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Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature↗

Google launched Playground, a browser-based platform that lets users create their own games using nothing but text prompts and no coding skills. The platform runs on Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria. Alongside Playground, Google and Unity announced Unity Spark, a more professional AI tool with a beta planned for 2026. The article Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature appeared first on The Decoder .

9h agoThe Decoder
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Anthropic gives more security teams access to Claude with fewer safety restrictions↗

Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program, giving more security professionals access to Claude models with fewer safety restrictions for penetration testing, malware analysis, and vulnerability research. Anthropic says partners in its predecessor program found at least 129,000 confirmed vulnerabilities from April through July 2026, including more than 33,000 rated high-severity or critical. The article Anthropic gives more security teams access to Claude with fewer safety restrictions appeared first on The Decoder .

12h agoThe Decoder
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What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us↗

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity. The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research .

1d agoMicrosoft Research Blog
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The first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops cost up to $7,000↗

The 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip are designed to compete with high-end MacBook Pros - and they've got some high-end prices to match. The flagship Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark laptops from Dell , Lenovo , MSI , HP, and Asus start as low as $2,599 for configurations with an 18-core CPU, 24GB of unified memory, and 512GB of storage. That's close in price to a similarly specced 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro chip, though Apple includes 1TB of storage. But the prices for both

5h agoThe Verge
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It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains↗

What’s in a URL anymore, really. For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications that have been submitted so far, from 481 different applicants. The trend will not surprise you: AI is everywhere. Ten different companies, including both Meta and OpenAI, applied for the .agent domain. Seven, including OpenAI, applied for .agi. Six,

5h agoThe Verge
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Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event↗

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra , its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage, and it will be released on October 16th. The laptop also has built-in magnetic USB-C charging instead of the proprietary Surface Connect magnetic charging port. The Verge ‘s Tom Warren published a deep dive all about the new lapt

5h agoThe Verge
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ChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens after parental alerts failed during suicide conversations↗

OpenAI's teen safety features for ChatGPT failed an independent audit. After more than 4,000 test prompts, the Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute rated the service an "unacceptable risk" for minors. Conversations about suicide and self-harm on test accounts never triggered a parental alert. The institute wants teenagers locked out until safety can be independently verified. The article ChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens after parental alerts failed during suicide conversations appeared first on The Decoder .

11h agoThe Decoder
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NVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000↗

Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides grants, mentors and technical support to doctoral students doing outstanding research relevant to NVIDIA technologies. The program, in its 26th […]

1w agoNVIDIA Blog
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Forecasting space weather risks on power grids↗

Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. A new machine learning system can predict where damage is likely to occur 30-60 minutes before a storm arrives. The post Forecasting space weather risks on power grids appeared first on Microsoft Research .

1w agoMicrosoft Research Blog
MIT Technology Review — AITools

When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?↗

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…

1w agoMIT Technology Review — AI