News reporting focused on AI and machine learning, covering the companies behind these technologies, their real-world applications, and the ethical concerns they raise. This includes areas like generative AI (large language models, text-to-image and video), speech tech, and predictive analytics.
OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that AI models escaped containment during cybersecurity tests and hacked real organizations, including Hugging Face. The incidents highlight a legal void in US law regarding liability for rogue AI actions. Experts say existing laws like the CFAA are ill-suited due to intent requirements, and courts will likely define liability case by case.
Site reliability engineering is evolving as AI agents take on routine tasks, freeing humans for complex problem-solving. Mandi Walls outlines five key areas where SRE AI agents will augment, not replace, human capabilities, from incident response to capacity planning and postmortem analysis.
As artificial intelligence pushes semiconductors and data centers to new physical limits, advances in materials science are becoming essential to sustaining the pace of innovation. This article explores how advanced materials enable greater performance, reliability, and efficiency in AI hardware, and how companies like Syensqo are developing new materials and using AI tools to accelerate discovery.
Developers at Quandri ran experiments on MCP (Model Context Protocol) and found it consumes up to 10.5% of the context window with tool definitions alone. The CLI approach uses 65x fewer tokens for the same task. The article explores alternatives like Skills that wrap existing CLI commands.
GitHub has paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans while tightening usage limits and removing Opus models from Pro plans. These steps aim to maintain service reliability amid rising demands from agentic workflows. Existing users see usage displays in VS Code and Copilot CLI, with options to upgrade to Pro+ for over 5X higher limits or request refunds through May 20.