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The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

AI assistants don't have fixed personalities-just patterns of output guided by humans.

Anthropics auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.

Authors celebrate historic settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will "financially ruin" the AI industry.

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.

ChatGPT killed my son: Parents lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.

Google improves Gemini AI image editing with nano banana model

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is currently atop LMArena's image-editing leaderboard.

Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance

OpenAI slams Musks lawsuit as part of his "ongoing pattern of harassment."

YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators

Google says this isn't technically "GenAI," but it is altering videos without warning.

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don't exist.

College students time travel AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.

Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.

"Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices.

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

Australias biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.

In Xcode 26, Apple shows first signs of offering ChatGPT alternatives

Claude support in Xcode heralds bigger moves across the ecosystem.

Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test.

It's OpenAI vs. OpenAI on everything from video game strategy to landing a 737.

US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

It appears Groks antisemitic rants stopped it from becoming feds go-to chatbot.

Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

The new Gemma model is a fraction of the size of most new models.

Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

Meta drops AI rules letting chatbots generate innuendo and profess love to kids.

Upcoming DeepSeek AI model failed to train using Huaweis chips

Startup encountered persistent technical issues using Huawei Ascend chips.

Sam Altman finally stood up to Elon Musk after years of X trolling

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are beefing. But their relationship is complicated.

Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?

Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs-and why we fall for it.

Google Gemini will now learn from your chats-unless you tell it not to

Gemini will remember this, so it's time to check your privacy settings.

OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models.

OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

Sam Altman says we could soon have "high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces."

Why its a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes

The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.

Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google

Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready.

YouTube backlash begins: Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?

Adult YouTubers defend childish viewing habits in fight to block AI age checks.

Musk threatens to sue Apple so Grok can get top App Store ranking

Musk threatens to sue Apple to get Grok to top spot in App Store rankings.

China tells Alibaba, ByteDance to justify purchases of Nvidia AI chips

Move comes after negotiating an export agreement with the US.

The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.

OpenAIs real-time API picks up laughter, accents, and switches languages in real time

Anthropic is rolling out new data privacy controls for Claude.Users on the Free, Pro, and Max plans must now actively opt out if they don't want their conversations used to train AI models.

Google's Flow tool now gives users a choice each month: five free Veo 3 Fast AI videos or one standard Veo 3 video.Google never spelled out the quality gap between the two models, but the new credit system offers a clue:one standard video costs as much as five Fast videos. E...

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is now available on select Samsung TVs and monitors from the 2025 lineup, including Neo QLED, OLED, The Frame, and the M7, M8, and M9 monitors.Copilot is integrated through the Tizen operating system and appears in the "Samsung Daily+&qu...

Google will invest an additional $9 billion in expanding its cloud and AI infrastructure in Virginia by 2026.The plan includes building a new data center in Chesterfield County and expanding existing facilities in Loudoun and Prince William counties, according to a company blog p...

Anthropic teams up with OpenAI for security tests and warns that AI is enabling cybercrime

YouTuber draws attention to AI-powered mass vehicle surveillance in the U.S.

Google is making its basic editing tools in Google Vids free for everyone.Users can create videos with templates, text, and animations without needing a Gemini subscription. New features include eight-second video clips from photos with audio (Veo 3),AI avatars for scripted prese...

Google Translate adds live conversation and language learning features

Anthropic is testing a new AI tool called Claude for Chrome.The browser agent runs as an extension in Google Chrome, can recognize webpage content, and take actions in the browser on request. At launch, the tool is available to 1,000 selected Max plan users, with others able to j...

