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No, Grok cant really apologize for posting non-consensual sexual images

Letting the unreliable Grok be its own spokesperson lets xAI off the hook.

OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

Voice has lagged in adoption behind screens. OpenAI wants to change that.

xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Groks apology

xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM.

ByteDance's StoryMem gives AI video models a memory so characters stop shapeshifting between scenes

ByteDance tackles one of AI video generations most persistent problems: characters that change appearance from scene to scene. The new StoryMem system remembers how characters and environments should look, keeping them consistent throughout an entire story.

"You certainly don't tell a researcher like me what to do" says LeCun as he exits Meta for his own startup

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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

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

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 Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

Tech billionaires cashed out $16 billion in 2025 as stocks soared

India orders Musks X to fix Grok over obscene AI content

Nvidias AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold

OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

College dropout has become the most coveted startup founder credential

Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026

Plaud Note Pro is an excellent AI-powered recorder that I carry everywhere

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective

Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groqs tech and hire its CEO

Waymo is testing Gemini as an in-car AI assistant in its robotaxis

Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies

10 useful gadgets for your first apartment

10 useful gadgets for your first apartment

Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard

Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard

OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

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

Robotics Special: AgiBot's backpack-sized robot

The AI "soul computer"

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OpenAI's $555,000 job

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Nvidia licenses chipmaker Groqs tech in reported $20 billion deal

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Sunday Special: Paraplegic engineer shatters space accessibility

Robotics Special: A rental platform for robotics

ChatGPT Wrapped is here

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Qwen: layered image editing with AI

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Sunday Special: Scientists spot lemon-shaped planet

Robotics Special: Roomba maker files for bankruptcy

ChatGPT's App Store goes live

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Meet Gemini 3 Flash: Fast, strong, cost-effective

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Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns

LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles

Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems

Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot

Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025

The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon ... by 17 years!

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

Google snaps up datacenter power biz Intersect while xAI plans more capacity

Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement

How Microsoft gave customers what they wanted: An audience with Bill Gates

Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.

US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots

Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong

When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight

Tis the season when tech leaders rub their crystal balls

Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words

China drafts worlds strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence

China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned.

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top?

How AI coding agents work-and what to remember if you use them

From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, heres what makes them tick.

Salesforces ChatGPT integration is really about stopping customers from leaking their own data

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

OpenAIs child exploitation reports increased sharply this year

Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.

Worlds largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotifys most streamed songs

Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Annas Archive scraped.

Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi

Google says the lawsuit is its last resort.

LG TVs unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs AI problems

LG says itll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots arent going away.

We asked four AI coding agents to rebuildMinesweeper-the results were explosive

How do four modern LLMs do at re-creating a simple Windows gaming classic?

YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

Google loves AI content, except when it doesnt.

School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasnt an error.

Human review didnt stop AI from triggering lockdown at panicked middle school.

OpenAIs new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy

New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.

Bursting AI bubble may be EUs secret weapon in clash with Trump, expert says

Spotify and Accenture caught in crossfire as Trump attacks EU tech regulations.

Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, promising improved intelligence and efficiency

Googles Gemini 3 family is now complete with release of Gemini 3 Flash.

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

A Band-Aid on a giant gash: Trumps attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot

Trumps AI Manhattan Project will fail if DOGE cuts are kept, critics say.

Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.

Merriam-Websters word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die

OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex, OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code.

Google Translate expands live translation to all earbuds on Android

Expanded live translation will come to iOS in the coming months.

Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands

Managing each finger separately can, with the right sensors, ease control issues.

Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to

Trump claims state laws force AI makers to embed ideological bias in models.

Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids

... AI toys shouldnt be capable of having sexually explicit conversations, period.

Runway claims its GWM-1 world models can stay coherent for minutes at a time

Runway joins a competitive field alongside Google, Nvidia, and others.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after code red Google threat alert

Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.

Disney says Google AI infringes copyright on a massive scale

Disney demands that Google immediately block its copyrighted content from appearing in AI outputs.

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...