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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

Meta accused of concealing the facts about smart glass users privacy.

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability

Updates come amid user blowback over the companys Pentagon deal.

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.

Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide countdown

Gemini allegedly called man its husband, said they could be together in death.

Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?

Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry

Though the rules are among the strictest in the US, locals say they arent enough.

Trump moves to ban Anthropic from the US government

The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

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.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro combining coding, reasoning, and computer use in one model

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Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Oracle, xAI and OpenAI signed a voluntary pledge at the White House to cover the electricity costs of their data centers themselves.The commitment is not legally binding. The goal is to prevent the massive energy demand of AI data centers from dri...

Apple Music is rolling out Transparency Tags that let labels and distributors flag AI-generated content across four categories: Artwork, Tracks, Compositions, and Music Videos.Music Business Worldwidereported the news, citing a newsletter to industry partners. The tags are option...

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

Anthropic to challenge DODs supply-chain label in court

DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable

AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare

EXCLUSIVE: Luma launches creative AI agents powered by its new Unified Intelligence models

Meta sued over AI smart glasses privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage

Netflix buys Ben Afflecks AI filmmaking company InterPositive

Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report

One startups pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: Crowdsource the chatbots

Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore?

X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of armed conflict

Cursor has reportedly surpassed $2B in annualized revenue

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

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

Apple's cheapest MacBook ever just dropped

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3 AI giants drop models back-to-back

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SitDeck: Build CIA-level dashboards to monitor events

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How should the military use AI?

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Sunday Special: China unveils UFO-shaped electric aircraft

Robotics Special: Unitree unveils its strongest robot dog yet

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

ALSO: How to create McKinsey-style slides with AI

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

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage'

'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes

Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation

LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected

Malware-laced OpenClaw installers get Bing AI search boost

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

Capita's GBP370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

HR may have to cajole and soothe reluctant employees to get them to use AI

AI doctor's assistant is easily swayed to change prescriptions, give bad medical advice

Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout

OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists

CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage

Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite

Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way - like the humans they'll replace

Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions

Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours

Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world

OpenAIs Altman says Pentagon set scary precedent binning Anthropic

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...