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US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT

Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.

Google begins rolling out Chromes Auto Browse AI agent today

The Auto Browse agent is available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but there are some limits.

Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty

Over 400,000 H200 chips coming to tech giants as China tries to balance tech needs with self-reliance.

Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks

The open source Jarvis chats via WhatsApp but requires access to your files and accounts.

AI Overviews gets upgraded to Gemini 3 with a dash of AI Mode

AI Overviews may get it right more often with the move to Gemini 3.

OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.

Wildly irresponsible: DOTs use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns

Staffers warn DOTs use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.

EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Groks sexualized deepfakes

Elon Musks company faces fines of up to 6 percent of its daily turnover.

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure intact mental health

The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that wont compile.

Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027

Apple, OpenAI, Meta, and more are all racing toward AI hardware products.

Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musks chosen court

Millions likely harmed by Grok-edited sex images as X advertisers shrugged.

Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini

Google says more kinds of standardized tests will be added in the future.

Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable Personal Intelligence

Personal Intelligence is optional and rolling out first to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.

eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

New policy requires buy for me AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform.

Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test.

Did Apple make the right choice in partnering with Google for Siris AI features?

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now theres a plugin to avoid them.

The webs best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.

Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft

Musks math reduced ChatGPT inventors contributions to zero, OpenAI argued.

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

TSMC says AI demand is endless after record Q4 earnings

Amid fears of bubble, worlds top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.

Mother of one of Elon Musks offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes

Claims Grok chatbot created countless sexual images of her without her consent.

ChatGPT wrote Goodnight Moon suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

ChatGPT used a mans favorite childrens book to romanticize his suicide.

Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral to API access deals.

Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing

In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.

Musk and Hegseth vow to makeStar Trekreal but miss the shows lessons

AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators.

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says

Californias AG will investigate whether Musks nudifying bot broke US laws.

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

The feature will start with paid users only, and its off by default.

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI hallucination when banning football fans

Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools.

China has authorized ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase Nvidia's H200 AI chips, Reuters reports, citing four people familiar with the matter.The three tech giants can import more than 400,000 H200 chips combined. Additional companies are on a waiting list for future...

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5, claims most powerful open-weight model with 100-agent coordination

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.5, which the company says is the most powerful open-weight model available. The model can independently coordinate up to 100 AI agents working in parallel on complex tasks.

OpenAI CEO Altman admits he broke his own AI security rule after just two hours, says we're all about to YOLO

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Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple''s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

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

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

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

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

Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026

Tesla to invest $2B in Elon Musks xAI

ServiceNow inks another AI partnership, this time with Anthropic

WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy

AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Plus-one passes are almost gone and only 3 days remain

The conference where founders scale: TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 tickets are now live at the lowest prices

Anthropic reportedly upped its latest raise to $20B

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

Moonshot AI drops Kimi K2.5 with Agent Swarm

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Claude connects to your workplace tools

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AI is shifting from tool to teammate

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Sunday Special: Scientists uncover a 'new form of life'

Robotics Special: Swiss scientists unveil detachable robotic hand

Meet the 24/7 AI time assistant

ALSO: How AI Influencers Are Replacing Human Creators

Amazon & Anthropic release AI healthcare tools

ALSO: How predictive intelligence can streamline your sales pipeline at Salesforce

The vibe is shifting

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OpenAI rockets to record $20B revenue

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Astral's viral AI marketer

ALSO: How to create landing page from UI inspirations

Sunday Special: Mushrooms and "mini-earthquakes"

Robotics Special: OpenAI eyes huge manufacturing push

Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure

AI is coming to solve your system outages

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues

Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era

Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch

Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google

ICE knocks on ad techs data door to see what it knows about you

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan

ServiceNow boasts about years of sweat equity that went into making its AI agents smarter

Claude Code's prying AIs read off-limits secret files

AI agent hype cools as enterprises struggle to get into production

Flush with cash, SK hynix spawns mysteriously named 'AI Co.'

Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination

Anthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulation

Cops get more facial recognition vans as UK bets big on AI policing

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden

European firms push on with AI pilots even as payoff doubts grow

Pope warns flock to raise their faces, protect their voices in fightback against AI

Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation

Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort

Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

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...