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Trump caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war

Chinas frontier AI will be fueled by Nvidia H20 chips, experts warn Trump.

OpenAIs ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through I am not a robot verification test

"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.

Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training.

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.

Starting August 28, 2024, Anthropic will roll out new weekly usage limits for Claude subscribers.Alongside the existing 5-hour limit - which resets every five hours - users will face two additional restrictions: a general weekly cap for all models and a separate weekly limit for ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new Copilot mode for its Edge browser.Mustafa Suleymandescribes it as a streamlined, AI-powered interface with voice control that can automatically recognize URLs, search terms, and chat commands. Copilot analyzes the context of multiple open tabs, maki...

Google waited over two years to admit its earthquake alerts failed in Turkey's 2023 quakes

Tencent releases Hunyuan World Model 1.0 as an open-source AI for 3D scene generation

Runways Aleph model allows filmmakers to edit existing video using text prompts

Former officials say Nvidias H20 chip will aid Chinas military AI

Tesla has signed a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung, locking in a massive supply agreement that runs through 2033 and could provide a lifeline for Samsung's struggling foundry division.

Imoliver, Sunos most streamed AI music creator, landed a record deal with independent label Hallwood, marking a new moment for the music industry.Imoliver, a human artist who makes all his tracks with AI, has already racked up more than three million streams for his song "St...

Google's AI systems processed over 980 trillion tokens in June-more than double the amount in May,according to Google product managerLogan Kilpatrick and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Tokens are short text chunks used by AI models to understand or generate responses.

Qwen3-Coder is Alibaba's most "agentic" coding model to date

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

AI data analyst startup Julius nabs $10M seed round

Google Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries to help US shoppers

Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed

The Wizard of Oz blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen

DOGE has built an AI tool to slash federal regulations

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

Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with temporary spokesperson Gwyneth Paltrow

Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with temporary spokesperson Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Alibaba announces new models and glasses

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Sunday Special: A new human species makes its debut

Robotics Special: Unitree stuns the robot market

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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Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress

UK VPN demand soars after debut of Online Safety Act

Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server

'It looks sexy but it's wrong' - the problem with AI in biology and medicine

US spy satellite agency breached, but insists no classified secrets spilled

NASA faces brain drain as thousands exit under voluntary resignation scheme

Intel cutting cutting-edge node funds would mean no more Moore's Law

Aeroflot aeroflops over 'IT issues' after attackers claim year-long compromise

'Impossible hill to climb': US clouds crush European competition on their home turf

Elon outs $16.5B Samsung chip deal Tesla asked to keep secret

Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd

AI don't know: Enterprises slow to pick up on Copilot+ PCs

Report: Trae AI IDE quietly beams data to ByteDance, even with tracking turned off

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

Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts

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

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

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

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.