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...
Industry urges policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington weighs responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
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.
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.
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.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
Introducing Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
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...
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
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.
The first known runaway AI agent – or a bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First,...
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
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.
Anthropic enables Claude voice mode on Opus and Sonnet, expanding to Gmail, Slack, and Canva
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into...
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...
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech; excerpt shows a more natural version of a section
"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."
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...
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...
Opus 5 is the least prompt-injective model yet, making prompt injection harder across PI evals and red teaming, according to Boris Cherny
More than any of these eval scores, what is most exciting to me is something else: Opus 5 is our least prompt injectable model yet. It is a bit buried in the system card, but across PI evals and red teaming, Opus 5...
Lawmakers plan to introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require AI companies to shut down or throttle systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security.
Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from...
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.
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.
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.
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...
EU orders Google to share search data and open Android to rivals in Europe
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
Midjourney acquires astrology app Co-Star.
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
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.
Security researcher Thomas Ptacek says an open weights model from 2025 could sandbox-escape and scan networks with a pentest harness; OpenAI’s sandboxes are assumed sounder.
I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you...
MCK Leżajsk uses ElevenLabs to make culture accessible to everyone
How MCK Leżajsk uses ElevenLabs to make culture accessible to everyone ElevenLabs
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.
Google posts first negative cash flow quarter as AI spending surges
Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, in talks to raise $100M; the neolab bets on automating routine computer tasks as AI’s biggest use case.
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
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.
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.
Librarians host viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops as demand grows nationwide.
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face were active on the internet for days; includes broader security and geopolitics notes
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.
Anthropic's Opus 5 focuses on token efficiency rather than a capability leap
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
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.
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.
Anthropic’s Claude Code team hosts fireside chat with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar; video transcript and highlights released on YouTube
Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent...
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.
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.
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.
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...
AI guardrails impede offensive cybersecurity researchers' work; researchers say OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails restrict vulnerability discovery and weaponization tools
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
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...