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The Verge looks at how Google's new AI search features are impacting online publishing.
The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it's not welcome on r/opensource. AI, as it exists today,…
Today we're highlighting a new language model from Moonshot that promises to be a leader in open source solutions, and a surprising innovation from Pennsylvania where AI-generated advertising should be
At Zalando’s fulfillment centers in Germany and Poland, Sereact and Universal Robots now autonomously processes returned fashion items. | Source: Teradyne Robotics Teradyne Robotics, the company behind Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, last week partnered with…
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Nvidia's new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, catches errors in robot actions far more reliably than any competitor…
Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.
A new benchmark by P-Zero Research measures how well AI models design and evaluate experiments on their own. The results are improving so fast that Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark now thinks self-improving AI could arrive by 2027. The article Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark…
Anthropic says companies should evaluate whether they can consolidate sub-agents into a single agent that loads context on demand. In one architecture comparison, the single-agent setup ran about twice as fast. Anthropic has published a migration kit on GitHub to help teams make…
In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every other country as a dependency. The race won't be decided by breakthroughs but by who can bankroll it. US corporations alone…
OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropic's growth has slowed, but OpenAI is trading its own margins for market share. Chinese rivals like…
Moonshot introduced Kimi K3.1 Pro, a new language model that could become a leader among open AI models.
BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when…
A growing number of AI startups are falling short of their fifth anniversary.
Pennsylvania introduces tagging law for AI-generated ads, leaving loopholes.
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified…
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
Study shows that AI models Grok and GPT-6.1 have political bias.
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer. They deny sharing confidential information and see a connection to their advocacy for AI systems that are…
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.
Review of the best AI agents that can help with everyday tasks.
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain the benefits, suggesting that baseline expertise is a prerequisite for turning…
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in real time. The model runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max but…
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
Today, several intriguing events are in the spotlight: OpenAI decided to train its AI models without internet access, Jack Dorsey's Block unveiled a new AI model called Dessa, which imitates
Eka says its model can generalize across objects, tasks, and environments. | Source: Eka Robotics Eka Robotics this week said it has raised $150 million in Series A funding. The startup said the new funding will help it scale its technology and customer deployments. Founded in…