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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.

Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers

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.

Will I be OK? Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him safely experiment with drugs, logs show.

Googles Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and theyre coming this year

Google has revealed its vision for the AI laptop of tomorrow.

Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026

Google has big plans for Android in 2026, and most of it is AI.

Amazon employees are tokenmaxxing due to pressure to use AI tools

Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.

Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water, and nobody noticed for months

Can AI save us from the AI industrys endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.

The new Wild West of AI kids toys

These connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.

Sony says efficient AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market

But human artists still must remain at the center, PlayStation maker says.

Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews

Googles AI search will start citing its sources in several new ways.

Chromes 4GB AI model isnt new, but youre not wrong for being confused

You can stop Chrome from taking up 4GB of storage for local AI, but that shouldnt be your problem.

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have almost no false positives

The developer of Firefox says it has completely bought in on AI-assisted bug discovery.

Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit

The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today.

Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla

Musk was prepared to do the for-profit, provided he would get control.

Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch

TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.

Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

Google DeepMind partners withEVE Onlinefor AI model testing

Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations.

World Action Models give robots the ability to simulate consequences before they move

World Action Models tackle a basic weakness of todays robotics AI: current models learn which movements match which camera images, but they dont understand how the world actually changes as a result. A new survey organizes about a hundred papers into two architectural lines and s...

OpenAI is reshuffling its management structure again.Co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking over the company's product strategy,Wired reports. Brockman had been filling the role on an interim basis whileFidji Simo, CEO for AGI Deployment, is on medical l...

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

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

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

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

Apples Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats

Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy

Silicon Valleys vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Runway started by helping filmmakers - now it wants to beat Google at AI

OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone

Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard

Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports record quarterly revenue

Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27

Musks xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support

Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support

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: Students unveil affordable hearing aids

May 17, 2026

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list almost entirely unmanageable

Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating unnecessary pain and pointless work

Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast

Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot

Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models

Ride your bots further by putting them in a harness

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

You're not the only one annoyed by the hype

Wanted: Digital chief for England's schools. Must enjoy data, AI, and concrete problems

Are you ready to RAAC?

AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen'

The boom is piling up technical debt, warns Lightrun's Moshe Sambol

One in seven Brits swapped their GP for ChatGPT, study finds

Patients are using chatbots for medical advice, while the NHS is still debating where AI belongs

Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud

But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets

Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% in largest US energy market

BYO power for AI bit barns may be the best way to ease the problem, says energy watchdog

Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink

AI agents show they can create exploits, not just find vulns

Mythos and GPT-5.5 muscle out the competition

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls

Britain's latest civil servant is a chatbot trained on GOV.UK misery

Whitehall says the AI assistant will help citizens navigate public services faster; others may see it as a cheaper alternative to answering the phone

Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B

Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 2026

Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say

Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool

Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use

AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

And Counterpoint sees fad spreading from pricey handsets to smart rings and earbuds too... whether you asked for it or not

Anthropics Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem

AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks

UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time

Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five

Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory

Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures

And neither AI nor international conflict are helping

See through local AI lies with Irish eyes

ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server

Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown

AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch

SAP U-turn brings AI features to ECC and on-prem S/4HANA

CEO says there is 'no confusion at all' after cloud-only innovation plan drew flak

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

That's fine when playing poker, but less useful when we trust LLMs with serious work like finding software flaws

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Communist government plans personalized data-driven decision-making based on real-time information by 2035

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'

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...