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Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

BadHost was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent

A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.

3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild

Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers.

US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots voices

Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.

Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go

Trump delays AI safety testing EO, claiming it would be an innovation blocker.

AI put synthetic quotes in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his bookThe Future of Truth.

As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI

SpaceX IPO filing pitches orbital data centers as Grok lags rival AI services.

Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

Googles AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026.

The Internet cant stop watching Figure AIs humanoid robots handling packages

Figure AIs 24/7 livestream showcases human soft spot for humanoid robots.

Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks

Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data.

Googles SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction.

Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense

Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.

Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers

NextEras blockbuster deal with Dominion likely means higher bills for consumers.

Legal fail: Dont use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

Fake citations dashed a dudes Are We Dating the Same Guy revenge lawsuit.

Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

Musk plans to appeal after judge immediately affirmed the jurys decision.

Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

Never-ending AI slop strains corporate hacking reward schemes.

The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know its taking this very seriously.

Anthropics $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.

Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions

One of the sites moderators described the new policy on social media.

OpenAI feels burned by Apples crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say

Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.

Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom

This is a public trust and transparency issue.

Claude Codes product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the lean harness

We have no grand plan, says Anthropics Cat Wu-but thats by design.

Lake Tahoe residents lose energy supplier to data center boom

Towns 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.

Your doctors AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds

Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.

Desperate Trump taps Tim Apple, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit

Xi meeting may force Trump to pivot on chip restrictions and Taiwan.

AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat-but peers wont snitch

Old honor code systems are under strain.

Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that hes a prolific liar

Very painful: Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act evil

But training on synthetic stories that model good AI behavior can help.

Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update

The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.

The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.

Anthropic employees say Claude Mythos can also solve OpenAI's "AI math milestone."OpenAI recentlydisproved the Erds unit-distance conjecture, an open problem in combinatorial geometry since 1946. Anthropic engineer Sholto Douglaswrote on Xthat Mythos solves it with...

Google Cloud COO Francis de Souza is urging companies to build security into their AI strategy from day one."There's no such thing as an AI strategy without a data strategy and a security strategy," he said at an event in Los Angeles. According toTechCrunch, he als...

AI models often give the right answers but point to the wrong sources

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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?

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

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

Nvidia''s Open Salvo, OpenAI''s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models

Nvidia''s Open Salvo, OpenAI''s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models

Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek''s Huawei Play, Apple''s Multimodal Tokenizer

Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek''s Huawei Play, Apple''s Multimodal Tokenizer

GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI''s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple''s Diffusion Research

GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI''s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple''s Diffusion Research

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana''s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google''s Mathematics Solutions

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana''s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google''s Mathematics Solutions

Gemini Seizes the Lead, Investors Panic Over Agentic AI, Optimism at Global AI Summit, Local Versus Cloud

Gemini Seizes the Lead, Investors Panic Over Agentic AI, Optimism at Global AI Summit, Local Versus Cloud

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI''s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, Faster Reasoning

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI''s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, Faster Reasoning

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

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

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

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being force-fed Googles AI Search

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket rates end May 29

Xreal, Googles smart glasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry

Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

How VCs and founders use inflated ARR to crown AI startups

You can no longer Google the word disregard

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Trump delays AI security executive order, saying language could have been a blocker

The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier

I tried Amazons Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

I tried Amazons Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

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

The Pope issues warning on AI

May 26, 2026

Anthropic cofounder hallucinates ghost in the machine after hearing the Pope speak about AI

The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human.

Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion

RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale

The SaaS-pocalypse can wait, Salesforce still has customers where it wants them

AI coding agents may make software cheaper to build, but switching off major platforms remains expensive and risky

SaaS outfit ClickUp promises seven-figure salaries for survivors of 22 percent staff purge

CEO jumps on the We must be fit for the AI future bandwagon

Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power

Worries change may be governed only by technocratic thinking and presented as necessary and inevitable

Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

Google Search used to direct users to websites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden

Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public

AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments

Linus Torvalds to start being more hardnosed about pointless pull requests - some of which come from AIs

Warns large release candidates are *not* conducive to long-term stability

AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend

Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia show the new reality

Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue

Text is the new attack

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools

Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right

Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot

As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank

Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops

Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage

Listening to your customers? Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?

Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits

CEO eyes margin gains by keeping headcount flat - bold for a company selling HR software to employers

Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results

Youll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos

Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers

Just like in The Truman Show

Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing

All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players

HackerOne takes an axe to its bug bounty rewards

Critical flaw payouts slashed by more than 75%

AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you

New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins

Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice

AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh

Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too

Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat

Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report

Developer: AI coding agent broke production and generated fictitious post-mortem paperwork after the rollback

Vivaldi 8 polishes the chrome without coating it in AI

Unified UI revamp gives browser a cleaner look while rivals keep wedging assistants into the web

Apple adds AI smarts to Voice Control, VoiceOver and Magnifier ahead of Accessibility Day

Natural language commands and better image descriptions but Mac users and dictation fans may still be waiting

Microsoft storms RAMPART, adds Clarity to agentic AI safety

Redmond open sources two tools for building and maintaining safer agents

UK.gov hikes health AI tender by 400% - and hundreds of millions - after a chat with suppliers

Maximum framework value sky-rockets from GBP150M to GBP600M after 'an extensive intelligence gathering exercise'

SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist in IPO filing

Aims for the stars while burning cash and blowing deadlines on Earth

AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself

If you spend at least eight hours a day vibe coding that is

AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds

CloudBees survey exposes verification gap

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...