AI & Machine Learning

Responding to the safety risks A.I. pose means coming to terms with an uncomfortable truth: A.I. models are weapons.

This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP’s protocol core is now stateless, so requests are no longer dependent on a session tied to an individual server instance. This change has

Beginning in the 1950s, the Soviet Union launched an ambitious programme aimed at developing artificial intelligence. While the history of AI today seems to be shaped by the giants of Silicon Valley, ideas originating from behind the Iron Curtain had a significant influence, although they remain largely overlooked. 

In early 2025, Vanessa Larco teamed up with Mercedes Bent to found Premise VC, a firm focused on backing early-stage technical founders building durable, high-growth software. Before that, Larco had spent nearly eight years as a partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the world’s largest venture capital firms.  There, she served on the

TL;DR Azure Local 2607 is an architecture-significant release, but it should not receive blanket production approval. The release baseline changed quickly. Microsoft first published Azure Local 12.2607.1003.69 on July 22, 2026, then published 12.2607.1003.71 on July 29, 2026. The newer build supersedes .69 while retaining OS build 26100.33158. Microsoft also changed the Trusted Launch position:

What the Hugging Face cyber attack and a remote work index can tell us about risk vs reward

During a VMware Cloud Foundation 9 deployment, the VCF Installer becomes one of the most important control points in the environment. It is not just a temporary wizard screen. It is the place where deployment state, validation, bring-up workflows, and local administrative access intersect. That becomes a problem when the admin@local password is missing, mistyped,

E-commerce giant’s staff said the new technology had caused budget overruns that sometimes took months to detect

An upgrade transformed the beleaguered virtual assistant into a modern chatbot. It’s imperfect but worth trying.

Simile, a fast-growing start-up, says it can provide companies with accurate insights by surveying millions of A.I.-generated consumers.