AI & Machine Learning

An open letter backed by a broad industry coalition urges organizations, governments and AI companies to fund defenders, fix high-risk weaknesses and verify results.

A DuckDuckGo survey found 32% of US AI users had told a chatbot something withheld from trusted people, highlighting the need to check each service’s data rules.

A 25% US tariff targets a narrow set of advanced chips, but data-center and other end uses remain exempt while a broader second phase stays unresolved.

Nvidia doubled quarterly revenue year over year while expanding investments and financing partnerships. The numbers are strong, but the capital structure matters too.

A new declaration organizes UK–Ukraine defence AI cooperation around government, industry and research, while remaining non-binding and light on project detail.

Wan3.0 expands Alibaba's video model to 30-second generations and document inputs, while the company acknowledges remaining audio and text-rendering limits.

Waymo has detailed a custom 5nm ASIC delivering more than 1,000 TOPS for onboard sensor processing, alongside its redundant robotaxi computer.

TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400 million to resolve US allegations under COPPA, while the settlement makes no determination of liability.

Uber users in Zagreb can now be matched with a Pony.ai robotaxi operated by Verne, but a licensed operator remains behind the wheel during the phased launch.

Google says Tinder used the new R8 Configuration Analyzer to cut slow Android cold starts by 47% while shrinking the app and reducing user-perceived ANRs.

Z.ai says GLM-5.3 brings stronger coding and cyber capabilities, with public weights planned after safety evaluation and hardening.

Twitch now lets streamers opt out of Amazon generative AI training for channel content, but the default setting, policy scope, and cross-channel limits are drawing creator scrutiny.