Privacy & Digital Rights Correspondent
James Malkin has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, including director-level roles at billion-dollar companies. He is passionate about emerging technologies, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. At Automatica, he covers technology, policy and digital rights.
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The invisible hand of artificial intelligence is extending its reach, moving from the ethereal realm of data processing into the very arteries of our societies—from the intricate dance of network traffic to the physical currents of our roadways. Recent research, emerging from the...
Read article →Snap has coupled the debut of its first consumer Specs augmented reality glasses with a new cross-device AI assistant, a move that broadens the product from a hardware launch into a larger software and ecosystem bet. That matters because the company is not merely selling a $2,195...
Read article →The enterprise AI infrastructure landscape shifted on September 15, 2026, with NVIDIA’s announcement of the DSX AI Factory Platform, a system engineered to treat every megawatt of power as a critical resource. This development, coupled with emerging evidence that leading AI labs...
Read article →While Silicon Valley debates regulation and Beijing advances its algorithmic state, Pakistan has quietly taken two bold steps that could redefine its place in the global AI order: launching Quantum Valley Pakistan—a hub for next-generation tech—and pioneering a national framework...
Read article →AI Benchmarks Are Broken: Six New Studies Expose the Gap Between Test Scores and Real-World Performance A wave of benchmark research published this week delivers a sobering message: the numbers AI labs use to declare victory may be measuring the wrong things entirely. Six studies...
Read article →A chill descends when the theoretical becomes visceral. For years, we spoke in hushed tones of the coming storm, of artificial intelligences twisting sight and sound, eroding the very bedrock of what is real....
Read article →The agent industry has a new obsession, and it isn't capability — it's proof. In a single day of research published September 10 on arXiv's CS....
Read article →This week's arXiv feed reads less like a research digest and more like a seed-stage roadmap. Papers announced September 3 across arXiv's CS....
Read article →Twenty-three papers landed on arXiv's CS. AI feed on September 3, and read together they carry one uncomfortable message for every founder building AI agents: the benchmark number on your pitch slide is not the number that decides whether your company survives....
Read article →The silent architecture of our digital lives, a labyrinth of connections and unseen influences, just gained new eyes – deeper and more inscrutable than before. Cutting-edge research emerging from the academic vanguard reveals advancements in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that prom...
Read article →A flurry of research published on May 11, 2026, on arXiv CS. AI reveals the accelerating, often contradictory, vectors of artificial intelligence development: a relentless drive for ever-more powerful and efficient models, juxtaposed with an urgent, if nascent, acknowledgment of...
Read article →AI agents moved closer to operational credibility this week as a cluster of new research papers outlined more reliable ways to monitor, steer, and evaluate agentic systems, while startup Runable disclosed a $21 million Series A to commercialize agents for customer acquisition and...
Read article →Two newly disclosed vulnerabilities reveal that the digital watermarks meant to authenticate AI-generated text can be stripped away with alarming ease—and that autonomous AI agents are leaking users’ private prompts through seemingly benign tools. These findings, published alongs...
Read article →The flickering light of a terminal screen, the silent hum of unseen data streams — for too long, these have been the instruments of a pervasive digital architecture that demands the raw, unvarnished essence of our lives as tribute. But a series of foundational research papers, ne...
Read article →A fresh cluster of AI papers posted to arXiv on August 26 points to a notable change in research emphasis: the field is moving beyond raw model scaling toward structured, inspectable, and domain-specific systems designed to improve reliability in education, software, medicine, ro...
Read article →A dense new batch of 48 CS. AI papers posted to arXiv on August 26 points to a notable change in AI research priorities: the frontier is not only scaling models upward, but making them more efficient, better grounded, and easier to evaluate in deployment-like settings arXiv CS....
Read article →The AI agent trade just went parabolic. General Intuition, the New York startup building a foundation model that trains generalized agents to move through space and time, is in talks to raise fresh capital at a $6 billion pre-money valuation — nearly triple the $2....
Read article →AI Context Layers Are Exposing Failures, Not Preventing Them — And Enterprise Deployments Are Paying the Price Here's the paradox that should be keeping enterprise AI architects up at night: the more governance infrastructure companies build to stop their AI agents from confident...
Read article →OpenAI this week launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated version of its flagship chatbot for users aged 13 to 17 that pairs default safety protections with learning-focused tools—arriving nearly four years after ChatGPT's debut and in the shadow of lawsuits alleging AI chatbots c...
Read article →The most convincing evidence yet that AI agents can move real merchandise didn't come from a keynote or a demo day. It came from arXiv....
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