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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

TSMC says AI demand is endless after record Q4 earnings

Amid fears of bubble, worlds top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.

Mother of one of Elon Musks offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes

Claims Grok chatbot created countless sexual images of her without her consent.

ChatGPT wrote Goodnight Moon suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

ChatGPT used a mans favorite childrens book to romanticize his suicide.

Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral to API access deals.

Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.

Musk and Hegseth vow to makeStar Trekreal but miss the shows lessons

AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators.

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says

Californias AG will investigate whether Musks nudifying bot broke US laws.

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

The feature will start with paid users only, and its off by default.

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI hallucination when banning football fans

Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools.

The RAM shortages silver lining: Less talk about AI PCs

General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while...

Hegseth wants to integrate Musks Grok AI into military networks this month

US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.

Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.

Googles updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling

Google has also added the updated Veo to YouTube creator tools.

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing

Users can give Claude access to a folder and tell it what to do for them.

Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)

But then I cut out the middle man-me.

Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws

AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.

Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Googles rules-why is it still in the Play Store?

Google describes apps exactly like Grok and says they are banned from Google Play.

Apple chooses Googles Gemini over OpenAIs ChatGPT to power next-gen Siri

Apple goes with Googles tech despite using OpenAIs ChatGPT elsewhere in iOS.

UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship

Grok tests if UK can penalize platforms for sexualized deepfakes generated by AI.

Google: Dont make bite-sized content for LLMs if you care about search rank

Google says creating for people rather than robots is the best long-term strategy.

Xs half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesnt block free image editing

Faced with a ban in the United Kingdom, X pushes flawed fix to CSAM problem.

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have good intent

Expert explains how simple it could be to tweak Grok to block CSAM outputs.

ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues

Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.

Google announces AI Overviews in Gmail search, experimental AI-organized inbox

Last years premium Gmail AI features are also rolling out to free users.

Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars

The Blue Oval is also working on new hands-free driver assists.

OpenAI is pushing "Open Responses," an open interface that works with language models from different providers.The project builds onOpenAI's Responses APIand lets developers write code once and run it with any AI model.

Study warns AI could homogenize human creativity as models converge on "Artificial Hivemind"

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Google's new open TranslateGemma models bring translation for 55 languages to laptops and phones

TranslateGemma shows how targeted training helps Google squeeze more performance out of smaller models: the 12B version translates better than a base model twice its size and runs on a regular laptop. With the growing Gemma family, Google is staking its claim in the race for open...

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

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

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots, Better Images Through Reasoning, The Dawn of Industrial AI, Forecasting Time Series

Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots, Better Images Through Reasoning, The Dawn of Industrial AI, Forecasting Time Series

OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private

OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private

Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

DeepSeek Cuts Inference Costs, OpenAI Tightens Ties with AMD, Thinking Machines Simplifies Fine-Tuning, Robots Improve Spatial Awareness

DeepSeek Cuts Inference Costs, OpenAI Tightens Ties with AMD, Thinking Machines Simplifies Fine-Tuning, Robots Improve Spatial Awareness

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

OpenAI''s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

OpenAI''s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR - and it started with a Reddit post

California AG sends Musks xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes

Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use

The rise of micro apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them

Silicon Valleys messiest breakup is definitely headed to court

AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdochs News Corp

The AI lab revolving door spins ever faster

Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing

After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras

Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

AI security firm, depthfirst, announces $40 million Series A

Mira Muratis startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

Mira Muratis startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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

Altman's brain computer startup

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Gemini gets Personal Intelligence

ALSO: How to use Claude Cowork to perform non-technical tasks

Slackbot's AI agent upgrade

ALSO: How to create your new profile picture with Gemini

Anthropic releases Cowork: Claude Code for everyday tasks

ALSO: How to Create Learning Diagrams with ChatGPT

The "Do Anything" AI agent

ALSO: How to Convert Any Image Into a Reusable JSON Prompt

Sunday Special: China's 'artificial sun' breaks fusion limits

Robotics Special: Atlas bags top prize at CES 2026

Gmail's AI overhaul, powered by Gemini

ALSO: How to practice case interviews with feedback using Claude

ChatGPT Health: get medical & insurance help

ALSO: How to find and cancel forgotten subscriptions with AI

Razer's AI desk companion

How to create compelling infographics with NotebookLM

Nvidia's 6-in-1 chip

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Xreal lets users 3Dify any screen effortlessly

ALSO: How to find the best shopping deals with ChatGPT

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AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

Dell wants GBP10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs - hilarity did not ensue

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk - and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'

Sorry Dave, Im afraid I cant do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln

Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year

Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies

Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

Hyperscalers, vendors funding trillion dollar AI spree, but users will have to pay up long term

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea

Wikimedias 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created

TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years

OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracles borrowing spree sue Big Red

OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal

Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown

Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans

Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2

Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware

AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits

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...