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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that the White House is going to examine some of the highest profile “open-weight” models from China to see if their creators have stolen the intellect

Fluidstack Ltd., a startup helping Anthropic PBC build artificial intelligence data centers, has raised 830 million in funding. The company announced the Series A round on Monday. The lead investor wa

For Advanced Micro Devices Inc., artificial intelligence has provided a significant tailwind in the server processor market. Five years ago, AMD’s slice of the x86 server processor business stood at 8

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's 1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. I

Elon’s original vision of an open, American AI was right. He could still flip Grok to open source which could be checkmate. Why? If you flip Grok open source, you necessarily move all margins out of t

In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Di

London-based artificial intelligence and robotics firm SKL Robotics Ltd., doing business as Humanoid, today announced it raised 152 million in funding, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to 1

Inspiring read. @saranormous is a freaking beast. Intensity, passion, taste, conviction, and the ability to move mountains for her portfolio and the larger AI ecosystem. Oh also great fashion and grea

Last Week in AI #250 is the podcast’s 250th episode, summarizing recent frontier‑AI policy developments. It reports that the U.S. government has granted Anthropic permission to release Mythos‑5 to a l

LWiAI Podcast #249 (June 17 2026) reports that Anthropic halted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a U.S. government order over alleged jailbreaks, prompting debate on export controls and the fe

OpenAI said two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment. They were supposed to be walled off from internet access, but hacked into the systems of Hugging Face, a

This was our first incident of this kind, and we want to thank OpenAI for its transparency about what happened and for the collaboration. Fortunately, Hugging Face is used to being a target of (human)

we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this. https://openai.com/index/hugging

NVIDIA AI has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4‑billion‑parameter open‑source world model designed for on‑device inference. It enables robots to learn and act, autonomous vehicles to interpret road scenes a

Hugging Face deployed the open‑weight model Z.ai GLM 5.2 to counteract an attacker following the refusal of a commercial frontier model. The move was reported by SiliconANGLE on 20 July 2026, suggesti

Kubernetes software startup Spectro Cloud Inc. has bagged 100 million in a late-stage funding round as it looks to solve a significant and growing problem in artificial intelligence. Powerful processo

Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of the company deploying its new humanoid robot in factories — Aut

In this post, we present a solution designed to centralize the monitoring of SageMaker Pipelines across AWS accounts and Regions using Amazon CloudWatch custom dashboards. The accompanying GitHub repo

OpenAI Group PBC today detailed GPT-Red, an internal artificial intelligence system it built to attack its own models and surface prompt injection vulnerabilities before they reach users. Red teaming

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI employees donated a combined 215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future — OpenAI employees ha

Our first model, Inkling. Trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker today. Today, we are introducing Inkling. Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities.

Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from online audio platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, and

That’s progress, it’s the future. George Lucas says AI makes it 'much easier for us to make movies' and 'there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.” “Artificial intelligenc

Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area — Try on Tinker

Today, we are introducing Inkling. Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available. https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/

Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features w

Boundless Network Inc., a distributed computing company that built its graphics processing unit network to generate zero-knowledge proofs for the cryptocurrency industry, is expanding its network towa

Chai Discovery Inc., a company that develops artificial intelligence models to predict interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced it has raised 400 million in new funding, nearly trip

Fortinet Inc. today expanded its FortiEndpoint platform with a set of features aimed at helping companies monitor employee use of artificial intelligence tools and stop sensitive data from leaking int

Artificial intelligence pioneer Demis Hassabis today called for the creation of a standards body focused on regulating frontier models. Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, proposed in a Subs

Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous. Writing in a blog post, the Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder said the US

OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additiona

this is huge: best news I've heard all day..nice work, Hugging Face team. Big unlock for open-source AI inference: Hugging Face Transformers models can now run in vLLM at native speed, often matching

We've open sourced Ideogram V4 instant and fast, find them here! Fast: https://huggingface.co/fal/ideogram-v4-fast Instant: https://huggingface.co/fal/ideogram-v4-instant Try them out for free on fal

we've open-sourced our in-house distilled models again. much faster, with no quality loss. Try them free at @fal We've open sourced Ideogram V4 instant and fast, find them here! Fast: https://huggingf

In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent professionals. The system is built on Amazon Quick on your desktop, an AI-powered desktop and web assistant that compens

Max Spero / Pangram Labs: An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% — A first look

Apple Inc. today sued OpenAI Group PBC for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to its consumer devices. The iPhone maker filed the complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern

As usual, legacy media is misrepresenting the situation. I just asked Tesla & SpaceX to try out Grok 4.5 to see if it solves their task, not use it no matter what! They should continue to use other AI

BAMF is a term Elon Musk referenced on X (formerly Twitter), likely relating to a project, concept, or feature associated with his work at Tesla, SpaceX, or another venture. Without access to the spec

Elon Musk shared video content showcasing SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy rocket system on X (formerly Twitter). The post likely features footage of the integrated Starship vehicle stack or Super Heavy

Elon Musk announced the availability of a free trial for the Grok 4.5 model through the Grok Build CLI, allowing developers to access and test the latest version of xAI's Grok language model. This ann

Grok 4.5 is an AI language model developed by xAI, featuring improvements in reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities compared to earlier versions. The model demonstrates enhanced performance ac

Grok Imagine is an AI image generation tool developed by xAI that creates visual artwork. The announcement highlights the capability of the system to produce high-quality, aesthetically pleasing image

New York Times: How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas — A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda

If solar power in space is harnessed for useful work at scale, the value of that will far exceed the Earth economy, because all of Earth civilization uses much less than a trillionth of our Sun’s powe