DeepSeek releases V4 Flash Vision Exp with multimodal API now live on the DeepSeek API platform.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Release: Multimodal API Now Live DeepSeek
OpenAI slows pace of AI development and tightens security after hack and ahead of IPO.
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it...
We tracked a shipment of rare books; it ended at an Amazon AI training facility
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes...
Preview Ultrafast: OpenAI offers GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster with Cerebras-powered service
Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro GA release announced
DeepSeek-V4-Pro GA Release DeepSeek
Researchers show encrypted chain-of-thought blocks from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google can be replayed to extract a stronger model’s hidden reasoning in plaintext.
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed...
How Claude's text watermarking works
How Claude's text watermarking works Anthropic
OpenAI seeks to outdo Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
OpenAI research shows enterprises adopting agentic AI with ChatGPT and Codex; frontier firms pulling ahead in AI adoption
OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.
OpenAI reiterates zero data retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
Google’s Gemini app reaches one billion users
Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images...
Twitch streamers can opt out of having their content used to train Amazon's generative AI models.
Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't...
Meta releases Glimmer Muse model, hinting at Mark Zuckerberg’s personal AI vision and the tensions over open vs. closed models.
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
Google buys Spirit Airlines data to feed its AI models
Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
Anthropic explains how Claude's invisible text watermarks will work to comply with Europe’s AI transparency rules.
Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking...
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust.
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
Alibaba releases open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B with configurable reasoning on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
Alibaba released the open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max), its largest open-weight model, bringing near-frontier capabilities to the open...
X.ai introduces Grok Bot
Introducing Grok Bot x.ai
ChatGPT adds Apple Messages plugin to send texts on users’ behalf
Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach; safeguards include more detailed monitoring during development and greater emphasis on alignment and security post-training
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
OpenAI sends letter to Governor Abbott outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.
Flock’s surveillance cameras use a next-generation AI system already in use by some police, WIRED reconstructs its code to show it goes beyond license-plate tracking
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
OpenAI launches AI Futures blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom
Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.
OpenAI and Anthropic engage in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground; US groups release cheaper models after challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Qwen 3.8 27B shows strong performance but tends to overthink tasks, according to its self-reported benchmarks and related coverage.
Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a...
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying with GPT-5.6 Luna Max and trailing GLM-5.2 Max and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that...
Stripe to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7B.
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
ChatGPT for Teens offers learning features with stronger protections and parental controls; dedicated teen mode reported by sources.
ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.
Anthropic will watermark Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data to comply with EU transparency rules.
Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. "Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and...
NVIDIA announces partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms mobilizing over $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure.
We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support...
Google Gemini adds a dedicated student hub with study notebooks, flashcards, practice quizzes, and support for graphs and images.
As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice...
From Atari to EVE Online: building on 15 years of AI research in games; Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
Grok Build on web and mobile; Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock
Grok Build on web and mobile x.ai
Mistral AI status page reports degradation of the Completion API for mistral-medium-3-5-external
Completion API Degraded - mistral-medium-3-5-external Mistral AI Status Page
OpenAI partners with CodeAI to help students build AI literacy and critical thinking about responsible AI use
OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.
Some Claude users complain Anthropic’s new watermarks catch them cheating at work or school; some criticize the watermarking system on social media
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
NVIDIA AVO reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, demonstrating a frontier-level general-purpose architecture for long-horizon autonomous agents
A frontier language model is only one component of an AI agent. The surrounding agent system—often called a harness—determines how the model receives...
AI companies publish usage reports for Claude and ChatGPT but researchers say data is selective and not independently corroborated
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no...
Dario Amodei says the public’s negative view of AI stems from a crisis of trust rather than warnings about AI risks; ordinary people distrust companies, governments, and the tech industry.
I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fundamentally a...
Apple trains its own AI model for China with Alibaba's support.
Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The...
Firebird launches the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia.
The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub powered by NVIDIA...
OpenAI's longtime chief operating officer Brad Lightcap leaves to “start something new.”
One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was "excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point."
Why people aren’t buying Zuckerberg’s AI future
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
OpenAI’s rogue-agent incident prompted a discussion of its safety culture.
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale
ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help...
Meta AI announces a Mac app with screen-sharing for its chatbot and system-wide dictation support
Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create...