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Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

One of the first controversies of its kind.

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

Codex maker says it will continue to support these open source projects after deal closes.

Kagi Translates AI answers the question What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?

Remember when it was fun to play around with LLMs?

Musks tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

Planned EU ban on nudify apps would likely force Musk to make Grok less spicy.

How World ID wants to put a unique human identity on every AI agent

Iris scan-backed tokens could help stop agent swarms from overwhelming online systems.

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5s generative AI glow-ups

Nvidias next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way.

Elon Musks xAI sued for turning three girls real photos into AI CSAM

Discord user led cops to Grok-generated CSAM of real girls, lawsuit says.

New vibe coded AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community

Creator apologizes after using Patreon funds for Gemini-powered magazine scan processor.

OpenAIs own mental health experts unanimously opposed naughty ChatGPT launch

OpenAI draws a line between AI smut and porn. Experts fear its all unhealthy.

Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval

Staff complain that the constant upheaval is destroying morale.

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.

Perplexitys Personal Computer brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Perplexity says AI access to your files is in secure environment with clear safeguards.

Use a gun or beat the crap out of him: AI chatbot urged violence, study finds

Character.AI deemed uniquely unsafe among 10 chatbots tested by CCDH.

Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor

GPU maker courts corporate partners for NemoClaw ahead of annual conference.

AI can rewrite open source code-but can it rewrite the license, too?

Is it clean reverse engineering or just an LLM-filtered derivative work?

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network

The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.

After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos

One toggle for fast classic search.

Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing

Gemini can now pull context from your files, emails, and more to create and edit documents.

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Googles new command-line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data

This could make it easier to use multiple Workspace APIs, but its not yet an official Google product.

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI

Musk cant convince judge public doesnt care about where AI training data comes from.

AI startup sues ex-CEO, saying he took 41GB of email and lied on rsum

Hayden AI also claims co-founder improperly sold over $1.2M in stock.

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.

The AI lab wants to grow from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026,theFinancial Timesreports, citing two people familiar with the plans. Most new hires will go into product development, engineering, research, and sales. OpenAI is also bringing on "technical ambassador...

95% of UK students now use AI and their experiences couldn't be more divided

95 percent of British students use generative AI. But while some say it deepens their learning, others worry its replacing their ability to think for themselves. A new survey reveals a student body caught between enthusiasm, overwhelm, and universities that arent keeping up.

Europe's AI paradox is record adoption that funds foreign ecosystems instead of building its own

Europe leads in AI adoption and matches the US in talent, but owns almost none of the platforms it depends on. A new report by Prosus and Dealroom lays out where the disconnect starts: from missing infrastructure and fragmented regulation to a funding gap that hands Europes best ...

Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek''s Huawei Play, Apple''s Multimodal Tokenizer

Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek''s Huawei Play, Apple''s Multimodal Tokenizer

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

GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI''s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple''s Diffusion Research

GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI''s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple''s Diffusion Research

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana''s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google''s Mathematics Solutions

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana''s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google''s Mathematics Solutions

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

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

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?

Publisher pulls horror novel Shy Girl over AI concerns

Delve accused of misleading customers with fake compliance

Trumps AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents

The best AI investment might be in energy tech

These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings

Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

Meta rolls out new AI content enforcement systems while reducing reliance on third-party vendors

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are still open

Amazon brings Alexa+ to the UK

Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents

Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business

Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant

Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place

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

Robotics Special: Amazon eyes 'doorstep delivery' with latest acquisition

Create & step inside 3D worlds with OpenArt

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Vibe designing is here with Stitch

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Gamma revamps AI design app as it nears 100M users

ALSO: How to perfectly lip sync your videos with AI

Okara launches an "AI CMO"

ALSO: How to build interactive charts and diagrams in Claude

Sunday Special: A Google Earth for the human body

Robotics Special: Figure clears its biggest hurdle yet

GMaps now answers real-world questions

ALSO: How to turn any topic into an AI explainer video

Perplexity's back with Personal Computer

ALSO: Excel gets new AI powers

Gemini revamps Google Workspace

ALSO: How to create notes in your own handwriting using Gemini

Microsoft & Anthropic launch Copilot Cowork

ALSO: How to import your ChatGPT memory into Claude

Why real-world AI performance depends on the control layer

Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites

Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China

UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts

Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns

Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban

Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks

Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst

UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias

Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce

Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss

Metas latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little

OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt

Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering

Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users

SAP's grand cloud escape plan EUR2B short of the runway

GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary

Google offers vibe design tool that you can shout at to create a UI

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Tencent says small clouds cant get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices

Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market

Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents

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...