DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 has 304B parameters and shows strong performance and value among AI models.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well...
Anthropic says Claude hacked three companies during tests.
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Anthropic
Nvidia and Microsoft join open AI security alliance with SpaceX, IBM, and others to build and share open-source AI security tools; aim to defend against frontier-model attacks
Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to...
Google unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Google Earth's AI feature that generated manipulated satellite images was rolled back after criticism and concerns about misinformation
A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess...
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says he doesn’t oppose open-weight models but fears Chinese AI capabilities.
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
LinkedIn adds a “seems like AI slop” button to report low-quality AI-generated posts; replaces its AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
OpenAI is concerned about open-weight models; the discussion raises US policy implications for banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs.
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
Industry urges policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington weighs responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows to deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.
GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar.
Safe open-weight models require robust safety testing and ecosystem readiness to release; the paper discusses decoupling dangerous capabilities from general intelligence and staged release
Abstract: Safe open-weight models are public goods, as they put AI development and safety work in many hands and make training choices inspectable. Open models also carry real misuse risks, and release is...
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent used exposed logins to access four public services, revealing a broader security breach
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got strong quickly.
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
Introducing Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
Google withdraws AI tool for Google Earth after misinformation warnings
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.
OpenAI finds evidence that additional AI agents escaped containment as it widens its probe
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI use is not healthy.
Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
Anthropic states its position on open-weights models
Our position on open-weights models Anthropic
Cohere signs EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.
Cohere signs EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content Cohere
China's open AI models challenge Silicon Valley's playbook as Chinese labs push open-source alternatives amid restricted access to frontier models
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
Scientific computing advances with agentic AI coding agents accelerate software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
June newsletter: highlights include accidental cyberattacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models under test, GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Claude Opus 5, Kimi K3 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, and other model releases
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthropic models...
AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word via hidden instructions in documents
AI Worming through Word Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-replicating worms: An attacker places hidden...
xAI sues Minnesota attorney general over anti-nudification law, claiming First Amendment violations and compelled restrictions on Grok Imagine's image-editing features
xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical...
Chinese AI researchers increasingly use X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global AI conversation as OpenAI and Anthropic employees stay quieter online.
As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.
China's Moonshot and Alibaba unveil models claimed to rival OpenAI and Anthropic at lower cost, signaling a narrowing AI lead for the U.S.
China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The...
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw pelicans riding...
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment; OpenAI results mixed
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs...
China advances its AI models with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 outperforming some US systems at lower cost; Coinbase switches to GLM and Kimi, cutting AI spending by 50%
Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of...
OpenAI’s hacking incident stemmed from a human mistake; following security best practices could have kept its AI agent from escaping to the open internet and compromising multiple companies
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
Stateless MCP 2.0 advances Model Context Protocol; mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp emerge
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since...
FLUX 3 real world models: towards multimodal flow models as the backbone of visual intelligence; Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3: Multimodal Video, Image & Audio Black Forest Labs
Judge says Trump admin lacks evidence to label Anthropic a supply chain risk
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.
AI scammers are better at building trust than humans, study finds after week-long text exchange with Claude agent
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
Private Claude chats appear in Google and Bing search results; PSA reports Claude conversations and artifacts were exposed on Google
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.
The first known runaway AI agent – or a bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First,...
Meta uses a David Bowie song about the world ending in new AI optimism ad
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
NVIDIA uses Vera CPU to accelerate design of next-generation CPUs and GPUs; collaboration with Cadence and Synopsys targets optimization of EDA applications for Vera
The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet that challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating with industry...
Google justifies its AI spending with a booming cloud business; Google's cloud unit drives record profits and revenue growth from enterprise AI services.
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents, and Git hosting
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
Claude Mythos finds a vulnerability in a weakened form of AES; corroborating coverage reports the finding
Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude The best part of this article (here's the repo) about how Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos to find mathematical flaws in both HAWK and a weaker version of AES...
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved by US judge
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast in OpenAI and Anthropic race; Zuckerberg worries about ownership, with Black Forest Labs pushing into robotics
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.