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OpenAIs most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

Sources say new model combines o3 reasoning with general GPT capabilities.

Deltas AI spying to jack up prices must be banned, lawmakers say

Lawmakers want to prevent companies from using AI to increase prices or lower wages.

Mistrals new environmental audit shows how much AI is hurting the planet

Individual prompts don't cost much, but billions together can have aggregate impact.

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.

Googles new Web Guide will use AI to organize your search results

The Web Guide experiment is available as an opt-in feature today.

Trumps order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says

Trump plans to use chatbots to eliminate dissent, senator alleged.

Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijings high-tech ambitions.

White House unveils sweeping plan to win global AI race through deregulation

Trump's "AI Action Plan" reverses regulations, sparks critical pushback.

OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas

Easy to throw around numbers, but this is a gigantic infrastructure project.

AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today

Google is making video AI models harder to ignore.

Apple Intelligence news summaries are back, with a big red disclaimer

Apple disabled news summaries earlier this year after they mangled headlines.

Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.

xAI workers balked over training request to help give Grok a face, docs show

Slack messages: Some xAI employees refused to join invasive Grok training.

Gemini Deep Think learns math, wins gold medal at International Math Olympiad

DeepMind followed IMO rules to earn gold, unlike OpenAI.

Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot

In experimental surgery on pig organs, the robot performed well.

OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

Non-math AI model reportedly solves proofs at human speeds, but early reveal roils community.

Its frighteningly likely many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says

Judges pushed to bone up on AI or risk destroying their court's authority.

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.

Netflixs first show with generative AI is a sign of whats to come in TV, film

The Eternautdebuted on Netflix with a generative AI-assisted scene.

ChatGPTs new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows

New "agentic" AI feature combines web browsing with task-execution abilities.

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.

Microsoft revives Clippy as an AI blob in a new Copilot Appearance test

Reports say GPT-5 could arrive in August with improvements in coding

According to Forbes, the AI startup Cognition is negotiating with investors for funding of over 300 million US dollars at a valuation of 10 billion US dollars.Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures are among those involved. As recently as March, Cognition was valued at 4 billion US do...

Google's new AI-powered search feature, Web Guide, automatically suggests several related searches for each query.

Reuters says at least a dozen Shenzhen firms repair banned Nvidia H100 and A100 AI chips

Google says AI content is fine, and SEO basics still apply to AI-powered search

It looks like humanity might flunk its own "final AI exam."According toFutureHouse, about 29 percent of biology and chemistry questions in the AI benchmarkHumanity's Last Exam (HLE)have answers that are incorrect or misleading, based on published literature. The er...

The US Food and Drug Administration is relying on Elsa, a generative AI system, to help evaluate new drugs - even though, according to insiders, it regularly fabricates studies.

Google Deepmind's Aeneas AI helps historians quickly restore and interpret Roman inscriptions

Google is rolling out new AI-powered features in the Google Photos app.With the new "Photo to video" tool, users can turn individual photos into short, six-second video clips with subtle motion effects. This feature is powered by Google's Veo 2 model and is launchi...

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

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

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

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

Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

Tesla is reportedly behind on its pledge to build 5,000 Optimus bots this year

Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI to revolutionize estate processing

Samsung backs a video AI startup that can analyze thousands of hours of footage

AI slop and fake reports are coming for your bug bounty programs

Googles new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes

Gupshup raises $60M in equity and debt, leaves unicorn status hanging

Amazon acquires Bee, the AI wearable that records everything you say

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Francisco startup - hes also serving his 11th year in prison

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Francisco startup - hes also serving his 11th year in prison

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

Samsung looks to grab smartphone lead with AI

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Why Google isn't afraid of AI

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* AI talent war reaches new heights

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Model transforms live videos

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OpenAI claims IMO gold medal

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Sunday Special: Birth of a solar system

Robotics Special: Robots ride the subway

OpenAI launches all-in-one agent

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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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A billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says

Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty

Problem PC had graybeards stumped until trainee rummaged through trash

50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the deal that launched Microsoft

Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything - and it shipped

EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court

DNS security is important but DNSSEC may be a failed experiment

Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts

The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over

As AI becomes more popular, concerns grow over its effect on mental health

US DoE taps federal sites for fast-track AI datacenter and energy builds

Caught a vibe that this coding trend might cause problems

ServiceNow eyes $100M in AI-powered headcount savings

Intel abandons chip plants in Germany and Poland, confirms more layoffs

Microsoft walks us through Copilot Search with a domain it doesn't even own

You DO see Windows 11 as an AI PC opportunity, say Dell and Intel

White House bans 'woke' AI, but LLMs don't know the truth

So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags

AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

AI data-suckers would have to ask permission first under new bill

Britain's AI datacenter plans face energy, planning, investment challenges

Mistral AI environmental report confirms AI is a hungry, thirsty beast

AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate 'business priorities'

Trump AI plan rips the brakes out of the car and gives Big Tech exactly what it wanted

AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues

Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

NatWest banks on AWS and Accenture for AI-driven customer overhaul

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.