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After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide-and suffers psychosis

Literal "hallucinations" were the result.

OpenAI launches GPT-5 free to all ChatGPT users

New model claims fewer confabulations, better coding, and "safe completions" approach.

Heres how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

Why AI-based voice cloning is the next frontier in social-engineering attacks.

US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

Questions linger about ideological bias in models as well as data security.

Google search boss says AI isnt killing search clicks

Liz Reid says Google's data shows AI is generating consistent clicks and better experiences.

Researchers design promptware attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

The team behind the research has worked with Google to mitigate the attack, but what comes next?

Some AI tools dont understand biology yet

A collection of new studies on gene activity shows that AI tools aren't very good.

States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear

All 50 states have introduced AI-related legislation this year.

Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

Elon Musk so far has only encouraged X users to share Grok creations.

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.

OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.

OpenAI announces two gpt-oss open AI models, and you can download them today

OpenAI's new open models can run on your hardware instead of in the cloud.

DeepMind reveals Genie 3 world model that creates real-time interactive simulations

Genie 3 creates detailed worlds from a prompt or image.

AI site Perplexity uses stealth tactics to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

The allegations are the latest to accuse Perplexity of improper web crawling.

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.

Microsoft is bringing OpenAI's GPT-5 to its entire Copilot lineup on Windows, Mac, and mobile devices.InMicrosoft 365 Copilot, licensed users can use GPT-5 for more advanced tasks. TheMicrosoft Copilotweb app and mobile apps for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS offer GPT-5 for...

Grok 4 edges out GPT-5 in complex reasoning benchmark ARC-AGI

Ideogram has added its character feature to its API, letting developers create characters with a consistent look without extra training.Characters can be placed in specific parts of an image or applied to existing images using the remix tool, which adapts their style. Users can c...

Attackers can hijack Google Gemini with a simple prompt hidden in a calendar invite

Political pressure reportedly kept a major AI vulnerability study under wraps

OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Enterprise to U.S. government agencies for just one dollar per year.This special version comes with enhanced security and privacy features, but does not include access to the OpenAI API. The deal follows OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic joining a new GSA m...

An invisible prompt in a Google Doc made ChatGPT access data from a victims Google Drive

Google is rolling out a new "Guided Learning" feature in the Gemini app, designed to help users break down complex topics step by step.Unlike standard AI answers, Guided Learning uses follow-up questions, interactive explanations, images, videos, and quizzes to deepen u...

A deleted GitHub post gives an early look at OpenAIs next major model, GPT-5

Google search chief Liz Reid says AI-generated answers are not lowering website traffic.In a blog post, she writes that organic clicks have stayed "relatively stable" over the past year and that Google is now sending "slightly more quality clicks"-meaning user...

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

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

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

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

xAIs legal chief steps down after whirlwind year

Tesla shuts down Dojo, the AI training supercomputer that Musk said would be key to full self-driving

High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

The backlash against Duolingo going AI-first didnt even matter

Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Groks responses

Elad Gil - one of techs sharpest minds - on early bets, breakout growth, and whats coming next at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation

The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Heres what it is

Trump says hell announce semiconductor and chip tariffs

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

Gemini launches new AI study tool

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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic release new models

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Character rolls out AI-powered social feed

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Sunday Special: Scientists prove Einstein wrong

Robotics Special: Tesla falls behind in robotics push

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

$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board

Riding the AI current: why leaders are letting it flow

Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev

Network scans find Linux is growing on business desktops, laptops

Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances

OpenAIs new model can't believe that Trump is back in office

Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours - for $199K

MX Linux 25 loses systemd toggling power as Debian 13 looms

Birmingham City Council's GBP131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears

Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through

Microsoft hoping to knock users' socks off with Windows XP Crocs

ChatGPT users dismayed as OpenAI pulls popular models GPT-4o, o3 and more - enterprise API remains (for now)

Black Hat 2025: Why your AI tools are becoming the next insider threat

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

OpenAI launches GPT-5, nano, mini and Pro - not AGI, but capable of generating software-on-demand

New persona vectors from Anthropic let you decode and direct an LLMs personality

The initial reactions to OpenAIs landmark open source gpt-oss models are highly varied and mixed

How a vibe working approach at Genspark tripled ARR growth and supported a barrage of new products and features in just weeks

For regulated industries, AWSs neurosymbolic AI promises safe, explainable agent automation

Googles new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Anthropic ships automated security reviews for Claude Code as AI-generated vulnerabilities surge

Anthropics new Claude 4.1 dominates coding tests days before GPT-5 arrives

OpenAI returns to open source roots with new models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b

ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers

Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese

Why tomorrows best devs wont just code - theyll curate, coordinate and command AI

Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone

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

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

OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations

Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK

GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer

I see youre riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way?

Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows

Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI

Vibe coding tool Cursor's MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

OpenAI makes good on its name, launches first open weights language models since GPT-2

Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

JetBrains previews Kineto for vibe no-coding

Chained bugs in Nvidia's Triton Inference Server lead to full system compromise

Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission

Lyft and Baidu plan Eurobocab launch, starting in UK and Germany next year

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.