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OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.

Oracles 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments

Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots

Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book,The Reverse Centaurs Guide to Life After AI.

GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers

US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.

How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban

The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.

As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military

Taiwans drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas.

Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry

Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders AI wealth fund.

AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties

Nvidias self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.

Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what

AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.

Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder

Googles new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.

Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAIs gas turbines

NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.

Anthropic pauses token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users costs.

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.

Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users

SearchLeak exploit shows why the industrys approach to LLM security fails over and over.

Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021

Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 jailbreak could be a national security threat.

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.

Heres what Jeff Bezos new startup Prometheus will do

It isnt the only startup tackling physical AI, but its one of the best-funded.

Ukraines one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers

Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a taste of political power.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

Pokmon Goplayers unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

The repurposing ofPokmon Godata for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation

Voice translations preserve speakers tone, pacing, pitch-with SynthID watermarks for security.

Apple says its AI is still private, even when its running on Googles servers

Some models run in Googles cloud, but without giving Google any kind of access.

OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant, its most-used model in ChatGPT.The goal is better conversation quality, especially when users make decisions, seek advice, or compare options,OpenAI writes. The model now better identifies "the underlying goal behind a question" and c...

Figma bets on human judgment at Config 2026 while the AI powering its canvas belongs to someone else

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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeo," a custom chip built for LLM inference

OpenAI is adding custom hardware to its tech stack. The Jalapeo chip, developed with Broadcom, is tailored for large language model inference and is set to run at scale by late 2026.

Testing Mythos and Fable, Moving Beyond SWE-bench, Nvidia's Open Contender

Testing Mythos and Fable, Moving Beyond SWE-bench, Nvidia's Open Contender

Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning

Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning

DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI''s o1

DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI''s o1

Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment

Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment

Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic

Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic

Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?

Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?

China Thwarts Meta''s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

China Thwarts Meta''s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans

GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans

GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work

GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work

Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts

Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts

Anthropic''s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics

Anthropic''s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics

Claude Code''s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference

Claude Code''s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference

Nvidia''s Open Salvo, OpenAI''s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models

Nvidia''s Open Salvo, OpenAI''s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models

Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek''s Huawei Play, Apple''s Multimodal Tokenizer

Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek''s Huawei Play, Apple''s Multimodal Tokenizer

GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI''s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple''s Diffusion Research

GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI''s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple''s Diffusion Research

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana''s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google''s Mathematics Solutions

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana''s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google''s Mathematics Solutions

Europe is pushing back on Washingtons chip war

Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world

Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood

AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company

Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators

Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal

3 days left to save up to $190 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 pass

Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates

Kiwibits AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but thats not the same as fixing AIs water problem

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AIs future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Signals Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots are not your friends

DeepSeek-V3 New Paper is coming! Unveiling the Secrets of Low-Cost Large Model Training through Hardware-Aware Co-design

DeepSeek Unveils DeepSeek-Prover-V2: Advancing Neural Theorem Proving with Recursive Proof Search and a New Benchmark

Can GRPO be 10x Efficient? Kwai AIs SRPO Suggests Yes with SRPO

DeepSeek Signals Next-Gen R2 Model, Unveils Novel Approach to Scaling Inference with SPCT

Beyond Next-Token Prediction? Metas Novel Architectures Spark Debate on the Future of Large Language Models

Claude joins your Slack channel

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Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits

Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI

Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop

Prompting less and automating more comes with a price

OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom

Jalapeo is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker

Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit

200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down

Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them

Did you read all the documents you signed last time you had a medical test?

AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them

Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns

Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs

Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads

OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost

Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker

The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack

Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era

Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP

21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI

Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion

AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime

Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task

Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges

Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites

OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!

A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge

Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions

The air turns brown when bit barns come to town ... deep in the heart of Texas

The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything

'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us

As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains

Attempting to boost growth, efficiency, and sovereign tech proved too difficult. The next leader will face the same challenges... and temptations

Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated

It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it

Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance

VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually

Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia

Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms

Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport

Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims

Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned

Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help

San Francisco plays host to hosting company's Localhost conference

Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention

Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck

Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger

Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app

Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray

Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave

Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast

AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease

Sampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources

Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific

Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions

Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When?Researchers from PSU and Duke explores automated failure attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems

In recent years, LLM Multi-Agent systems have garnered widespread attention for their collaborative approach to solving complex problems. However, its a common scenario for these systems to fail at a task despite a flurry of activity.

ByteDance Introduces Astra: A Dual-Model Architecture for Autonomous Robot Navigation

ByteDance introduces Astra, an innovative dual-model architecture revolutionizing robot navigation in complex indoor environments.

MIT Researchers Unveil SEAL: A New Step Towards Self-Improving AI

MIT introduces SEAL, a framework enabling large language models to self-edit and update their weights via reinforcement learning.

