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Adobe brings AI assistants and partner models to Creative Cloud

OpenAI and PayPal are joining forces to let ChatGPT users make payments directly in chat through PayPal.The integration is built onGoogle's Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), which PayPal now supports. Card payments will also be handled by PayPal's own API. Starting in 20...

"No, wait, avoid wiki" - Elon Musk's Grokipedia is biased AI slop

OpenAI tightens ChatGPT safeguards for mental health conversations

Anthropic is adding new features to Claude designed for financial analysts,including an Excel extension, expanded data connections, and a set of AI-powered skills for tasks like cash flow modeling and valuation comparisons. The Claude for Excel add-in, powered by Sonnet 4.5, is n...

Qualcomm is making its debut in the data center hardware market with two new AI accelerator chips, the AI200, set for release in 2026, and the AI250, expected in 2027.Designed for liquid-cooled server racks, the chips focus on AI inference-running pre-trained models-rather than t...

China's military uses domestic AI models like Deepseek and Alibaba's Qwen for autonomous weapons, report says.

AI fuels a new wave of fake receipts, according to SAP Concur

AI models can mimic famous authors writing styles using just two books for training

AI chatbots use different sources than Google search and often cite less-known websites

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

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

DeepSeek Cuts Inference Costs, OpenAI Tightens Ties with AMD, Thinking Machines Simplifies Fine-Tuning, Robots Improve Spatial Awareness

DeepSeek Cuts Inference Costs, OpenAI Tightens Ties with AMD, Thinking Machines Simplifies Fine-Tuning, Robots Improve Spatial Awareness

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

OpenAI''s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

OpenAI''s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

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

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

Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch makes a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Inside CampusAIs mission to close the AI training gap for everyday workers - check it out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Super Teacher is building an AI tutor for elementary schools - catch it at Disrupt 2025

PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI will shorten our workweek

Fitbits revamped app, with Gemini-powered health coach, rolls out to Premium users

OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool

High schools AI security system confuses Doritos bag for a possible firearm

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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

Claude comes to Excel

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OpenAI reportedly working on music tool

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Sunday Special: Brain chip helps the blind see again

Robotics Special: Chinese startup drops "cheapest humanoid robot"

Microsoft launches AI browser

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Google makes major quantum breakthrough

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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Atlas web browser

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ChatGPT for doctors, hits $6B valuation

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Inside OpenAI's quest to build the world's smartest coding assistant

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Sunday Special: SpaceX aces 11th Starship test

Robotics Special: Waymo heads across the pond

Microsoft rolls out new Copilot updates

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Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by crimefluencers

Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: AI has no intelligence at all

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem

X says passkey reset isn't about a security issue - it's to finally kill off twitter.com

Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated

Senators move to keep Big Techs creepy companion bots away from kids

Big Tech immediately opposed the proposed law as heavy-handed.

OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly

Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base.

Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.

OpenAI non-profit will run for-profit that has yet to make a profit

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion

OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

Forrester warns AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027

Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to

Clearview AI faces criminal heat for ignoring EU data fines

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes

Amazon axes 14,000 desk jobs in AI-powered slimming plan

Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine

Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks theyll run in

AI-powered search engines rely on less popular sources, researchers find

Generative search engines often cite sites that wouldnt appear in Googles top 100 links.

New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports

Software provider AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for about 14% of fraud attempts.

As AI agents join SaaS, AWS tells users to expect more pricing puzzles

Machine learning saves GBP4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection

Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options

Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI

Are you the asshole? Of course not!-quantifying LLMs sycophancy problem

In new research, AI models show a troubling tendency to agree with whatever the user says.

Microsofts Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships

It looks like youre trying to find a friend. Would you like help?

With new acquisition, OpenAI signals plans to integrate deeper into the OS

The acquired firm was working on a tool to control macOS directly with AI.

Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity red-handed stealing data from Google results

Scraper accused of stealing Reddit content shocked by lawsuit.

Researchers show that training on junk data can lead to LLM brain rot

Models trained on short, popular, and/or superficial tweets perform worse on benchmarks.

We let OpenAIs Agent Mode surf the web for us-heres what happened

From scanning emails to building fansites, Atlas can ably automate some web-based tasks.

General Motors will integrate AI into its cars, plus new hands-free assist

Do we want LLMs in our cars? GM thinks we do.

When sycophancy and bias meet medicine

Biased, eager-to-please models threaten health research replicability and trust.

OpenAI looks for its Google Chrome moment with new Atlas web browser

MacOS version launches today, includes Agent Mode preview to use the Internet for you.

YouTubes likeness detection has arrived to help stop AI doppelgngers

Likeness detection will flag possible AI fakes, but Google doesnt guarantee removal.

Claude Code gets a web version-but its the new sandboxing that really matters

Sandboxing lessens hassle, but fire-and-forget agentic tools still pose risks.

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.

Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear

Lawsuit accuses nudify apps of training on teen victims images.

Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans

AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking.

Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.

Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAIs finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.

OnePlus unveils OxygenOS 16 update with deep Gemini integration

Does your phone even have a Mind Space?

Open sourceGZDoomcommunity splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code

UZDoomfork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod.

OpenAI thinks Elon Musk funded its biggest critics-who also hate Musk

Cutthroat OpenAI accused of exploiting Musk fight to intimidate and silence critics.

Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Googles AI Overviews

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Googles hand.

Army general says hes using AI to improve decision-making

AI is one thing that, as a commander, its been very, very interesting for me.

Anthropics Claude Haiku 4.5 matches Mays frontier model at fraction of cost

Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.

Googles AI videos get a big upgrade with Veo 3.1

Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool.

ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says

Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.

Google will let Gemini schedule meetings for you in Gmail

Help Me Schedule creates a meeting widget based on the context of your message.

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...