Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says he doesn’t oppose open-weight models but fears Chinese AI capabilities.
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
Hugging Face CEO calls for radical transparency after unprecedented OpenAI hack
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
Scientific computing advances with agentic AI coding agents accelerate software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
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...
Nvidia and Microsoft join open AI security alliance with SpaceX, IBM, and others to build and share open-source AI security tools; aim to defend against frontier-model attacks
Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to...
Anthropic states its position on open-weights models
Our position on open-weights models Anthropic
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.
Private Claude chats appear in Google and Bing search results; PSA reports Claude conversations and artifacts were exposed on Google
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.
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
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.
China advances its AI models with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 outperforming some US systems at lower cost; Coinbase switches to GLM and Kimi, cutting AI spending by 50%
Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of...
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
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...
Gemini API Managed Agents adds 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more capabilities for production-ready agents
We’re announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.
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 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...
Ethan Mollick’s guide shifts from chat models to agentic AI systems; Gemini falls off the list as Google falters
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - with o3, Claude 4...
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,...
Meta uses a David Bowie song about the world ending in new AI optimism ad
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
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...
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.
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.
Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
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.
Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available on Windows
Personal Computer is now available on Windows Perplexity
NVIDIA uses Vera CPU to accelerate design of next-generation CPUs and GPUs; collaboration with Cadence and Synopsys targets optimization of EDA applications for Vera
The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet that challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating with industry...
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.
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public; nonprofits are preparing for the wealth from IPOs.
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.
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...
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...
Hugging Face faces a deepfake nudes problem after testing top image editing models; researchers show ease of creating explicit deepfakes and provide 1,000 prompts.
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
EU orders Google to share search data and open Android to rivals in Europe
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
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...
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms and cost less than them
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
NVIDIA Jetson compacts AI compute to power AI in your hand
As a discerning AI investor who values style and substance, Sarah Guo knows this season’s standout accessory isn’t the latest designer purse — but what’s inside it. In a recent video, Guo, founder of AI-native...
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.
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...
China’s Moonshot AI accused of stealing from Anthropic; OpenAI loses control of two models
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
Silicon Valley remains divided over Chinese AI, with billion-dollar AI startups raising alarm bells and smaller players taking a very different view; The U.S. aims to contain China's AI, while Silicon Valley continues to use it.
The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.
Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI
For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems. The platform...
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.