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Ars Technica AIValleyGoogle will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too While Google is trying to move beyond Chromebooks , the ubiquity of these devices has made the company's education products huge in schools.
Ars Technica AIValleyComing in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is apparently pushing the tech company’s development of household robots—and the first to debut may be a home robot designed to autonomously roam around while supporting…
Ars Technica AIValleyClaude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom Last week, Anthropic introduced a new system prompt designed to stop its Claude models from re-creating specific, existing video games.
Ars Technica AIValleySupersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making…
Ars Technica AIValleyAnthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers' machines, multiple sources reported Friday.
Ars Technica AIValleyDartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job On August 9, 2026, Dartmouth College Provost Santiago Schnell wrote a Washington Post op-ed called "Universities are fighting AI cheating.
Ars Technica AIValleyBasically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders As AI tools and agents have continued their march across all aspects of digital life, many companies are trying to use LLMs to improve the experience of purchasing goods and services on the Internet.
Ars Technica AIValleyThousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says The US has charged five individuals as part of the first broad federal crackdown on “ghost students”—fraudsters who steal the identities of hundreds of Americans to pose as fake college students and…
Ars Technica AIValleyTrump declares robot imports a national security threat President Donald Trump has declared the imports of foreign-made factory robots to be a national security threat—ordering new US negotiations with trading partners while holding out the possibility of…
Ars Technica AIValleyGoogle admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads Google parent Alphabet reported its Q3 financial results on Wednesday afternoon, showing a healthy rise in revenue for the months of July to September.
Ars Technica AIValleyGoogle announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use It's almost like Google's got something to prove after taking a break from releasing new frontier AI models earlier this year.
Ars Technica AIValleyGoogle AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden's win that November.
Ars Technica AIValley"No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses A Delaware proposal to let companies be operated by AI agents would help the firms' human owners evade legal responsibility for reckless and harmful actions taken by the AI, US Rep.
Ars Technica AIValleyAnthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity The Securities and Exchange Commission 's publication on Monday of Anthropic's S-1 form —ahead of a heavily anticipated initial public offering—has led to plenty of discussion of whether the…
Ars Technica AIValleyVibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software Protein design tools may be getting increasingly sophisticated , but you still need a sophisticated understanding of protein structure for them to work.
Ars Technica AIValleyDeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans Last year, Google DeepMind sent gaming stocks tumbling with the reveal of its Genie 3 world model . Since then, world models have become a major focus of AI labs around the world, but Google isn't…
Ars Technica AIValleyApple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo Today, Apple rolled out the 27.2 updates for its operating systems, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and so on. Let's start with iOS 27.2. This update is heavily focused on Siri AI.
Ars Technica AIValleyICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees Hundreds of employees at the US robotics firm Boston Dynamics signed a petition calling for executives to halt a sale of the company’s robot dogs to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement—but…
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