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47 stories
- The AI agents that hammered Alibaba's maps came from a test on Tencent's cloud
- An interpretable AI explains why immune cells fail to reach some tumours
- Anthropic says it cut distillation theft by up to 99 percent, and names Zhipu
- Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rehear its Pentagon blacklist case
- Anthropic's IPO price talk drops by half a trillion dollars
- Anthropic's red team ran an AI model on 15 cheap TV boxes. The worry is the off-switch
- ASML says it cannot build enough machines for AI in 2027 and 2028
- New benchmark: no coding agent reliably builds the agent you asked for
- A fix for the strawberry problem: retrofitting LLMs to read letters
- Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say the reasons don't add up
- An interpretability researcher argues neural networks are cleaner than we think
- Google now pays more than 400 publishers for its News AI pilot
- Judge says an injunction for Apple against OpenAI is 'highly likely'
- Korea's market falls into a bear market as AI debt fears spread
- Language models design heuristics for logistics-style problems, if you give them structure
- Google's open medical model MedGemma gets its peer-reviewed paper
- Meta's new terms let it crawl business websites to train AI, with no opt-out
- Microsoft trains a 2.8-trillion-parameter model of its own and will share it only with partners
- Microsoft says its own Maia 300 chip will run most of its AI inference from 2027
- Modal raises 750 million dollars as sandboxes for AI code become big business
- Nadella: treat every AI model like a compromised insider
- Nvidia ships open agent models for its own RTX Spark laptops
- Perplexity gives away the sandbox that runs its Computer agent
- Physical Intelligence opens its robot models to outside developers
- Proofpoint buys Varonis for 6.3 billion dollars to control what AI agents can read
- Sakana's AI reviewer catches most planted errors in papers, and far fewer real ones
- An AI model maps how genetic variants act in the developing brain
- TSMC posts a record quarter and says AI demand is still climbing
- The White House orders AI labs to disclose incidents. Palantir's CTO calls the doomsayers wrong
- A remote worker says AI photographed her 160 times a day, then she was fired
- AI flooded math with proofs. Now it is paying for the fact-checkers.
- Anthropic made $16.8 billion in a quarter. Investors still want a discount.
- China wants a say before its biggest AI models leave the country
- "Is Claude Conscious?" All-In Hosts Call Anthropic's Model Welfare Push a New Religion
- Jensen Huang's answer to the bubble question: you're counting the wrong customers
- Meta's giant open model fits on your desk. Bring two Macs.
- Regulators to AI labs: show us the logs
- JPMorgan blocks outside AI agents from customer accounts
- Anthropic opens a Singapore office and signs a safety agreement
- Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT and child safety
- OpenAI says a former employee took device files to Apple
- Apple introduces HomeView, with Siri AI on a 7-inch screen
- Character.AI files for Chapter 11 with a $20 million Disney bid
- Gemini 4 Argon is open to developers and paying subscribers
- Nvidia's China AI-chip share is 34 percent. Huawei's is 28.
- OpenAI engineer charged over a recorder hidden in a conference room
- OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after safety tests