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At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.

Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices

Delta finally explains how its AI pricing works amid ongoing backlash.

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.

Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations

Amazon has failed to make Alexa profitable thus far.

Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers

This ultra-powerful AI is ultra-expensive.

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

"AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite" lead to more debugging work.

YouTubes selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.

So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement.

Google confirms it will sign the EU AI Code of Practice

The company is not looking to make new enemies in Europe.

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

Beware of coding agents that can access your command window.

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than states human residents

Proposed data center would demand 5x Wyoming's current power use at full deployment.

ChatGPTs new Study Mode is designed to help you learn, not just give answers

New set of system prompts promote understanding with guided questions, "Socratic dialogue."

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.

Eighty-one-year-old psychologist Harvey Lieberman describes ChatGPT as "not a crutch, but a cognitive prosthesis - an active extension of my thinking process."

OpenAI has reportedly raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation

Anthropic CEO talks about being labeled a doomer and his OpenAI departure

Under mounting pressure, Apple plans to increase its spending on artificial intelligence projects

Uber Eats now manipulates food images using generative AI.

Cohere's new Command A Vision model is designed to handle images, diagrams, PDFs, and other types of visual data.Cohere says the model outperformsGPT-4.1, Llama 4 Maverick, Pixtral Large, and Mistral Medium 3 on standard vision benchmarks.

Google adds image-to-video and Veo 3 Fast to the Gemini API

Black Forest Labs and Krea AI have released FLUX.1 Krea [dev], an open text-to-image model designed to generate more realistic images with fewer of the exaggerated, AI-typical textures.

Google is rolling out Opal, a new experimental tool that lets users build AI-powered mini-apps with simple natural language prompts, no coding required.

China raises security concerns over Nvidia's H20 chips

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3''s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

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

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

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

A backlog at the Commerce Department is reportedly stalling Nvidias H20 chip licenses

Google bets on STAN, an Indian social gaming platform

More details emerge on how Windsurfs VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal

Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M+ to build AI agents across verticals

The new face of defense tech - Ethan Thornton of Mach Industries - takes the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Vast Data in talks with Alphabets CapitalG, Nvidia to fund round at up to $30B valuation

Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

Reddit revenue soars as it bets on AI and advertising

Enterprises prefer Anthropics AI models over anyone elses, including OpenAIs

Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps - and AI is partially to blame

Google is experimenting with machine learning-powered age-estimation tech in the US

Kleiner Perkins-backed Ambiq pops on IPO debut

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

The best dating apps arent even dating apps

The best dating apps arent even dating apps

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

Apple is feeling the heat

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Meta's vision for personal superintelligence

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ChatGPT launches study mode for students

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Microsoft Edge gets AI powers

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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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Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill

As ransomware gangs threaten physical harm, 'I am afraid of what's next,' ex-negotiator says

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved

Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans

Cybercrooks attached Raspberry Pi to bank network and drained ATM cash

Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says

Beijing summons Nvidia over alleged backdoors in China-bound AI chips

Servers hated Mondays until techie quit quaffing coffee in their company

NHS disability equipment provider on brink of collapse a year after cyberattack

New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

Why open-source AI became an American national priority

Digital Twins and AI: Powering the future of creativity at Nestl

Google releases Olympiad medal-winning Gemini 2.5 Deep Think AI publicly - but theres a catch...

OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

Deep Cogito goes big, releasing 4 new open source hybrid reasoning models with self-improving intuition

Hard-won vibe coding insights: Mailchimps 40% speed gain came with governance price

Amazon DocumentDB Serverless database looks to accelerate agentic AI, cut costs

Youve heard of AI Deep Research tools...now Manus is launching Wide Research that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks

LangChains Align Evals closes the evaluator trust gap with prompt-level calibration

Subliminal learning: Anthropic uncovers how AI fine-tuning secretly teaches bad habits

Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports

Mark Zuckerberg says developing superintelligence is now in sight, shades OpenAI and other firms focused on automating work

C8 Health started with an AI that gives anesthesiologists guidance on demand - now its targeting whole hospitals

Google DeepMind says its new AI can map the entire planet with unprecedented accuracy

Runloop lands $7M to power AI coding agents with cloud-based devboxes

Nightfall launches Nyx, an AI that automates data loss prevention at enterprise scale

How can enterprises keep systems safe as AI agents join human employees? Cyata launches with a new, dedicated solution

AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders

Arcee opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on clean, rigorously filtered data

Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips - heres how it could benefit enterprises

ChatGPT just got smarter: OpenAIs Study Mode helps students learn step-by-step

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of almost right AI code

From pilot to payoff: Turning AI investment into real ROI

Sparrow raises $35M Series B to automate the employee leave management nightmare

Writer launches a super agent that actually gets sh*t done, outperforms OpenAI on key benchmarks

Chinese startup Z.ai launches powerful open source GLM-4.5 model family with PowerPoint creation

No more links, no more scrolling-The browser is becoming an AI Agent

Anthropic throttles Claude rate limits, devs call foul

Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI

OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option

Enterprise software giants weaponize AI to kill discounts and deepen lock-in

AI is contributing to Metas growth - just not the kind anyone cares about

Amazon is spending a boatload on AI but investors are impatient for results

New Google AI model maps world in 10-meter squares for machines to read

Tesla starts sort-of Robotaxi service in San Francisco by invite only

Microsoft's Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake

Qualcomm working on datacenter CPU and in advanced discussions with hyperscaler

Alibaba admits Qwen3's hybrid-thinking mode was dumb

Microsoft hails cloud and AI revenue for boffo earnings

Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

Enterprises neglect AI security - and attackers have noticed

Zed code editor hears your prayers, rolls out AI-free mode

Italy says Meta may be violating law with AI in WhatsApp

Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk

Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals

Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy

Cisco donates Agntcy project to Linux Foundation in the hope it gets AI agents interacting elegantly

Microsoft researchers: To fend off AI, consider a job as a pile driver

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.