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Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?
In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and its move to build a superintelligence AI research lab. So we ask: What is...
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising
Six-month-old secretive AI start-up in one of the largest initial funding rounds in Silicon Valley’s history
As Regulation Ban Looms, California Issues Frontier AI Study
The California Report on Frontier AI Policy lays out regulatory principles prioritizing transparency and risk mitigation. It arrives as federal lawmakers consider a 10-year moratorium on state artificial intelligence regulation.
Most Read: Amazon to Invest $10B for AI, Cloud Expansion in North Carolina; Wimbledon, IBM Bring Latest AI Features to the Court
Also inside, Meta signs nuclear deal to power AI growth; OpenAI awarded $200M contract to develop AI for defense, and more
Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
AI #121 Part 2: The OpenAI Files
You can find Part 1 here. This resumes the weekly, already in progress. The primary focus here is on the future, including policy and alignment, but…
The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?
The Great Spending Showdown: AI vs SaaS in 2025 — What Every B2B Leader Needs to Know We’re witnessing the most dramatic shift in enterprise tech spending since the cloud...
Fired by an AI? California Is Saying No to Pink Slips From Bots
The “No Robo Bosses Act” is an attempt to keep humans in the loop for important workplace decisions.
Midjourney just dropped its first AI video model and Sora and Veo 3 should be worried
A new claimant for the AI video throne arrives
The Unstoppable Growth Of Generative AI (AI Outlook Part 1)
The latest generative AI forecast predicts a 115x growth in token generation by 2030 to a staggering 77 quadrillion tokens.
Bay Area’s dominance in AI funding fuels real estate boom
The Bay Area had the most AI funding in the world in 2024, with nearly $70 billion of the global $134.6 billion going to the region.
Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A Path to Low-Latency Inference
TL;DR: We developed a compiler that automatically transforms LLM inference into a single megakernel — a fused GPU kernel that performs…
How ChatGPT May Be Impacting Your Brain
A new study reveals that relying on AI to write for you reduces brain engagement.
Midjourney, the AI Company Being Sued by Disney and NBCU, Launches First Video-Generation Tool (WATCH)
Midjourney released version 1 of its AI video generation model, after the start-up was sued by Disney and NBCUniversal.
Google is using YouTube videos to train its AI video generator
Google is using its expansive library of YouTube videos to train its AI models, including Gemini and the Veo 3 video and audio generator, CNBC has learned.
(LoRA) Fine-Tuning FLUX.1-dev on Consumer Hardware
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Midjourney launches an AI video generator
Midjourney is facing a lawsuit from Disney and Universal.
Apple explores technique to make AI better match writing styles
Models like ChatGPT or Gemini rarely nail a user’s individual tone or voice without plenty of manual tweaking. Apple is proposing a solution.
Brain activity lower when using AI chatbots: MIT research
: EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren’t learning much
Midjourney video generation is here — but there’s a problem holding it back
A new but slightly limited AI video generator
AI humans in China just proved they are better influencers. It only took a duo 7 hours to rake in more than $7 million
Digital versions of human beings are now able to sell more than real people can, thanks to artificial intelligence, a recent business collaboration showed.
A roadmap for AI in robotics
Nature Machine Intelligence – AI technologies are advancing rapidly, offering new solutions for autonomous robot operation in complex environments. Aude Billard et al. discuss the need to identify…
AI will handle half of all business decisions by 2027
And it’s not just the little, day-to-day decisions that will increasingly be offloaded to AI agents.
How to use Google Flow — the new AI video generator made for filmmakers
Start making consistent, realistic-looking movies with dialogue and music
AI Isn’t a Brain but Soon It Could Be
A new AI model changes everything we thought we knew about human thinking by using the brain’s own learning loop.
Welcome to the Janky Web
The AI takeover is changing everything about the internet—and not necessarily for the better.
AI is turning the ad business upside down
At the industry’s annual event in Cannes, executives are feeling the heat
Desperate Zuckerberg Apparently Offering OpenAI Staffers $100 Million Bonuses to Come Save His Failing AI Efforts
According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Zuckerberg tried to poach his employees by offering welcome bonuses as high as nine figures.
AMD unveils big AI ambitions and glimpse into chip industry’s future
Moore’s Law has been replaced by an all-out effort for efficiency in the world’s largest supercomputers.
Decentralized AI Is Watching —And Understanding
Bittensor subnet Score turns low-res sports footage into real-time intelligence, powering bets, scouting and AI predictions across industries.
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash roll out to Google AI subscribers
The company also introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, a model built for speed and cost-efficiency.
This AI Model Never Stops Learning
Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a way for large language models to keep learning on the fly—a step toward building AI that continually improves itself.
Globant FUSION: New AI Marketing Suite Delivers 4X Content Output and 23% CTR Improvement
Discover how Globant’s new AI marketing suite combines 5 specialized agents to boost CTR by 23% and quadruple content creation speed. See breakthrough results.
OpenAI’s $200M DoD Pilot Faces Big Gains And Big Risks
OpenAI’s “OpenAI for Government” initiative along with a $200 million pilot with the DoD is a clear signal that Washington sees AI as a strategic imperative, but it also raises...
‘Remarkable’ new enzymes built by algorithm with physics know-how
Nature – Computer approach creates synthetic enzymes 100 times more efficient than those designed by AI.
Amazon CEO Jassy says AI will reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years
The executive said that Amazon has more than 1,000 generative AI services and applications in progress or built, but that figure is a “small fraction” of what it plans to...
Disney and NBCUniversal’s Midjourney Lawsuit Isn’t About Money — It’s About Setting AI Precedent
Disney and NBCUniversal’s lawsuit against AI company Midjourney is a way to establish legal precedent around AI.
Salesforce supercharges Agentforce with embedded AI, multimodal support, and industry-specific agents
From auto-updating CRM fields to new industry agents and employee tools, Salesforce’s Summer ’25 update positions Agentforce as a no-code AI engine woven into every enterprise workflow.
Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?
Building on the recent empirical work of Kwa et al. (2025), I show that within their suite of research-engineering tasks the performance of AI agents on longer-duration tasks can be...
Deloitte launches Agentic AI Blueprint to help unlock US$150 billion in value for telecom organizations
Deloitte’s new agentic AI solution helps empower telcos to scale end-to-end AI solutions across their operations and customer experience, which can help…