AI & Tech Newsletter

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

US lawmakers call for AI rules after researchers’ safety warnings

US lawmakers this week called for new rules to govern AI, after an Anthropic researcher went public with his concerns about the technology escaping human control. The reaction was broader than after previous statements from OpenAI and Anthropic staffers about safety concerns…

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

Kevin Rudd’s radical call to arms on AI, national resilience

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered a stunning call to action to the Australian people, saying that without an urgent “change of mindset”, the nation would continue its inevitable slide to mediocrity. The global strategic, economic and technological forces now bearing…

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

OpenAI Agents API

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

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How Full-Stack NIM Optimizations Deliver 2.5x More Users on Nemotron 3 Ultra

Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to serve as many concurrent users as... Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to…

Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video

Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn…

Experts examine ethical risks of using AI in public health

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds profound potential to reshape public health. Although its application accelerates threat detection and targeted interventions, the rapid deployment has outpaced the regulatory, validation, and equity safeguards standard to traditional health…

Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies

The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people through some of the world’s busiest and most complex…

How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules

César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.

3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search

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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Now everyone can put data to work

Meet the Data agent in ChatGPT Work. Connect company data, uncover insights, and build interactive dashboards with AI using natural language.

High-Throughput Structure Prediction with BioNeMo Inference Runtime

Biomolecular structure prediction is now often run at proteome scale, where the goal is to move an entire worklist through the pipeline efficiently. NVIDIA... Biomolecular structure prediction is now often run at proteome scale, where the goal is to move an entire worklist…

STAT+: Can AI save rural health care?

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. In his observations on looksmaxxing, Vinay Prasad concludes he is “team sun”…

Review highlights solute carriers as targets for central nervous system disorders

Solute carriers (SLCs) are specialized transport proteins that control the movement of nutrients, ions and neurotransmitters across cell membranes and are essential for brain metabolism and neuronal communication.

What Health Equity Champions Can Learn from Pharmaceutical Sales

The same mechanics can now help people meet new Medicaid work requirements or exemptions, increase referrals to evidence-based health interventions, and dramatically increase enrollment in vital programs that improve health outcomes and reduce inequities.

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d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment

AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix today announced it will use NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platform — joining a growing roster of ecosystem partners. By connecting Raptor to NVIDIA NVLink scale-up and Spectrum-X scale-out…

New AI tool predicts breast cancer risk using repeated 3D mammograms

An artificial intelligence model that analyzes women's past and recent annual 3D mammograms is more effective at predicting five-year risk of developing breast cancer than a tool that uses only the most recent, single 3D mammogram, as well as an AI model that analyzes 2D…