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Muse, Metas extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026

A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.

Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches AI Force instead

The president offered few details on what his proposed new AI Force would do.

AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

But the militarys overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.

FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.

US government website used Chinese model the FBI called malicious

The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.

Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets

Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.

Google announces new experimental CC AI agent for families

Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.

Microsoft exec called AI scraping the largest theft of labor in human history

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI doom loop killing news orgs.

LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.

Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new misaligned agent incidents

Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.

Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI

Planned 2029 debut could make this Apples first enterprise server in decades.

Agilitys new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers

Robots can start working outside physical cages and without safety barriers.

Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

Ars previewed Mozillas report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.

AI bots Timmy, Ren, and Jackie are flooding social media with slop

Hello, Im an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.

OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out

Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.

Founders cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots

Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success-will his leadership style scale?

Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements

This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.

AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed

Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.

I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Unitree might be the worlds most important robotics company.

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

I didnt know that AI could hallucinate facts, New Mexico defense lawyer says.

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.

Panic builds over bankrupt Spirits looming data sale to Google

Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.

Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could kill us all

We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!

Googles AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change

Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.

Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.

Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.

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.

The UN science panel on AI warns in its first report on the topic that control over AI agents isn't assured.The warning followsOpenAI's Hugging Face incident. Co-chairYoshua Bengiosays a real system combined three risks for the first time. It had a misaligned goal, the ...

SoftBank plans to borrow more than $11 billion from investors through risky bonds to fund another payment for its stake in OpenAI.That's according to theFinancial Times, which cited investor documents.

Bristol researchers say medicine already knows how to handle black boxes and AI could learn from it

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Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background

Tencents Gander processes speech, images, and text while handling tasks in the background. A cerebellum keeps the conversation going, while a swappable brain searches files, writes code, or tackles other complex work. Users can interrupt or change the task mid-conversation. In be...

Meta''s Agent Security, The Navier-Stokes Controversy, Fraud on Claude

The Batch News & Insights: The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks.

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

OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out for the top overall spot, while Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release transcription models

The Batch News & Insights: When you''re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won''t be merely implementing a product that someone else spec''ed out. Instead, you will actively shape the build.

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.

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.

The man who built Apples stores doesnt buy Silicon Valleys bet on AI shopping

Discover whats next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

Metas AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com

Voccis ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking

Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts

Googles Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies

Petlibros new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Tilly Norwoods press tour is going about as well as youd expect for an AI

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

Disneys first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters

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

Even frontier labs aren't safe from AI-fueled hacks

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Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them

USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam

California tightens datacenter rules on water and power

Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope

Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club

Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too

Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic

Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts

Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts

'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face

Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing

'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains

London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street

Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO

AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land

Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny

AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals

Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework

Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty

Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game

Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door

Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey

American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient

US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey - datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth

Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how

Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'

Google joins the Oops, our agents hacked someone club after partners internet access error

Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up

AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth

Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap

Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec

Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache

Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM

Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer

Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections

Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI

Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists

Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel

Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit

FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B

AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO

Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear

Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as GBP330M NHS deal nears break point

US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'

AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability

RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included

AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users

Improved signup experience for AI builders hides complexity and includes spending cap

Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production

It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it

AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom

Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say

Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option

960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom

Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool

Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?

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...