xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2. New…
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OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time
Internal tests of OpenAI's new AI model Astra show cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the company can no longer rule out the highest risk level in…
AI music generator Suno tightens rules to fight spam and address growing copyright concerns
Suno CEO Mikey Shulman has announced new guidelines and tighter download limits after its AI-generated music was used to game streaming platforms for profit. The company…
AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to a single…
Anthropic loosens Fable 5's biology restrictions but keeps the guardrails on for virology and toxicology
Anthropic has cut false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by about 85 percent. Previously, nearly all biology-related queries got blocked and rerouted…
OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected in 2027 at over $300
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It's designed to learn…
China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3,…
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab
A research team in California has used artificial intelligence to design working viruses that kill bacteria, in what they describe as the "first generative design of…
OpenAI's hockey-puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts is set to ship in 2027
OpenAI's planned smart speaker is taking shape. The company's first hardware device will be donut-shaped, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced above $300,…
Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent plugins
Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have jointly created Agent Plugins, an open standard that defines a single package format for AI agent extensions. Version 1.0.0…