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AI Companions and the Law
Concerns about AI chatbots delivering harmful, even profoundly dangerous advice or instructions to users is growing. There is deep concern over the effects of these interactions on children, and a...
Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT
Check project’s website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today’s wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…
GitHub – MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1: MiniMax-M1, the world’s first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model.
MiniMax-M1, the world’s first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. – MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1
New 3D chips could make electronics faster and more energy-efficient
A low-cost, scalable fabrication technology developed at MIT can integrate fast, efficient gallium nitride transistors onto a standard silicon chip, which could boost the performance of electronic chips used in...
InsideTrack to Create Agentic AI Coaching Tool With Salesforce
With help from Salesforce in the form of funding, workshops and access to AI tools, the nonprofit InsideTrack is turning its unstructured data from education and career coaching into actionable...
Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance
Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash AI models for enterprises while introducing cost-efficient Flash-Lite to challenge OpenAI’s market dominance.
Vibe teaming to end extreme poverty globally
The Brookings Center for Sustainable Development piloted “vibe teaming,” a new method that uses AI to amplify human expertise and accelerate problem-solving.
AI’s second act: How enterprise infrastructure and synthetic labor are reshaping the future
As generative AI captures headlines and boardroom attention alike, it’s tempting to think of the movement as a sudden surge sparked by the overnight success of ChatGPT. But as Managing...
How AI Could Help Breast Cancer Research
University of Cambridge study shows how LLM GPT-4 can generate novel combinations of drugs not typically used to treat cancer to be repurposed as potential breast cancer treatment in the...
Biotech firm aims to create ‘ChatGPT of biology’
A UK biotech firm spent years gathering genetic data that has uncovered 1 million previously unknown microbial species and billions of newly identified genes – but even this trove of...
Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees
Amazon, like companies across the United States sent a warning to its employees on Tuesday.
Building Effective AI Agents
Discover how Anthropic approaches the development of reliable AI agents. Learn about our research on agent capabilities, safety considerations, and technical framework for building trustworthy AI.
Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers
Time series forecasting is a cornerstone in modern business analytics, whether it is concerned with anticipating market trends, user behavior, optimizing resource allocation, or planning for future growth. This blog...
Amazon’s workforce to reduce on rollout of generative AI, agents
Rollout of generative AI and agents will reduce Amazon’s total corporate workforce in the next few years, Andy Jassy, CEO of the online retailer wrote in a note to employees...
AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, May ’25
tl;dr Paper of the month: • Models can detect when they’re being evaluated with high accuracy, and potentially undermine safety assessments by behavi…
Hexagon Taps NVIDIA Robotics and AI Software to Build and Deploy AEON, a New Humanoid
The humanoid robot can help build digital twins for manufacturing and other industries.
Adobe’s AI image generator goes mobile — here’s why it’s a game-changer for creators
AI tools that allow you to create wherever you are
ChatGPT Is Becoming the Ultimate Mega-App: And It’s Already Starting To Eat B2B Software
The idea that ChatGPT could become a mega-SaaS app seemed fanciful just months ago. But things change so fast in AI. Fast forward today and it’s easy to see it...
Musk’s xAI in talks for $4.3 billion equity funding, Bloomberg News reports
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is in talks to raise $4.3 billion through an equity investment on top of its $5 billion debt funding plans, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday,...
What does it mean for an algorithm to be “fair”?
Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives.
OpenAI scores $200m Defense Department AI pilot deal
: DoD says deal covers ‘warfighting’. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and ‘supporting proactive cyber defense’
Thought Crime: Backdoors and Emergent Misalignment in Reasoning Models
This is the abstract and introduction of our new paper: Emergent misalignment extends to reasoning LLMs. Reasoning models resist being shut down and…
How can you best position your brand for discovery in LLM search? Adobe’s new LLM Optimizer seeks to provide the tools
Adobe’s system enables marketers to see where their brand is underrepresented in AI-driven results, and take actions to improve it, if so.
Amazon to Invest $10B for AI, Cloud Expansion in North Carolina
The news comes as power demand for AI data centers is slated to boom
Addressing Questions Over Europe’s AI Act, Digital Sovereignty, and More
In Europe, the digital regulatory landscape is in flux. Over the past few years, the EU has positioned itself as a global leader in tech regulation, rolling out landmark laws...
ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It’s Hobbling Future AI Development
There may be no undoing the vast amounts of pollution wreaked by ChatGPT. And that’s just tough luck for any AI models that come after it.
Groq just made Hugging Face way faster — and it’s coming for AWS and Google
Groq challenges AWS and Google with lightning-fast AI inference, exclusive 131k context windows, and new Hugging Face partnership to reach millions of developers.
OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a search boost — and it’s coming for Google
ChatGPT is proving that it’s more than a chatbot
MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning
MiniMax-M1 presents a flexible option for organizations looking to experiment with or scale up advanced AI capabilities while managing costs.
OpenAI wins $200 million US defense contract
ChatGPT maker OpenAI was awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools, the Pentagon said in a statement on Monday.
How do AI agents work together when they can’t trust each other?
I investigated this question by having Claude play the advanced social deduction game Blood on the Clocktower. Clocktower is a game similar to Werewo…
Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’
Anthropic’s Jared Kaplan said the company largely cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models because of rumors OpenAI is acquiring the startup.
Kling AI Video Generator on Path to $100 Million by February
Kling AI is now one of the world’s top-earning video generators and on track to deliver $100 million in sales by February, according to its maker Kuaishou Technology.
Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro preview beats DeepSeek R1 and Grok 3 Beta in coding performance
Google said the newest version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, now on preview, gives faster and more creative responses while performing better than OpenAI’s o3.
Why Lords are striking a blow for creative industries over new AI bill
Deadlock looms in a battle between the government and peers over artists and their copyright. Sean O’Grady looks at who will blink first
Neuromorphic computing: the future of AI
Can the next generation of AI outperform the human brain? Advances in machine learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) could make it possible.
Amazon to invest $10 billion to boost AI in North Carolina
Amazon said that the new high-skilled jobs will range from data center engineers and network specialists, to engineering operations managers.