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The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.

Will I be OK? Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him safely experiment with drugs, logs show.

Googles Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and theyre coming this year

Google has revealed its vision for the AI laptop of tomorrow.

Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026

Google has big plans for Android in 2026, and most of it is AI.

Amazon employees are tokenmaxxing due to pressure to use AI tools

Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.

Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water, and nobody noticed for months

Can AI save us from the AI industrys endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.

The new Wild West of AI kids toys

These connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.

Sony says efficient AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market

But human artists still must remain at the center, PlayStation maker says.

Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews

Googles AI search will start citing its sources in several new ways.

Chromes 4GB AI model isnt new, but youre not wrong for being confused

You can stop Chrome from taking up 4GB of storage for local AI, but that shouldnt be your problem.

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have almost no false positives

The developer of Firefox says it has completely bought in on AI-assisted bug discovery.

Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit

The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today.

Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla

Musk was prepared to do the for-profit, provided he would get control.

Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch

TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.

Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

Google DeepMind partners withEVE Onlinefor AI model testing

Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations.

Anthropics Claude Managed Agents can now dream, sort of

Also, 5-hour usage limits will double for Pro and Max users of Claude Code.

Googles Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens

Up to 3x the speed with no loss of quality-is it too good to be true?

OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury

Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.

Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean

Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.

Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license

State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number.

Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls

Googles smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.

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.

With Gemini Intelligence, Google is introducing new AI features for Android that automate multi-step tasks, summarize web content, fill out forms, and turn spoken thoughts into polished text messages.Ahead of Google I/O, the company announced that the features will ship on the Sa...

Anthropic is making a major push into the legal sector.On Tuesday, the company unveiledtwelve new plugins and over 20 MCP connectorsfor its chatbot Claude, each designed for specific areas of law, including contract law, employment law, and litigation. The plugins combineskillswi...

Microsoft ousts its Israel chief following reports that Azure quietly powered military AI targeting in Gaza

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Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

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-5.5 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

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

Medicares new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit

Google adds Gemini-powered dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups

Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks

GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

Anthropic says evil portrayals of AI were responsible for Claudes blackmail attempts

Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year

Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.

Intels comeback story is even wilder than it seems

Last 24 hours to get 50% off a second pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

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

The first AI that interrupts you

How to analyze and visualize data with ChatGPT and Claude

Reactor enters the world model race

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Sunday Special: NASA's quiet supersonic jet hits near-Mach speeds

Robotics Special: New model gives robots a human touch

Gemini's new health app and wearable

ALSO: How to create presentations with AI in PowerPoint

Interact AI's plan to replace static websites

ALSO: How to navigate "AI fog"

This breakthrough model uses 1,000X less compute

ALSO: How to create mind maps with AI

Cofounder 2: Run a startup w/ zero employees

ALSO: How to design email marketing campaigns with AI

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

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Communist government plans personalized data-driven decision-making based on real-time information by 2035

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'

Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work

RSL Media expands machine-readable licensing rules to cover AI use of identities and creative works

Japans PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla

Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed

GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI

Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer

Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks

An intern who failed this much would be shown the door

OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own

By which we mean it bought someone else's with other people's money

Anthropics bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree

GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks

ASIA IN BRIEF: Chinas agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop

PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

In The Register's Kettle podcast we discuss how Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease computing pain, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support - soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

Its not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

In a word, 'Huh?'

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just arent AI enough

Around 20 percent of staff get an In one hour, you might not work here anymore email

HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab - self-driving Wi-Fi

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate

Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware

AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises

MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card

EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS

Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs

For AI agents, seeing is expensive

Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity

Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits

Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI

Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff

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...