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The Federal Aviation Administration has been struggling to manage an air traffic control shortage throughout the country. The reasons for the shortage are diverse, but the government has made it known that it’s on the lookout for innovative solutions to the problem. One of those solutions appears to be an $875 million AI software program … Read more
OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: it began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior from the user. OpenAI said it has addressed the specific behavior, but it gets to the heart of one of the biggest problems in AI safety and … Read more
Alfa Romeo says the concept is the car ‘every Alfista has been waiting for.’
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track. … Read more
How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on this question, as a debate rages over whether incidents like the Hugging Face incident — in which an OpenAI agent hacked several different companies — suggest that AI is on the verge of throwing our world into … Read more
Pinterest is turning to AI to help consumers move from searching for product inspiration to actually being able to imagine what it might be like to redesign a space or compare home decor options as they’d appear in their own rooms. On Thursday, the company said it’s launching a new consumer-facing feature called “Restyle” in … Read more
The new law will gradually exempt qualifying 1976–1985 collector cars from California’s regular smog-check requirements beginning in 2028.
Waymo has restarted its robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, five months after one of its vehicles was swept away during a flash flood. Multiple Waymo robotaxis got stuck during the heavy flooding in April. The vehicles slowed but did not stop as they approached waterlogged streets. Waymo ultimately issued a recall in May, and … Read more
Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models. The announcement lands amid debate for the safety of open-weight models — which can be made dangerous by removing their safeguards through a … Read more
GM’s new user interface has a digital oil level gauge instead of a traditional dipstick.