Kimi announces Kimi K3.1 Pro for advancing open intelligence
Kimi K3.1 Pro Tech Blog: Advancing Open Intelligence kimi.ai
Anthropic says its AI could accelerate biology breakthroughs in the future; IPO filing tempers expectations and notes slow progress to major discoveries.
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.
Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model Cohere
Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model Cohere
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a new AI agent challenger to Muse and Dots, available as a standalone iOS/Android app and via Claude on the web.
Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to...
Grok’s AI model overwhelmingly recommends Republicans while OpenAI’s GPT favors Democrats in election predictions.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
GPT-6.1 Terra launched; Max scores 48 on Artificial Analysis
Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking...
AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions; Anthropic reports the expansion
AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions Anthropic
Google AI grows more forthright about 2020 election result outside the US
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
Meta quietly launches an “AI pet journal” app called Waddle World with chatty virtual creatures and doodles, pitched as a daily journal disguised as a 16-bit pet care game
Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the...
OpenAI to cut frontier models off the internet amid concerns over “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
OpenAI models come to Google Cloud via Gemini Model Garden and Google Cloud Marketplace
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.
Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilities
Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.
Nvidia releases a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but only works on recordings, not live audio.
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still...
DeepSeek v4.1-Flash-1017 introduces wish-driven programming across its API.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: Wish-Driven Programming Made Real DeepSeek
Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity; seven potential AI nightmares pulled from the Risk Factor document
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor and lied about it
OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety...
Meta and Apple collaborate to optimize Muse AI models for Macs and enable desktop runs on Apple M5 Ultra Macs with MLX framework.
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your...
NVIDIA expands Nemotron family with highest-efficiency Super VL and Bolt models for edge and desktop use
NVIDIA today released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model that delivers the fastest task completion and highest accuracy for specialized always-on agents. Joining it are two new edge models:...
Microsoft says its AI tool can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors
For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company...
US orders federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek AI and related services from government IT systems due to national security concerns
The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering
Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering Anthropic
Anthropic donates agent skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation Anthropic
Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis; OpenAI says its AI disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.
Chrome’s enhanced autofill can pull information from Gmail to help fill out forms
Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services like Google Wallet,...
r/opensource bans projects that use AI, are AI-made, or are intended for AI, and prohibits non-English submissions; moderators announce new submission rules
The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for...
AI execs may be out of touch to build for the general public; tech leaders brag about using AI to connect with their families
Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.
Google unveils Genie 4 world model for generating more realistic interactive experiences, with real-time updates via natural language prompts, audio generation, and Gemini 3.8 Flash integration.
Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main updates: It allows for more realistic worlds, lets users update an experience...
OpenAI strengthens containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
Highway thieves spoof GPS to steal data center-bound cargo; investigators say the theft totaled about $100M in equipment.
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
Identifying limits on MoE inference to speed up Ling-3.0-flash on NVIDIA DGX Spark
Generating tokens faster starts with identifying what limits inference performance. In the batch-size-1 evaluation of Ling-3.0-flash from Inclusion AI on NVIDIA...
Voxtral 3 delivers speech-to-text, TTS, and voice agents from mistral.ai
Voxtral 3: Speech-to-Text, TTS & Voice Agents mistral.ai
Anthropic says quarterly revenue rose nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday....
Perplexity Computer now runs fully local on Mac
Perplexity Computer runs fully local on Mac Perplexity
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
Investing in the public benefit Anthropic
AI delivers zero financial payoff to most companies; Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
Canva releases its first image generation model to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 Uber employees for research, data analysis, presentations, and workflows.
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.
Anthropic proposes AI safety bill that blocks a model if 50+ people could be killed; bill also restricts federal agencies from blocking a release without a judge’s permission
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Cohere AI on AWS: building a financial research assistant
Build a Financial Research Assistant with Cohere AI on AWS Cohere
Retell uses OpenAI models to power 100M monthly calls; GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark and Codex contributes to a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.
GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.
OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT
OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.