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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Unitree might be the worlds most important robotics company.

ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

I didnt know that AI could hallucinate facts, New Mexico defense lawyer says.

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

Some dangerous biology looks much like legitimate research, complicating AI safeguards.

Panic builds over bankrupt Spirits looming data sale to Google

Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.

Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could kill us all

We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!

Googles AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change

Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.

Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.

Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.

Why this months Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

This is the AI men actually use: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls Instagram pics.

Update to Googles AI weather model improves forecast accuracy

Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center

When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode thats invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

Anthropics $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude makers unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks

Googles Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but theres yet another Gemini Flash today.

Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing

Trumps secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.

Zlibrary my beloved: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Lawsuit: Anthropics torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EUs toughest online safety rules

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

Pockets AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Interactive mobile gizmos are easy to make, hard to share outside Metas platform.

Inside Metas push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

Trump blacklisting of woke Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Anthropics new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

Elon Musks xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the single dumbest way imaginable

Tech industry is perplexed by Trumps plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

Elevenlabs has released Music v2.5 for ElevenMusic.The company says generated songs now sound fuller and more natural. In a blind test with 47,885 comparison pairs, listeners preferred v2.5 most of the time, especially for R&B, Soul, Hip-Hop, Rock, and orchestral music. Users...

Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class

The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models that lead benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never t...

GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

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OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out for the top overall spot, while Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release transcription models

The Batch News & Insights: When you''re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won''t be merely implementing a product that someone else spec''ed out. Instead, you will actively shape the build.

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

Inside Key Changes in Data Policies, Ox Alpha Revealed, Taking Custom Models Beyond Fine-Tuning

The Batch News & Insights: A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents.

GLM-5.3''s Exploits, AI Models and Hardware Speed Up, DeepSeek''s New Agent Harness

The Batch News & Insights: How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding?

Anthropic''s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen''s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition

The Batch News & Insights: I previously wrote about our AI Engineering Skills Map, with the highest level skills being (i) Building and deploying...

Meta''s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax''s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)

The Batch News & Insights: I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code

The Batch News & Insights: I''m glad the idea of 'utokenmaxxing'u '' that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity '' is finally dying out.

Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute

The Batch News & Insights: My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face''sexperiencewhen closed models failed to defend the company followingan accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.

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 'usafe'u proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

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: 'uLoop engineering'u 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'&#...

Whats behind the AI industrys latest warnings of doom?

OpenAIs Sam Altman says it would be ill-advised to go public in 2026

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

Y Combinators Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models, too

One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue

Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year

Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch

The hinge for Apples new foldable phone was built with AI

Apples revamped Health app will calculate your health age and readiness score

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

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

Sunday Special: Worlds first flying boat takes off

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AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner

Model-makers move too fast and dont care when they break things

Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it Pace the frontier

Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

RIP, you won't be mourned

Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late

Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required

AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money

Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life

Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree

Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace

DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it

Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

Its a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too

OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time

GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

Everyone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun

Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'

Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!

OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services

AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button

Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 - at a premium

NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools

Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair, or boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite

d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs

AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers

AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills

Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter

Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's

AI models don't kill people - people kill people

AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve

Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain

Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory

Another Microsoft team admits its struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years - without hurting outsourcing

Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month

US claims Chinese AI companies core AI strategy is distilling American models

Spooks and CISA point to industrial-scale distillation by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic

Vend it like Altman

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access

Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle

DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check

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...