Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

AI has become the smartphone industry’s latest battleground, with manufacturers racing to add AI-powered features to attract mainstream consumers. Vertu is taking a different path. The UK-founded luxury phone maker, known for hand-finished devices often costing tens of thousands of dollars, sells status instead of specs. Its Alphafold, a foldable phone, targets affluent buyers, particularly…

Startup database vendor Regatta Data on Wednesday made its entry into a market populated by long-established vendors, launching RegattaDB to provide users with a unified data foundation for developing agents and other AI applications. Traditionally, databases have separated transactional processing, analytical processing and vector search to avoid potential performance bottlenecks that can occur when…

Growing up at the end of the last century, I had acquired a healthy DVD collection before streaming services came along, and all my favorite movies and TV shows were scattered across countless platforms. Media servers let me bring everything together in one place, so Plex, Jellyfin, and Kodi all solved that problem, but after…

“GPT-5.6 Sol and an ‘even more capable’ model used stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities in the Hugging Face API to obtain secret information used to cheat on evaluations,” writes longtime Slashdot reader Dr. Bombay. The Associated Press reports: “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in…

Does the EU decision now create additional pressure to act? Bloch: I don’t think that this will immediately increase the pressure. There’s still some time left until Extended Maintenance begins at the end of 2027. That said, companies now face an additional strategic task: they must assess which new opportunities they want to take advantage…

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor  The AI stack defined by Carnegie Mellon University is fundamental to the approach being taken by the US Army for its AI development platform efforts, according to Isaac Faber, Chief Data Scientist at the US Army AI Integration Center, speaking at the AI World Government event held in-person and virtually…