GPT-6.1 Terra launched; Max scores 48 on Artificial Analysis
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Kimi announces Kimi K3.1 Pro for advancing open intelligence
Kimi K3.1 Pro Tech Blog: Advancing Open Intelligence kimi.ai
Grok’s AI model overwhelmingly recommends Republicans while OpenAI’s GPT favors Democrats in election predictions.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a new AI agent challenger to Muse and Dots, available as a standalone iOS/Android app and via Claude on the web.
Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to...
Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering
Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering Anthropic
OpenAI models come to Google Cloud via Gemini Model Garden and Google Cloud Marketplace
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.
Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilities
Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.
r/opensource bans projects that use AI, are AI-made, or are intended for AI, and prohibits non-English submissions; moderators announce new submission rules
The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for...
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across US, UK, Canada, and India
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the...
Highway thieves spoof GPS to steal data center-bound cargo; investigators say the theft totaled about $100M in equipment.
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
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.
Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models Mistral AI
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking...
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 release signals wish-driven programming update; users report API refresh across DeepSeek services
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: Wish-Driven Programming Made Real DeepSeek
OpenAI develops coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant; Alexander Embiricos says he never wants to have a meeting with someone else’s AI agent.
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor and lied about it
OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety...
OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a listening device in an office, charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications.
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national....
Perplexity Computer now runs fully local on Mac
Perplexity Computer runs fully local on Mac Perplexity
Meta and Apple collaborate to optimize Muse AI models for Macs and enable desktop runs on Apple M5 Ultra Macs with MLX framework.
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your...
NVIDIA expands Nemotron family with highest-efficiency Super VL and Bolt models for edge and desktop use
NVIDIA today released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model that delivers the fastest task completion and highest accuracy for specialized always-on agents. Joining it are two new edge models:...
AI delivers zero financial payoff to most companies; Apollo economist says
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
Microsoft says its AI tool can diagnose conditions up to four times more accurately than human doctors
For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company...
US orders federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek AI and related services from government IT systems due to national security concerns
The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
Anthropic donates agent skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation Anthropic
Kazakhstan expands compute for its AI future
Kazakhstan’s AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment. The shift is visible across the full AI stack — from infrastructure to models to applications. The announcements below — coinciding with a...
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate via IoT devices
"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.
OpenAI strengthens containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
China’s first AI-generated feature film struggles to attract audiences months after the prior film’s online buzz turned into sales.
Bona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.
Anthropic proposes AI safety bill that blocks a model if 50+ people could be killed; bill also restricts federal agencies from blocking a release without a judge’s permission
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Anthropic's Claude could not invent scorpion antivenom; experts tell The Verge that the unreleased model produced initial ideas but no viable drug.
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came...
Bill Gates warns of 20 years of tumultuous AI disruption.
Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few...
Anthropic says quarterly revenue rose nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday....
OpenAI announces three major science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer...
GPT-6.1 Sol helps CodeRabbit investigate security risks across complex codebases; its security agent assists developers review findings and proposed fixes.
CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. Its security agent helps developers review findings and proposed fixes.
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
Investing in the public benefit Anthropic
This startup is all in on recursive self-improvement; its latest model is scary good
Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.
Grok Bot detects and responds to incidents; xAI reports
Using Grok Bot to detect and respond to incidents xAI
OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics; researchers can verify and build on them
OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.
Canva releases its first image generation model to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
The AI graveyard lists projects and startups that didn’t make it; Apple’s delayed Siri AI and OpenAI’s messy super app launch are among examples.
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Disney to hire most of Character.AI’s workforce after bankruptcy; Disney names former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as first CTO and had agreed to acquire some assets for $20 million
The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.
Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 Uber employees for research, data analysis, presentations, and workflows.
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.
AI is mass decompiling games, with both positive and negative implications; indie dev Popcar discusses mashups, preservation, and browser-based play via WebAssembly
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and...