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Record scratch-Googles Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today

With a simple prompt, you can generate 30 seconds of something like music.

ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI clip art

Hollywood backlash puts spotlight on ByteDances sketchy launch of Seedance 2.0.

Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers

Hayden AIs cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.

Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

This story has been retracted

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didnt make a single cent

These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace.

OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

OpenAIs new GPT5.3CodexSpark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

We let Chromes Auto Browse agent surf the web for us-heres what happened

Auto Browse is capable of some impressive things, but it can also crash and burn spectacularly.

OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of Facebook path

Zo Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.

Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musks xAI

Tony Wu leaves a company now entangled with social media, space-based IPOs.

Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades.

No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents

SpaceMoltenvisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch.

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.

Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Production source says it takes weeks to produce just minutes of usable video.

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

The emphasis is on mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates.

OpenAI is hoppin mad about Anthropics new Super Bowl TV ads

Sam Altman calls AI competitor dishonest and authoritarian in lengthy post on X.

Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race

Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

ChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.

Nvidias $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished

Two AI giants shake market confidence after investment fails to materialize.

X office raided in Frances Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning

Paris prosecutor: Illegal content probe includes pornographic images of minors.

Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP

With Model Context Protocol (MCP), this works with more than Codex/Claude, too.

Senior staff departing OpenAI as firm prioritizes ChatGPT development

Resources are redirected from long-term research toward improving the flagship chatbot.

The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat

We dont need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAIs mission.

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app

The macOS app does everything the CLI, IDE, and web interfaces do.

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and its getting weird fast

Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.

Developers say AI coding tools work-and thats precisely what worries them

Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.

Google brings AI music generation to Gemini with Deepmind's Lyria 3

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Apple is pushing ahead with three wearable AI devices: smart glasses, a pendant, and AirPods with a camera, according to Bloomberg.Whilethese product categories had been rumored for a while, new details are now emerging.

Context files for coding agents often don't help - and may even hurt performance

Context files are supposed to make coding agents more productive. New research shows that only works under very specific conditions.

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinks Smarter, xAI Joins SpaceX, AI Outperforms Doctors, Standardized AI Audits

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinks Smarter, xAI Joins SpaceX, AI Outperforms Doctors, Standardized AI Audits

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

OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi''s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia''s Partners

OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi''s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia''s Partners

Agents Go Shopping, Intelligence Redefined, Better Text in Pictures, Higher Engagement Means Worse Alignment

Agents Go Shopping, Intelligence Redefined, Better Text in Pictures, Higher Engagement Means Worse Alignment

Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

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

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

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW

Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than 6 months

Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers confidential emails to Copilot AI

Apple is reportedly cooking up a trio of AI wearables

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers devices, citing security risks

Amazon Fire TVs new interface is now rolling out in the US

SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending

Metas own research found parental supervision doesnt really help curb teens compulsive social media use

Metas own research found parental supervision doesnt really help curb teens compulsive social media use

How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months

How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months

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

Anthropic drops Sonnet 4.6, claiming "human-level" computer abilities

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The ChatGPT moment for voice

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OpenAI hires OpenClaw's founder

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Sunday Special: Landmark study hints at ancient life on Mars

Robotics Special: Apptronik triples valuation to $5.3B

New AI video model takes over the internet

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AI-generated essay goes viral and sounds the alarm bells

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Build personalized apps on Nothing

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OpenAI rolls out ads in ChatGPT

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The $70M domain name

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Sunday Special: Giant Phantom Jelly makes on-camera debut

Robotics Special: Waymo hits record valuation

Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk

UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better

China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off - or pay the price

China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down'

Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator

Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom

Tesla drops 'Autopilot' branding in California after DMV order

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

HackerOne 'updating' Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they're training AI

Palo Alto CEO says AI isnt great for business, yet

Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build

Anthropic's latest Sonnet gets better at using computers, amid bouts of existential angst

Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic

GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

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...