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Across 600 self-evolution tasks, an agent modifying its own harness produced 197 capability-improving mutations that could not be safely undone. Conventional repair strategies recovered zero of them.

"I'm concerned that AI is going to make software much too secure." That is Matthew Green, a cryptography professor, in an X thread and longer blog post that

A new paper, Lucida , states its goal plainly. Take a video of a cluttered indoor room, and hand a robot simulator back an editable copy: each object a separate asset, placed where the camera actually saw it.

Runway's new research release, Solaris, generates application and website interfaces frame by frame as a user interacts with them, replacing the code layer that normally sits between a design and a running app. In

Prompts about US classwork and homework peak at more than 460 million messages per week during the school year on ChatGPT, according to

HUMAIN plans to put its first-generation AI PC on enterprise sale starting September 20, 2026, with a target of one million units across the Middle East and Africa by 2030. The device runs Microsoft Windows and combines CPU, GPU and NPU computing to support AI workloads locally on the device alongside cloud-based AI services.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18, pulling AI data center projects out of the state's Fast Track permitting program and requiring developers to make a legally binding commitment to a new state framework before they can seek environmental permits,

Mollick argues agency, who holds initiative, is the deciding question for AI's next phase, flipping the usual 'when to ask AI for help' frame.

OpenAI has told a San Jose federal judge that Apple's trade-secret suit against it is "a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else." The response,

A team led by Shaoan Wang has posted LightNav-0 on arXiv , a compact vision-language model the authors say achieves "state-of-the-art monocular success rates across all 10 public navigation simulation settings."