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Expect several new phones, a refreshed Pixel Watch and perhaps price increases at Google's Pixel 11 event.

In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging focused on how the changes tee up future success. But the reality is […]

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.

The AI-powered "Ask Maps" tool in Google Maps can now perform a broader range of personalized and conversational requests, including ordering food, finding hotels, and providing suggestions that factor in your existing plans. These are among several new features announced for Ask Maps today, which aim to "make it easier than ever to get more […]

The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.

There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said. Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal with a little resistance … [but] even if the designs don’t necessarily work perfectly, fashion is also a visible sign of resistance. “This is consumers collectively coming together to make a visible statement.”...

Vercel Labs has introduced Zero, an experimental systems programming language aimed at AI rather than human users. It employs unique features like a specific toolchain contract and structured error messages. Reaching version 0.3.4, it compiles to native binaries for major operating systems. The language prioritizes size, speed, and agent usability, though it is still in development. By Daniel Curtis

The European Union's AI Act establishes a risk-based framework for AI systems that ranges from prohibited practices to minimal-risk uses. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 divides the framework into four levels: unacceptable risk, high risk, limited risk and minimal risk. For AI developers, vendors and enterprises, the practical importance is straightforward: the system's risk category determines whether it can be used and, if so, the level of compliance, transparency and governance expected around it. The regulation entered into force on 1 August 2024 . Its four-tier approach is designed to avoid applying the same regulatory burden to every AI use case. Instead, the Act reserves its strictest treatment for systems that present the greatest risk, while leaving minimal-risk systems without additional sector-specific obligations under the AI Act beyond general law. The definitive reference is the official text of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 . Although older explainers may use slightly different labels for transparency-related obligations, the final binding regulation is consistently described by EU institutions as a four-level risk framework. The EU AI Act's four risk levels The categories are not simply labels for how sophisticated an AI model is. They are a regulatory method for connecting an AI system's use and potential impact with corresponding obligations. A business cannot determine its position merely by calling a tool "low risk". It needs to assess the system against the Act's framework and the obligations associated with the applicable category. Risk level Regulatory position Core consequence Unacceptable risk Prohibited AI practices The practices are banned outright. High risk Systems subject to extensive obligations Requirements include conformity assessments and risk management. Limited risk Systems subject to certain requirements Transparency and oversight requirements apply in relevant cases. Minimal risk Most AI systems No additional sector-specific AI Act oblig

Use a kill switch inside the checker when your uptime probes start amplifying an incident — one feature flag, read on every tick, that can disable the noisy checks and stop the retries at the source. Reach for tuned backoff and jitter instead when the retry storm stays inside a single process and never fans out onto a dependency somebody else is paging for. Both are cheap to build. Only one of them lets you quiet a polling client while its target is already on fire. I run cron and queue infrastructure, so most of my pages arrive as either "the job didn't run" or "the job ran four times." Health checking sits in the same family of problems: a small, frequent, automated request that multiplies badly when something upstream changes shape. What follows is the runbook I settled on after a fleet of pollers turned a non-incident into a real one — the failure mode, where the switch belongs, the implementation, and how to verify the flip before you walk away from the terminal. What actually turns a polling client's uptime checks into a retry storm? Amplification. A single check is one request every 15 or 30 seconds, which nobody notices; a fleet of checks with retries layered on top is a synchronized load generator pointed at whatever you decided was important enough to monitor. The math is unkind. Take 40 instances, a 5s interval, and 3 retries per failed attempt, and a dependency that normally handles a trickle of health traffic suddenly sees a couple thousand requests a minute — all of them arriving at the exact moment it's least able to absorb them. Retries stack on top of the polling interval rather than replacing it, and because every poller sees the same failure at the same time, they all back off together and return together. The Google SRE book calls out this shape under cascading failures, and the load pattern that comes out of it looks nothing like organic traffic: sawtooth spikes, perfectly aligned, growing until something sheds load. The worst one I've dealt wit

The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.

WIRED spoke with an engineer who was interviewed by Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for a government engineering role at the NDS, the White House agency staffed by other DOGE veterans.

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

Google's AI brain drain continues.

A handful of high-level personnel changes are coming to DeepMind.

Casi todo bot de trading tiene una línea que decide cuánto comprar . Suele parecer trivial: si arriesgo el 1% de mi saldo y mi stop está a 1000 dólares de distancia, la cantidad sale de una división. El cálculo es de primaria. Lo que no es de primaria es hacer que ese número quepa en las restricciones del exchange . Ahí es donde se pierde dinero, y de formas que no aparecen en los logs. El patrón que multiplica tu riesgo Esto está en incontables bots, y estuvo en uno mío: cantidad = max ( 1 , int ( cantidad_teorica / contract_size )) La intención es defensiva: "que nunca salga cero". El efecto es el contrario. Si la cantidad teórica sale 0.1 contratos, int() la trunca a 0 , y entonces max(1, ...) la fuerza a uno . Acabas de abrir una posición diez veces más grande que la que autorizaste. Con números concretos: saldo de 500 USD, riesgo del 1% (5 USD), entrada en 50 000, stop en 45 000, contratos de 0.01. El riesgo real de ese contrato único es de 50 USD — diez veces el presupuesto. Y ocurre en silencio: la orden se acepta, el bot sigue, no hay excepción que capturar. Lo peor es que no es un caso raro. Pasa siempre que el saldo es pequeño o el stop es ancho, es decir, exactamente cuando menos margen tienes para equivocarte. Los otros dos que cuestan dinero Ignorar el nocional mínimo. El exchange rechaza la orden por valor mínimo, el bot lo registra como error de red, y nadie se entera de que esa señal nunca se operó. El backtest la contó; la cuenta no. No reservar para comisiones. Con un stop ajustado, las comisiones de ida y vuelta pueden ser la mitad del riesgo real . Si dimensionas contra la distancia al stop y nada más, arriesgas sistemáticamente más de lo que crees. Cómo lo resolví Saqué el cálculo del bot y lo publiqué como librería: position-sizing (Apache-2.0, sin dependencias). from decimal import Decimal from position_sizing import MarketSpec , size_for_risk spec = MarketSpec ( amount_step = Decimal ( " 0.001 " ), min_amount = Decimal ( " 0.001 " ), min_noti

The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs, which aims to use AI to develop drugs. Koray […]

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.

Joe Kent says that he and other anti–Donald Trump MAGA figures have formed a new movement. They want Tucker Carlson to run for the presidency in 2028.

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.