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Why this months Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

This is the AI men actually use: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls Instagram pics.

Update to Googles AI weather model improves forecast accuracy

Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center

When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode thats invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

Anthropics $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude makers unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks

Googles Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but theres yet another Gemini Flash today.

Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing

Trumps secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.

Zlibrary my beloved: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Lawsuit: Anthropics torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EUs toughest online safety rules

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

Pockets AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Interactive mobile gizmos are easy to make, hard to share outside Metas platform.

Inside Metas push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

Trump blacklisting of woke Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Anthropics new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

Elon Musks xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the single dumbest way imaginable

Tech industry is perplexed by Trumps plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

How much of a problem is AIs water use?

AIs water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.

How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face

Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made large-scale, disruptive actions

Report shows Metas challenges replacing people with AI agents.

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

The AI that powers Gboards Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.

IBMs new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.

World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames

Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.

AI wont replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs

A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They havent.

Apples new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development

Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI-this refresh keeps that in mind.

OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says an OpenAI researcher pressured him after information about his AI-assisted progress on the Navier-Stokes equations allegedly reached the company. The researcher tried to remove his co-author because he works at Anthropic and threatened Buckma...

Argentina's Patagonia is drawing attention as a possible site for large AI data centers.A cool climate, hydropower, wind energy, shale gas from the Vaca Muerta formation, and plenty of empty land are the draw, according to aReuters report.

Meta will no longer judge its engineers by how much they use AI tools.AI dashboards and token counters won't factor into performance reviews anymore, executives Maher Saba and Santosh Janardhan said in an internal memo seen byThe Information. What counts now is the quality, ...

Three years after launch, Mistral AI has closed a 3 billion euro Series D round, pushing its valuation past 21 billion euros.According to Mistral, it's the largest equity funding round any European tech company has ever raised. Samsung Electronics is leading the round, with ...

Inside Key Changes in Data Policies, Ox Alpha Revealed, Taking Custom Models Beyond Fine-Tuning

The Batch News & Insights: A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents.

Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

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

GLM-5.3''s Exploits, AI Models and Hardware Speed Up, DeepSeek''s New Agent Harness

The Batch News & Insights: How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding?

Anthropic''s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen''s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition

The Batch News & Insights: I previously wrote about our AI Engineering Skills Map, with the highest level skills being (i) Building and deploying...

Meta''s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax''s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)

The Batch News & Insights: I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code

The Batch News & Insights: I''m glad the idea of 'utokenmaxxing'u '' that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity '' is finally dying out.

Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute

The Batch News & Insights: My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face''sexperiencewhen closed models failed to defend the company followingan accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.

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

The Batch News & Insights: A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their 'usafe'u proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

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

The Batch News & Insights: As AI increasingly automates coding, it frees up developers to spend time on high-level software development tasks traditionally reserved for senior engineers, like deciding on technical architecture and participating in scoping product requirements...

Restoration of Claude Fable 5, Gemini's Video Dev Engine, DeepSeek Speeds Up Speculative Decoding

The Batch News & Insights: The key idea of agentic coding loops is to have an agent keep working until it satisfies a condition, such as achieving a product specification.

OpenAI''s GPT-5.6 Family, New Ways to Train Robots, Models Invoking Models

The Batch News & Insights: The AI world has become incredibly noisy. Social media, traditional media, and an army of marketers produce a cacophony of hype and content that are often secretly sales pitches for their products.

A New Generation Studies AI, Apple's Recipe for On-Device Models, GLM5.2 Tackles Open-Ended Problems

The Batch News & Insights: 'uLoop engineering'u is a hot buzzphrase after Boris Cherney (Claude Code''s creator) and Peter Steinberger(OpenClaw's creator) both mentioned it on social media.

Testing Mythos and Fable, Moving Beyond SWE-bench, Nvidia's Open Contender

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the last two weeks, both the U.S. Government and Anthropic took significant actions that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with frontier models.

Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

The Batch AI News and Insights: If you haven''t already, I encourage you to experiment with using AI agents not just to chat but to actually do work for you on your desktop.

Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment

The Batch AI News and Insights: There have been intense efforts over the past few years to lobby governments to pass AI laws for regulatory capture or to suppress open source.

Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic

The Batch AI News and Insights: One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client'&#...

Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?

The Batch AI News and Insights: Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class.

Your last chance to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends tonight

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Travis Kalanicks Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Googles Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

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

Viral eco-friendly AI app draws backlash

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Another Microsoft team admits its struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years - without hurting outsourcing

Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month

US claims Chinese AI companies core AI strategy is distilling American models

Spooks and CISA point to industrial-scale distillation by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic

Vend it like Altman

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access

Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle

DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check

Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips

Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute

Mistral bags EUR3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion

Samsung-led round values the French model maker at more than EUR21B

Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns

Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'

OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on

'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own

Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development

Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds

Last week, he blamed himself for being a grade A nincompoop who assumed a system upgrade couldnt possibly go wrong

Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more

Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you

Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases

AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets

AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk

ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides

15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver

OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders

Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams

OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring

OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot

Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands

$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note

True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once

All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues

Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users

When the moon is in the seventh house...

Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance

But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard

GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem

To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks

Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job

Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'

While you wait, Meta says its taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often

Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say

Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'

AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip

Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend

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...