Kimi announces Kimi K3.1 Pro for advancing open intelligence
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OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.
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.
Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model Cohere
Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model Cohere
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 says its AI could accelerate biology breakthroughs in the future; IPO filing tempers expectations and notes slow progress to major discoveries.
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.
Google’s first data center satellite runs a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writes poetry
The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
Reddit shifts to a logged-in experience as search traffic declines.
As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows; Alphabet Q3 earnings show 25% revenue growth to $127.6 billion
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
New York Times Cooking app tests AI recipe modifications; users express mixed reactions
The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it has sparked some drama among users. Last Friday, NYT Cooking senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the...
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.
GPT-6.1 Terra launched; Max scores 48 on Artificial Analysis
Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone
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...
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.
DoorDash has received only “several hundred” orders from AI agents; company open to third-party agent makers
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.
Dartmouth provost resigns after accusations he used AI for writing.
People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
AI heavyweights back a new opt-out standard for scraping; publishers can apply training preferences across multiple AI companies using a shared policy token
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers...
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.
Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before the vulnerability was patched.
Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.
AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions; Anthropic reports the expansion
AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions Anthropic
Kentucky administrator earns religious exemption from using AI at work, first of its kind for humanists
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
Google AI grows more forthright about 2020 election result outside the US
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
OpenAI updates Model Spec to guide more capable, beneficial AI toward sound judgment and fidelity to human intent
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
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 to cut frontier models off the internet amid concerns over “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Cohere advances C$4 billion AI commitment in Canada, creating 1,500+ jobs.
Cohere Advances C$4 Billion AI Commitment in Canada, Creating 1,500+ Jobs Cohere
Mistral says its AI model Le Chonk has leapfrogged China in the open-weight race; claims its latest release matches or exceeds the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.
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
Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity; seven potential AI nightmares pulled from the Risk Factor document
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
Investing in the public benefit Anthropic
Build a validated Kubernetes runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo
Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint. NVIDIA Dynamo is a distributed inference...
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.
Nvidia releases a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but only works on recordings, not live audio.
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still...
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."
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
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.
Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis; OpenAI says its AI disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.
Meta quietly launches an “AI pet journal” app called Waddle World with chatty virtual creatures and doodles, pitched as a daily journal disguised as a 16-bit pet care game
Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the...
Apple Intelligence arrives in China with iOS 27.3 beta; full iOS 27.3 release planned in December, Apple confirms
Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3...
NES emulator embedded in Qwen3.5-4B weights enables playing NES ROMs inside Qwen; Drew Breunig shares prompts used to build system
dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super...