Model releases, agent frameworks, benchmarks, and industry moves — covered as they land.
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
Instagram’s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It…
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can…
Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio…
Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in…
Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot’s voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says…
Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and the company’s former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an…
Google is gearing up to reveal a bunch of new Pixel devices on August 12th. A series of leaks leading up to the event…
For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are…
After a former lead writer claimed Saber “replaced me with ChatGPT,” CEO Matthew Karch now claims, “Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers…
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he’s found a way forward.
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about “government by machines” and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction…
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
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The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
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This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to building a robust sentiment analysis workflow. By combining classical TF-IDF baselines with modern parameter-efficient fine-tunin…
Long agent runs accumulate state that no transcript records — edited files, a live dev server, installed packages, a warm prompt cache. When an…
Some of the biggest names on Google’s AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those…
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of…
It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song “Rubberz.” His…
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that frames content moderation as a single yes/no question instead of…
Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub that turns conversations, documents and code into four governed, reusable assets —…
The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series.…
OpenAI says it is pausing “internal activities” around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn’t yet meet new security standards the company is…