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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?

A comprehensive collection of "Claude Skills" is now available on GitHub.These skills are customizable workflows that teach Anthropic's AI assistant Claude to perform specific tasks repeatedly and in a standardized way. The collection includes more than 50 skills a...

Zhipu AI has introduced GLM-4.7, a new model specialized in autonomous programming that uses "Preserved Thinking" to retain reasoning across long conversations.This capability works alongside the "Interleaved Thinking" feature introduced in GLM-4.5, which allo...

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

OpenAI''s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway''s Interactive Worlds, Disney''s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

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

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

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

John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies

Marissa Mayers new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunners Kirsten Green

Amazons AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp

Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks

Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks

Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout

OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPTs enthusiasm level

New York governor Kathy Hochul signs RAISE Act to regulate AI safety

Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal

Yann LeCun confirms his new world model startup, reportedly seeks $5B+ valuation

Meta is developing a new image and video model for a 2026 release, report says

ChatGPT launches an app store, lets developers know its open for business

Pickle Robot adds Tesla veteran as first CFO

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped

Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout

Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout

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

ChatGPT Wrapped is here

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Qwen: layered image editing with AI

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Sunday Special: Scientists spot lemon-shaped planet

Robotics Special: Roomba maker files for bankruptcy

ChatGPT's App Store goes live

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Meet Gemini 3 Flash: Fast, strong, cost-effective

ALSO: How to build a functional app in minutes

OpenAI releases new image model

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Zoom launches AI Companion 3.0

ALSO: How to use Adobe Photoshop, Express and Acrobat in ChatGPT

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

ALSO: How to turn any PDF into a whiteboard-style visual

The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table

Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen'

SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

OpenAIs child exploitation reports increased sharply this year

Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.

Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time

Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year

Worlds largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotifys most streamed songs

Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Annas Archive scraped.

AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity - but how long can it last?

Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss

Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi

Google says the lawsuit is its last resort.

LG TVs unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs AI problems

LG says itll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots arent going away.

We asked four AI coding agents to rebuildMinesweeper-the results were explosive

How do four modern LLMs do at re-creating a simple Windows gaming classic?

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission

GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens

YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

Google loves AI content, except when it doesnt.

School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasnt an error.

Human review didnt stop AI from triggering lockdown at panicked middle school.

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future

OpenAIs new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy

New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.

Bursting AI bubble may be EUs secret weapon in clash with Trump, expert says

Spotify and Accenture caught in crossfire as Trump attacks EU tech regulations.

Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, promising improved intelligence and efficiency

Googles Gemini 3 family is now complete with release of Gemini 3 Flash.

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

A Band-Aid on a giant gash: Trumps attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot

Trumps AI Manhattan Project will fail if DOGE cuts are kept, critics say.

ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow

Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement

Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists

Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans

California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims

Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion

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.

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.

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.

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...