A scary-looking humanoid robot with a chainsaw arm was shown in action on Japanese TV news trimming tree branches that had begun encroaching on railway lines.
Award-winning mathematician Richard Brocherds says that it’s a waste of time and money to grade AI answers, so he now only uses in-person exams to see how well his students are doing in his classes.
Citizen Lab and Confiant linked Israeli firm Discover-Tech to suspected surveillance through online advertising. Researchers said its ads appeared across nearly 200,000 websites and mobile apps. TrendAI separately identified related activity under the codename “SHADOW-EARTH-79.” The findings raise concerns about ad auctions being exploited to track users across sensitive networks, though ad impressions alone do not confirm spyware infections.
TSMC is reportedly weighing a price increase of up to 20% for its CoWoS advanced packaging technology as Nvidia’s Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips intensify pressure on capacity. Equipment deliveries now reportedly take up to eight months, while separate wafer-price increases of 5% to 10% are expected in 2027, with some customers potentially facing total cost increases of up to 25%.
An ACLU report claims police are increasingly using AI to analyze license plate-reader data and flag motorists based on travel patterns, raising concerns that innocent drivers could be pulled over because an algorithm deemed their movements suspicious.
Independent 3D modeling community Open3DLab has publicly claimed that a web crawler, attributed to Roblox, downloaded 145.5GB of its data, for what it assumes is for AI training purposes.
Nvidia is committing billions to expand substrate, co-packaged optics, advanced packaging, and chip-testing capacity through 2028, reserving capacity at nearly every stage of its AI accelerator supply chain.
Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 members of its workforce as it looks to balance the books amid a ramp-up in AI data center spending.
Anthropic has filed to go public as it pursues a potential multitrillion-dollar valuation, reporting $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026. The company’s filing also warns that its AI safety measures may not prevent catastrophic risks. OpenAI and AI chipmaker Cerebras have also pursued public-market listings
Data center gear is being stolen in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions — grand-theft-GPU thieves hack accounts, perform hit-and-runs, and spoof GPS signals