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With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding

Things are moving fast, and competitors have offered something similar for a while.

Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage

In a letter, senators press for mandated annual electricity disclosure for data centers.

Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.

The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if youre talking to a robot

Googles new conversational audio AI is rolling out in search, Gemini, and developer tools today.

OpenAI indefinitely shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT

Some staff reportedly questioned how sexy ChatGPT benefits humanity.

Reddit will require fishy accounts to verify they are run by a human

AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.

Googles TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesnt reduce output quality like other methods.

Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans

Press reports suggest Disney was blindsided and that no money changed hands.

Mozilla devs Stack Overflow for agents targets a key weakness in coding AI

There are major problems to be solved before it can be adopted, though.

OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator

Move comes amid a reported plan to refocus on business and productivity use cases.

Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate

Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFFs new leader plans to build on that.

Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

But Anthropic urges caution as research preview safeguards arent absolute.

Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isnt just AI slop

If game makers dont like it, they could decide not to use it, you know?

As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school

Teens will be sentenced Wednesday after admitting to creating AI CSAM.

AI is beginning to change the business of law

Attorneys are finding uses for AI apart from generating fake case quotations.

Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

One of the first controversies of its kind.

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

Codex maker says it will continue to support these open source projects after deal closes.

Kagi Translates AI answers the question What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?

Remember when it was fun to play around with LLMs?

Musks tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

Planned EU ban on nudify apps would likely force Musk to make Grok less spicy.

How World ID wants to put a unique human identity on every AI agent

Iris scan-backed tokens could help stop agent swarms from overwhelming online systems.

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5s generative AI glow-ups

Nvidias next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way.

Elon Musks xAI sued for turning three girls real photos into AI CSAM

Discord user led cops to Grok-generated CSAM of real girls, lawsuit says.

New vibe coded AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community

Creator apologizes after using Patreon funds for Gemini-powered magazine scan processor.

OpenAIs own mental health experts unanimously opposed naughty ChatGPT launch

OpenAI draws a line between AI smut and porn. Experts fear its all unhealthy.

Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval

Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale.

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.

Perplexitys Personal Computer brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Perplexity says AI access to your files is in secure environment with clear safeguards.

Use a gun or beat the crap out of him: AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

Character.AI deemed uniquely unsafe among 10 chatbots tested by CCDH.

Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor

GPU maker courts corporate partners for NemoClaw ahead of annual conference.

AI can rewrite open source code-but can it rewrite the license, too?

Is it clean reverse engineering or just an LLM-filtered derivative work?

Google has built an "Agent Skill" for the Gemini API that tackles a fundamental problem with AI coding assistants: once trained, language models don't know about their own updates or current best practices.The new skill feeds coding agents up-to-date information ab...

Meta's hyperagents improve at tasks and improve at improving

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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

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

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

Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice

Elon Musks last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI

Why SoftBanks new $40B loan points to a 2026 OpenAI IPO

David Sacks is done as AI czar - heres what hes doing instead

Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing

Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction

Reddit takes on the bots with new human verification requirements for fishy behavior

Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down

Meta launches new initiative to support entrepreneurship, drive AI adoption

16 of the most interesting startups from YC W26 Demo Day

16 of the most interesting startups from YC W26 Demo Day

A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Heres what you need to know.

A major hacking tool has leaked online, putting millions of iPhones at risk. Heres what you need to know.

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

Robotics Special: Robots make it to the White House

Meta's new AI predicts the human brain

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TurboQuant might solve AI's biggest bottleneck

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Moda wants to solve AI slop

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Claude gets remote control powers

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Anthropic ships OpenClaw rival

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Sunday Special: Scientists catch comet exploding in real-time

Robotics Special: Amazon eyes 'doorstep delivery' with latest acquisition

Create & step inside 3D worlds with OpenArt

ALSO: How to build a navigable 3D world from one prompt

Vibe designing is here with Stitch

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Gamma revamps AI design app as it nears 100M users

ALSO: How to perfectly lip sync your videos with AI

Okara launches an "AI CMO"

ALSO: How to build interactive charts and diagrams in Claude

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI

Explainer: Why AI is breaking enterprise virtualization

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

Apple's last tower topples... and the others will follow

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch

Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program

China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit

Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys

Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones

India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours

AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans

Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure

Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

AI supply chain attacks dont even require malware...just post poisoned documentation

Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI

Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains

OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants

JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming

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...