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The AI slop drops right from the top, as Trump posts vulgar deepfake of opponents

A sombrero and a fake mustache were also involved.

Alexas survival hinges on you buying more expensive Amazon devices

Echo speakers and displays for Alexa+ require more expensive components.

Critics slam OpenAIs parental controls while users rage, Treat us like adults

OpenAI still isnt doing enough to protect teens, suicide prevention experts say.

DeepSeek tests sparse attention to slash AI processing costs

Chinese lab's v3.2 release explores a technique that could make running AI far less costly.

With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts vibe working

Agent Mode in Word, Excel works like vibe coding tools but for knowledge work.

Californias newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted

After the failure of S.B. 1047, new AI disclosure law drops kill switch for disclosure mandate.

Burnout and Elon Musks politics spark exodus from senior xAI, Tesla staff

Disillusionment with Musk's activism, strategic pivots, and mass layoffs cause churn.

Anthropic says its new AI model maintained focus for 30 hours on multistep tasks

New Claude Sonnet 4.5 beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests.

Big AI firms pump money into world models as LLM advances slow

World models aim to navigate the physical world by learning from videos, robotic data.

Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea

I suppose if we do it and thousands of fans... don't like it, we'll stop doing it.

Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.

Cambridge researchers use satellite-based bramble detection as a proxy for mapping hedgehog habitats.

YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

YouTube Labs will be a place to preview all the app's upcoming AI features.

ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

New mobile chatbot feature analyzes conversations overnight.

Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks

AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks.

Google DeepMind unveils its first thinking robotics AI

DeepMind researchers believe this is the dawn of agentic robots.

DeepMinds robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots

An AI figures out how robots can get jobs done without getting in each other's way.

Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?

OpenAI's new $400 billion announcement reveals both growing AI demand and circular investments.

When no means yes: Why AI chatbots cant process Persian social etiquette

New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.

OpenAI and Nvidias $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors

"This is a giant project," Nvidia CEO said of new 10-gigawatt AI infrastructure deal.

DeepMind AI safety report explores the perils of misaligned AI

DeepMind releases version 3.0 of its AI Frontier Safety Framework with new tips to stop bad bots.

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 expands AI Mode with visual search and new features

OpenAI unveils Sora 2 video model with realistic physics, high-quality audio, and a new social app

Deepseek slashes API prices by up to 75 percent with its latest V3.2 model

ChatGPT now offers instant checkout directly in the chat, letting users complete purchases without leaving the conversation.The feature is rolling out first for logged-in US users onChatGPT(Pro, Plus, and Free) shopping on Etsy, with support for more than one million Shopify merc...

Microsoft adds autonomous AI agents to Copilot for Office apps

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is designed to tackle coding tasks for over 30 hours at a time, Anthropic says

OpenAI adds parental controls to ChatGPT for teens

ChatGPT quietly switches to a stricter language model when users submit emotional prompts

We risk a deluge of AI-written "science" pushing corporate interests - heres what to do about it

Study claims 78 training examples are enough to build autonomous agents

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

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

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

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

Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

OpenAI is launching the Sora app, its own TikTok competitor, alongside the Sora 2 model

AI note-taking app Granola adds a repeatable prompts feature

Ring cameras can now recognize faces and help to find lost pets

AI that talks back: Character AI in the spotlight with Karandeep Anand at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53

Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks

AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews

AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews

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

OpenAI launches Instant Checkout in ChatGPT

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Tencent drops image model with reasoning powers

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Sunday Special: Breakthrough therapy slows down Huntington's disease

Robotics Special: Google unveils its first 'thinking' robotics model

OpenAI rolls out Pulse for daily morning updates

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Microsoft adds Claude to 365 Copilot

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Ex-Google developers launch AI audio assistant

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Nvidia's $100B OpenAI bet

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Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 Fast

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Sunday Special: A safety system for air crashes

Robotics Special: Figure AI hits $39B valuation

Chrome gets new AI powers

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Salesforce users grumble after Agentforce AI replaces search on some help pages

Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1

Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again

Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report

UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests

Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity

When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent

Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet

California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork

Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong

AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing

California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges

Your AI conversations are a secret new treasure trove for marketers

Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness

Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst

ChatGPT wants teens to agree to let their parents spy on them

OpenNvidia could become the AI generation's WinTel

Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan - but it will need GPUs to back it up

Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says

If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff

Software CEO tells Catholic uni panel AI won't take out jobs, but it could take out brains

Prompt injection - and a $5 domain - trick Salesforce Agentforce into leaking sales

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42

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...