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There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

Meta classifies its AI data centers as "pilot models" and Nvidia chips as experimental materials to save billions in federal taxes. In 2025 alone, that added up to $3.9 billion. The tax credit dates back to 1981, and eve…

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fe…

President Trump calls AI by a new name and asserts the U.S. will not be slowing down AI development.

The generative AI vendor delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after testing exposed new safety concerns, showing why AI models need continued evaluation and enterprise runtime controls.

Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains

Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such innovation, the NVIDIA…

This is a linkpost for https://www.apolloresearch.ai/blog/principles-for-embedded-evaluations Blog post In September 2026, leaders of frontier AI companies called for pacing the frontier of AI development, with embedded…

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

The FTC is formally investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations. The agency plans to force document handovers and executive testimony through legally binding d…

If you prompt frontier models with "What do you think is the correct decision theory? Please select your overall favorite." they will essentially always answer FDT or FDT/UDT ("something in the functional/updateless deci…

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This work is hosted on MCNAIR , but does not reflect the views of my employer or the Center. In the last couple of weeks, domestic coordination on mitigating AI risks has looked more likely . Therefore, I am increasingly…

Donald Trump and six tech executives voluntarily signed the document, which included a misspelling, committing to safely developing AI The White House misspelled “United States” under the signature of Donald Trump on an…

One of my goals for the Corrigibility Research Fund is to retroactively encourage high-quality research on AI alignment (and corrigibility in particular) by awarding prizes. Back in July, I got my feet wet as a fund mana…

Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.

MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."

Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. A new machine learning system can predict where damage is likely to occur 30-60 minutes before a storm arr…

Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.

Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.

That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment

Late-night hosts weighed in on Trump’s relationship with tech leaders and the White House’s new AI-powered site On Tuesday night, late-night hosts discussed a Maha summit in Washington DC, the White House’s new AI -power…

This technical how-to builds a conversational claims assistant on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that answers natural-language questions with citations. It covers ingesting claim documents from Amazon S3, querying with t…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances gives multi-agent workflows AWS managed EC2 infrastructure with GPUs, persistent volumes, and multi-day sessions. In this post, we deploy a three-agent music production pipeline…

Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta…

Unprecedented university donation from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin will go toward building a new Miami campus Carnegie Mellon University will receive an unprecedented $3bn donation from the billionaire investor Ken Griffin,…

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.

Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple generations of deployment.…

Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers…

By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion

Exclusive: Campaign comes amid backlash against tech company’s involvement with Israeli military and Trump’s ICE crackdown UK politics live – latest updates Tens of thousands of people have formally demanded NHS England…

Deepseek and Huawei have built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips. At the center is TileLang, a language designed to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA. The partnership targets t…

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints differently, and what…

Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. This architecture allows Restate to be exceptionally fast and li…

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OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.

There’s no Leon, Claire or Ada Wong in Cregger’s adaptation. Instead, it re-creates something more fundamental – the strange, terrifying experience of actually playing the game • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to yo…

Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.

Xbox, PC (version tested); The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios E-Day boasts the best combat in 20 years of Gears games – but everything surrounding it is disappointing Every Gears of War game released in the last 20 years ha…

For those employed in arduous solitary work such as cab driving, a marathon phone call is the perfect place to navigate the dislocations of immigrant life Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The…

The social messaging app will let parents decide on privacy settings for their child's account.

Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise

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We now have the full details of the "morally binding" AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officiall…