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Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents

The Agentic AI Foundation launches to support MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose.

Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100

The Pebble Index 01 isnt quite a smart ring, but it can do some smart things.

In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?

Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive

A massive study of political persuasion shows AIs have, at best, a weak effect.

ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was Gods assassin, DOJ says

Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.

The NPU in your phone keeps improving-why isnt that making AI better?

Shrinking AI for your phone is no simple matter.

Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill

Widespread and powerful movement keeps Trump from blocking state AI laws.

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared the era of AI agents in May, but enterprise customers arent buying.

Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs after complaints

In some cases, better dubs already existed.

OpenAI CEO declares code red as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned.

Google announces second Android 16 release of 2025 is heading to Pixels

The update is rolling out to Pixels starting today.

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

Google adds new features to boost website visibility in AI search

According to Bloomberg's sources, Meta is shifting its focus to a new AI model codenamed "Avocado," with a release potentially coming next spring.Avocado is expected to launch as a closed model, letting the company sell access directly. This marks a major shift fro...

Deepseek reportedly using thousands of smuggled Nvidia chips for AI training

US aviation startup Boom Supersonic, typically focused on developing a supersonic passenger jet, is making a surprise entry into the energy business to capitalize on the AI boom.

Pentagon debuts GenAI.mil platform with Google while eyeing rival models

Nvidia develops location tracking for AI chips

Mistral's open coding model Devstral 2 claims sevenfold cost advantage over Claude Sonnet

Big AIs biggest names rally around the Agentic AI Foundation to set agent standards

Google positions Gemini as the "glue" for its new XR ecosystem

Trump approves Nvidia H200 sales, but China may not bite

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

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

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

Meta''s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs'' Virtual Spaces, Baidu''s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

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

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

Googles answer to the AI arms race - promote the guy behind its data center tech

Nvidia is reportedly testing tracking software as chip-smuggling rumors swirl

Spotify tests more personalized, AI-powered Prompted Playlists

Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications Google News pages

Google launches sub-$5 AI Plus plan in India to compete with ChatGPT Go

Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round

B Capital founding partner Kabir Narang leaves to launch new investment platform

Rivian is building its own AI assistant

Slack CEO Denise Dresser to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer

Amazons Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

Amazon adds delivery tracking, last-minute adds, gift ideas to Alexa+

Googles first AI glasses expected next year

Anthropic and Accenture sign multi-year AI strategic partnership

Pebbles founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button

SpaceX reportedly planning 2026 IPO with $1.5T valuation target

SpaceX reportedly planning 2026 IPO with $1.5T valuation target

Claude Code is coming to Slack, and thats a bigger deal than it sounds

Claude Code is coming to Slack, and thats a bigger deal than it sounds

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

Meet Mixboard and Doppl from Google Labs

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"Slop Evader" web browser launches

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GPT-5.2 arriving early?

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Sunday Special: Volonaut's Airbike sticks the landing

Robotics Special: US govt goes all-in on robotics

Meta's Reverse

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Google automates Workspace tasks

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OpenAI's "code red"

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Runway beats Sora, Veo at video

ALSO: How to turn any YouTube video into an infographic with AI

AI crushed Black Friday

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Sunday Special: Our first glimpse of 'dark matter'

Robotics Special: Whistleblower takes Figure AI to court

Indias government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models

Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors

UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Whitehall rejects GBP1.8B digital ID price tag - but won't say what it will cost

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains

Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers

Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents

Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts

Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight

AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 - if the bubble doesn't pop first

IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol

Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China - if Washington gets a 25 percent cut

Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix

Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsofts agentic future

Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years

IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions

Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute

Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes

Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas

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.

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.

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.

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.

A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.

US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales makes no sense, experts say

Trumps odd Nvidia reversal may open the door for China to demand Blackwell access.

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...