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Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM

Google Research shows that AI models can keep training data private.

What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

New study breaks down what 700 million users do across 2.6 billion daily GPT messages.

Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002sAnimal Crossingusing memory hack

Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results.

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring.

Ted Cruz AI bill could let firms bribe Trump to avoid safety laws, critics warn

Ted Cruz wont give up fight to block states from regulating AI.

One of Googles new Pixel 10 AI features has already been removed

The Pixel 10 Daily Hub has vanished, but Google says it will come back when it's ready.

Developers joke about coding like cavemen as AI service suffers major outage

Anthropic outage takes down AI tools some developers rely on to create software.

Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools

Spotify sent a warning to stop data sales, but developers say they never got it.

Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

Microsoft will end OpenAI's exclusive hold on its productivity suite, adding second AI supplier.

AI vs. MAGA: Populists alarmed by Trumps embrace of AI, Big Tech

AI threatens the common mans liberty," says GOP Sen. Josh Hawley.

Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

"Really Simple Licensing" makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping.

Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for straight women

Users feared Reddit used generative AI to rewrite user-created content.

Claudes new AI file-creation feature ships with security risks built in

Expert calls security advice "unfairly outsourcing the problem to Anthropic's users."

Judge: Anthropics $1.5B settlement is being shoved down the throat of authors

Feeling misled, judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic's proposed settlement.

Why accessibility might be AIs biggest breakthrough

UK study findings may challenge assumptions about who benefits most from AI tools.

In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in rapid decline

Google's position on the state of the Internet is murky to say the least.

AI will consume all of IT by 2030-but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

AI still threatens entry-level IT jobs.

First of its kind AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

Warner Bros. case builds on arguments raised in a Disney/Universal lawsuit.

ChatGPTs new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots arent people

Users can explore multiple paths without losing their original chat thread.

OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

Industry is moving towards custom solutions in wake of Nvidia's market domination.

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to forbidden prompts

Study shows how patterns in LLM training data can lead to "parahuman" responses.

Tesla has a new master plan-it just doesnt have any specifics

Did an AI write this? Because it reads like an AI wrote this.

OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

Promised protections follow reports of vulnerable users misled in extended chats.

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 Drift 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.

OpenAI releases GPT-5 Codex designed for bug fixes and code generation

Wired reports that OpenAI is stepping back into robotics, with new hiring pointing toward work on humanoid machines.

According to Bloomberg, Chinese regulators say Nvidia violated conditions of its 2020 acquisition of Mellanox.

Nvidia's Rubin CPX could force AMD back to the drawing board

OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor sees strong echoes between today's AI boom and the dotcom era.

Googles "Nano Banana" image editing model has gone viral, pushing the Gemini app to the top of the app store charts.In the US, Canada, the UK, and Germany, Google Gemini now holds the number one spot, ahead of ChatGPT at number two.

"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" researchers warn as they call for global AI shutdown

OpenAI plans to give Microsoft a much smaller share of its revenue going forward, according to a report from The Information.

Google DeepMind has introduced a new language model called VaultGemma, designed with a focus on privacy. It is the largest open model to date trained from scratch with differential privacy, containing 1 billion parameters.

Alibaba's Qwen3-Next builds on a faster MoE architecture

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

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

Gemini''s Environmental Impact, China''s Emerging AI Hub, Chatbot Job Interviews, Security For Agents

Gemini''s Environmental Impact, China''s Emerging AI Hub, Chatbot Job Interviews, Security For Agents

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

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

The 9 most sought-after startups from YC Demo Day

Inside the shift at Disrupt: Building community and scaling in the AI era

Times running out to volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor says were in an AI bubble (but thats OK)

Vibe coding has turned senior devs into AI babysitters, but they say its worth it

Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance

xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data-annotation team

We are entering a golden age of robotics startups - and not just because of AI

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law

Box CEO Aaron Levie on AIs era of context

Apples new live translation feature for AirPods wont be available in the EU at launch

Perplexity reportedly raised $200M at $20B valuation

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

YouTubes multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos rolls out to all creators

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

VaultGemma debuts as Gemini tops ChatGPT

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Sunday Special: The "clearest sign of life" on Mars

Robotics Special: Zoox robotaxis finally hit the road

Chinas new AI image model steals the show

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Oracles AI boom sends Ellison to the top

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Apple's new AirPods get live translation

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MIT startup demos AI controlled by neuromuscular signals

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OpenAIs cash burn accelerates

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Sunday Special: China debuts world's first 6G chip

Robotics Special: More trouble for Apple's robotics ambitions

OpenAI releases new ChatGPT feature, plans on building chips

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Apple turns to Google for Siris brain

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It's time mobile devs started to think seriously about foldable smartphones

Former FinWise employee may have accessed nearly 700K customer records

Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power - just ask Larry Ellison

Dirac audio glitch finally silenced in Windows 11 24H2

'Powerful but dangerous' full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives

Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA

Half of tech firms plotting restructures as AI hype bites

Engineer turned a vape into a web server

Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app

Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT

Fire up the gas turbines, says US Interior Secretary: We gotta win the AI arms race

SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs

Your call is very important to us - which is why we're connecting you to a human

Google lands GBP400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march

Albanias prime minister wants to appoint an AI to his ministry

New Really Simple Licensing spec wants AI crawlers to show a license - or a credit card

Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it

US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream

Microsoft folds Sales, Service, Finance Copilots into 365

OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill

AI can't be woke and regulators should be asleep, Senator Cruz says

Cadence invites you to play with Nvidias biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim

How many federal agencies does it take to regulate AI? Enough to hold it back

Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up

Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable

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...