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South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

South Korea plans to train entire military as drone warriors

Half-million-strong military will train on drones as universal combat tool.

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Notion is going all in on using agents to run your inbox.

Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026

It took 20 years, but the Finance app arrives just in time to be packed full of AI.

Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack

Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.

IBM claims worlds first sub-1 nanometer chip technology

IBMs nanostack transistors could boost chip performance or energy efficiency.

OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.

Oracles 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments

Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots

Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book,The Reverse Centaurs Guide to Life After AI.

GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers

US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.

How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban

The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.

As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military

Taiwans drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas.

Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry

Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders AI wealth fund.

AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties

Nvidias self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.

Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what

AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.

Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder

Googles new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.

Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAIs gas turbines

NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.

Anthropic pauses token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users costs.

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

Separately, neither could compete. Now they hope they can.

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.

Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users

SearchLeak exploit shows why the industrys approach to LLM security fails over and over.

Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021

Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 jailbreak could be a national security threat.

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.

Heres what Jeff Bezos new startup Prometheus will do

It isnt the only startup tackling physical AI, but its one of the best-funded.

Ukraines one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers

Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a taste of political power.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use.That's according to areport from The Information. Distillation works by having a smaller model learn from a larger model's outpu...

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data.According to internal documents obtained by The Information, Meta has even temporarily halted certain work wi...

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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

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

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

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

The AI jobs debate just got messier

Geminis personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise

Ford rehires gray beard engineers after AI falls short

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Trump administration releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies

Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit

Patronus AI lands $50M to build digital worlds that stress-test AI agents

Govees smart nugget ice maker makes every iced drink feel like a luxury

Govees smart nugget ice maker makes every iced drink feel like a luxury

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

OpenAI launched strongest new models

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South Koreas hot new sensation is 3S+1F - a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band

Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse

Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection

If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge

AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity

You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy

NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

Please state the nature of the medical emergency

It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns

Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says

Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds

Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations

Notion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox

More than half of users now let bots handle email, so service is headed for shutdown

Chinese cybersecurity company claims its built a better-than-Mythos bug finder

Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says its needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models

AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI

Sorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI

OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents

Codex, it's not just for developers, really

Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers

Fondleslab and Mac prices rise by hundreds; phones safe ... for now

Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure

Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge

Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting

CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas

IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because theres more to writing software than writing software

Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits

Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI

Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop

Prompting less and automating more comes with a price

OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom

Jalapeo is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker

Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit

200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down

Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them

Did you read all the documents you signed last time you had a medical test?

AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them

Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns

Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs

Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads

OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost

Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker

The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack

Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era

Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP

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...