Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
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xai-org/grok-build, now open source
xai-org/grok-build, now open source xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload…
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, 2026, its first model trained from scratch. The full weights ship under Apache 2.0. It is a 975B-parameter…
Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English
Soofi S 30B-A3B is an open Mamba-Transformer MoE model activating 3.2B of 31.6B parameters for German and English The post Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B:…
OpenAI is now using AI to attack its own AI, and it's working better than humans ever did
OpenAI's internal GPT-Red model finds successful attacks in 84 percent of test scenarios through self-play training. Human red teamers manage just 13 percent. The results feed…
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired…
SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and…
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
Building a Gin Config Controlled PyTorch Pipeline with Configurable MLP Variants, Cosine Scheduling, and Runtime Parameter Overrides
We build a Gin Config controlled PyTorch pipeline where the training code stays fixed and the experiment variables move into .gin files. We construct a nonlinear…
GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly disproves a 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes after humans couldn't crack it
A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove a central open conjecture about the Benjamini-Hochberg method in roughly 90 minutes. The…
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and…
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.
Bonsai 27B is a full open reasoning model that fits on an iPhone
PrismML has compressed a 27-billion-parameter AI model to under 4 GB, small enough to run on an iPhone. In the company's own benchmarks, the smallest version…
Spotify bets Premium subscribers want to chat with their music player
Spotify is expanding its AI voice interface. Premium subscribers can now talk to or text the service directly inside the app. The article Spotify bets Premium…
Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models…
Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated…
How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets I've been impressed by the way the Claude web_fetch tool is designed to avoid data exfiltration…
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media
The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet
The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
OpenAI's Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation
Since early June, OpenAI's coding tool Codex encrypts the instructions a main agent passes to its subagents. Developers can no longer track how tasks get delegated…