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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.

The experimental productivity assistant called CC comes from Google Labs and runs on Gemini.After signing up, CC connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and the internet to understand your daily routine.AI agents with access to private data like this raise familiar secu...

Google has released an update for Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio that makes voice assistants more capable.The model now handles complex workflows better, follows user instructions more precisely, and conducts more natural conversations. Compliance with developer instructions jumpe...

OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and function calling.According to developers, the gpt-4o-mini-transcribe variant significantly reduces hallucinations. For text-to-speech tasks, gpt-4o-mini-tts...

Nvidia is taking over software provider SchedMD to expand its presence in open-source technology.On Monday, the company confirmed it will continue to distribute SchedMD's "Slurm" software as an open-source product. The platform helps plan large-scale computing task...

Google is linking its NotebookLM research tool directly to the Gemini chatbot.This integration lets users select specific notebooks as context for their Gemini queries, effectively expanding the chatbot's knowledge base beyond its initial training data and standard web resul...

Nearly half of US workers now use AI on the job, but most aren't using it daily

The case against predicting tokens to build AGI

Robot vacuum pioneer iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and plans to hand control to its main Chinese supplier, Shenzhen PICEA Robotics.According to Bloomberg, shares of the Roomba maker will be wiped out under the bankruptcy plan. While the company will be delisted, it intends to c...

Trump attempts to block state AI laws by withholding broadband billions, but faces shaky legal ground.

AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patients

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

Weeks after raising $100M, investors pump another $180M into hot Indian startup MoEngage

DoorDash rolls out Zesty, an AI social app for discovering new restaurants

Metas AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better

OpenAI continues on its code red warpath with new image generation model

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAms doctors

Google tests an email-based productivity assistant

Everbloom built an AI to turn chicken feathers into cashmere

OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery raises $130M Series B at $1.3B valuation

Disneys OpenAI deal is exclusive for just one year - then its open season

Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital

Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China

Grok got crucial facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting

AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects

OK, whats going on with LinkedIns algo?

Trumps AI executive order promises one rulebook - startups may get legal limbo instead

1X struck a deal to send its home humanoids to factories and warehouses

Disney hits Google with cease-and-desist claiming massive copyright infringement

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

Zoom launches AI Companion 3.0

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Google's real-time translation

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Sunday Special: An unlikely oceanic alliance

Robotics Special: Tesla's Optimus tumbles in Miami demo

OpenAI releases ChatGPT-5.2

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"Learn anything" startup raises $16m

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Meet Mixboard and Doppl from Google Labs

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"Slop Evader" web browser launches

ALSO: How to restore old photos with NanoBanana

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

ALSO: How to identify AI generated images with Gemini

Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products

Data warehousing in the AI era starts with sovereignty

Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

Legal protection for ethical hacking under Computer Misuse Act is only the first step

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11

JLR: Payroll data stolen in cybercrime that shook UK economy

China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony

Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.

Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs

Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own

Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm

From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill

Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot

Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

Merriam-Websters word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die

OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks

Salesforce willing to lose money on AI agent licenses when customers are locked in

Nutanix takes another swipe at VMware with sovereign cloud push

Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite

British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex, OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent writing code.

Google Translate expands live translation to all earbuds on Android

Expanded live translation will come to iOS in the coming months.

Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands

Managing each finger separately can, with the right sensors, ease control issues.

Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to

Trump claims state laws force AI makers to embed ideological bias in models.

Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids

... AI toys shouldnt be capable of having sexually explicit conversations, period.

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images

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.

Runway claims its GWM-1 world models can stay coherent for minutes at a time

Runway joins a competitive field alongside Google, Nvidia, and others.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after code red Google threat alert

Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.

Disney says Google AI infringes copyright on a massive scale

Disney demands that Google immediately block its copyrighted content from appearing in AI outputs.

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.

Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spending

Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.

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...