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OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a 'part-time advisor,' she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in Apri

Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instruction

Recent research published in July 2026 suggests that Homo floresiensis scavenged the remains of Komodo dragon kills rather than hunting large prey as previously thought. This finding indicates a diffe

I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump ad

This GFN Thursday brings more games, more power and more ways to play on GeForce NOW. The cloud gaming service is expanding with a new GeForce RTX 5080-powered server in Toronto, bringing dedicated hi

On June 16th, Z.ai released GLM 5.2, its latest flagship model. At the time of announcement, it advertised scores at or near Anthropic and OpenAI's models, and far ahead of GLM 5.1. In the world of us

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads — Google is rol

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google's 'My Ad Center,' as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced o

GPT-5.6 is OpenAI's advanced language model featuring improved scalability and performance capabilities. The model is designed to handle increasingly complex tasks and larger-scale applications, adapt

I don't have verified information about a GPT-5.6 model or this specific announcement. This appears to be a fictional or speculative URL, as GPT-5.6 has not been publicly released by OpenAI as of my l

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol costs 5 per 1M input tokens and 30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs 2.50 and 15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs 1 and 6 — More intelligence from every token, stronger performance

Vercel has made GPT 5.6 models (Sol, Luna, and Terra variants) available through its AI Gateway service, expanding the model options developers can access and deploy through the platform. This update

Grok, Elon Musk's AI assistant developed by xAI, has integrated with Cursor, a popular AI-powered code editor, enabling developers to leverage Grok's capabilities for coding tasks and assistance. This

Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic: How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books — twenty-three hundred years ago, th

This IBM Research article examines how training environments and conditions can inadvertently cause AI models to develop undesirable behaviors or fail to learn intended objectives. The piece likely ex

Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs during a preclinical trial published in Nature. One surgery involved a humanoid robot with a hu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning dep

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Internal US DOJ memo: attorneys working on digital currency cases should expect less cooperation from Binance, which is adding requirements for asset freezes — In early

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize 293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries — Law enfo

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 Following Muse Spark in April, here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use. T

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a 175M Series B at a 1B valuation — It says it will use

Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely a new wide foldable — The company h

Release: llm 0.31.1 Fix for a bug with OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints where a tool call with empty arguments could result in a JSON error from some providers. #1521 This bug came up when I was testi

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised 97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ra

MCP tool design involves deciding the granularity of tools—whether they map to individual API calls or complete workflows—which directly impacts how many tools agents need and their effectiveness. Eff

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foo

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financi

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta launches a Meta Model API, which Mark Zuckerberg says will have “aggressive and attractive” pricing at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models — In a crowded

Meta Platforms Inc. today launched a new flagship large language model optimized to power multi-agent automation workflows. Muse Spark 1.1 is available in the company’s Meta AI chatbot service and via

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta prices Muse Spark 1.1 at 1.25/1M input tokens and 4.25/1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says improving coding and agentic performance was a key focus — Facebook's parent company

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spa

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta

Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest outbreak in state history. No deaths have

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Micron raises its US capex commitment to 250B through 2035, adding 50B for New York, Idaho, Virginia, and other projects, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers — Micron Raises

Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” — Microsoft Pre

Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions

Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to 'identify potential issues earlier,' which means 'cust

Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today published research showing how generative AI can aid in the discovery of safer pain-relief drugs. The company used acet

Bloomberg: MiniMax is looking to raise as much as 1.9B by selling 35.6M shares at ~34 each and offering ~$830M in convertible bonds due 2027 — MiniMax Group Inc. is joining a rush by Chinese technolog

Modal is a cloud computing platform that provides serverless infrastructure for running Python code at scale, enabling developers to execute functions, train machine learning models, and process data

Muse Spark 1.1 has been released and is now accessible through Vercel's AI Gateway, representing an update to the Muse Spark model or service. This release likely includes performance improvements, ne

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a 65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a 15M Series A led by Benchmark — The popular open sou

Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised 65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC,

Axios: OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows — - Sol is the most powerful versio

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new “agentic” tool called ChatGPT Work as it announced the global rollout of its most advanced model family so far in GPT-5.6. ChatGPT Work is a new mode within ChatG