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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.

Despite AI hype, Googles data shows workers arent automating themselves away

Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.

Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

Google and Reddit do not own the Internet, web scraper says after court win

Googles and Reddits use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.

Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many

Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an authors style

New behavior capturing a writers broad qualities could have legal implications.

Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template

Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

Heres a more natural, flowing version of that section...

Anthropics Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Googles AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

AI firms want more data centers; Trumps EPA may give neighbors less say

Rule would allow states to decide how much-if any-public input there can be.

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.

Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents, Hugging Face CEO says.

Unlimited AI tokens arent unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply

Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.

Anthropics $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4

There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.

Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round

California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

Augment Codes Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.

Will AI fix prior authorization-or make it worse?

The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

Its official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

xAI cant deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So its suing users.

Elon Musks xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.

Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: Fork it. Or just walk away.

Creator says he will very loudly ignore those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

OpenAIs first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.

Anthropic says its Mythos model found vulnerabilities in cryptographic algorithms that secure the internet

Anthropics Claude Mythos Preview found weaknesses in key cryptographic algorithms, including a better attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme that human experts had reviewed for more than two years. The model found it in just 60 hours at an API cost of about $100,000. The...

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employeein connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according toBloombergandReuters.

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 "safe" proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

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

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: "Loop engineering" 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's ...

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.

China Thwarts Meta's Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

The Batch AI News and Insights: We've been working on AI Andrew, an AI companion shaped by my personality.

Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

The Batch AI News and Insights: There will be no AI jobpocalypse.

GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans

The Batch AI News and Insights: The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.

GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work

The Batch AI News and Insights: Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.

Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts

The Batch AI News and Insights: AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics

The Batch AI News and Insights: As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering?

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises

Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

OpenAIs Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control

Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs

Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

Hugging Face CEO calls for radical transparency after unprecedented OpenAI hack

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

Largest open weight model ever is now available

Jul 28, 2026

Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix

Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay

A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch

With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads - but gone before they arrived

MCP gets an enterprise makeover

Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with 'an easier-to-live-with lifecycle

Looks like JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face

The vendor won't confirm or deny

Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives

Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable

War machines can run amok with AI in control

Tour of the AI kill chain maps the risks of ubiquitous surveillance and flawed algorithms

Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs

Secret to their success: Using the right model for the right security job

College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought

32 of 35 students were caught in his nonsense text trap

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

VulnCheck says fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been weaponized, casting doubt on claims frontier models are handing attackers a major advantage

Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok

Postmortem offers finer details on the 'unprecedented' attack that's reshaping approaches to security

Too many AI agents can get in each other's way

For enterprise agents, less is more

Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops

Token costs not quite sorted, but on-prem will be an option

China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models

Beijing happy to take all necessary measures if sanctioned

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

AI seems to have a liberal bias

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper

Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude

Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation

Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms

MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4

Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack

The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems

Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill

History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says

OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models

If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again

Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI

PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!

How AI drove Shopify back to clean code

Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention

AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI

Hey Claude, optimize this model for me

Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI

Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism

Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents

Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal

Intel knows it needs to leapfrog ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil - unless you tell them to be

Attack models gonna attack

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...