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With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

Microsoft is still deeply tied to OpenAI, but who knows what the future holds.

Zuckerbergs AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.

Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

Assume all Salesloft credentials are compromised after Workspace breach, Google says.

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.

Alibaba has developed a new AI chip, which is currently in testing, designed for a broad range of inference tasks, such as powering the responses from a smartphone voice assistant.The chip is manufactured by a Chinese company and is more versatile than Alibaba's older chips....

AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says he's "bearish on reinforcement learning" for LLM training

How ChatGPT became a confidant and guided a teenager through planning his suicide

Meta updates its chatbots to block sensitive and romantic conversations with teens

Meta's superintelligence hires left for OpenAI after only a few weeks

Anthropic uses a questionable dark pattern to obtain user consent for AI data use in Claude

X.AI has introduced Grok Code Fast 1, a new AI model designed specifically for agent-based programming.The company says it uses a "new architecture," was trained on real-world programming data, and is built to be fast and cost-effective. Grok Code Fast 1 supports a wide...

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...

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

Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

Taco Bell is having second thoughts about relying on AI at the drive-through

Host an event beyond the main event: Apply to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Vocal Image is using AI to help people communicate better

Investors are loving Lovable

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

Cracks are forming in Metas partnership with Scale AI

Cracks are forming in Metas partnership with Scale AI

Mastodon says it doesnt have the means to comply with age verification laws

Mastodon says it doesnt have the means to comply with age verification laws

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

Robotics Special: Nvidia's new "robot brain"

Microsoft and OpenAI launch voice models

ALSO: How to automate meeting prep with ChatGPT

Nvidia posts record Q2 results

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Google drops 'Nano-Banana' image editor

ALSO: How to Learn Anything Faster with QuizGPT

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

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Crossing the agentic chasm with a sovereign data and AI platform

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says

Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots

AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials

GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot

UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout

Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference

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

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...