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Lawsuit claims Metas layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans

Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.

US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time

US militarys drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.

Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI

The new Google image search will use your unique interests to create an always-updated gallery.

New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

New Yorks data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.

Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets

OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

Context bombing tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and whats still unsettled.

Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.

OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run for hours if needed.

Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs

Preclinical trial is testing the feasibility of humanoid robots in surgery.

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

AI cheating leads to a failed society, professor says.

Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.

Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.

Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

HalluSquatting weaponizes LLMs inability to say I dont know.

Data centers energy demand threatens Trumps Made in America plan

Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trumps manufacturing plan.

Facing US export controls, Chinas DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

Its early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.

How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces-and maybe homes

Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving.

Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropics anti-surveillance stance

Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says experiment is over.

UK regulator warns of arms race to keep up with AI use in financial services

FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.

Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders target

Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.

Musks X poses serious risk to Americans privacy, advocates warn FTC

FTC urged to reject Elon Musks bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.

Googles AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.

After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release

US lifts curbs on Anthropics advanced Fable and Mythos models.

New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

Googles new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet

They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.

Trumps plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.

Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids savings accounts, report says

Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

South Korea plans to train entire military as drone warriors

Half-million-strong military will train on drones as universal combat tool.

Anthropic is rolling out Claude for Teachers, a free offering for verified K-12 educators at US schools.It includes access to Claude along with Claude Code and the Cowork agent feature, a library of teaching-specific skills, and connections to curriculum-aligned content. The comp...

Google is adding AI image generation directly into Search's AI Overviews.When no matching image exists on the web, users can generate one by typing a text prompt into the search bar. The feature runs onGoogle's new "Nano Banana 2 Lite" image model, which prior...

Claude responds with more warmth in Hindi and more rigor in Russian, showing how language shapes AI answers

Tomislav BezmalinoviJul 14, 2026

Restoration of Claude Fable 5, Gemini's Video Dev Engine, DeepSeek Speeds Up Speculative Decoding

Restoration of Claude Fable 5, Gemini's Video Dev Engine, DeepSeek Speeds Up Speculative Decoding

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

OpenAI''s GPT-5.6 Family, New Ways to Train Robots, Models Invoking Models

OpenAI''s GPT-5.6 Family, New Ways to Train Robots, Models Invoking Models

A New Generation Studies AI, Apple's Recipe for On-Device Models, GLM5.2 Tackles Open-Ended Problems

A New Generation Studies AI, Apple's Recipe for On-Device Models, GLM5.2 Tackles Open-Ended Problems

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

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

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

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

Lorde says AI glasses are not sexy

Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery

Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius

Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant

Ubers product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesnt want to be everything for everyone

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

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

AI execs confirm demand isn't slowing, just shifting

Jul 14, 2026

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop theft of content

PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark

Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages

New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts

50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers

DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late

Industry, regulate thyself

IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value

CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored

Indias tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business

Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed

Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company

The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs

Cheap can be expensive

Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP

Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days

Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing

This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth

Meta admits its first superintelligence was too stupid to survive for three days

Pulls AI-powered image tweaker after allowing free-for-all

Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed

PLUS: Canadian/Bhutanese datacenter for India; China re-uses a rocket; Australia signals AI intervention; And more!

Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Bots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday

Standalone experiment killed after less than 12 months as model maker redirects agentic ambitions towards workplace productivity

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays

More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmonds auto-patching tools

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form

AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project

Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better

Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating

UK.gov withholds GBP10M payment from Capita over pensions project fiasco, as dispute continues

After CEO promised 'flagship use-case' for AI, retired scheme members still struggling to make ends meet, MPs hear

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI is going to pay off

Downer for doomers as conservative investor plans to lift portfolio exposure by 150 percent, and even more once it adds electrification ventures

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up

Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks

Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7

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...