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YouTube has spent years learning what people want to watch from signals such as their viewing history, searches, likes, and dislikes. While users could tell the platform when they did not like a recommendation, there has been no simple way to tell YouTube exactly what they want to see on their feed. That is beginning to change. The largest online streaming platform has now announced Custom Feeds, a new feature that lets users type what kind of videos they want to see. YouTube then creates a separate feed with recommendations based on that request. For example, a user could ask…

AI coding tools started gaining attention because they could help developers write software faster. But as these tools have become easier to use, a growing number of people with little or no coding experience are now using them to build websites, apps, and entire businesses. Lovable is becoming one of the clearest examples of how much money is now moving into that market. The Swedish AI startup has crossed $600 million in annualised revenue, up from about $500 million in June. Co-founder Fabian Hedin recently revealed this figure at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam, where he also said the company…

AI coding agents are being given more freedom to edit software, run commands, and complete development tasks with less human involvement. But one developer’s experience with Anthropic’s Claude Code is showing how quickly that freedom can become a problem when an automated task reaches files it was never supposed to touch. A developer using Claude Code says the AI coding agent accidentally deleted 48,218 live project files in just 103 seconds while working on what was supposed to be an isolated copy of the project. The incident was shared in a now-deleted Reddit post in late September and has not…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to move beyond systems that generate text, images and software into machines that must understand and operate in the physical world. AMD now wants a bigger role in providing the technology that makes that possible. The chipmaker has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup led by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, subject to regulatory approvals. For AMD, the deal provides direct access to AI research focused on understanding three-dimensional environments and physical interactions. The company says that knowledge can help it design future chips,…

AI agents are increasingly being given access to files, software tools, websites, and other computer systems so they can complete tasks with less human supervision. But recent incidents have also shown what can happen when these systems find ways around the controls meant to keep their actions restricted. Nvidia is now trying to put stronger limits around that behaviour. The chipmaker has launched the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform, a new security system designed to monitor AI agents while they work and stop them when they attempt to move beyond the access they have been given. The platform combines Nvidia’s…

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier AI model, but most users cannot access it yet. The company is starting with a small group of trusted cybersecurity defenders through its Fairwind Program while it tests stronger safety controls. Meanwhile, Google says Argon can handle long and complex tasks across software engineering, legal and financial work, and cybersecurity. It can also autonomously find, verify, and patch critical software vulnerabilities. It is due to this level of capability that Google is limiting access for now. Why Google Is Holding Back Wider Access Google says releasing a model with Argon’s capabilities…

AI companies need enormous amounts of written material to train increasingly capable models, and much of that data has traditionally come from websites and other digital sources. However, physical books have also joined the pile, becoming valuable because they contain specialised knowledge and writing that may not be easily available online. This growing demand is now drawing attention to Japan’s used-book market, where bookstores have reported unusually large purchases since around August. Some sellers have seen sales rise to about five times their normal levels, while hundreds of books across subjects including philosophy, history, medicine, and law are being bought…

Reddit is closing several of the easiest ways for outside tools to collect its public conversations, as the social news platform steps up efforts to control large-scale scraping for AI and automated access to user posts. Publicly known as the front page of the internet, the company says it will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026, begin cutting off unregistered public API users from January 12, 2027, and end remaining public Data API access in March 2027. It is also tightening access to Old Reddit, its legacy desktop site, by limiting it to moderators and logged-in users who…

People who have applied for jobs at the FBI are now facing questions about whether information submitted during the recruitment process was caught in a much larger cyberattack on the agency’s jobs portal. The hacking group ShinyHunters says it stole between 2 and 3 terabytes of data after compromising FBIJobs.gov, including records linked to current and former employees and people who applied for FBI jobs. While the FBI says it is investigating the incident, it has not confirmed the group’s claimed volume of stolen data or the full impact on applicants. The Bureau also says it has not yet determined…

AI companies are increasingly spending heavily on specialised hardware as the cost of running larger models pushes power use, memory demand, and infrastructure budgets higher. And this pressure is creating room for chip startups that want to reduce dependence on Nvidia, especially in AI inference, where trained models process requests and generate responses. Dutch startup Euclyd is entering that race after securing more than €200 million in Series A financing co-led by Samsung Electronics. The round, announced in mid-September, was also co-led by Somerset Capital Partners, the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries. EIFO, imec.xpand, the Brabant Development Agency…