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Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

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Anthropics Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Googles AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

AI firms want more data centers; Trumps EPA may give neighbors less say

Rule would allow states to decide how much-if any-public input there can be.

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.

Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents, Hugging Face CEO says.

Unlimited AI tokens arent unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply

Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.

Anthropics $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4

There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.

Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round

California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

Augment Codes Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.

Will AI fix prior authorization-or make it worse?

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

Its official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

xAI cant deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So its suing users.

Elon Musks xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: Fork it. Or just walk away.

Creator says he will very loudly ignore those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

OpenAIs first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.

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.

Cursor's agent swarm suggests cheaper models can handle most coding when frontier models plan the work

Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with no source code or internet access. Every configuration of the new system, which separates planners from workers, eventually scored 100 percent on the test suite....

Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence

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The AI coding tutor paradox grows as educators scramble to rethink how they test real skills

An ACM survey of 763 computer science educators from 49 countries shows that 68 percent have already changed their exams because of AI, shifting toward oral exams, proctored tests, and project-based work. Teaching is moving from writing code to understanding it. But nearly half o...

Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers

Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers

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

AI Overviews Land Google In Hot Water, GPT-Live Puts Reasoning in the Background, How to Tell If Your Model is Manipulative

AI Overviews Land Google In Hot Water, GPT-Live Puts Reasoning in the Background, How to Tell If Your Model is Manipulative

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

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

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

Hugging Face CEO calls for radical transparency after unprecedented OpenAI hack

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Blueskys AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

OpenAIs new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isnt killing the mainframe

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

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

Sunday Special: Bombardier's jet smashes another speed record

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Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcrfra for workloads including AI

PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!

How AI drove Shopify back to clean code

Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention

AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI

Hey Claude, optimize this model for me

Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI

Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism

Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents

Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal

Intel knows it needs to leapfrog ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil - unless you tell them to be

Attack models gonna attack

AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidias Groq LPUs

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will

ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap

Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS

AI no longer welcome in human-focused community

AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's

Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots

Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat

IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them

Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets

Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional

AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it

UK pumps GBP708 million into its future fighter jet

Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast

Senior White House official claims Chinas K3 model stolen from Anthropic

And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack

Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence

Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle high demand for the G-Cloud

OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused

Google Cloud is killing it

It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner

Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool

Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models - for a price

OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents

As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing

Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits

Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town

OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents

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...