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In his regular column, Jonathan McCrea, an avid user of AI himself, advocates for not handing over decision-making to the machine. Read more: Opinion: The AI bias problem hasn’t gone away you know

Jennifer Glasgow discusses her transition in to the cybersecurity sector. Read more: ‘If you have an interest in cybersecurity, don’t delay, start today’

Online threats rising in number and complexity, NordVPN CTO says. Read more: Malware incidents in Ireland on the rise, warns NordVPN

As expected, last night’s Tesla earnings announcement brought more bad news for the challenged EV-maker with 13.5pc less vehicles delivered in Q2. Read more: Tesla continues slide as Musk warns of ‘rough quarters’ ahead

The latest episode of The Leaders’ Room features Brenda Barrett, global head of customer logistics management and managing director Infineon Ireland. This series is created in partnership with IDA Ireland. Read more: The Leaders’ Room: Listening leadership with Infineon’s Brenda Barrett

PayPal is creating 100 new high-skilled data science roles at its Dublin office, as it launches its new AI and Fraud Data Science Centre in Dublin. Read more: 100 Dublin jobs for new PayPal AI and Fraud Data Science Centre

The design is similar to last year’s Pixel 9, with subtle updates rather than a major facelift.

Like Theseus chasing the Minotaur round the labyrinth, content delivery networks have devised systems that trap and chase AI crawlers round endless mazes. But there’s a better way to police AI scraping.

The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan.

When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like OpenAI have pointed to this as justification […]

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle doesn’t have much cash left.

YouTube continues to lead in the streaming market, with ad revenue increasing by 13% to $9.8 billion.

Google shared new stats about its AI features’ adoption during its Q2 earnings.

Tesla saw a 17% growth in its services business, but it was not enough to close the gap in falling EV sales, fewer regulatory credits, and a decline in solar and energy storage sales.

Hardware issues were already rumored to be causing delays.

Adverse weather isn’t just an edge case, but it’s also a core challenge for AV developers, according to Digital Divide Data. The post How AV developers use virtual driving simulations to stress-test adverse weather appeared first on The Robot Report.

AUVSI, Boston Dynamics, and MassRobotics testified in favor of S.1208, a bill currently making its way through the Massachusetts legislature. The post Experts support Massachusetts bill to ban weaponized robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

Google DeepMind has unveiled new artificial-intelligence software that could help historians recover the meaning and context behind ancient Latin engravings.  Aeneas can analyze words written in long-weathered stone to say when and where they were originally inscribed. It follows Google’s previous archaeological tool Ithaca, which also used deep learning to reconstruct and contextualize ancient text,…

The Trump administration’s new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.

The AI Action Plan offers a path, but not a concrete plan, for what the administration is thinking when it comes to chip export restrictions.

An invite-only startup event hosted by former YC and a16z staff will help founders learn to pitch press and run their own social media.

Mastodon is experimenting with a new way to raise money: in-app donation banners.

The Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI Action Plan Wednesday, signaling a sharp shift away from former President Biden’s cautious approach to addressing the risks of AI, and toward a focus on speed, sovereignty, national security, and competing with China.

India’s financial crime watchdog filed a complaint against Walmart-backed Myntra, alleging the company violated foreign investment rules by channeling over $191 million through a related-party scheme.

The goal of this wristband is to provide less invasive tools to interact with computers for people with motor disabilities.

Google announced a handful of new features that will allow users to get more creative with their photo memories, including an option to turn photos into videos and "remix" photos into different styles, like anime, comics, sketches or 3D animations.

The image-to-video feature lets creators turn a picture from their camera roll into a six-second video.

The move is designed to create a more open, competitive environment for the app economy and user choice.

French authorities say they wiretapped a server used by the administrator to access their private messages, which revealed activities relating to cybercrime and ransomware attacks.