Australia to adopt 'mandatory' AI safeguards
Artificial intelligence companies will have to abide by new "mandatory" safeguards when operating in Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.
Nov 10, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Machine learning & AI
Anthropic launches powerful new models ahead of Wall Street debut
Anthropic announced on Monday that it would release updated versions of two of its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models as the company prepares for a highly anticipated IPO this month.
Nov 9, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
To end 'whack-a-mole' war on AI deepfakes, address the 'ecosystem,' researchers urge
In May 2025, the TAKE IT DOWN Act became the first federal law to address deepfakes and other forms of AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images. The law criminalizes the distribution of "revenge porn," including AI-generated ...
Nov 9, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
AI agents are developing odd dialects humans struggle to follow
With AI digital assistants like Meta's Muse using everyday language to book dental appointments and Grok Bot picking up the slack on work tasks, agentic AI has gone mainstream.
Nov 9, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Data centers need power—lower-income rural residents pay the price
As the engines of artificial intelligence, large data centers can consume as much power as medium-sized cities, straining grids and prompting expensive upgrades to U.S. energy infrastructure. New research finds that residents, ...
Nov 9, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Internal probe into CEO Jensen Huang and 'foreign intelligence' weighs on high-flying Nvidia shares
Shares of Nvidia tumbled 4.3% Monday after the computer chipmaker, central to the artificial intelligence race, opened an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the "target of a foreign intelligence effort."
Nov 9, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Engineers develop the world's first megawatt ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor module
Researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Center for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) have ...
Nov 9, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Do AI agents have minds? A philosopher explains
In the past few months, partly autonomous or "agentic" artificial intelligence (AI) systems have racked up some astonishing feats, from hacking tech startups to solving some of the world's most famous open mathematical questions.
Nov 9, 2026
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Robotics
FLEX approach helps robots reason beyond literal commands
Humans are intuitive by nature. We can sense meaning beyond the literal words that we encounter. Now, a new artificial intelligence–assisted learning platform developed by MIT engineers is enabling robots to read larger meaning ...
Nov 9, 2026
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Engineering
A single AI model simulates the behavior of many substances, from sliding sand to folding proteins
Today, a scientist who wants to simulate a physical process must pick the right tool for that one job, such as a solver built for flowing water or another designed to model the way a protein folds. Each one is hand-coded ...
Nov 9, 2026
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