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Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

CEO says most companies are late to realize how much technology will affect employment.

Perplexity announces Computer, an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Its also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.

xAI spent $7M building wall that barely muffles annoying power plant noise

Temu sound wall not enough to quell fury over xAIs power plant.

Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

Googles new image model replaces the previous versions immediately.

Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit

Even twisting an ex-employees text to favor xAIs reading fails to sway judge.

The Galaxy S26 is faster, more expensive, and even more chock-full of AI

Samsungs Galaxy S26 series is available for preorder today and ships on March 11.

Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else

CEO was summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology.

Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

AMD will supply 6 gigawatts worth of chips to buttress Metas AI efforts.

Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise

Even in a fragile farm economy, million-dollar offers cant sway dedicated farmers.

New Microsoft gaming chief has no tolerance for bad AI

But Asha Sharma faces scrutiny for lack of gaming experience.

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

LLMs memorize more training data than previously thought.

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.

Trump orders all federal agencies to drop Anthropic after the AI company refused to bend its terms for the Pentagon

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A new integration links Figma's design platform directly with OpenAI's Codex.Teams can automatically generate editable Figma designs from code and convert designs into working code. It runs on theopen MCP standard, supports Figma Design, Figma Make, and FigJam, and is s...

Gemini Seizes the Lead, Investors Panic Over Agentic AI, Optimism at Global AI Summit, Local Versus Cloud

Gemini Seizes the Lead, Investors Panic Over Agentic AI, Optimism at Global AI Summit, Local Versus Cloud

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

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

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

Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: Whats actually at stake?

ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users

AI music generator Suno hits 2M paid subscribers and $300M in annual recurring revenue

Last 24 hours to get TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets at the lowest rates of the year

Sophia Space raises $10M seed to demo novel space computers

Mistral AI inks a deal with global consulting giant Accenture

Bumble adds AI-powered photo feedback and profile guidance tools

Exhibit in Bostons startup ecosystem at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Figma partners with OpenAI to bake in support for Codex

Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise

Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google

Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Blocks employee base - and he says your company is next

Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Blocks employee base - and he says your company is next

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

Nano Banana 2 is here

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Perplexity Computer completes any project end-to-end

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Claude Cowork can tackle more tasks

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Pika Labs launches AI Selves: living, digital twins

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Anthropic triggers a stock selloff with new Claude Code feature

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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

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

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The ChatGPT moment for voice

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OpenAI hires OpenClaw's founder

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AI agents need orchestration - not just intelligence

Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones - memory is too expensive now

Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims

Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix

Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover

Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode

Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip

Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering

Jack Dorseys fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets

AI models suck slightly less at math than they did last year

Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM

Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026

Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions

AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs

Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse

Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution

LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far

AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

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...