million in an equity funding round to further developits AI-powered waste management technology and support commercial expansion.The round was led by Ita…

Former Google DeepMind top researcher launches London “compute-efficient” AI company

A London-based AI company co-founded by a former Google DeepMind research lead and AlphaGo co-creator is launching today, pursuing a “compute-efficient” alternative path to Anthropic and OpenAI’s fron…

Danish startup Plinto raises €2.9M to streamline financial controls

Copenhagen-basedAI startup Plinto has raised €2.9 million in a funding round from People Ventures and Emblem to further develop its AI-powered financial transactionmonitoring platform, expand its ente…

Cognizant puts 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini in AI agent push
Cognizant puts 18,000 staff behind Google’s Gemini in AI agent push

Cognizant and Google Cloud have formed a Gemini Frontier Capability Group, with more than 18,000 Cognizant staff dedicated to building AI agents for clients on Google’s Gemini. It will focus on updating old systems, developer tools, business process au…

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to perform automated tasks, like capturing the content of web pages, but rules…