Google’s AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google’s AI or partners like…
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Some mathematicians call for OpenAI boycott after AI-generated proofs flood their field
The Association for Human Mathematics is calling for an OpenAI boycott after the company released more than 700 AI-generated math manuscripts at once.…
OpenAI launches Decisions API that reduces complex evaluations to yes, no, or pick one
OpenAI’s new Decisions API classifies text and images about ten times faster than the Responses API, returning yes/no probabilities, category picks, or…
Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature
Google launched Playground, a browser-based platform that lets users create their own games using nothing but text prompts and no coding skills. The…
AI math breakthroughs have Ethereum researchers debating how fast wallet security could collapse
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake is urging the crypto industry to prepare a “bunker mode” for a scenario where AI-powered math could break wallet…
A single prompt was enough to hijack every AI agent in an AWS account, Zenity researchers found
Zenity Labs researchers say a single publicly accessible AI agent on Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore was enough to take over every AgentCore agent in the same…
Teen’s AI-guided mountain hike ends with a helicopter rescue and a lesson in common sense
A 16-year-old planned his hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver using Anthropic’s Claude and had to be airlifted off a steep rock face. The…
AI-powered hacking tools enabled a likely single attacker to breach multiple South Korean banks
According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At Shinhan Bank alone, more than…
Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size
Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs…
ChatGPT with GPT-6 ditches mostly text output for interactive UI with charts, buttons, and mini apps
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with “Intelligent UI,” a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can…