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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

OpenAI slams court order that lets NYT read 20 million complete user chats

OpenAI: NYT wants evidence of ChatGPT users trying to get around news paywall.

Metas star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Metas shift from research to rapid product releases.

OpenAI has rejected the lawsuit filed by the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine, saying the company is not responsible for the teenager's suicide.In a court filing on Tuesday, the company argued that Raine misusedChatGPTin ways that violated its terms of use and intentionally ...

Roses are red, violets are blue, if you phrase it as poem, any jailbreak will do

OpenAI leaked customer data belonging to API users following a hack at third-party analytics provider Mixpanel.Unauthorized parties managed to export records containing names, email addresses, and approximate location data, along with information about operating systems and brows...

Microsoft is adding new AI shopping tools to its Edge browser in the US.The built-in Copilot can now surface price comparisons, price histories, and cashback options right inside the browser. Users can open the feature from the sidebar icon, which then pulls up product details an...

Meta is kicking competing AI chatbots off WhatsApp.OpenAI and Microsoft have announced thatChatGPTand Copilot will be forced to leave the messaging app due to changes in the WhatsApp Business Solution terms of service, which go into effect on January 15, 2026. Under the new rules...

Ilya Sutskever says a new learning paradigm is necessary and is already chasing it

Andrej Karpathy declares the war on AI homework lost and urges schools to stop policing it

Black Forest Labs launches Flux 2 with a new multi-reference feature

OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT Voice directly into the main text chat, making it easier to switch between speaking and typing without jumping into a separate mode.Users can talk naturally, see responses as text, revisit earlier messages, and view visual content like images or maps wi...

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher than its rivals in prompt-injection security, but the results show how limited these defenses still are.A benchmark by the security firmGray Swanfound that a single "very strong" prompt injection attack breaks through Opus 4.5's safegu...

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

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

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots, Better Images Through Reasoning, The Dawn of Industrial AI, Forecasting Time Series

Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots, Better Images Through Reasoning, The Dawn of Industrial AI, Forecasting Time Series

OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private

OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private

Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

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

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

This Thanksgivings real drama may be Michael Burry versus Nvidia

Musks xAI to build small solar farm adjacent to Colossus data center

Are you balding? Theres an AI for that

Onton raises $7.5M to expand its AI-powered shopping site beyond furniture

ChatGPTs voice mode is no longer a separate interface

Microsofts AI chatbot Copilot leaves WhatsApp on January 15

Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension

Altman describes OpenAIs forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone

OpenAI learned the hard way that Cameo trademarked the word cameo

AWS is spending $50B to build AI infrastructure for the US government

AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk

Trump administration might not fight state AI regulations after all

Waymo gets regulatory approval to expand across Bay Area and Southern California

Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business

Altman describes OpenAIs forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone

Altman describes OpenAIs forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone

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

The Manhatt(AI)n Project

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Anthropic's most powerful model is here

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Meta explores "daily briefs'u for Facebook

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Sunday Special: Scientists grow bone marrow in the lab

Robotics Special: Sunday's new robot does your dishes

Nano Banana Pro goes live

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Nvidia's earnings prove AI isn't slowing

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Gemini 3 helps "bring any idea to life"

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Bezos is back: What's Project Prometheus?

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Controversial app lets you chat with the dead (as digital avatars)

ALSO: How to turn vibe coding into a strategic process

Sunday Special: Blue Origin closes in on SpaceX

Robotics Special: Russia's humanoid robot makes a disasterous debut

Alibaba Cloud cant deploy servers fast enough to satisfy demand for AI

Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a 'handful' of customers had data stolen

AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles

Apples lousy AI didnt stop it beating Samsungs smartphone sales for the first time since 2011

ICANN distances itself from radical proposal - which it funded - to give nations a role in internet governance

TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever - and it's starting to show

Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager

One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off

Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack

OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users

Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

OpenAIs response to teen suicide case is disturbing, lawyer says.

HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.

Vision Pro M5 review: Its time for Apple to make some tough choices

A state of the union from someone who actually sort of uses the thing.

Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220

Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up

HashJack attack shows AI browsers can be fooled with a simple #

Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science

Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model

Longer chats address a long-standing criticism of Claude.

UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push

Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware

Go generate a bridge and jump off it: How video pros are navigating AI

I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash.

Anthropic reduces model misbehavior by endorsing cheating

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Bossware booms as bots determine whether you're doing a good job

It's TEE time for Brave's AI assistant Leo

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now

Curiosity Streams owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

Googles AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins

Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that.

Researchers get inside the mind of bots, find out what texts they trained on

Big Red borrows a lot of green, hopes AI will put it in the black

Rhyme is the key to set AIs free when verse outsmarts security

Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth

Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents

Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws

Cruz plan to block broadband funding lost 99-1, but now its back-in Trump form.

Googles new Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3 power to generate more realistic AI images

Googles new image-generator model is available to try globally today.

Were in an LLM bubble, Hugging Face CEO says-but not an AI one

The risks of AI investment in manufacturing and other areas are less clear.

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

DeepMinds latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs

AlphaProof can handle math challenges but needs a bit of help right now.

How Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion-and what it reveals about AI

For humans and AI, when something fits the category of ordinary, it slips from notice.

Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.

Microsoft tries to head off the novel security risks of Windows 11 AI agents

Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues.

Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.

Google unveils Gemini 3 AI model and AI-first IDE called Antigravity

Googles flagship AI model is getting its second major upgrade this year.

With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again

He stepped down at Amazon in 2021 and doesnt hold a CEO title at Blue Origin.

Oracle hit hard in Wall Streets tech sell-off over its huge AI bet

Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.

Forget AGI-Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

The results of AI-assisted hacking arent as impressive as many might have us believe.

Google is rolling out conversational shopping-and ads-in AI Mode search

Conversational shopping is Googles first big swing at monetizing AI Mode search.

Google says new cloud-based Private AI Compute is just as secure as local processing

New system allows devices to connect directly to secure space in Googles AI servers.

Google announces even more AI in Photos app, powered by Nano Banana

Googles Nano Banana is powering a raft of new features in the app.

You wont believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI

I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard.

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...