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An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

Blames user error, not AI error for incident in December involving its Kiro tool.

Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

The now-deleted Harry Potter dataset was mistakenly marked public domain.

Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was meant for greatness-then came psychosis

AI Injury Attorneys target the chatbot design itself.

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says its better at complex problem-solving

Google says 3.1 Pro is ready for your hardest challenges.

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.

Record scratch-Googles Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today

With a simple prompt, you can generate 30 seconds of something like music.

ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI clip art

Hollywood backlash puts spotlight on ByteDances sketchy launch of Seedance 2.0.

Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers

Hayden AIs cameras will scan for violations from 7 city vehicles.

Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

This story has been retracted

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didnt make a single cent

These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace.

OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

OpenAIs new GPT5.3CodexSpark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

We let Chromes Auto Browse agent surf the web for us-heres what happened

Auto Browse is capable of some impressive things, but it can also crash and burn spectacularly.

OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of Facebook path

Zo Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.

Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musks xAI

Tony Wu leaves a company now entangled with social media, space-based IPOs.

Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades.

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.

Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Hollywood is done asking nicely. First Netflix, then Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, and Sony. Now the MPA itself. Hollywood is closing ranks against Bytedances Seedance 2.0, arguing the AI video generator was built on stolen content. The API launch might already be on hold.

Newsguard tested whether ChatGPT Voice (OpenAI), Gemini Live (Google), and Alexa+ (Amazon) repeat false claims in realistic-sounding audio, the kind easily shared on social media to spread disinformation.

Why AI still can't find that one concert photo you're looking for

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The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI''s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, Faster Reasoning

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI''s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, Faster Reasoning

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 4.6 Thinks Smarter, xAI Joins SpaceX, AI Outperforms Doctors, Standardized AI Audits

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinks Smarter, xAI Joins SpaceX, AI Outperforms Doctors, Standardized AI Audits

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

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

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

All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

6 days left to lock in the lowest TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 rates

Microsofts new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with endless AI slop

OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooters chats

Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC

InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting

Toy Story 5 takes aim at creepy AI toys: Im always listening

AIs promise to indie filmmakers: Faster, cheaper, lonelier

Peak XV raises $1.3B, doubles down on AI as global VC rivalry in India heats up

Googles new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores - again

Why these startup CEOs dont think AI will replace human roles

YouTubes latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping

OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation

The 9,000-pound monster I dont want to give back

The 9,000-pound monster I dont want to give back

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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

Sunday Special: Scientists find 'astonishingly' large dinosaur fossil in the Sahara

Robotics Special: Tesla's Cybercab finally rolls off the assembly line

Interpreter: AI that manages your documents (even offline)

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Gemini now turns photos or prompts into songs

ALSO: How to build better visual AI datasets

Anthropic drops Sonnet 4.6, claiming "human-level" computer abilities

ALSO: How to create Instagram product shots with Nano Banana

The ChatGPT moment for voice

ALSO: How to see your brand's performance on answer engines

OpenAI hires OpenClaw's founder

ALSO: How to create McKinsey-grade industry reports with AI

Sunday Special: Landmark study hints at ancient life on Mars

Robotics Special: Apptronik triples valuation to $5.3B

New AI video model takes over the internet

ALSO: How to create your own talking head videos with AI

AI-generated essay goes viral and sounds the alarm bells

ALSO: How to create fully interactive images with Gemini

Build personalized apps on Nothing

ALSO: How to create professional presentations in PowerPoint

Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems - then make more of them

How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE

Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work

EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs

From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding

Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him

Indias top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook

AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures

Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race

Don't believe the hyperscalers! AI can't cure the climate crisis

Android malware taps Gemini to navigate infected devices

US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians

AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks - only people can

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it

Agile Manifesto turns 25 - just in time for vibe coding to test it

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...