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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.

Lawsuit claims Metas layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans

Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.

US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time

US militarys drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.

Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI

The new Google image search will use your unique interests to create an always-updated gallery.

New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

New Yorks data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.

Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets

OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

Context bombing tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and whats still unsettled.

Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.

OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run for hours if needed.

Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs

Preclinical trial is testing the feasibility of humanoid robots in surgery.

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

AI cheating leads to a failed society, professor says.

Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.

Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.

Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

HalluSquatting weaponizes LLMs inability to say I dont know.

Data centers energy demand threatens Trumps Made in America plan

Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trumps manufacturing plan.

Facing US export controls, Chinas DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

Its early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.

How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces-and maybe homes

Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving.

Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropics anti-surveillance stance

Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says experiment is over.

Google's "Frozen v2" chip reportedly bakes Gemini's architecture directly into silicon for efficiency gains

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Google Deepmind argues video generators already contain the world models computer vision has been missing

Google Deepminds GenCeption repurposes a video generator for classic vision tasks such as depth estimation and segmentation, matching state-of-the-art systems with far less training data. The model trained almost entirely on synthetic videos. Its results add to the debate over wh...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Claude Code''s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference

Claude Code''s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference

Anthropics landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

Adobe camera apps new feature will critique your photos using AI

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAIs hardware plans?

Odyssey director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious Trojan horse

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AIs favorite second act

The Zoom hack that says, Dont record me

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Teslas backyard

Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Apple and Google ordered to purge nudify apps from App Stores

Apple and Google ordered to purge nudify apps from App Stores

Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack

Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

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

China is closing the AI gap

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Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month

Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who - or what - users are talking to

Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball

On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire - literally

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on GBP45B AI savings

Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner

Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Connect all the things and watch what happens

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters

South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files - but it's an 'honest mistake'

Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid

Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

Models demand trust without offering verification

TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids

The Chocolate Factory is not amused

AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You

Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year

AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding

Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure

SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud

AI-and-X subsidiary now claims to offer complete user privacy days after Elon Musk confirmed the data would be deleted

Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open

Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs

Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design

One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, KeyBanc analysts claim

Investment bank cites messy customer data and a product that 'just isn't there'; Salesforce counters by saying it the fastest-growing product in its history

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web

'We don't serve their kind here' protects today's publishers, but won't help rebels destroy the monetization Death Stars built by Google and Meta

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills

Gartner thinks were headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop theft of content

PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark

Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages

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...