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Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models “I

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — I

OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model. Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hyp

OpenAI: OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes graphics and interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers — Last month we introduced the f

Reuters: OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight — Teens spend under 15 minutes a

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January — Bo

Today @MeckaAI is announcing a 60M Series B from @sequoia to accelerate the advent of general purpose robotics This brings our total funding to over 120M to become the data and deployment layer for ph

More than a half-dozen public and private sector organizations are teaming up to develop biology datasets for artificial intelligence models. The consortium, which announced the collaboration today, i

On Oct 7 2026, Sam Altman announced the initiative “Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics,” highlighting a new era of discovery enabled by AI advances. The announcement appeared on OpenAI’s website (http

We’re open-sourcing pplx-embed-v2-late, multi-vector embeddings for text and images, 9B and 0.6B, in one shared embedding space. You can use these to index multimodal data with 9B, and query on device

We're releasing pplx-embed-v2-late, two late-interaction embedding models that retrieve text, images, and pages with a shared embedding space for cross-model querying. Both models achieve frontier per

Lee Harris / Financial Times: Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and others could be held liable — Insurers

AI infrastructure built on dense graphics processing unit clusters and high-speed AI networking is no longer reserved for frontier model labs. The same compute behind the industry’s push into physical

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media — OpenAI's cha

Excited to share that I have (re)joined @huggingface as a Opensource ML engineer! Many incredible things to come around this fantastic technology -extremely grateful for the opportunity, I am very exc

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models — Open-

Grok 4.7 is excellent at dealing with large code repositories Grok 4.7 takes the TOP 3 spots on VulcanBench Frontier v4, outperforming Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and other leading f

LL Cool J warns Joe Rogan: programmers' political biases will ruin AI. On the Political Compass test, xAI's Grok is the only major AI that lands near the center. Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI al

Data scientists and ML engineers can now create, configure, start, stop, and open Amazon SageMaker Spaces on SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters directly from SageMaker Studio. Launch JupyterLab and Code

OpenAI: OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage — We're releasing a broad range

OpenAI will automatically apply a proprietary “textGrain” watermark to ChatGPT‑generated text within the European Union as required by the EU AI Act, while enabling the feature elsewhere but keeping i

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Senator Adam Schiff on recursive AI becoming a real national security threat, making AI companies retain training data, needing an FDA for AI, and more — Today, I'm t

Bloomberg: Sources: Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise from 3B+ to 5B, as it grapples with rising AI costs and rapidly expands its robotaxi fleet — Waymo increased the size of its in

Zeyi Yang / New York Times: Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey — China's boomin

AI storage strategy is taking on a larger role as enterprises move from successful experiments to systems that must deliver dependable business results. How organizations store, serve and manage data

Utah has become the first state in the U.S. to give an artificial intelligence startup permission to automate the approval of prescription refills with only minimal oversight from human physicians. In

Clockwork Systems Inc., the data center infrastructure startup that helps to maximize the efficiency of artificial intelligence chip clusters, has raised 31 million in fresh funding and announced the

Amazon Quick doesn't offer a direct console path to downgrade a user from Admin or Author to Reader. This post walks through two reliable methods: a manual delete-and-recreate approach and an AWS CLI

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking 'matched or excee

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will 'initially' appear when you gener

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: OpenAI says it will begin testing a visual ad format in ChatGPT later in October in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads while users generate images — OpenAI

Vanity Fair: Q&A with Sam Altman on President Trump, the midterms, AI extinction risk, Xi Jinping's state visit, self-policing vs. regulation, and Greg Brockman's donations — In an exclusive video int

RL environments now have a home on the @huggingface Hub. Every RL framework has its own way to find environments. Custom hubs, runtime registries, GitHub lists with a custom loader. If you publish for

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman insists that the security risks of artificial intelligence need to be taken seriously. But unlike his counterpart Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC, he believes

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that 'the world should accept some bad things happening' along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and 'other bad things' as cos

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it 'can confirm that we have discovered some a

Again, Elon was already thinking seriously about Super Intelligence more than a decade before today’s SI boom Nick Bostrom’s 2014 book “Superintelligence” specifically thanks Elon Musk in its acknowle

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote that a company renting an AI model “essentially pays for intelligence twice”: Once in money, and again in the proprietary knowledge it has to reveal to make the model

Politico: Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ther

NGL, I do, but I’ve my reasons…. I do discern it’s answers but I’ve been so nomadic I’ve barely any friends my family of two aged parents won’t understand the concept of mental health and my diagnosis

Meta actually lost this, was fined 18b, shrugged and carried on The largest ever antitrust award was 5.5b (Visa & Mastercard) Any fine for slowing AI would be a fraction of this It’s not a serious arg

FieldAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models for robots, is reportedly seeking 700 million in funding. A source told Business Insider today that the round could value the compa

For folks not understanding where we are at with AI now - if the task is verifiable, it is now solved by AI. Yes, earlier days you could argue that 'AI isn't that good' (e.g. see first attached chart

Wen Shao / Fortune: Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial workflows, raised a 30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, taking its total funding to 38.5M — Halluminate, a nine-

Each model got a photo and Blender, and had to write code to rebuild it as a 3D scene in 20 minutes with a 4 budget. A scoring script (not an AI) compared each render with the photo. GPT-6 Astra won a