Researchers from PSU and Duke introduce Multi-Agent Systems Automated Failure Attribution

Automated failure attribution is a crucial component in the development lifecycle of Multi-Agent systems. It has the potential to transform the challenge of identifying what went wrong and who is to blame from a perplexing mystery into a quantifiable and analyzable problem

Adobe Research Unlocking Long-Term Memory in Video World Models with State-Space Models

By combining State-Space Models (SSMs) for efficient long-range dependency modeling with dense local attention for coherence, and using training strategies like diffusion forcing and frame local attention, researchers from Adobe Research successfully overcome the long-standing ch...

Zhipu.AIs Open-Source Power Play: Blazing-Fast GLM Models & Global Expansion Ahead of Potential IPO

Zhipu.AI open-sources faster GLM models (8x speedup), launches Z.ai, aiming for global expansion, potentially ahead of IPO.

AI Video Generation Race Shifts from Capability to Profitability, Challenging Soras Dominance

The AI video generation landscape is shifting from capability to profitability, challenging OpenAI Soras dominance. Competitors are surpassing Sora in quality and efficiency, with users preferring alternatives. The focus is now on improvements like precise control and style custo...

Nvidia Intensifies Robot Push with New Humanoid Platform as Industry Giants Eye Lucrative Future

Nvidia will launch Jetson Thor for humanoid robots in H1 2025, entering a growing market where Google is also active. The robotics sector is projected for substantial growth. Nvidia offers integrated hardware and software solutions. Simultaneously, Chinas rapidly developing domes...

Automating Artificial Life Discovery: The Power of Foundation Models

A research team introduces Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL). This novel framework leverages vision-language FMs to automate and enhance the discovery process in ALife research.

Llama 3 Meets MoE: Pioneering Low-Cost High-Performance AI

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and NVIDIA proposes upcycling approach, an innovative training recipe enables the development of an 8-Expert Top-2 MoE model using Llama 3-8B with less than 1% of the compute typically required for pre-training.

DeepMinds JetFormer: Unified Multimodal Models Without Modelling Constraints

A DeepMind research team introduces JetFormer, a Transformer designed to directly model raw data. This model maximizes the likelihood of raw data without depending on any pre-trained components, and is capable of both understanding and generating text and images seamlessly.

NVIDIAs nGPT: Revolutionizing Transformers with Hypersphere Representation

An NVIDIA research team proposes the normalized Transformer, which consolidates key findings in Transformer research under a unified framework, offering faster learning and reduced training steps-by factors ranging from 4 to 20 depending on sequence length.

From Token to Conceptual: Meta introduces Large Concept Models in Multilingual AI

A research team at Meta introduces the Large Concept Model (LCM), a novel architecture that processes input at a higher semantic level. This shift allows the LCM to achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization across languages, outperforming existing LLMs of comparable size.

NVIDIAs Hybrid: Combining Attention and State Space Models for Breakthrough Performance of Small Language Models

An NVIDIA research team proposes Hymba, a family of small language models that blend transformer attention with state space models, which outperforms the Llama-3.2-3B model with a 1.32% higher average accuracy, while reducing cache size by 11.67x and increasing throughput by 3.49...

From Response to Query: The Power of Reverse Thinking in Language Models

In a new paper Time-Reversal Provides Unsupervised Feedback to LLMs, a research team from Google DeepMind and Indian Institute of Science proposes Time Reversed Language Models (TRLMs), a framework that allows LLMs to reason in reverse-scoring and generating content in a manner o...

Yann LeCun Teams New Research: Revolutionizing Visual Navigation with Navigation World Models

In a new paper Navigation World Models, a research team from Meta, New York University and Berkeley AI Research proposes a Navigation World Model (NWM), a controllable video generation model that enables agents to simulate potential navigation plans and assess their feasibility b...

The Future of Vision AI: How Apples AIMV2 Leverages Images and Text to Lead the Pack

An Apple research team introduces AIMV2, a family of vision encoders that is designed to predict both image patches and text tokens within a unified sequence. This combined objective enables the model to excel in a range of tasks, such as image recognition, visual grounding, and ...

Redefining Music AI: The Power of Sonys SoniDo as a Versatile Foundation Model

In a new paper Music Foundation Model as Generic Booster for Music Downstream Tasks, a Sony research team presents SoniDo, a groundbreaking music foundation model that offers robust framework for improving the effectiveness and accessibility of music processing.

DeepMinds Socratic Learning with Language Games: The Path to Self-Improving Superintelligence

Researchers from Google DeepMind introduce the concept of Socratic learning. This refers to a form of recursive self-improvement in artificial intelligence that significantly enhances performance beyond the initial data or knowledge available to the system, as well as a practical...