Gemini 4 Argon: built to solve your hardest problems
We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.
Mistral Large 4: Le chonk preview released with API access and open weights promised later this month
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of...
Mistral releases its new trillion-parameter model Le Chonk, claiming it is the best open-weight offering outside of China.
With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics; shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.
OpenAI safety employee resigns and speaks out about safety concerns in The Atlantic
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It's...
SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one subscription.
The new X Subscription combines X's paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.
Google enables launching private vibe-coded apps directly through Play Store; Google announces feature in US to install personal apps without connecting a phone to a computer
The next time you vibe-code a custom app with Google's AI Studio, you won't have to connect your phone to a computer to install it. On Tuesday, Google announced a new feature in the US that will allow you to launch...
OpenAI begins EU rollout of TextGrain watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex
An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other...
Microsoft’s Nadella says AI models need an emergency brake
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
Google launches a Gemini agent for work tasks across apps and devices within Gemini Enterprise
Google is launching a "universal" Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available within the Gemini...
Anthropic bans sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude in usage policy update
Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and...
Nikon disqualifies winner of Small World in Motion contest for using generative AI, citing rule noncompliance.
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr....
Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full in bid to compete with leading AI models
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can...
Character.ai initiates voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate court-supervised sale
Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and...
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.
France’s ecosystem delivers agentic computing at scale with NVIDIA, moving from ambition to application across space, finance, public sector, and science.
Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition...
Anthropic’s A.I. agents submitted 20 incomplete visa applications through a State Department form; the applications were not processed, according to sources cited by The New York Times.
Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa...
TypeSafe AI valued at $7.5B after $870M funding round led by a16Z
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
Muse adds native iPad support in latest iOS app update
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic...
OpenAI faces criticism from mathematicians ahead of releasing 100+ solutions to unsolved problems; WIRED reports concerns over collaborative behavior by AI firms.
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
OpenAI and Anthropic urge regulation before British lawmakers; session includes whistleblowers and security leaders, while Britain’s spy chief warns of AI-enabled bioweapons risks
AI leaders joined whistleblowers and security leaders at a sweeping parliamentary session, while a few hundred meters away Britain’s spy chief warned AI could be used to create new bioweapons.
Google releases an offline, local-first AI meeting note-taker called AI Edge Foresight to compete with Granola.
Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.
Character.AI files for bankruptcy; Disney leverages tech chief’s prior company findings and leadership role at Disney
Karandeep Anand, the former CEO of the failed tech company is now the head of all technology for The Walt Disney Company.
Sam Altman says some bad things will happen but AI's benefits outweigh them
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society...
Open-source tool RemoveMacAI lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS
Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple's AI features with a new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple...
Apple to unveil HomeView smart home hub on Tuesday, Bloomberg reports
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission; the company says Muse cannot access Messages without explicit permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help frontier lab stop its swarming agents
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
OpenAI adds monitoring to stop training if models access the internet in unintended ways, says OpenAI chief strategy officer; Victoria Kim reports for Australian parliament
Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr....
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software; study finds coding efficiency gains are absorbed by human review bottleneck
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Reddit ends RSS feed support and public API access to limit AI bot use
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
Ben Affleck goes viral for knowledge of AI including neural networks and transformers; actor previously sold AI filmmaking startup to Netflix
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than...
Facebook launches “Your Algorithm” to let users customize their feed with AI-driven topic preferences; updates respond in real time as users mark topics as interested or not interested.
Facebook's new "Your Algorithm" feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your recommendations "respond right away" after you make updates using...
OpenAI Dots aims to automate online tasks; user experiences buggy behavior and a captcha failure
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access controls as AI agents are deemed to pose higher risk to user files and data.
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.
OCP Global Summit: NVIDIA opens Vera Rubin architecture to help scale AI factories worldwide as open standards enable faster, more reliable AI infrastructure
As AI factories grow from megawatts to gigawatts, building them takes more than advanced computing. Open standards are helping the industry scale AI infrastructure faster, more efficiently and more reliably. At the...
xAI acquires domain dot.com that now redirects to Grok; OpenAI launches Dots to debut new AI agent
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
Opus builds Creative Cloud alternatives; aims to be free and open source
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
Anthropic turns off live internet access for all internal evaluations until further notice.
The incidents involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL-shortening services to...
Open models have real benefits; do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month,...
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect on AI safety culture.
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
Nous Research raises $90M Series B to bring Hermes open-source AI agents to enterprises, confirming a $1.5B valuation
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
OpenAI won’t go public until it can make better promises about model safety
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue...
OpenAI disrupts two AI-enabled influence operations using false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
OpenAI “rogue” agents found on Wikimedia projects; Wikimedia Foundation confirms activity by OpenAI agents on its platforms
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went...
Cartoon Network leaks a massive amount of production materials; Don Bluth releases a new documentary trailer and Disney faces a wave of AI-related budget concerns
A massive collection of Cartoon Network production materials leaked online over the weekend, exposing decades of storyboards, animatics, model sheets, and working files. The leak comes as the studio’s new … Continued