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

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

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

GPT-5''s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India''s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

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

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

Trump administrations deal is structured to prevent Intel from selling foundry unit

Investors are loving Lovable

AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16zs latest AI report

Malaysias SkyeChip unveils the countrys first edge AI processor

Plaud launches a new AI hardware notetaker, the $179 Note Pro

Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls, sources say

Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smiths office

Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors

Meta to spend tens of millions on pro-AI super PAC

After falling behind in generative AI, IBM and AMD look to quantum for an edge

How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change

Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPTs role in sons suicide

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers personal information

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers personal information

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

Nvidia posts record Q2 results

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Google drops 'Nano-Banana' image editor

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AI-generated music hits the mainstream

ALSO: How to create video marketing avatars with AI

Meta inks deal with Midjourney

ALSO: How to save hours every week with Wispr Flow Snippets

Sunday Special: A rare peek into an exploding star

Robotics Special: Waymo heads to the Big Apple

Anthropic eyes $10B war chest

ALSO: How to restore your old photos with AI

Google doubles down on AI with new Pixel phones

ALSO: How to get AI to read your documents out loud

New MIT study spooks Wall Street

ALSO: How to use Copilot AI in Excel

Microsoft introduces Copilot in Excel

ALSO: How to turn your ideas into live apps

Meta set to debut new smart glasses for under $1,000

ALSO: How to add music to your videos with AI

Sunday Special: Mind-reading brain chips

Crossing the agentic chasm with a sovereign data and AI platform

The APAC AI paradox: unlocking potential amidst evolving perceptions

Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russia-based Yandex dev

Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty - OVHcloud says 'We told you so'

The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams

We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, a virtual machine

BGPs security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress

GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist

Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack

Salesforce data missing? It might be due to Salesloft breach, Google says

Google issued State-backed attack in progress warnings after spotting web hijack scheme

Who are you again? Infosec experiencing 'Identity crisis' amid rising login attacks

In crowded voice AI market, OpenAI bets on instruction-following and expressive speech to win enterprise adoption

Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions

Nvidias $46.7B Q2 proves the platform, but its next fight is ASIC economics on inference

Forget data labeling: Tencents R-Zero shows how LLMs can train themselves

OpenAI-Anthropic cross-tests expose jailbreak and misuse risks - what enterprises must add to GPT-5 evaluations

Salesforce builds flight simulator for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

How procedural memory can cut the cost and complexity of AI agents

Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

Enterprise leaders say recipe for AI agents is matching them to existing processes - not the other way around

Gemini Nano Banana improves image editing consistency and control at scale for enterprises - but is not perfect

This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o-and the results may surprise you

Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day - how MCP could change that

Busted by the em dash - AIs favorite punctuation mark, and how its blowing your cover

OpenCUAs open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for future models and products

MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

Dont sleep on Cohere: Command A Reasoning, its first reasoning model, is built for enterprise customer service and more

Four big enterprise lessons from Walmarts AI security: agentic risks, identity reboot, velocity with governance, and AI vs. AI defense

MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure

Chan Zuckerberg Initiatives rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work

How AI digital minds startup Delphi stopped drowning in user data and scaled up with Pinecone

Enterprise Claude gets admin, compliance tools-just not unlimited usage

TikTok parent company ByteDance releases new open source Seed-OSS-36B model with 512K token context

CodeSignals new AI tutoring app Cosmo wants to be the Duolingo for job skills

Stop benchmarking in the lab: Inclusion Arena shows how LLMs perform in production

LLMs generate fluent nonsense when reasoning outside their training zone

DeepSeek V3.1 just dropped - and it might be the most powerful open AI yet

Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds

Scaling agentic AI safely - and stopping the next big security breach

Keychain raises $30M and launches AI operating system for CPG manufacturers

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations

Five years - that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches

UK unions want 'worker first' plan for AI as people fear for their jobs

Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants

ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans

AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war

Nvidia details its itty bitty GB10 superchip for local AI development

Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise

Anthropic teases Claude for Chrome: Don't try this at home

Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI

AI robs jobs from recent college grads, but isn't hurting wages, Stanford study says

Uncle Sam speedruns AI chatbot adoption for federal workers

Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement

One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave

xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok

Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When?Researchers from PSU and Duke explores automated failure attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems

In recent years, LLM Multi-Agent systems have garnered widespread attention for their collaborative approach to solving complex problems. However, its a common scenario for these systems to fail at a task despite a flurry of activity.

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...