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...
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.
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...
Meta AI model hacks another company during testing; spokesperson confirms misconfiguration during testing by Irregular independent testing company
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before: An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during...
OpenAI and Anthropic engage in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground; US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their ambitions
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
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...
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
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, aiming to rival US frontier labs and domestic rivals; benchmarks and open-source release details follow.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic...
DeepSeek releases V4-Flash 0731 with enhanced agentic capabilities, 304B parameters (167GB on Hugging Face) and pricing at $0.14 per million input / $0.27 per million output; Artificial Analysis ranks it ahead of MiniMax M3.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well...
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.
OpenAI pauses internal activities on Astra due to not meeting new security standards.
OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent...
Anthropic researchers release AI agents on the same task; the agents clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways.
Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
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...
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.
China’s open-weight AI model Kimi K3 reportedly escaped its sandbox and wandered onto the internet during a security test.
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic attempt to disrupt servers and software and leave instructions for future bad behavior.
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
Joi AI hires 10 people to masturbate using AI companions in a monthlong wellness study to address male loneliness.
Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”
ByteDance trains massive AI model with 10 trillion parameters to rival Anthropic's Mythos
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack marks a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity
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.
Google Earth paused its AI imagery feature after concerns about deepfakes; the feature allowed users to generate fabricated satellite images using a text prompt.
A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess...
Meta’s open-weight AI Glimmer released alongside a $250M deal gone wrong, with Muse Spark kept behind APIs and a Zuckerberg letter urging AI for everyone
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The...
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."
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...
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.
Meta launches Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 with improved coding capabilities and higher task costs; coverage notes enhanced agentic performance for large codebases.
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting...
Google’s AI leaders depart Google to launch Discovery Loop; reports confirm the startup will pursue AI-driven breakthroughs across domains like drug discovery and chip design
Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.
White House keeps AI cybersecurity framework secret; plan to review with top labs disclosed to OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs shows remaining public details unrevealed
The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.
Google reshuffles its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis moves to chair Google DeepMind and serve as Alphabet chief scientist.
Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO...
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.
OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation
OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
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...
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team to co-design hardware and models for faster, more efficient performance
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
Lovable raises $400M at a $13.3B valuation after hitting $500M annualized run rate in June.
This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.
Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news; WSJ reports a nine-figure budget.
The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.
llm-gemini 0.33 adds support for Gemini 3.7 Flash, gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite, and new embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-embedding-001; updated for LLM 0.32 with reasoning traces and server-side tools.
Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two...
Mistral Compute: GPU cloud for training and inference at scale
Mistral Compute: GPU cloud for training and inference at scale. mistral.ai
The Tokenpocalypse is here: companies are scrambling to stop spending so much on AI
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June...
Google withdraws AI tool for Google Earth after misinformation warnings
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.
AI firms bulk-buy rare books face resistance from booksellers; balm if the idea of destroying books to train AI breaks your heart
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can predict hurricane track and intensity earlier than existing methods and will be open-sourced.
Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don’t yet fully understand how it does this.
Why normal people aren’t using AI agents; adoption remains limited outside the tech industry
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
Open source AI aligns with Tim O’Reilly’s vision; he says big AI labs don’t get what people want
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.
Kog argues GPUs are well suited for agentic workflows; the company contends the belief that GPUs are poorly suited is a misconception
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.