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The skeptics guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities.

These LLMs are the best at resisting Russian propaganda

Estonian government benchmark shows how dozens of models combat Russias strategic narratives.

Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling

Musk cant be trusted to protect X user privacy, public commenters warn FTC.

How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems

Hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.

Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users dont want lots of sources.

Googles new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM

Gemma 4 12B uses a new encoding scheme and token prediction to punch above its weight.

Trump plan to test AI models has a problem-US security teams were gutted by DOGE

Critics say Trump plan to test AI models is short-sighted, performative.

Inside Metas attempts to play catch-up with AI

Doubts linger over whether Meta can close the gap with rivals.

Microsofts Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps

Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.

Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.

Android phones will soon be able to detect spoofed calls and impersonation scams

Googles June Android feature drop includes more scam detection, more AirDrop, and yes, more AI.

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

Some report burning through their whole monthly AI credit allotment in a single day.

Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts

Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit.

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders

Altman has an utter disregard for human lives, Florida AG says.

From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GMs development

From CFD and FEA to digital twins, carmaking now involves a lot of virtualization.

Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble

Lawsuit seeks $12,000 from startup that allegedly damaged home in robot tests.

Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options

Crescent Island is an air-cooled chip that uses LPDDR5 memory.

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

I tried to explain OpenAIs solution more clearly than OpenAI did.

Startup offers free home cleaning-if it can record it all for robot training

The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.

LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that theyre false

Fine-tuning tests show bias... toward confidently representing the claims as true.

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.

Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri

As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable.

Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law

Heres why Anthropic and OpenAI are on board with Illinois safety testing.

Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trumps plan to make US an AI hub backfires

Nvidia will invest $150 billion a year to make Taiwan an AI epicenter.

YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos

AI videos that are animated, unrealistic, or only have a little AI may still hide their origins, though.

US law enforcement warns of anti-tech extremism as AI hatred grows

The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat.

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

BadHost was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent

A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.

3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild

Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers.

US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots voices

Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.

Bot traffic has overtaken human traffic on the internet, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince.Prince sayshe didn't expect this tipping point until late 2027, but rapid growth in automated traffic from AI agents moved the timeline up fast. The shift happened over the pa...

Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic

Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic

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

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

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

Mira Murati steps back into the spotlight, carefully

Airbnbs Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18

Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook

Alphabets record-breaking $85B raise for Googles AI business is a helluva good signal

Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked

Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months

Martin Scorsese becomes the latest - and most unlikely - Hollywood voice for AI

Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections

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

Two labs, two new cutting-edge image models

Jun 4, 2026

'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says

The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO

Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots

Another ally questions reliance on American AI

AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons

Scientists and industry leaders push for mandatory DNA synthesis screening

Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault

Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity

'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project

Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."

Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was

Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void

Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm - free open source models work just fine

'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg

Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state

Those backup plans need backup testing

No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything

The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company

CU later, rivals? That's if Broadzilla doesn't eat its lunch first

UK banks offered access to OpenAIs GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropics Glasswing expansion

150 new organizations inducted to cybers Soho House, including the first outside the US

Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers

Government gets a say in 'trusted partner' access, and that worries policy experts

Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered

Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing

Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon

High radix, low latency and low power is what AI datacenters crave, the chipmaker says

Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite

Chip costs may rise another 63% this quarter, as effects feed through to PC pricing

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?

Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage

Chatbot has no respect for timing of its maker's financial announcement

HPE declares Juniper deal a 'home run' as AI and networking fuel record quarter

Networking orders surged, AI demand showed little sign of slowing, and HPE used the occasion to take a victory lap over its $14 billion Juniper bet

Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon

Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

'16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'

Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO

First it tops OpenAI's valuation, then it beats Altman to the IPO punch

LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds

If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst

Chipzillas first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores

Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal

This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

Project Headroom could save you big money, too

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

The energy drink of frontier models

Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents

CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch

QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban

Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits

Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button

Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'

Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents

It is the database titans sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025

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...