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White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropics law enforcement AI limits

Officials say Claude chatbot usage policies block FBI, Secret Service contractors' work.

Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals

Gemini shows off at another high-level academic competition.

After childs trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for $100 payout

"I know my kid": Parents urge lawmakers to shut down chatbots to stop child suicides.

China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips

China steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence, compete with US.

ChatGPT may soon require ID verification from adults, CEO says

Chatbot will "default to the under-18 experience" when age is uncertain after teen suicide lawsuit.

Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

Bible Chat hits 30 million downloads as users seek algorithmic absolution.

Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM

Google Research shows that AI models can keep training data private.

What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

New study breaks down what 700 million users do across 2.6 billion daily GPT messages.

Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002sAnimal Crossingusing memory hack

Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results.

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring.

Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn

Ted Cruz wont give up fight to block states from regulating AI.

One of Googles new Pixel 10 AI features has already been removed

The Pixel 10 Daily Hub has vanished, but Google says it will come back when it's ready.

Developers joke about coding like cavemen as AI service suffers major outage

Anthropic outage takes down AI tools some developers rely on to create software.

Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools

Spotify sent a warning to stop data sales, but developers say they never got it.

Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

Microsoft will end OpenAI's exclusive hold on its productivity suite, adding second AI supplier.

AI vs. MAGA: Populists alarmed by Trumps embrace of AI, Big Tech

AI threatens the common mans liberty," says GOP Sen. Josh Hawley.

Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

"Really Simple Licensing" makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping.

Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for straight women

Users feared Reddit used generative AI to rewrite user-created content.

Claudes new AI file-creation feature ships with security risks built in

Expert calls security advice "unfairly outsourcing the problem to Anthropic's users."

Judge: Anthropics $1.5B settlement is being shoved down the throat of authors

Feeling misled, judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic's proposed settlement.

Why accessibility might be AIs biggest breakthrough

UK study findings may challenge assumptions about who benefits most from AI tools.

In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in rapid decline

Google's position on the state of the Internet is murky to say the least.

AI will consume all of IT by 2030-but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

AI still threatens entry-level IT jobs.

First of its kind AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

Warner Bros. case builds on arguments raised in a Disney/Universal lawsuit.

ChatGPTs new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots arent people

Users can explore multiple paths without losing their original chat thread.

OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

Industry is moving towards custom solutions in wake of Nvidia's market domination.

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to forbidden prompts

Study shows how patterns in LLM training data can lead to "parahuman" responses.

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieves gold at the worlds leading student programming competition

Anthropic restricts surveillance use of Claude models, fueling tensions in Washington

Google has introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a new open standard aimed at enabling AI agents to carry out secure payments across different platforms.AP2 builds on the existingAgent2Agent protocoland supports a wide range of payment methods, including credit cards, sta...

Meta has set up its own super PAC in California to shape AI policy.According to The Verge, the "Meta California PAC" is designed to channel millions of dollars into campaigns supporting politicians who back the companys approach to AI regulation.

YouTube adds generative AI to Shorts and podcasts

Deepseek outputs weaker code on Falun Gong, Tibet, and Taiwan queries

According to the Financial Times, China has ordered leading tech firms including Bytedance and Alibaba to cancel orders for the RTX Pro 6000D, a chip designed specifically for the Chinese market.The Cyberspace Administration of China is seen as pushing this policy to reduce relia...

Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery have filed a lawsuit in California against Chinese company Minimax.The studios accuse Minimax of using their copyrighted characters, including Darth Vader, the Minions, and Wonder Woman, to promote its AI service Hailuo AI and generat...

US tech giants invest in UK, Microsoft commits billions, OpenAI launches 'Stargate UK'

OpenAI will automatically restrict ChatGPT access for users identified as teenagers

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

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

Tumbling Training Costs, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Tighter AI Export Restrictions, Improved Contrastive Loss

Tumbling Training Costs, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Tighter AI Export Restrictions, Improved Contrastive Loss

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

Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot''s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve

Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot''s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve

Grok Raises Questions, Meta Poaches Talent, California Reframes AI Regulations, Multi-Agent Systems Get Stronger

Grok Raises Questions, Meta Poaches Talent, California Reframes AI Regulations, Multi-Agent Systems Get Stronger

How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart''s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents

How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart''s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents

Amazon''s $100 Billion Bet, Meta''s Sensor-Packed Glasses, Anthropic''s Reason-Free Reasoning, Google''s Extreme Weather Prediction

Amazon''s $100 Billion Bet, Meta''s Sensor-Packed Glasses, Anthropic''s Reason-Free Reasoning, Google''s Extreme Weather Prediction

Judge Rules Training AI on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use, Agentic Biology Evolves, Meta Befriends Alexandr Wang

Judge Rules Training AI on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use, Agentic Biology Evolves, Meta Befriends Alexandr Wang

Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile, Hollywood Joins Copyright Fight, OpenAI Ups Reasoning Quotient, LLM Rights Historical Wrongs

Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile, Hollywood Joins Copyright Fight, OpenAI Ups Reasoning Quotient, LLM Rights Historical Wrongs

FLUX.1 Kontext''s Consistent Characters, Benchmarking Costs Climb, Mary Meeker''s Action-Packed AI Report, Better Video Gen

FLUX.1 Kontext''s Consistent Characters, Benchmarking Costs Climb, Mary Meeker''s Action-Packed AI Report, Better Video Gen

DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI''s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action

DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI''s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action

India leads the way on Googles Nano Banana with a local creative twist

Meta unveils new smart glasses with a display and wristband controller

Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq raises even more than expected, hits $6.9B valuation

Irregular raises $80 million to secure frontier AI models

AI and the Future of Defense: Mach Industries Ethan Thornton at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Amazon launches AI agent to help sellers complete tasks and manage their businesses

Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind

Meta Connect 2025: What to expect and how to watch

CodeRabbit raises $60M, valuing the 2-year-old AI code review startup at $550M

YouTube to use AI to help podcasters promote themselves with clips and Shorts

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

New AI tool turns images and text into 3D environments

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OpenAI and Anthropic reveal how people actually use AI

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VaultGemma debuts as Gemini tops ChatGPT

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Sunday Special: The "clearest sign of life" on Mars

Robotics Special: Zoox robotaxis finally hit the road

Chinas new AI image model steals the show

ALSO: How to create pro resumes with Claude

Oracles AI boom sends Ellison to the top

ALSO: How to turn photos into 3d style visuals

Apple's new AirPods get live translation

ALSO: How to use Perplexity AI inside WhatsApp

MIT startup demos AI controlled by neuromuscular signals

ALSO: How to branch conversations in ChatGPT

OpenAIs cash burn accelerates

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Sunday Special: China debuts world's first 6G chip

Robotics Special: More trouble for Apple's robotics ambitions

Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon

Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority

Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents

Self-propagating worm fuels latest npm supply chain compromise

Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date

Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops

Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter

Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits

Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon

The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it

Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal

AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software

AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company'

Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf

Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion

ChatGPT: Why do most of your users ask for help writing - prose, not code?

Half of tech firms plotting restructures as AI hype bites

'Powerful but dangerous' full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives

Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power - just ask Larry Ellison

Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT

Fire up the gas turbines, says US Interior Secretary: We gotta win the AI arms race

SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs

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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...