Trump’s new AI task force: who reviews risks, who can require answers
The announced panel’s review of AI risks sits alongside existing legal tools for investigating companies and requiring breach notifications.
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How an AI plans around Stratego’s hidden pieces
Ataraxos combines practice against itself with planning across plausible boards, offering a vivid test of how AI handles information it cannot see.
Continue reading →What the FTC’s AI investigation can reveal about safety claims
Officials confirmed an inquiry involving major AI labs; planned compulsory requests could reveal how safeguards were tested, while an investigation does not establish wrongdoing.
Continue reading →The White House AI accord calls for audits without defining the tests
Four layers of oversight promise to check AI safeguards, while the agreement leaves testing methods, deadlines and public findings unresolved.
Continue reading →How a four-legged robot stretched one battery across a marathon
RAIBO2’s 42.195-kilometre run shows how lighter legs, cooler electronics and softer footfalls can extend a walking machine’s range—and what endurance alone cannot prove.
Continue reading →The paper battery dissolved. Not all the swallowable electronics did.
A magnesium–molybdenum-trioxide cell survived stomach fluid long enough to power tracking and stimulation experiments, but an intact circuit board marks the distance to a fully resorbable device.
Continue reading →Britain’s MOT records reveal how electric cars age—up to a point
A vast trail of odometer readings captures early electric cars’ real use, while estimates for newer models still depend on trends and modeling.
Continue reading →This prosthetic socket hides motion sensors beneath its carbon-fiber shell
A four-person study shows how protected sensors can be built into a socket—and why successful fabrication is not yet proof of better care.
Continue reading →360-degree video catches AI scene models losing track
PersistBench uses a second view of the same moment to test whether dynamic-scene models preserve an object’s existence, motion and appearance after it leaves the frame.
Continue reading →How a 44-gram drone feels its way past transparent walls
Two flexible whiskers turn gentle contact into an estimate of a surface’s forward distance, helping an experimental drone navigate when optical sensing becomes unreliable.
Continue reading →A Gemini security test reached three real companies. The boundary failed first.
The alarming episode shows why AI-safety claims must be judged alongside network controls, target checks, monitoring and the evidence made public afterward.
Continue reading →AI is helping build AI. It has not yet closed the loop.
New measurements show AI writing research code and running experiments, while the crucial work of choosing goals, validating durable gains and producing a better successor remains unproven.
Continue reading →This DNA computer gets answers by settling down
Programmed DNA strands compete for places on a scaffold until the mixture favours an arrangement that encodes the result.
Continue reading →Your coding AI is more than its model name
A controlled study found that memory, planning and tool design can materially change the success and cost of an AI coding assistant while its underlying model stays fixed.
Continue reading →Polonius lets Rust skip an allocation the borrow checker used to demand
A nightly-only borrow-checker upgrade accepts the natural borrowed-key lookup-or-insert pattern, avoiding owned-key construction on cache hits.
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