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Should promotion depend on how workers use AI?
Employers including Accenture, Disney, Meta, JP Morgan, KPMG and Coinbase are increasingly using staff’s AI proficiency as a factor in pay, promotion and even dismissal decisions, with some firms introducing “AI leaderboards” to track usage. Workers describe feeling pressured to demonstrate AI skills even without a formal mandate, but some, like marketing professional Duncan Trevithick,…
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Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a publicly available database designed to help scientists identify which genetic variants are responsible for particular traits or diseases. The tool builds on AlphaGenome, an AI model launched last year that predicts how genetic variants affect biological processes, but addresses a key remaining problem: knowing which variants are worth…
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SpaceX’s recovered Starship 40 will take months to get back to Texas
SpaceX’s Starship 40, launched from Starbase in South Texas on 24 July, unexpectedly survived splashdown in the Indian Ocean after a roughly 65-minute suborbital test flight, giving engineers a rare intact upper stage to examine rather than relying on telemetry and debris. Recovery has proved a slow, multi-stage process: after 24 days at sea, crews…
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Apple boosts iPhone photo editing with improved object removal in iOS 27
Apple’s iOS 27 update brings a significant upgrade to the Clean Up tool within the Photos app, using improved AI models to more accurately remove unwanted objects from images, such as photobombers or background clutter. The feature, first introduced with the iOS 18 redesign of Photos, had previously lagged behind competing tools, but Apple’s new…
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Less than a week after launch, The Blood of Dawnwalker developer is already getting to work on the sequel
The Blood of Dawnwalker developer has reportedly begun work on a sequel to the role-playing game less than a week after its initial launch, signalling confidence in the title’s reception and the studio’s ambitions to build it into an ongoing series. Such a swift move to a follow-up is notable in the games industry, where…
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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
OpenAI says it has solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven unsolved Millennium Prize Problems, using around 10,000 AI agents working simultaneously for 88 hours. The claim has been overshadowed by controversy after mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleged OpenAI sped up its effort after learning that he and an Anthropic researcher were close to announcing…
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Why this month’s Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Microsoft has released its September patch update fixing a record 972 vulnerabilities, 112 of them rated critical, as the tech industry races to shore up software defences ahead of an anticipated wave of AI-assisted cyberattacks. The scale of the release far exceeds prior “record” months this year, and reflects a broader trend across the industry,…
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Stolen credentials let attackers drain Claude subscriber accounts
An independent AI consultant based in East Sussex noticed unexplained token usage draining his Claude Max subscription in early August, despite having disabled all his automated tasks and integrations. Anthropic later confirmed a compromised session key had been used to generate unauthorised Claude Code OAuth tokens, effectively letting an unknown third party consume his usage…
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OpenAI’s distributed AI agents make headway on Navier-Stokes problem
OpenAI has said one of its AI systems made substantial progress on the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s six unsolved Millennium Prize problems, using around 10,000 AI agents working in parallel for roughly 88 hours. The episode became controversial after New York University mathematician Tristan Buckmaster said he and…
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OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes breakthrough amid allegations of improper data use
OpenAI has announced that it used an internal, unreleased AI model to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems that has stood unsolved for roughly 90 years and relates to the flow of liquids and gases. The claimed breakthrough, revealed in a blog post, is significant for the mathematics community, but has…