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In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?

Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive

A massive study of political persuasion shows AIs have, at best, a weak effect.

ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was Gods assassin, DOJ says

Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.

The NPU in your phone keeps improving-why isnt that making AI better?

Shrinking AI for your phone is no simple matter.

Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill

Widespread and powerful movement keeps Trump from blocking state AI laws.

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared the era of AI agents in May, but enterprise customers arent buying.

Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs after complaints

In some cases, better dubs already existed.

OpenAI CEO declares code red as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned.

Google announces second Android 16 release of 2025 is heading to Pixels

The update is rolling out to Pixels starting today.

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

Google AI just released an updated "Deep Think" mode for Google AI Ultra subscribers using the Gemini app.Built on theGemini 3 model, the feature aims to boost the AI's reasoning skills. Google says the mode uses "advanced parallel thinking" to investigat...

The European Union is planning a major expansion of its AI infrastructure.The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission want to build up to five AI gigafactories across Europe to boost compute capacity for advanced AI models and reduce the region's dependenc...

OpenAI tests "Confessions to uncover hidden AI misbehavior

Anthropic CEO sees a looming economic risk as AI firms "YOLO" massive capital on uncertain futures

Anthropic and Snowflake have signed a multiyear, 200 million dollar partnership.Claude, Anthropic's language model, will be built directly into Snowflake's data platform, which is used by more than 12,600 companies worldwide. The goal is to let businesses run complex da...

The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Meta.At the center is a new policy that makes it harder for third-party AI providers to offer their services through WhatsApp. Since October 2025, Meta has barred external providers from using the WhatsApp B...

Nvidia and OpenAI have not yet signed their planned 100 billion dollar deal.Nvidia CFO Colette Kress confirmed this on Tuesday during a conference in Arizona. Even though both companies announced plans in September to provide10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for OpenAI, the arrangem...

Microsoft is disputing a report that it dialed back growth targets for its AI software business after many sales teams fell short last fiscal year.The Informationreported that fewer than 20 percent of salespeople in one US unit hit a 50 percent growth target for Azure Foundry, th...

A new study from MATS and Anthropic shows that advanced AI models like Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 can spot and exploit smart contract vulnerabilities in controlled tests.Using the SCONE-bench benchmark, which includes 405 real smart contract exploits from 2020 to 2025...

Google is rolling out Workspace Studio, a tool for building and managing AI agents inside Google Workspace.The platform lets users automate everything from simple tasks to multi-step processes without writing any code. At the core is the Gemini 3 agent model, which can work indep...

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

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

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

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

Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity

All the biggest news from AWS big tech show re:Invent 2025

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR

Anthropic CEO weighs in on AI bubble talk and risk-taking among competitors

Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant

Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30%

EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

Anthropic hires lawyers as it preps for IPO

Another bid to block state AI regulation has failed... for now

Simulars AI agent wants to run your Mac, Windows PC for you

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

Google automates Workspace tasks

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OpenAI's "code red"

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Runway beats Sora, Veo at video

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AI crushed Black Friday

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Sunday Special: Our first glimpse of 'dark matter'

Robotics Special: Whistleblower takes Figure AI to court

Anthropic CEO Called to Testify

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The Manhatt(AI)n Project

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Anthropic's most powerful model is here

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Meta explores "daily briefs for Facebook

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Sunday Special: Scientists grow bone marrow in the lab

Robotics Special: Sunday's new robot does your dishes

An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense

ZTE CDO Cui Li speaks at Economist Impact's AI Innovation Asia 2025

How to make your data AI-ready, using infrastructure you already own

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch

Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

Kensington and Chelsea confirms IT outage was a data breach after all

Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports

University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid

Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong - machines were already on Windows 11

FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records

Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward

OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief

Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL

John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

China using AI as precision instrument of censorship and repression, at home and abroad

Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI

Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another

French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI

Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

OpenAIs response to teen suicide case is disturbing, lawyer says.

HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.

Vision Pro M5 review: Its time for Apple to make some tough choices

A state of the union from someone who actually sort of uses the thing.

Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model

Longer chats address a long-standing criticism of Claude.

UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push

Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware

Go generate a bridge and jump off it: How video pros are navigating AI

I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash.

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now

Curiosity Streams owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

Googles AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins

Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that.

Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws

Cruz plan to block broadband funding lost 99-1, but now its back-in Trump form.

Googles new Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3 power to generate more realistic AI images

Googles new image-generator model is available to try globally today.

Were in an LLM bubble, Hugging Face CEO says-but not an AI one

The risks of AI investment in manufacturing and other areas are less clear.

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

DeepMinds latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs

AlphaProof can handle math challenges but needs a bit of help right now.

How Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion-and what it reveals about AI

For humans and AI, when something fits the category of ordinary, it slips from notice.

Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.

Microsoft tries to head off the novel security risks of Windows 11 AI agents

Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues.

Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.

Google unveils Gemini 3 AI model and AI-first IDE called Antigravity

Googles flagship AI model is getting its second major upgrade this year.

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...