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No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents

SpaceMoltenvisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch.

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.

Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

Production source says it takes weeks to produce just minutes of usable video.

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

The emphasis is on mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates.

OpenAI is hoppin mad about Anthropics new Super Bowl TV ads

Sam Altman calls AI competitor dishonest and authoritarian in lengthy post on X.

Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race

Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

ChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.

Nvidias $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished

Two AI giants shake market confidence after investment fails to materialize.

X office raided in Frances Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning

Paris prosecutor: Illegal content probe includes pornographic images of minors.

Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP

With Model Context Protocol (MCP), this works with more than Codex/Claude, too.

Senior staff departing OpenAI as firm prioritizes ChatGPT development

Resources are redirected from long-term research toward improving the flagship chatbot.

The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat

We dont need self-replicating AI models to have problems, just self-replicating prompts.

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAIs mission.

OpenAI picks up pace against Claude Code with new Codex desktop app

The macOS app does everything the CLI, IDE, and web interfaces do.

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and its getting weird fast

Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.

Developers say AI coding tools work-and thats precisely what worries them

Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.

Web portal leaves kids chats with AI toy open to anyone with Gmail account

Just about anyone with a Gmail account could access Bondu chat transcripts.

How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?

Anthropics latest paper on user disempowerment has some troubling findings.

Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt

Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.

New OpenAI tool renews fears that AI slop will overwhelm scientific research

New Prism workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality.

Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?

We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes.

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.

OpenAI is rolling out ads in ChatGPT for users in the United States.The test targets logged-in adult users on the free and "Go" tiers. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans remain ad-free. Free-tier users can opt out of advertising, but doing so reduces t...

New benchmark shows AI models still hallucinate far too often

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Human writers face an impossible race against chatbots that finish a book before lunch

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OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi''s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia''s Partners

OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi''s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia''s Partners

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

Agents Go Shopping, Intelligence Redefined, Better Text in Pictures, Higher Engagement Means Worse Alignment

Agents Go Shopping, Intelligence Redefined, Better Text in Pictures, Higher Engagement Means Worse Alignment

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

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

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most

Databricks CEO says SaaS isnt dead, but AI will soon make it irrelevant

Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO

Anthropic closes in on $20B round

Call for speakers: TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl

Okay, Im slightly less mad about that Magnificent Ambersons AI project

New York lawmakers propose a 3-year pause on new data centers

Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras

It just got easier for Claude to check in on your WordPress site

Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a pricey but pretty e-ink color tablet with AI features

How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases

Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high

OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own

Meta tests a stand-alone app for its AI-generated Vibes videos

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads

Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US government surveillance, sounds new alarm over CIA activities

Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US government surveillance, sounds new alarm over CIA activities

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

The $70M domain name

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Sunday Special: Giant Phantom Jelly makes on-camera debut

Robotics Special: Waymo hits record valuation

Anthropic & OpenAI drop new models

ALSO: How to restore your old photos with ChatGPT

Anthropic roasts OpenAI

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Meet the AI startup solving healthcare

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SpaceX acquires xAI

ALSO: How to record and summarize meetings with ChatGPT

A social network only AI can use

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Sunday Special: Scientists create an "unsinkable" metal

Robotics Special: Tesla pivots to AI and robotics

Create & explore 3D worlds with Project Genie

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

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI

Linus Torvalds keeps his fingers and toes rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty

Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI - it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

This dev made a Llama with three inference engines

BBC bumps telly tax to GBP180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler

Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks

Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development

Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt

Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree

AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble

Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout

Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay

Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents

Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend

AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer

Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom

Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem

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...