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Google: Dont make bite-sized content for LLMs if you care about search rank

Google says creating for people rather than robots is the best long-term strategy.

Xs half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesnt block free image editing

Faced with a ban in the United Kingdom, X pushes flawed fix to CSAM problem.

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have good intent

Expert explains how simple it could be to tweak Grok to block CSAM outputs.

ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues

Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.

Google announces AI Overviews in Gmail search, experimental AI-organized inbox

Last years premium Gmail AI features are also rolling out to free users.

Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars

The Blue Oval is also working on new hands-free driver assists.

AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah

The program allows patients in the state to get prescription refills for 190 common meds.

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: Intelligence really is about learning

The AI pioneer talks about stepping down from Meta, limits of large language models.

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

OpenAIs loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.

Amazon Alexa+ released to the general public via an early access website

Amazon brings back browser-based Alexa but will eventually add a paywall.

Google TVs big Gemini update adds image and video generation, voice control for settings

Google TV will let you generate and watch AI content on the big screen.

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

Critics call for App Store ban after Grok sexualized images of minors.

No, Grok cant really apologize for posting non-consensual sexual images

Letting the unreliable Grok be its own spokesperson lets xAI off the hook.

OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

Voice has lagged in adoption behind screens. OpenAI wants to change that.

xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Groks apology

xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM.

Meta bets big on nuclear power with 6.6 gigawatt expansion plan

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Researchers extract up to 96% of Harry Potter word-for-word from leading AI models

Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, 1984: researchers pulled nearly complete books from commercial language models. Two of the four systems tested didnt even put up a fight. The findings could shape ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI companies.

In a glorious AI future, you'll order pizza directly from Excel.Microsoft and Stripe are teaming up to bring shopping to the AI assistant Copilot. US users will soon be able to buy products directly in the chat without ever leaving the app. At launch, the feature includes Et...

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

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

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables

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

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

CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidias debuts to AMDs new chips to Razers AI oddities

How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data

Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power

X restricts Groks image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the worlds ire

Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins

The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

Nvidias reportedly asking Chinese customers to pay upfront for its H200 AI chips

Why this VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer

Google and Character.AI negotiate first major settlements in teen chatbot death cases

Ford has an AI assistant and new hands-free BlueCruise tech on the way

Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation

Skylight debuts Calendar 2 to keep your family organized

xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding

The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

How Quilt solved the heat pumps biggest challenge

How Quilt solved the heat pumps biggest challenge

A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated

A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software

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

Gmail's AI overhaul, powered by Gemini

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ChatGPT Health: get medical & insurance help

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Razer's AI desk companion

How to create compelling infographics with NotebookLM

Nvidia's 6-in-1 chip

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Xreal lets users 3Dify any screen effortlessly

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Sunday Special: China's new 'time-bending' centrifuge

Robotics Special: AgiBot's backpack-sized robot

The AI "soul computer"

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OpenAI's $555,000 job

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Nvidia licenses chipmaker Groqs tech in reported $20 billion deal

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Sunday Special: Paraplegic engineer shatters space accessibility

Robotics Special: A rental platform for robotics

Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs - you're not changing anybody's mind

Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server

OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering

Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware

Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first

Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment

Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway

Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026

China to probe Metas acquisition of AI outfit Manus

ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

Why colos are city slickers and hyperscalers are country bumpkins

IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show

British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture

Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025

UK to spend GBP23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires

Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini

Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.

China drafts worlds strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence

China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned.

How AI coding agents work-and what to remember if you use them

From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, heres what makes them tick.

OpenAIs child exploitation reports increased sharply this year

Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.

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

Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Annas Archive scraped.

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?

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.

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.

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...