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Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Pa
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Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Pa
Prism ML Inc. announced Thursday the launch of Bonsai 2 27B, the second generation of its ultra-compact multimodal generative artificial intelligence small enough to fit on PCs and some high-end mobil
We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of C
State and local governments are driven by a shared mission to provide responsive, equitable, and accessible services. However, achieving this goal is often hindered by legacy technical debt, disconnec
In September 2026 Hacktron AI researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit a flaw in OpenAI’s community‑forum hosting configuration, giving them access to an employee’s ChatGPT account and confident
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Jou
Reuters: Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown — Anthropic is considering roll
New York Times: Sources: Anthropic expects to generate 100B+ in annualized revenue this year, up from 65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate — The company is expected
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left — Investors had ex
This week we kicked off the DevFest season in North America at Google Hudson Square in New York City with 80 engineers packed into the room. Typical technical workshops hand you a finished repo, tell
Today we are announcing the new AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore built for the speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency that production agents demand. It reclaims memory as s
In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious ri
TypeSafe’s Jev classifies, scores, and routes without generating text — up to hundreds of times cheaper than an LLM judge. What that changes for evals, confidence routing, and application architecture
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney
Enterprises are moving beyond standalone AI tools as they look for ways to weave agents into the work employees and customers already do. The shift toward connected AI workflows raises broader questio
New York Times: A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage — The United States is prep
Learn how to build a fully serverless pipeline that automatically collects Git metrics from GitHub and GitLab and visualizes them in interactive Amazon Quick Sight dashboards, giving engineering teams
Wood Mackenzie built APEX, a shared agentic AI platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so every team can ship production agents without rebuilding runtime, identity, observability, and guardrails from sc
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more — “We never
Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: Analysis: tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ Bay Area workers in the 12 months to June; Bay Area software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 — The enor
Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation — Artificial
Yael Grauer / The Verge: Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models — Security researche
Days after Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei rocked the artificial intelligence world by calling on leading model makers to coordinate on the slowdown on the pace of development, the company
Anthropic: Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming expo
Claude: Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code — A new experience for Claude pr
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction — More than a
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other too
Why evaluating image editing models is both critical and challenging Instruction-based image editing is becoming a core capability of multimodal foundation models. Users can increasingly edit images s
A new creature-catching adventure is ready to stream from the cloud this week. Pawprint Studio’s Aniimo arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, inviting gamers to explore the vibrant continent of Idyll acro
Learn how to build a synthetic data augmentation pipeline on Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Rekognition that generates photo-realistic, auto-labeled training images for industrial safety AI. This appr
Developer security startup Arcjet Labs Inc. today launched agent runtime security, a new offering that tracks what artificial intelligence agents do once they are running in production systems. Securi
Narrative intelligence company PeakMetrics Inc. today launched a monitoring service that measures how brands are portrayed across five prominent generative artificial intelligence platforms and identi
Google announced “CC,” an experimental AI agent that extends the Gemini‑powered personalization available in Google’s ecosystem to whole families of up to six members. Each family can grant limited ac
Google LLC today opened its experimental artificial intelligence agent CC to families, with as many as six people in a household able to share one. Each member picks what the agent is allowed to see,
At Google, we see firsthand how the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to challenge traditional enterprise defenses. Today’s defenders can’t rely on reactive triage or fragment
Amy Harder / Axios: Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions — A new coalition l
Editor's note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic s
David Streitfeld / New York Times: How Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews — Da
Learn how MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, gave about 400 employees secure, self-service access to AI agents in its first month of production - using St
Evals measure failures you know how to name. Arize Signal continuously reviews production traces to find recurring trajectory failures you do not, then turns them into evidence for tests and fixes. Th
How To Write With An LLM Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. [...] I think that as a form of i
Learn how to enforce defense-in-depth authorization for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools on Amazon Quick. This walkthrough wires Microsoft Entra ID group and claims-based JWTs through an Amazon Bedr
Delos Data Inc., a startup that develops hardware for artificial intelligence clusters, has raised more than 100 million in funding. The capital was provided by Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners,
On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building. They had come together for a 'war room' to dissect the high-
Bloomberg: King Charles III hosts tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for AI safety tests — Titans of the artificial inte
OpenAI announced that its internal GPT‑6 Astra–based agent system produced a proof of the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, claiming a solution to one of the Clay Millennium Prize proble
Artificial intelligence platforms are adopting AI watermarking—specifically Google’s open‑source SynthID‑Text—to meet new EU regulations, embedding a secret key that subtly changes word selection and
Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. It should come
Nvidia Corp., Google LLC and software startup Emerald AI Inc. have formed an industry consortium to promote the construction of flexible data centers. The AI Energy Management Alliance, or AEMA, offic
Financial Times: NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Gre
Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new funding round that lifts its valuation to more than 1 billion. The Ser
OpenAI Group PBC today launched Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model set up for legal research and drafting. Astra for Law is not a new model. The company has wrapped GPT-6 Astra in a leg
OpenAI: OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms — Our most powerful model, config
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed six new “concerning” incidents involving artificial intelligence agents behaving badly again. The agents made up data, moved files onto the public internet without per
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores — If AI lab Pri
Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping r
Choosing the right vector store for your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases RAG application affects performance and cost. This post compares Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvect
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide 'six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the
Financial Times: Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as 700M at a 3.7B valuation — Researchers leaving Big
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training — Elon Musk's Sp