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Notepad++ for Mac release is disavowed by the creator of the original

To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version.

Canadian election databases use canary traps-and they work

Intentional errors can be useful.

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

Musks World War III threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to coerce a settlement days before trial started.

Study: AI models that consider users feelings are more likely to make errors

Overtuning can cause models to prioritize user satisfaction over truthfulness.

Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines

More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.

GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests

New results suggest Mythos cyber threat isnt a breakthrough specific to one model.

Elon Musks 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial

Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI.

Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

Meta said the Kenyan workers didnt meet our standards.

Researchers try to cut the genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids

Using AI tools, the team reworked part of the ribosome to need one less amino acid.

The hidden cost of Googles AI defaults and the illusion of choice

Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to never talk about goblins

Directions also include system instructions to act like you have a vivid inner life.

Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects

Uninsurable war damage is forcing tech companies to rethink Middle East plans.

Sam Altman is the face of evil for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer

Lawsuits: OpenAI didnt report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.

Humanoid robots start sorting luggage in Tokyo airport test amid labor shortage

Humanoid robots could load cargo and clean aircraft cabins at Haneda Airport.

GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage

GitHub says it can no longer absorb escalating inference cost from it heaviest AI users.

The great American data center divide

Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure.

Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAIs future

Musks shifting stance on AI dangers may complicate trial over OpenAIs mission.

OpenAI ends its exclusive partnership with Microsoft

Amended agreement clears the way for OpenAI models to run on Amazon Bedrock.

EU tells Google to open up AI on Android; Google says thats unwarranted intervention

Gemini gets preferential treatment on Android, but maybe not for long (in Europe).

China kills Metas acquisition of Manus as US-China AI rivalry deepens

The unwinding of Metas deal shows how tech founders struggle to cut China ties.

Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.

Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time

The AI-driven memory shortage is hitting Samsungs bottom line.

Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf

Beloved wolf gripped the nation after burrowing out of the zoo.

US accuses China of industrial-scale AI theft. China says its slander.

Trump-Xi summit may be rocked by US mulling huge sanctions.

Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations

Plants from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Microsoft could emit more than 129M tons annually.

Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the Pro plan

Untenable demand has Anthropic exploring new approaches to rationing its service.

Google unveils two new TPUs designed for the agentic era

Googles new generation of Tensor AI chips is actually two chips, one for inference and one for training.

Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

Emily Hart is a young, AI-created conservative woman who likes to take off her clothes.

Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations military budgets

The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraines entire military budget.

Anthropic,Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs are launching a new AI services company to help mid-market businesses adopt Claude.The venture will help mid-sized companies build Claude into their core operations, with Anthropic engineers working alongside the new...

OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new joint venture called "The Deployment Company," according to Bloomberg.The venture aims to help businesses roll out OpenAI software. A total of 19 investors signed on, including TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent, an...

OpenAI says human attention is the bottleneck, so it built a system to let agents manage themselves

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GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans

GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans

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

GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work

GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work

Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts

Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts

Anthropic''s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics

Anthropic''s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics

Claude Code''s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference

Claude Code''s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference

Nvidia''s Open Salvo, OpenAI''s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models

Nvidia''s Open Salvo, OpenAI''s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models

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

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

As workers worry about AI, Nvidias Jensen Huang says AI is creating an enormous number of jobs

OpenAIs cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO

Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades

Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious

Elon Musk sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman after asking for a settlement, OpenAI claims

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DoorDash adds AI tools to speed up merchant onboarding, edit photos of dishes

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks

Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too

Stripe updates Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can use, too

Ousters new color lidar is coming to replace cameras

Ousters new color lidar is coming to replace cameras

This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling

This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling

Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says

Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says

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 confirms Mac Mini shortage

ALSO: How to generate editable infographics with AI

Sunday Special: Brain implant wins FDA nod to treat depression

Robotics Special: Japan puts humanoid robots to work at airport

Codex challenges Claude Cowork

ALSO: How to create interactive charts and diagrams in Claude

Big Tech blows out earnings

ALSO: How to create real QR codes with ChatGPT Image 2

Claude plugs into popular design tools

ALSO: How to get better outputs with fewer tokens in Claude

OpenAI's iPhone competitor

ALSO: How to set up and use Claude Design

DeepSeek's V4 challenges Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.4

ALSO: How to compare multiple AI models side by side using one prompt

Sunday Special: Scientists discover ancient Kraken-like octopus

Robotics Special: Robots ace humans at ping-pong

OpenAI reclaims the throne

ALSO: How to create images with OpenAI's Images 2

ChatGPT gets 24/7 shareable agents

ALSO: How to create viral LinkedIn posts with AI

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

AI inference just plays by different rules

How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in Hybrid Navy

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco - the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over

Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI

SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

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...