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Hi all, I'm seeing so many conversations from people discussing how they're 'using the models wrong' and 'don't use Sol max as high is enough for you', yet all the conversations lack the nuance of wha

Business Insider: Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M — Kevin Weil, the former chief prod

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

After a former lead writer claimed Saber 'replaced me with ChatGPT,' CEO Matthew Karch now claims, 'Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI,' for the Rideshare 'Stimulator' game an

Julian Hast / Bloomberg: OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity — OpenAI is hir

I WILL PAY 1 MILLION FOR THIS 😭 I will literally pay 1,000,000 to the developer who fixes this. ChatGPT macOS: ⌘C text → ⌘Tab back to ChatGPT → ⌘V …and the search box ISN’T FOCUSED. 🤦‍♂️ Why do I have

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told col

Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models run with zero-operator access enforced

Google LLC is reshuffling its senior artificial intelligence team, with its Chief Scientist Jeff Dean leaving the company after 27 years and Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, moving

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at

Axios: Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; GOOG drops 3%+ — Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CE

Bloomberg: Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is conce

Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — SemiAnalysis

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — Wha

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across the world who are either deaf or hard of hearing with the launch of sign-l

Bloomberg: China warns it will take “all necessary measures” if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over allegations they improperly used US models to train their models — China warned it would take

A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives. All the document’s 1,134 signatories work

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year — It's also planni

Google LLC is reportedly in discussions with an artificial intelligence coding startup called Mechanize Inc. over a deal that would see it license some of its technology and hire a number of its most

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence - his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — Wha

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

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

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

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

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

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

Try the Tavily plugin for LLM-driven search inside Grok Build Tavily is now live as an official plugin in @grok Build. Bring real-time, LLM-optimized web search into your Grok Build workflows. You'll

Geoffrey Hinton says a big language model runs on about 1% of your brain's connections and still ends up knowing more than you: 'So in your brain, you have a hundred trillion connections, roughly spea

Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the Europe

This Reddit thread from r/ChatGPT discusses whether locally-run open-source AI models can match the capabilities of frontier models like ChatGPT. Leading open-source models like Llama 3.3 70B and Deep

This post highlights the three most popular models on Hugging Face during a given week, featuring DeepSeek AI, OpenAI, and Alibaba's Qwen models. The post was shared by Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging F

HF leaderboards are fantastic, thank you @ClementDelangue @Thom_Wolf @NielsRogge for making a critical facet of benchmarks so easy! Check out http://swebench.com as well The SWE-bench Verified leaderb

Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarke

Span, Nvidia, and PulteGroup are testing home-based data center nodes that use unused grid capacity to cut costs, ease community pushback, and support growing AI demand. The Span installation bundles

The Surface Laptop Ultra is Microsoft's direct answer to Apple's MacBook Pro, built in partnership with NVIDIA and running Windows on Arm with an RTX Spark chip. This 15-inch device features NVIDIA's

Microsoft announced at Build 2026 a new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, fresh Linux-friendly tooling, and a one-command developer configuration system for Windows 11. The desktop workstation is powered by

Apple is expanding its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) beyond its data centers, partnering with Google and NVIDIA to run Apple Intelligence workloads on Google Cloud. Apple says it worked with Google and

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