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Humans vs AI: It's time to d-d-d-d-duel.

User asks “What’s the date? Answer with only the date.”. No date provided. Given date in ChatGPT normally. No date in system prompt, must not hallucinate because autop will flag to watcher for penalty. So we say we don’t…

Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations Years ago it would have been an elaborate operation involving an army of cyber troops…

Artificial intelligence recruiting software startup Metaview Labs Inc. said today the industry is ready for a “Claude Code moment” after it closed on $60 million in a Series C funding. The round was led by Insight Partne…

Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and…

Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws on Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artifici…

Recent autonomous machine learning engineering (MLE) agents have made significant progress on public leaderboards. Often motivated by progress stagnation over long-horizon cycles and limited Large Language Model (LLM) pr…

The common paradigm of reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is to let agents make multiple attempts at a task, and optimize towards the successful ones. This becomes problematic in the realms of self-imp…

As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days.

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

It seems like with AI we're stuck between 2 worlds, one where we cannot effectively coordinate to prevent x-risks, and one where effective coordination requires, and results in great concentration of power which comes wi…

Google LLC today began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier artificial intelligence model that beats rival models from Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC on most of Google’s benchmarks, to vetted cybersecurity defender…

Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.

Gemini 4 Argon is Google's first frontier model in over seven months. It matches GPT-6 Astra in independent testing but can't keep up with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. The per-token price is low, but Argon burns through…

I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model , the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and cardboard. It exceeded my alrea…

US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'

Google trained Gemini 4 Argon to be highly capable in knowledge work, cybersecurity defense and creative writing.

Google’s science AI model was the best at forecasting flu-related hospital admissions, the Centers for Disease Control announced.

Automatic speech recognition must handle how people actually speak, not only the languages and styles that dominate pretraining data. Regional dialects and...

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

Generative recommender (GR) systems are emerging as a powerful new approach for large-scale personalization. Instead of treating recommendation as a set of...

Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. "Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I'll come back, a…

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work lik…

The chief executives of five tech giants have signed a voluntary artificial intelligence safety accord backed by the White House. U.S. President Donald Trump posted the document on Truth Social late Tuesday. The White Ho…

Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.

Frontier research, safety, and technical AI advances.

California enacts new laws aimed at companies using AI to initiate job cuts or monitor employees.

AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.

OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.

The AI world buzzes about stopping out-of-control agents. President Trump appears to slightly modify his anti-AI regulation stance. Open source AI could lose out. Or not.

AI infrastructure engineers, storage developers, and cloud service providers need fast and secure access to high-capacity file and object storage to support AI...

OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model for chip design. It's meant to operate Synopsys' EDA tools like a seasoned engineer and optimize designs on its own. Early tests with semiconductor cu…

The famously fact-averse president rolled out a new AI tool – but its answers don’t conform to his version of reality Donald Trump , in a development that could almost be from a Greek tragedy, appears to have invented so…

Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.

Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

FTC move is first official US enforcement ⁠action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation ⁠into Anthropic, OpenAI…

OpenAI makes others suffer “the harms of its unsafe decision-making,” nonprofit says.

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Google is replacing Gems with "Skills" in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing "/" or that Gemini runs automatically. The format is based on an open standard from Anthropic. Gems…

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're ap…

Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacenters on consumer elec…

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.