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Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers

Hayden AIs cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didnt make a single cent

These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace.

OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

OpenAIs new GPT5.3CodexSpark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

We let Chromes Auto Browse agent surf the web for us-heres what happened

Auto Browse is capable of some impressive things, but it can also crash and burn spectacularly.

OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of Facebook path

Zo Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.

Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musks xAI

Tony Wu leaves a company now entangled with social media, space-based IPOs.

Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades.

No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents

SpaceMoltenvisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch.

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.

Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Production source says it takes weeks to produce just minutes of usable video.

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

The emphasis is on mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates.

OpenAI is hoppin mad about Anthropics new Super Bowl TV ads

Sam Altman calls AI competitor dishonest and authoritarian in lengthy post on X.

Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race

Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

ChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.

Nvidias $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished

Two AI giants shake market confidence after investment fails to materialize.

X office raided in Frances Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning

Paris prosecutor: Illegal content probe includes pornographic images of minors.

Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP

With Model Context Protocol (MCP), this works with more than Codex/Claude, too.

Senior staff departing OpenAI as firm prioritizes ChatGPT development

Resources are redirected from long-term research toward improving the flagship chatbot.

The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat

We dont need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAIs mission.

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app

The macOS app does everything the CLI, IDE, and web interfaces do.

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and its getting weird fast

Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.

Developers say AI coding tools work-and thats precisely what worries them

Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.

Web portal leaves kids chats with AI toy open to anyone with Gmail account

Just about anyone with a Gmail account could access Bondu chat transcripts.

How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?

Anthropics latest paper on user disempowerment has some troubling findings.

Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt

Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.

Bytedance's Seed2.0 adds even more price pressure on Western AI models

Bytedance has released its new Seed2.0 AI model series. The story is a familiar one by now: the models match Western AI models on benchmarks while costing a fraction of the price.

Google Deepmind's new bioacoustic model shows the power of generalization by detecting whales with bird training

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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

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

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

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

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

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

Is safety dead at xAI?

Hollywood isnt happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund

Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support

Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

Coheres $240M year sets stage for IPO

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT

IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI

Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B

Apples Siri revamp reportedly delayed... again

A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup

A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup

Spotify says its best developers havent written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify says its best developers havent written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon

With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most

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: Apptronik triples valuation to $5.3B

New AI video model takes over the internet

ALSO: How to create your own talking head videos with AI

AI-generated essay goes viral and sounds the alarm bells

ALSO: How to create fully interactive images with Gemini

Build personalized apps on Nothing

ALSO: How to create professional presentations in PowerPoint

OpenAI rolls out ads in ChatGPT

ALSO: How to connect NotebookLM to Gemini

The $70M domain name

ALSO: How to create viral handwritten infographics with AI

Sunday Special: Giant Phantom Jelly makes on-camera debut

Robotics Special: Waymo hits record valuation

Anthropic & OpenAI drop new models

ALSO: How to restore your old photos with ChatGPT

Anthropic roasts OpenAI

ALSO: How to create stunning slides with Kimi AI

Meet the AI startup solving healthcare

ALSO: How to start your online business with Genstore AI

SpaceX acquires xAI

ALSO: How to record and summarize meetings with ChatGPT

OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper

How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them

Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM

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MPs brand NS&I's GBP3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'

Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit

Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown

Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace

Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales

Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents

AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO

OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon

Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'

Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree

Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you dont much care

Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms

Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues

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...