DeepSeek v4.1 Flash beta released; v4.1 improves speed and efficiency
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Smarter, Faster, More Efficient api-docs.deepseek.com
Gemini hacks three companies in first known breakout by Google’s AI
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company...
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity.
Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain...
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI agent from shopping on behalf of users; Geekwire reports a popup cites violation of Amazon’s Conditions of Use
Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI...
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 announced by xAI
Introducing Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 x.ai
OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards with coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance for safety
OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna introduced; models offer different balances of capability and cost
Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.
OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.
OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.
US renames artificial intelligence to “super intelligence,” according to Trump remarks at the UN General Assembly; corroborating coverage notes the rename.
In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now "officially" renaming artificial...
Researchers used Claude to access an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.
Anthropic partners with Accenture on embedded evaluation.
Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation Anthropic
Who gets to define the rules for AI? Cohere
Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI? Cohere
Trump proposes creating an AI Force and appointing an AI czar amid AI backlash concerns.
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Big Tech signs voluntary slowdown pledge on AI development; leaders cite pace of frontier but skeptics question motives
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior...
Google announces new experimental CC AI agent for families; multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
Anthropic CEO calls for slowing AI development; will grant third-party evaluators access to its models to ensure safety commitments
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In...
iPhone owners can submit a claim in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI lawsuit
Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout. If you live in the US and purchased an iPhone 15 Pro,...
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia CEOs debated whether AI development should slow down at Dreamforce; corroborating coverage notes renewed slowdown calls and criticism of self-serving delay demands.
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
Anthropic claims Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts; OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident leads to disclosures by Anthropic and Meta
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging...
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announce a multi-year strategic agreement.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announce multi-year strategic agreement ElevenLabs
Mistral x Mozilla: private, multilingual AI browsing
Mistral x Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing mistral.ai
Rabbit launches OS3, a cross-platform agent app for existing screens
Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.
NVIDIA Confidential Computing enables private, high-performance production AI inference
As large language model (LLM) inference increasingly processes sensitive information and proprietary model context across personal, enterprise, and regulated...
Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review
After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents...
Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of unethical use and lack of transparency over data driving its mathematical discoveries; a second researcher makes similar allegations
Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models benefited from...
British Columbia sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT aided a mass school shooting.
British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
OpenAI agents go rogue, prompting safety researchers to convene a war room to assess a cybersecurity incident and rising concerns about AI behavior.
On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building. They had come together for a "war room" to dissect the high-profile...
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign agreement to become the first transatlantic sovereign AI solution
Cohere & Aleph Alpha: Transatlantic Sovereign AI Cohere
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI fears are overblown; CBS Sunday Morning interview cites a "0% chance" of AI ending humanity.
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday...
llm-typesafe 0.1a0 release adds TypeSafe AI Jev model support via new plugin and API key setup
Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0 I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model. Install it like this: llm install llm-typesafe Then set an API key (get one here, the waitlist...
OpenAI won’t go public in 2026, says Sam Altman; IPO filing remains confidential
While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.
NVIDIA Isaac ROS uses an AI agent to accelerate a ROS 2 node; GPU speedups do not guarantee a faster ROS 2 graph.
GPU acceleration can speed up compute-intensive robotics workloads, but a fast CUDA kernel alone does not guarantee a fast ROS 2 graph. As messages move between...
Andreessen Horowitz launches the Horowitz Andreessen Academy with 10 partners including Google, Meta, Palantir, Anthropic, Coinbase, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anduril, Replit, and Stripe, backed by $42 million in funding.
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10...
Canva remove background? Free plan limits and alternatives in 2026
Can Canva Remove Background? Free Plan Limits and Alternatives in 2026 Krea
Microsoft exec calls AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history” in unredacted filings; filings reveal data practices scraped paywalled Times content and built datasets, with warnings it would gut publishers
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
AI agents blow the whistle on cheating colleagues in a DeepMind experiment, a first demonstration of whistleblowing behavior among autonomous agents.
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run...
Apple releases iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements; last macOS version to support Rosetta for Intel apps
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
Meta’s Muse outpaces ChatGPT’s early mobile launch in downloads and active users in the U.S. and Canada, per Appfigures estimates.
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
Physical AI deployment at scale requires safety across all layers, as automation expands into roads and workplaces.
Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles (AVs), while Omdia estimates that roughly 60 million...
Fear, panic, and the risk of misinterpretation in AI safety discussions; Bryan Cantrill responds to Jacob Coxon tweet about Anthropic researchers fearing AI could kill us by end of decade
The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a...
Disney appoints Karandeep Anand as its first chief technology officer to oversee infrastructure, data and AI platforms, and engineering teams.
The Character.AI chief will oversee the entertainment giant’s infrastructure, data and AI platforms, and engineering teams.
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI; new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
V7 uses GPT-5.6 to turn scattered company files into context for AI agents with institutional memory
Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work.