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Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs.

AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities

Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients.

Google announces massive expansion of AI features in Chrome

Chrome's future as an AI browser starts today.

New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes

Unlike most prompt injections, ShadowLeak executes on OpenAI's cloud-based infrastructure.

White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropics law enforcement AI limits

Officials say Claude chatbot usage policies block FBI, Secret Service contractors' work.

Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals

Gemini shows off at another high-level academic competition.

After childs trauma, chatbot maker allegedly forced mom to arbitration for $100 payout

"I know my kid": Parents urge lawmakers to shut down chatbots to stop child suicides.

China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips

China steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence, compete with US.

ChatGPT may soon require ID verification from adults, CEO says

Chatbot will "default to the under-18 experience" when age is uncertain after teen suicide lawsuit.

Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

Bible Chat hits 30 million downloads as users seek algorithmic absolution.

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.

xAI releases cheaper, fast language model Grok 4 Fast

OpenAI taps Apple talent and suppliers for AI hardware push

AI artist Xania Monet has signed a $3 million record deal with Hallwood Media, according to Billboard.The project is led by 31-year-old designer Telisha Jones from Mississippi, who uses the Suno platform to turn her lyrics into music. With Suno currentlyfacing copyright lawsuitsf...

OpenAI is planning an additional $100 billion in spending on reserve servers over the next five years, according to The Information.By 2030, the company expects to have spent around $350 billion on rented server capacity.

Huawei introduced its new AI supercomputer, the Atlas 950 SuperCluster, at the Connect 2025 conference.The system uses more than 524,000 Ascend-950DT chips and, according to Huawei, can deliver up to 524 FP8 exaFLOPS for training and 1 FP4 zettaFLOP for inference. That makes it c...

Abu Dhabi has announced a plan to build what it calls a fully AI-native government by 2027, with more than 200 AI systems deployed across public services.

The US House of Representatives is running a trial of Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant. Lawmakers and staff now have access to the chatbot, which can connect to emails and OneDrive documents and comes with expanded data and legal protections, Axios reports.

Notion has released version 3.0 of its software. The main update is the addition of AI "agents" that can handle tasks like creating documents, building databases, and executing multi-step workflows.

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has reached 64 million monthly users for its Grok chatbot - far below OpenAI's ChatGPT with roughly 700 million weekly users, according to the New York Times.

Nvidia has spent more than $900 million to bring Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar, several of his team members, and key technology from the AI hardware startup into the company, CNBC reports.

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

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

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

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

Updates to Studio, YouTube Live, new gen AI tools, and everything else announced at Made on YouTube

Lincoln Centers Collider Fellows explore how tech could transform the performing arts

Only 7 days left to save on TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets - lock in Regular Bird pricing now

Why Californias SB 53 might provide a meaningful check on big AI companies

Cracking product-market fit: Lessons from founders and investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Meta Ray-Ban Display and everything else unveiled at Meta Connect 2025

Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform

How developers are using Apples local AI models with iOS 26

Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China

Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trumps UK state banquet

Google now lets you share your custom Gemini AI assistants known as Gems

Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce

Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B

Meta unveils new smart glasses with a display and wristband controller

Google isnt kidding around about cost cutting, even slashing its FT subscription

Google isnt kidding around about cost cutting, even slashing its FT subscription

Meta CTO explains why the smart glasses demos failed at Meta Connect - and it wasnt the Wi-Fi

Meta CTO explains why the smart glasses demos failed at Meta Connect - and it wasnt the Wi-Fi

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: Figure AI hits $39B valuation

Chrome gets new AI powers

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Meta unveils AI-powered smart glasses

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New AI tool turns images and text into 3D environments

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OpenAI and Anthropic reveal how people actually use AI

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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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Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel

Sorry, but DeepSeek didnt really train its flagship model for $294,000

Scattered Spider teen cuffed after buying games and meals with extortion bitcoin

One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in GBP1.5B defense pact

Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding clubs data if it didnt pay $50k in a week

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' - reality disagrees

ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

MI6 reveals 'Silent Courier' dark web portal upgrade it hopes will help it recruit new spies

Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens

OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes

Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not

The Notepad that knew too much: Humble text editor gets unnecessary AI infusion

China's DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI 'reasoning'

Toys can tell us a lot about how tech will change our lives

Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earths mightiest clusters

Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon

Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal

AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software

AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company'

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...