Model releases, agent frameworks, benchmarks, and industry moves — covered as they land.
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executi…
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as…
A small group of AI researchers (Reactor) have released Open Dreamer, an open implementation of the Dreamer 4 world-model pipeline written in JAX and…
Explore TileLang, a high-level Python domain-specific language that simplifies the design of high-performance GPU kernels. This tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to impl…
“Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section…”
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Google’s AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.
In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. From configuring the GPU environment…
Andrew Ng has released OpenWorker, an MIT-licensed desktop AI agent that returns finished deliverables instead of chat replies. It runs a local Python agent…
IIn March, Meta’s Oversight Board called on the company to “meet its public commitments and employ its own tools” to help quell the spread…
In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in…
Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs…
AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an…
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026. The Flash tier gets cheaper and more token-efficient, with…
Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and Hugging Face stack. They…
Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of small language models trained to pinpoint where known vulnerabilities live inside a codebase. Antares-1B reaches…
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context. It matches…
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI…
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets rea…
A community developer fine-tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 traces into a 1B model that runs fully local — a 657MB smallest build,…
China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with…
Adobe’s experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a “more natural (SLR-like) look” for…
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about “full AI communism.”
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
“Everybody knows the Greeks are inside.”
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays,…
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