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.
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.
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.
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model described as their most capable to date, with open weights promised by July 27, 2026.
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their "most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters". It's currently available via their website and API, but an open weight...
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models; Claude’s voice mode now available for Opus and Sonnet
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email
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.
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.
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Neill Blomkamp unveils 13-minute sci‑fi short Nightborne based on Echopraxia; voices and faces modeled after human actors via Barley Studios AI startup
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from...
Runway launches Media Router to provide API access to third-party generative media models through Runway Dev.
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.
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.
FLUX 3 real world models: towards multimodal flow models as the backbone of visual intelligence; Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3 - Real World Models: Towards Multimodal Flow Models as the Backbone of Visual Intelligence. Black Forest Labs
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.
US Army burns through AI tokens; report notes limits on token supply
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.
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...
San Francisco demands Apple and Google delete AI Nudify apps from app stores
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.
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...
Reducing high-bandwidth memory bottlenecks in JAX-based LLM training with host offloading; corroborating coverage cites nonuniform tensor parallelism to enhance goodput in large-scale LLM training
Large language model (LLM) training workloads increasingly run into GPU memory limits before compute is fully used. Model weights, gradients, optimizer states,...
OpenAI launches Health in ChatGPT for eligible U.S. users to securely connect medical records and Apple Health for personalized insights.
Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.
Meta launches an AI optimism ad set to David Bowie’s "Five Years" about humans learning they have five years left before the apocalypse.
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes...
EU orders Google to share search data and open Android to rivals in Europe
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
Nvidia aims to own every chip inside AI data centers with its Vera Rubin platform that combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system; corroborating coverage notes Nvidia is building the first national AI.
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
OpenAI’s GPT-Red uses self-play red teaming to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.
Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.
Mermaid to Unicode box art via Grok CLI; corroborating coverage notes Mermaid to ASCII art
Tool: Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) While exploring the codebase for the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent I came across xai-grok-markdown/src/mermaid.rs, a "self-contained terminal...
Google closes in on a billion-user product with Gemini; Gemini has over 750 million monthly users as of February
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese open AI models over alleged IP theft, expanding the Trump administration's campaign to slow China's AI advances.
Frontier AI for energy and utilities by mistral.ai
Frontier AI for energy and utilities. mistral.ai
Etched hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors, citing new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model without GPUs
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text...
Claude extends Fable 5 access through July 19 on all paid plans; Claude Code rate limits remain 50% higher through the same date
One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude Max plans: We're extending Claude...
NVIDIA Spectrum-6 arrives in gigascale AI factories for Vera Rubin training
AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier models, power agentic AI and generate intelligence at...
Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of...
Nvidia sends GPUs to the Moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to energy efficiency, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for small business program
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
Google Vids adds Gemini Omni and personal avatars for easier video creation; Google Vids lets you star in your own AI videos
Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.
Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets; OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files, calls it an 'honest mistake'
On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without...
Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app; Build lets users generate basic games from a single text prompt
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
NVIDIA DGX GB300 system comes online at Naval Postgraduate School.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online...
Anthropic outlines a research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund
A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund Anthropic
Anthropic and OpenAI’s 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor about Anthropic-Physical Intelligence roiling AI Twitter.
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
X.ai makes Grok Build open source; introduces Grok 4.5
Grok Build is Now Open Source x.ai
Substack offers tool to estimate AI contribution in newsletters; signals transparency around AI-assisted content.
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
Halliday’s G2 glasses listen to and summarize meetings without video.
Halliday’s G2 glasses can listen to and summarize your workplace meetings—with no video involved.