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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

OpenAI slams court order that lets NYT read 20 million complete user chats

OpenAI: NYT wants evidence of ChatGPT users trying to get around news paywall.

Metas star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Metas shift from research to rapid product releases.

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New computational Turing test reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool

ChatGPT leaks seem to confirm OpenAI scrapes Google, expert says.

Gemini Deep Research comes to Google Finance, backed by prediction market data

Deep Research and predictions based on Kalshi and Polymarket data are coming soon to Google Finance.

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.

5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

You wouldnt know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.

If you want to satiate AIs hunger for power, Google suggests going to space

Google engineers think they already have all the pieces needed to build a data center in orbit.

So long, Assistant-Gemini is taking over Google Maps

Gemini is rolling out to Maps on Android and iOS, with Android Auto coming soon.

Googles new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season

Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.

Meet Project Suncatcher, Googles plan to put AI data centers in space

Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready.

LLMs show a highly unreliable capacity to describe their own internal processes

Anthropic finds some LLM self-awareness, but failures of introspection remain the norm.

Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senators complaint

Sen. Marsha Blackburn says Gemma concocted sexual misconduct allegations against her.

OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns rivals about chasing low-margin AI compute

OpenAI launches GPT-5.1 API with improved coding capabilities and new developer features

You can now casually infringe on copyright with Googles NotebookLM, too

Human-aligned AI models prove more robust and reliable

Deepminds latest AI agent learns by exploring unfamiliar games and AI-built worlds

Gemini Live gets its biggest update yet.Google says its voice-based AI is now faster, more expressive, and capable of speaking with different accents. Users can also control the speed of its replies. The new update is also said to improve language learning and pronunciation pract...

OpenAI pushes ChatGPT toward a more personal assistant with GPT-5.1 update

Anthropic bets $50 billion on US AI data centers

ElevenLabs opens a marketplace for iconic AI voices

Baidu's latest ERNIE model brings visual reasoning to open-source AI

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

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 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

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

Gemini''s Environmental Impact, China''s Emerging AI Hub, Chatbot Job Interviews, Security For Agents

Gemini''s Environmental Impact, China''s Emerging AI Hub, Chatbot Job Interviews, Security For Agents

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

VCs abandon old rules for a funky time of investing in AI startups

Apples new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with third-party AI

Googles SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3B 5 months after its previous round

Microsofts plan to fix its chip problem is, partly, to let OpenAI do the heavy lifting

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio

Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages

Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers

Spotify introduces a Premium Platinum plan with lossless access in five markets

Spotify introduces a Premium Platinum plan with lossless access in five markets

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vines video archive

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vines video archive

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

ChatGPT gets a personality upgrade

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Investors spooked as SoftBank sells Nvidia stake

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'uAnti-PowerPoint" startup raises at $2.1 billion valuation

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Perplexity signs $400B deal with Snap

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Sunday Special: The most powerful cosmic event ever observed

Robotics Special: XPENG's Iron crosses the uncanny valley

Musk gets $1 trillion pay package

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Google Maps gets Gemini-fied

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(TM) Gemini launches custom presentations

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OpenAI announces another mega deal, as concerns grow

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ChatGPT Atlas can surf the web for you

ALSO: How to dictate anywhere on your computer with AI

Sunday Special: Supersonic jet takes off without the 'boom'

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch

Russias first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows

OpenAIs viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads

Tablet market stalls because theres not much new worth buying

VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong

Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape

Google is rolling out conversational shopping-and ads-in AI Mode search

Conversational shopping is Googles first big swing at monetizing AI Mode search.

Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents

OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions

Google apes Apple, swears cloud-based AI will keep your info private

Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware

Google says new cloud-based Private AI Compute is just as secure as local processing

New system allows devices to connect directly to secure space in Googles AI servers.

Google announces even more AI in Photos app, powered by Nano Banana

Googles Nano Banana is powering a raft of new features in the app.

You wont believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI

I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard.

EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Techs hands'

US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies

UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing

Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry

AI isn't throttling HPC. ItisHPC

Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI after just six months in the job

Superintelligence probably not happening, but AI will still reshape society, expert panel says

LLM side-channel attack could allow snoops to guess what you're talking about

AI companies keep publishing private API keys to GitHub

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials

YouTubers suspect AI is bizarrely removing popular video explainers.

Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane

Given a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals.

Cursor introduces its coding model alongside multi-agent interface

The vibe-coding IDE put an emphasis on speed with Composer.

Unexpectedly, a deer briefly entered the family room: Living with Gemini Home

Gemini for Home unleashes gen AI on your Nest camera footage, but it gets a lot wrong.

Caught cheating in class, college students apologized using AI-and profs called them out

Time for some life lessons.

ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes $1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses

It could be one of the biggest IPOs of all time, according to Reuters.

After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users

AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns.

Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for personal use

Meta says lawsuit claiming it pirated porn to train AI makes no sense.

Nvidia hits record $5 trillion mark as CEO dismisses AI bubble concerns

I dont believe were in an AI bubble, says Huang after announcing $500B in orders.

Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

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...