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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure intact mental health

The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that wont compile.

Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027

Apple, OpenAI, Meta, and more are all racing toward AI hardware products.

Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musks chosen court

Millions likely harmed by Grok-edited sex images as X advertisers shrugged.

Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini

Google says more kinds of standardized tests will be added in the future.

Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable Personal Intelligence

Personal Intelligence is optional and rolling out first to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.

eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

New policy requires buy for me AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform.

Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.

Did Apple make the right choice in partnering with Google for Siris AI features?

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now theres a plugin to avoid them.

The webs best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.

Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft

Musks math reduced ChatGPT inventors contributions to zero, OpenAI argued.

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.

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.

New study disrupts the narrative that ChatGPT's launch triggered a job decline

The story sounds simple: ChatGPT launched, jobs in AI-exposed fields disappeared. But a new study shows the decline started months before the chatbot arrived. The researchers argue we shouldnt pin all labor market problems on AI.

ChatGPT fails to spot 92% of fake videos made by OpenAI's own Sora tool

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Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

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

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

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

This founder cracked firefighting - now hes creating an AI gold mine

ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musks Grokipedia

Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and theyre building a model to prove it

Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI

Apple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri assistant in February

Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app

Only 1 week left (or until the first 500 passes are gone): The first TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket discount is ending

Former Sequoia partners new startup uses AI to negotiate your calendar for you

OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars in 2026

Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test as Claude improves

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable

TikTok users freak out over apps immigration status collection - heres what it means

TikTok users freak out over apps immigration status collection - heres what it means

Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted Poland power outage

Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted Poland power outage

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: Scientists uncover a 'new form of life'

Robotics Special: Swiss scientists unveil detachable robotic hand

Meet the 24/7 AI time assistant

ALSO: How AI Influencers Are Replacing Human Creators

Amazon & Anthropic release AI healthcare tools

ALSO: How predictive intelligence can streamline your sales pipeline at Salesforce

The vibe is shifting

ALSO: How to Build an App Using Claude Artifacts

OpenAI rockets to record $20B revenue

ALSO: How to apply AI to real work problems in 5 minutes

Astral's viral AI marketer

ALSO: How to create landing page from UI inspirations

Sunday Special: Mushrooms and "mini-earthquakes"

Robotics Special: OpenAI eyes huge manufacturing push

Altman's brain computer startup

ALSO: How to Build No-Code AI Agents for Workflows

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

AI vibe coding: when automation convenience becomes security debt

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

How an experienced developer teamed up with Claude to create Elo programming language

Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers

Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination

Microsoft Intune changes to start biting unprepared admins

AI-powered cyberattack kits are 'just a matter of time,' warns Google exec

Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities

Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45%

AI conference's papers contaminated by AI hallucinations

Female-dominated careers among most exposed to AI disruption

Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

Uncle Sam's VMware 'bargain' doesn't include the actual hypervisor

Turing Institute Chief Scientist takes acting CEO role amid defense push

Anthropic writes 23,000-word 'constitution' for Claude, suggests it may have feelings

eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots

Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue

AI networking startup Upscale scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch

Davos discussion mulls how to keep AI agents from running wild

AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass

Trump promises nuclear datacenter permits in 3 weeks, calls Greenland 'big beautiful ice'

We come in peace, OpenAI tells locals near gargantuan Stargate facilities

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...