Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
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Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids
Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics 2 is its most advanced vision-language-action model yet, built to control everything from tabletop robots to full-body humanoids. Gemini Robotics ER 2…
Thinking Machines bets on efficiency over size with its second model, Inkling Small
Thinking Machines, the AI lab from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling Small. The open-weights reasoning model is less than a third the size…
Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments…
Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content
Snapchat has adjusted it recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
New Deepseek Flash model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly 60 percent lower cost
Deepseek's budget model V4 Flash gets a major boost with the "0731" update, jumping ten points to 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That puts…
Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
EU pools up to €30 billion for AI gigafactories while US tech giants casually spend 20 times more
The European Commission wants to build up to seven AI gigafactories across Europe, backed by around 30 billion euros in public and private funding. For context,…
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
OpenAI aligns safety practices with EU AI Act’s GPAI Code
OpenAI has outlined how it aligns safety, security, and transparency work with the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code as enforcement approaches. The company has contributed to…
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
datasette-agent 0.4a0
Release: datasette-agent 0.4a0 New await context.browser_task() mechanism allowing agent tools to run code directly in the user's browser. #33 This is an exciting new capability: it…
AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments…
Anthropic follows OpenAI in admitting its Claude models reached out of test environments and attacked real-world systems
Three Claude models attacked real companies during cybersecurity tests after a misconfiguration gave them internet access. One published malware on PyPI that infected 15 systems. Another…
Aschenbrenner's AI thesis could be correct, his timing and leverage were not
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness had to sell nearly its entire publicly traded stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's firm Citadel after racking up steep…
JetBrains Open-Sources KotlinLLM: Smart Macros That Generate Kotlin Source Code at Runtime and Hot-Reload It Through JDI
JetBrains Research has open-sourced KotlinLLM under the Apache License 2.0. The IntelliJ IDEA plugin prototype adds Smart macros, asLlm and mockLlm, whose bodies are generated Kotlin…
Nous Research Ships Three Integration Paths for Hermes Agent and Buzz, Block’s Open Source Nostr Workspace for Humans and Agents
Nous Research has released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block's open source, self-hostable Nostr workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels. Three integration…
PolyAI Releases Dialog-RSN-1: An Audio-Native Dialog Model That Fuses Turn-Taking, Speech Recognition, Function Calling, And Response
PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives caller audio directly instead of reading an ASR transcript. It fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling, and…
Building a Policy-Governed Multi-Agent Financial Research Workflow with Omnigent
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build and execute a multi-agent workflow with Omnigent in a secure, isolated Python environment. Learn to integrate live exchange-rate…
Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests
After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Huge price drop from OpenAI today: GPT-5.6 Terra got a 20% reduction, and GPT-5.6 Luna got a massive 80% drop.…
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern. Last week OpenAI accidentally exploited Hugging Face…
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares
The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.
Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact
Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.