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Google hides secret message in name list of 3,295 AI researchers

Gemini 2.5 paper hides Easter egg in massive author list-but why so many contributors?

Will AI end cheap flights? Critics attack Deltas predatory AI pricing.

Your data could soon be used to spike flight costs, as Delta expands AI pilot.

Permit for xAIs data center blatantly violates Clean Air Act, NAACP says

Evidence suggests health department gave preferential treatment to xAI, NAACP says.

Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban

H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musks views before answering

Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.

Cops favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used

AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says.

Everything tech giants will hate about the EUs new AI rules

EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how and when AI models go off the rails.

Musks Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.

Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3

Google is making it easier to create videos with Gemini, but you only get a few shots per day.

ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature-then built it.

Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely wont.

Cloudflare pushes Google to separate bots for AI Overviews and search indexing.

AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.

Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing woke filters

X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.

Mike Lindell lost defamation case, and his lawyers were fined for AI hallucinations

Lawyers fined $6,000, while Lindell lost $2.3 million defamation verdict.

What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and its tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.

Several definitions make measuring "human-level" AI an exercise in moving goalposts.

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.

How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion

Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.

Metas AI superintelligence effort sounds just like its failed metaverse

Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.

xAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site

County health department accused of turning a "blind eye" to xAI's alleged pollution.

TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Googles Veo 3

Google and TikTok have rules against this sort of thing, but it doesn't seem to matter.

Everything that could go wrong with Xs new AI-written community notes

X says AI can supercharge community notes, but that comes with obvious risks.

NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court

What are the odds NYT will access your ChatGPT logs in OpenAI court battle?

Nudify apps plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, 4chan, and Telegram, docs show

Reddit confirmed the nudify app's links have been blocked since 2024.

Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote

The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.

Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl

Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping.

Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band

A supposed band called The Velvet Sundown has released two albums of AI slop this month.

In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader

Rudderless Copyright Office has taken on new prominence during the AI boom.

Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books

Meta may defeat authors torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.

Mistral AI adds deep research, voice mode, image editing, and more to Le Chat

Anthropic could soon be worth $100 billion - thanks to Claude Code

OpenAI will start using Googles cloud infrastructure for ChatGPT and its API in several countries, including the US, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK.Microsoft, CoreWeave, and Oracle remain key partners for providing computing power. The move comes as demand for GPU cap...

Reflection unveils Asimov: an AI agent built to track every step of software development

OpenAI has upgraded its image editing API with a feature called "High Input Fidelity," designed to preserve fine details like faces, logos, and other intricate elements during edits.Users can now make targeted changes to specific features such as facial expressions, clo...

Google brings Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search to AI Mode and adds AI phone calling to search

Anthropic launches a dedicated AI solution to help finance professionals with analysis

Zuckerberg predicts that not wearing AI glasses in the future will put you at a cognitive disadvantage

Mistral unveils Voxtral, an open-source speech model with lower costs than proprietary rivals

OpenAI is developing new ChatGPT agents that let users create and edit presentations and spreadsheets directly in the chat, according to The Information, which spoke with someone who has access to the features.The files are compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, but don't req...

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

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

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

Claude 4 Advances Code Gen, How DeepSeek Built V3 For $5.6m, Google I/O Roundup, O''Reilly Versus OpenAI

Claude 4 Advances Code Gen, How DeepSeek Built V3 For $5.6m, Google I/O Roundup, O''Reilly Versus OpenAI

Codex''s Robot Dev Team, Grok''s Fixation on South Africa, Saudi Arabia''s AI Power Play, 4-Bit Efficiency With 16-Bit Accuracy

Codex''s Robot Dev Team, Grok''s Fixation on South Africa, Saudi Arabia''s AI Power Play, 4-Bit Efficiency With 16-Bit Accuracy

Recipes For Reasoning, Open and Compact Code Generator, Looser AI Regulations, More Factual Output

Recipes For Reasoning, Open and Compact Code Generator, Looser AI Regulations, More Factual Output

ChatGPT Grovels, Qwen3 Takes on DeepSeek-R1, Johnson & Johnson Reveals AI Strategy, Easy Reasoning Hack

ChatGPT Grovels, Qwen3 Takes on DeepSeek-R1, Johnson & Johnson Reveals AI Strategy, Easy Reasoning Hack

OpenAI''s Hit Image Generator, Hot AI Startups, Better Recommendations, Music Generation for Pros

OpenAI''s Hit Image Generator, Hot AI Startups, Better Recommendations, Music Generation for Pros

OpenAI''s Five New Models, Hugging Face''s Open Robot, U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips, Text-Only LLMs Go Multimodal

OpenAI''s Five New Models, Hugging Face''s Open Robot, U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips, Text-Only LLMs Go Multimodal

Google Unveils Gemini 2.5, MCP Gains Momentum, Behind Sam Altman''s Fall and Rise, LLMs That Understand Misspellings

Google Unveils Gemini 2.5, MCP Gains Momentum, Behind Sam Altman''s Fall and Rise, LLMs That Understand Misspellings

Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4''s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data

Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4''s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data

Open Voice-to-Voice With Vision, ChatGPT Creates Emotional Bonds, Human Action in 3D, Web Scrapers Caught in Maze

Open Voice-to-Voice With Vision, ChatGPT Creates Emotional Bonds, Human Action in 3D, Web Scrapers Caught in Maze

OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

UAEs deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold

Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data-labeling business

xAI is hiring an engineer to make anime girls

Meta reportedly scores two more high-profile OpenAI researchers

A former OpenAI engineer describes what its really like to work there

Meta fixes bug that could leak users AI prompts and generated content

ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom

TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston today - dont miss what founders are learning

Nextdoor redesigns app with AI recommendations, local news, and real-time emergency alerts

Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on unoriginal Facebook content

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction

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

EUR Thinking Machines lands historic seed round

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Superintelligence, at a price

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The many roads to AGI

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Sunday Special: Scientists push the fast-forward button on evolution

Robotics Special: Hugging Face disrupts the industry

JPY Grok 4 fuels AGI debate

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EUR Grok 4 is here

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Perplexity is taking on Chrome with its new browser

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OpenAI preps AI study buddy

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AI is crossing the uncanny valley

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Sunday Special: A visitor from the stars

Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor

VMware reboots its partner program again - and it looks like smaller players are out

Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake - forever

Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all

Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege

Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time

Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess

Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion

Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz - what could possibly go wrong?

UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that

Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by Chinas Baidu

German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk

Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model

Faceless megacorps could be a salary-hungry IT pro's best friend, if you're in AI that is

AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms

With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet?

Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong

Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters

Nvidia to resume sales to China - with Trump administration approval

Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

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...

Revolutionizing AI on a Budget: Apples Roadmap for Small Language Models Training Success

Apple researchers conducted a systematic study of the computational bottlenecks and cost-efficiency of training SLMs. Their work evaluates training strategies across diverse cloud infrastructure setups, offering practical insights for improving efficiency and reducing costs.