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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

OpenAI slams court order that lets NYT read 20 million complete user chats

OpenAI: NYT wants evidence of ChatGPT users trying to get around news paywall.

Metas star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Metas shift from research to rapid product releases.

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New computational Turing test reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool

ChatGPT leaks seem to confirm OpenAI scrapes Google, expert says.

Gemini Deep Research comes to Google Finance, backed by prediction market data

Deep Research and predictions based on Kalshi and Polymarket data are coming soon to Google Finance.

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.

5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

You wouldnt know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.

If you want to satiate AIs hunger for power, Google suggests going to space

Google engineers think they already have all the pieces needed to build a data center in orbit.

So long, Assistant-Gemini is taking over Google Maps

Gemini is rolling out to Maps on Android and iOS, with Android Auto coming soon.

Googles new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season

Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.

Meet Project Suncatcher, Googles plan to put AI data centers in space

Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready.

LLMs show a highly unreliable capacity to describe their own internal processes

Anthropic finds some LLM self-awareness, but failures of introspection remain the norm.

Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senators complaint

Sen. Marsha Blackburn says Gemma concocted sexual misconduct allegations against her.

OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.

Google Deepmind introduced WeatherNext 2, an upgraded version of its AI weather model that the company says outperforms the previous release across 99.9 percent of all meteorological variables and forecast ranges.The system delivers stronger results for core measurements like tem...

OpenAI promises a much better version of its Olympic math gold model in the coming months

Yann LeCun unveils LeJEPA, likely his final Meta project before launching a startup

Jeff Bezos launches Project Prometheus, a $6.2 billion AI bet on faster engineering

Google is updating the Gemini app with a new way to control its AI video model.With the latest release, users can upload multiple reference images for a single video prompt. The system then generates video and audio based on those images combined with text, giving people more dir...

Leaked finances hint that OpenAI's inference may be swallowing its revenue

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promises a completely new Microsoft

DeepEyesV2 outperforms bigger rivals by favoring tools over sheer knowledge

Yann LeCun accuses Anthropic of regulatory capture.The dispute centers on anAI-driven cyberattack that Anthropic says happened with almost no human oversightand posed a serious cybersecurity threat. After the company published its findings, US Senator Chris Murphy called for toug...

Anthropic has released a method to check how evenly its chatbot Claude responds to political issues.The company says Claude should not make political claims without proof and should avoid being viewed as conservative or liberal. Claudes behavior is shaped by system prompts and by...

Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots, Better Images Through Reasoning, The Dawn of Industrial AI, Forecasting Time Series

Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots, Better Images Through Reasoning, The Dawn of Industrial AI, Forecasting Time Series

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

OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private

OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private

Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

DeepSeek Cuts Inference Costs, OpenAI Tightens Ties with AMD, Thinking Machines Simplifies Fine-Tuning, Robots Improve Spatial Awareness

DeepSeek Cuts Inference Costs, OpenAI Tightens Ties with AMD, Thinking Machines Simplifies Fine-Tuning, Robots Improve Spatial Awareness

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

OpenAI''s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

OpenAI''s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

Gemini''s Environmental Impact, China''s Emerging AI Hub, Chatbot Job Interviews, Security For Agents

Gemini''s Environmental Impact, China''s Emerging AI Hub, Chatbot Job Interviews, Security For Agents

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

As consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT, Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt

a16z-backed super PAC is targeting Alex Bores, sponsor of New Yorks AI safety bill - he says bring it on

Google rolls out its AI Flight Deals tool globally, adds new travel features in Search

Jeff Bezos reportedly returns to the trenches as co-CEO of new AI startup, Project Prometheus

MCP AI agent security startup Runlayer launches with 8 unicorns, $11M from Khoslas Keith Rabois and Felicis

OpenAI says its fixed ChatGPTs em dash problem

VCs abandon old rules for a funky time of investing in AI startups

Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3B 5 months after its previous round

Microsofts plan to fix its chip problem is, partly, to let OpenAI do the heavy lifting

ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio

Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages

Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement

Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement

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

Controversial app lets you chat with the dead (as digital avatars)

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Sunday Special: Blue Origin closes in on SpaceX

Robotics Special: Russia's humanoid robot makes a disasterous debut

Google launches new AI shopping features

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ChatGPT gets a personality upgrade

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Investors spooked as SoftBank sells Nvidia stake

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'uAnti-PowerPoint" startup raises at $2.1 billion valuation

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Perplexity signs $400B deal with Snap

ALSO: How to find discount codes with ChatGPT

Sunday Special: The most powerful cosmic event ever observed

Robotics Special: XPENG's Iron crosses the uncanny valley

Musk gets $1 trillion pay package

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Google Maps gets Gemini-fied

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Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square

Building the future of software in the AI-native era

AI agents, real results: from assistants to orchestrators in the enterprise

Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline

With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again

He stepped down at Amazon in 2021 and doesnt hold a CEO title at Blue Origin.

Oracle hit hard in Wall Streets tech sell-off over its huge AI bet

Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.

AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus

Forget AGI-Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

The results of AI-assisted hacking arent as impressive as many might have us believe.

Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee

Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing - and legacy storage can't feed the beast

Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work

Google is rolling out conversational shopping-and ads-in AI Mode search

Conversational shopping is Googles first big swing at monetizing AI Mode search.

Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

Russias first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents

OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions

Google says new cloud-based Private AI Compute is just as secure as local processing

New system allows devices to connect directly to secure space in Googles AI servers.

Google announces even more AI in Photos app, powered by Nano Banana

Googles Nano Banana is powering a raft of new features in the app.

You wont believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI

I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard.

YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials

YouTubers suspect AI is bizarrely removing popular video explainers.

Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane

Given a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals.

Cursor introduces its coding model alongside multi-agent interface

The vibe-coding IDE put an emphasis on speed with Composer.

Unexpectedly, a deer briefly entered the family room: Living with Gemini Home

Gemini for Home unleashes gen AI on your Nest camera footage, but it gets a lot wrong.

Caught cheating in class, college students apologized using AI-and profs called them out

Time for some life lessons.

Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

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...