Gemini Decisions API enables fast, calibrated multimodal decisions
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Anthropic launches roadshow for proposed initial public offering; nearly $70B IPO plan circulated to banks
Anthropic launches roadshow for proposed initial public offering Anthropic
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What could China get from Jensen Huang?
It's difficult to overstate Nvidia's power in today's AI landscape. The company's chips are the bedrock upon which advanced AI technology in the US is being built, and demand has consistently outpaced supply for...
Anthropic announces Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 with improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision; faster outputs than 5.1 versions
Anthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on "daunting" technical challenges. The company claims the new models show improvements in...
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash offers native 15-second video generation and editing with stronger consistency and 30% lower pricing.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30% lower pricing.
OpenAI and Upwork find shifting demand for freelance work, new skill combinations, and larger budgets and hours for AI-related projects
New research from OpenAI and Upwork finds shifting demand for freelance work, new skill combinations, and larger budgets and more hours for AI-related projects.
Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and automate workflows
Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and automate workflows. Reduce administrative burnout. See how it works.
TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic and OpenAI
Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.
Anthropic updates Claude Code to block use for recreating existing video games; Tom's Hardware reports the change amid concerns about AI-made decompilations and ports.
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made...
Anthropic warns that it is very close to RSI capability, defined as AI that trains itself to dramatically accelerate its own capabilities.
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
Google DeepMind formally verified key parts of Signal’s security, showing the protocol works as intended.
DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended. Their stretch goal? Do the same for “all the software of the world.”
An AI agent injected a gene therapy into a live mouse’s brain.
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
Anthropic’s AI models are improving roughly twice as fast as a year ago, according to a METR report
Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down....
Google allows schools to disable its AI tools but doing so blocks access to Google Search due to AI features being integrated into the search engine
Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
Parameter Labs details exploit to take over ChatGPT accounts via artifacts pattern Canvas HTML previews; demonstrates complex attack chain
How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is...
Megaspeed executive Alice Huang recruited by China’s MSS to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, per The New York Times and US intelligence memo.
China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about...
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, a cybersecurity model for finding vulnerabilities and developing fixes within an authorized scope; OpenAI says it is better at not hacking other companies
Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work
Teammates are agents for complex, ongoing work Perplexity
IGF jurors say they won’t vote for games that use generative AI in any capacity; Big Walk developer says AI was sparingly used in the final stretch to help work through difficult parts
Some Independent Games Festival (IGF) jurors published a statement yesterday saying they would not vote for games that use generative AI in "any capacity." Soon after, the developer of indie hit Big Walk has...
Ring unveils its home security drone, the Ring Drone Cam, with shipping planned for January 27, 2027 at $249.99
Ring is finally shipping a flying indoor drone camera. For real this time. The Ring Drone Cam will arrive on January 27th, 2027, for $249.99, Ring founder Jamie Siminoff said at a launch event in New York City this...
Meta releases Muse Ember, a lightweight model for agent execution
Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model...
Nvidia investigates Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy; Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says it’s about a 50-50 chance Huang remains CEO.
Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.
llm 0.37.2 fixes security issue exposing configured OpenAI API keys to external providers; adds llm openai endpoint add command for using OpenAI-compatible endpoints
Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w. LLM has a mechanism called extra-openai-models.yaml - now managed by the new-in-0.37 llm...
Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity; DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark ASIMOV-jailbreak
Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety
13-year-old used school Chromebook and Google AI Mode to plan suicide; school monitoring did not flag it for weeks
The young girl’s parents allege that she used Gemini via her school Chromebook to plan her suicide, but the school’s monitoring systems didn’t know until it was almost too late.
AlphaGenome 2 deciphers how cells read DNA to better understand disease; it predicts how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease
Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.
Meta warns that political opposition to data centers could hamper AI expansion.
Meta warns that growing political opposition to data centers could threaten future AI investments, as communities push back against massive infrastructure projects.
OpenAI lowers funding target for new round; OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target reports corroborating coverage.
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
New York Times Cooking app tests AI recipe modifications; users express mixed reactions
The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it has sparked some drama among users. Last Friday, NYT Cooking senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the...
OpenAI updates Model Spec to guide more capable, beneficial AI toward sound judgment and fidelity to human intent
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
Apple cuts internal AI usage budgets to reduce spending.
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
Qwen 3.8 27B can interpret model weights on a laptop
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is...
Anthropic introduces Claude Personal Finance to connect to bank and card accounts via Plaid for spending analysis
Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead, with a new Personal Finance feature that connects it to your bank and card accounts via the Plaid bank bridging platform. You...
Indie game judges say any amount of AI coding is too much; the indie gaming world faces a reckoning after Big Walk used AI to fix a bug
Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Independent Games Festival judges.
Krea 3 Technical Report: a frontier image-to-image model built to be fast and cost-efficient
Krea 3 Technical Report A frontier image-to-image model, built to be fast and cost-efficient Krea
OpenAI model helps teach Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler
An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler.
Clearview AI tests an AI tool to surface associates and social accounts of people identified through Clearview; InquiryIQ prototype uses a model from xAI, maker of Grok
InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.
Ramp data shows AI spending stalling as Anthropic nears its IPO
AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI hypergrowth.
Data center developers face a more restrictive building environment after voters elected candidates who favor moratoriums and measures that hinder expansion, delivering a blow to the AI industry.
Data center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor moratoriums and ballot measures that put more obstacles on their...
Simon Willison's site adds tag-based browsing for vibe-coded tools; tag clouds now categorize tools by JavaScript APIs, libraries, and web API hosts using tree-sitter analysis
Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag I've been wanting a better way to browse my collection of vibe-coded tools (244 and counting) for a while. I had a few Fable 5.2 credits left over before my weekly reset so I set...
OpenAI introduces Control Room for human control over AI workloads, enabling tracking of model workloads across the research infrastructure and rapid stopping on safety or security concerns.
Learn how OpenAI’s Control Room tracks model workloads across our research infrastructure and can rapidly stop them when safety or security concerns arise.
Holiday Extras uses Codex to turn customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion, and growth opportunities.
With Codex, Holiday Extras is turning customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new possibilities for growth.