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Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction

Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.

Metas AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

Prices for critical components are surging because of massive data center investments.

OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM

GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.

Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure

New tool builds on deepsets Haystack toward a decentralized open source AI ecosystem.

New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background

An in-app browser allows visual feedback while building websites and more.

Microsoft and Stellantis want to use AI to help car owners

Digital services for brands from Jeep to Peugeot will feel the presence of AI.

Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos

Google is making it easier to feed your photos into Nano Banana for more personal image generation.

Google releases new apps for Windows and MacOS

Google mostly creates products for the web, but it has some new desktop apps today.

Boston Dynamics robot dog now reads gauges and thermometers with Googles AI

Googles AI enables robots to read gauges while inspecting industrial facilities.

Adobe takes Creative Cloud into Claude Code-esque territory

This is a big step in a new strategic direction for Adobe.

Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to AI compute infrastructure

Desperate stock-boosting move recalls 2017s Long Island Blockchain frenzy.

Ukraines military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans

Ukraine is replacing more soldiers with robots in the battlefield kill zone.

Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.

Do you trust AI chatbots for health advice? What about one in your patient portal?

UK govs Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multistep infiltration challenge.

Google introduces Skills in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable

You can save custom prompts you find useful or grab a premade Skill from Googles library.

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees

The Meta chief is personally involved in training and testing his animated AI.

To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

LLM use is the most demoralizing problem Ive faced as a college instructor.

AI models are terrible at betting on soccer-especially xAI Grok

Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI struggle with the Premier League.

What leaked SteamGPT files could mean for the PC gaming platforms use of AI

AI tools could help moderators sift through mountains of suspicious incidents

Pro-Iran Explosive Media trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego cartoons

Group has released over a dozen videos mocking President Trump and the US.

AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry

Mythos is the most psychologically settled model we have trained to date.

Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

Appeals court denies Anthropics emergency motion for a stay.

First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors.

Metas Superintelligence Lab unveils its first public model, Muse Spark

Meta touts strong benchmarks but admits performance gaps in agentic and coding systems.

To beat Altman in court, Musk offers to give all damages to OpenAI nonprofit

Musk wont seek a single dollar in OpenAI suit after asking to pocket up to $134 billion.

Anthropic limits access to Mythos, its new cybersecurity AI model

A select group of customers is testing the Claude Mythos Preview.

What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?

New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.

Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on vibe coding

Use of AI coding tools has become a convenient boogeyman for any tech issues.

Testing suggests Googles AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?

Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging

Intel is hoping to cash in on the AI boom.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says the API is the new UI.With"Headless 360", the company is opening up its entire platform, including Agentforce and Slack, through APIs, theModel Context Protocol(MCP, an interface that connects AI models to external data sources), and a C...

Just ten minutes of using AI as an answer machine can measurably erode problem-solving skills, new study finds

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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

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

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

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

Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston

AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO

Anthropics relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

Anthropic CPO leaves Figmas board after reports he will offer a competing product

InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong

AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and its boosting their revenue too

Robloxs AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games

Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster

Meta raises Quest 3 and Quest 3S prices due to RAM shortage

Hightouch reaches $100M ARR fueled by marketing tools powered by AI

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

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

Robotics Special: Uber bets $10B on a driverless future

Opus 4.7 and Sabi's brain-reading hat

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Gemini gets a Mac app

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Chrome gets one-click prompts

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Claude learns Microsoft Word

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Sunday Special: Artemis 2 makes a successful splashdown

Robotics Special: Unitree brings the R1 humanoid to the US

Perplexity's billion-dollar challenge

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Anthropic announces new Claude Mythos model

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OpenAI's plan for the Intelligence Age

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Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID

Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned

Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod

Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found

Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time

Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits

Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top

Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students

Not all networks can handle AI traffic - and experts are sounding alarms

US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London

Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds - but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users

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...