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Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.

Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians

One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.

Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

Were not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazons team uses aT. rexpreparing to devour a book as its logo.

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop

Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.

Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release

Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has substantial improvements.

Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public

Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude makers IPO is the biggest listing in history

Claudes new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible-for now

The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.

The webs newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font

ShieldFont aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.

Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Streaming platform says user-generated content may be used for future Gen AI model improvements.

Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.

Gemini becomes Googles fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

But will Geminis surge survive slowing model releases?

With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy

Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks hes found a way forward.

Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.

Peer review is overwhelmed-can it survive in the AI era?

As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.

DeepMinds hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

OpenAIs expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem more alive

Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?

Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music

Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop large-scale abuse.

Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

Large genome models used to design new viruses

The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who arent coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now its open source.

AI isnt enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.

Anthropics AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Anthropic and OpenAI models unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.

Reddit signals ominous upcoming changes for old.reddit.com

Reddit says the beloved site is used for some bad behavior.

Stripe declares we're living in the singularity and uses it as a reason not to IPO

In a letter to investors, Stripe declares January 1 the beginning of the singularity and uses that as a reason to stay private. Not that it needs one: revenue grew 41 percent in the first half of the year, and the company confirmed its $8 billion-plus acquisition of OpenRouter. D...

China is letting small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips onto the mainland to help domestic AI firms in the race with the US.According to the Financial Times, ByteDance and Tencent each received around 10,000 H200 processors, and more companies could follow soon. TheH200is at l...

Meta''s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax''s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)

The Batch News & Insights: I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map.

Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

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-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code

The Batch News & Insights: I''m glad the idea of 'utokenmaxxing'u '' that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity '' is finally dying out.

Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute

The Batch News & Insights: My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face''sexperiencewhen closed models failed to defend the company followingan accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.

Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers

The Batch News & Insights: A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their 'usafe'u proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

AI Overviews Land Google In Hot Water, GPT-Live Puts Reasoning in the Background, How to Tell If Your Model is Manipulative

The Batch News & Insights: As AI increasingly automates coding, it frees up developers to spend time on high-level software development tasks traditionally reserved for senior engineers, like deciding on technical architecture and participating in scoping product requirements...

Restoration of Claude Fable 5, Gemini's Video Dev Engine, DeepSeek Speeds Up Speculative Decoding

The Batch News & Insights: The key idea of agentic coding loops is to have an agent keep working until it satisfies a condition, such as achieving a product specification.

OpenAI''s GPT-5.6 Family, New Ways to Train Robots, Models Invoking Models

The Batch News & Insights: The AI world has become incredibly noisy. Social media, traditional media, and an army of marketers produce a cacophony of hype and content that are often secretly sales pitches for their products.

A New Generation Studies AI, Apple's Recipe for On-Device Models, GLM5.2 Tackles Open-Ended Problems

The Batch News & Insights: 'uLoop engineering'u is a hot buzzphrase after Boris Cherney (Claude Code''s creator) and Peter Steinberger(OpenClaw's creator) both mentioned it on social media.

Testing Mythos and Fable, Moving Beyond SWE-bench, Nvidia's Open Contender

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the last two weeks, both the U.S. Government and Anthropic took significant actions that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with frontier models.

Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

The Batch AI News and Insights: If you haven''t already, I encourage you to experiment with using AI agents not just to chat but to actually do work for you on your desktop.

Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment

The Batch AI News and Insights: There have been intense efforts over the past few years to lobby governments to pass AI laws for regulatory capture or to suppress open source.

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

The Batch AI News and Insights: One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client'&#...

Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?

The Batch AI News and Insights: Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class.

China Thwarts Meta''s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

The Batch AI News and Insights: We''ve been working on AI Andrew, an AI companion shaped by my personality.

Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

The Batch AI News and Insights: There will be no AI jobpocalypse.

GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans

The Batch AI News and Insights: The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.

Stripe didnt really buy OpenRouter because of the singularity

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

TerraPower's nuclear reactor has a secret weapon for powering AI data centers

Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required

Etcheds valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Anthropics annualized revenue surges to $65B

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here's why.

Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here's why.

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

Firefox rolls out an AI web browser

Aug 19, 2026

AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first

AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy

House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago

Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown

And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal

Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS

Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?

More than half of Americans now view AI negatively

Concern continues to climb for adults under 30, as people fear being replaced by AI

Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee GBP300M power-up

DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks

Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance

Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack

OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security

Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive

Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself

How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine

AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find

Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data

Google buys crashed airline Spirits data at auction, because AI

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales

AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration

Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks

Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit

Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS

Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads

GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate

Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience

Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028

Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns

Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin

Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay

The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over

Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await

With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that

Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too

On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI

Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert - again

Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result

Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, cant say when it will arrive

Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI

PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!

Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it

DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in

Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense

Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure

Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn

Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down

Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education

Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you

Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated

OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging

'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories

Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity

Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop

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...