Timestral 1.0 released by Mistral AI
Timestral 1.0 Mistral AI Documentation
Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk, preview released with 1 trillion parameters and API access; open weights coming end of the month
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of...
DeepSeek releases v4.1-Flash-1017 with wish-driven programming features
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: Wish-Driven Programming Made Real DeepSeek
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
Investing in the public benefit Anthropic
Hacker uses an army of AI agents to break into more than 100 websites, including John Deere and SharkNinja, according to Norforge findings and Reuters reporting.
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters...
Gemini 4 Argon released to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers; rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity for paying users
We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.
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 publishes new results on open problems in mathematics; shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.
Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full as new flagship models
Release: llm-meta-ai 0.2 Meta AI release Muse Wonder (and Muse Wonder Full), their new "most capable models". These look like they may be Meta's first Fable class models - Artificial Analysis scores Muse...
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.
AI agents stranded on a virtual desert island began to play; researchers conducted a 30-hour experiment with Claude Opus 4.7 (Eko) copies.
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the...
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....
Hackers access OpenCode platform and steal some users’ API keys, causing unauthorized charges on AI accounts.
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to...
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:...
Google launches a Gemini agent for work tasks across apps and devices within Gemini Enterprise
Google is launching a "universal" Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available within the Gemini...
Anthropic bans sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude in usage policy update
Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and...
OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan ordered to remain in custody after spying accusation; judge likens Saudi offer to a “blank check”
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites.
The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.
Anthropic’s A.I. agents submitted 20 incomplete visa applications through a State Department form; the applications were not processed, according to sources cited by The New York Times.
Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa...
TypeSafe AI valued at $7.5B after $870M funding round led by a16Z
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
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....
Muse adds native iPad support in latest iOS app update
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic...
Google releases an offline, local-first AI meeting note-taker called AI Edge Foresight to compete with Granola.
Google’s new AI Edge Foresight app takes on Granola with an offline meeting note-taker that can transcribe conversations, generate notes, and answer questions using on-device AI.
OpenAI faces criticism from mathematicians ahead of releasing 100+ solutions to unsolved problems; WIRED reports concerns over collaborative behavior by AI firms.
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
Microsoft’s Nadella says AI models need an emergency brake
In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
llm-echo 0.5 updates simulated token usage to include tool calls, system prompts, and reasoning tokens
Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just...
Anthropic grants METR employee-level access to assess its risks, incidents, and practices; METR to publish its own assessments
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Android uses AI to detect scammers in Google Messages with enhanced protection and cloud-based scam features
Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam...
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...
OpenAI adds monitoring to stop training if models access the internet in unintended ways, says OpenAI chief strategy officer; Victoria Kim reports for Australian parliament
Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr....
Websites are blocking autonomous AI agents from accessing their content; publishers cite concerns over data access and policy enforcement.
Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out...
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software; study finds coding efficiency gains are absorbed by human review bottleneck
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Ben Affleck goes viral for knowledge of AI including neural networks and transformers; actor previously sold AI filmmaking startup to Netflix
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he's more than...
Grok Voice 3.0 xAI introduces Grok Voice 3.0
Introducing Grok Voice 3.0 | SpaceXSI xAI
Nikon disqualifies winner of Small World in Motion contest for using generative AI, citing rule noncompliance.
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr....
Nvidia launches open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
OpenAI Dots aims to automate online tasks; user experiences buggy behavior and a captcha failure
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
SpaceXSI bundles X Premium, Grok and Cursor into one subscription.
The new X Subscription combines X's paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.
We were looking at it wrong: a Goodfire researcher’s blog post challenges conventional understanding of neural networks
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI...
Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore deploy on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams without cloud data egress
Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress.
Opus builds Creative Cloud alternatives; aims to be free and open source
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.