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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.

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

Pokmon Goplayers unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

The repurposing ofPokmon Godata for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation

Voice translations preserve speakers tone, pacing, pitch-with SynthID watermarks for security.

Apple says its AI is still private, even when its running on Googles servers

Some models run in Googles cloud, but without giving Google any kind of access.

Say hi to Siri AI"-Apple announces new, more conversational voice assistant

New features coming this fall alongside two-tiered, Google-powered AI model overhaul.

Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity come to Google NotebookLM

NotebookLM is getting a big upgrade, but its only for AI Ultra and enterprise accounts right now.

For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

73 packages run self-replicating stealer as soon as theyre opened by an AI agent.

Chat is dead: OpenAI preps overhaul of ChatGPT

OpenAI to recast hit chatbot as a route to higher-margin products before a potential IPO.

The weather and climate science AI revolution isnt revolutionary

Machine learning has its limits-how is it being used?

OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT's healthcare capabilities with the GPT-5.5 Instant model.The updated model matches the performance of the most expensive Thinking models on machine-based health tests likeHealthBench and HealthBench Professional, but at a fraction of the cost. GPT...

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Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

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

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

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

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round

Almost half of US singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

The smartphone era created an attention crisis - slow tech is fixing it

Pixis new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

Roelof Botha joins SpaceXs board of directors

After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snaps stock takes a dive

World leaders want American AI. They just dont want America to be able to turn it off.

Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

NASA picks Eric Schmidts rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

NASA picks Eric Schmidts rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

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

Apple set to raise prices due to AI

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Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention

Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck

Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger

Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app

Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray

Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave

Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast

AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease

Sampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources

Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific

Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions

Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs

I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number)

Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn

Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions

Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand

Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train

AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket

Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes

Developers build the best tools for developers - and are now defanging the AI menace

Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions - acceptance and innovation - are more useful

The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews

Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI

I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other

Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges

Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!

Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says

Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market

ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss

Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle

A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI

What's up, DocLang?

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

According to the one person who actually read the research paper

Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs

How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin

Salesforce reels in customer support AI specialist Fin for $3.6B

Support bot maker claims its AI agents can resolve three-quarters of customer queries without human help

US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence

UK AI hiring surges as firms seek people to babysit the bots

PwC says AI hiring jumped 61 percent despite wider slowdown in vacancies, with employers increasingly looking for workers who can use AI rather than build it

UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent

The pension may be cushy, but the looming headaches for GBP77K are not

Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Lets play Truth Or Consequences

Hush. children, whats that sound? Has the flood gates key been found?

AI is code - and can't be prompted into being smarter

From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them

NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages

AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers

SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?

We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized

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...