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At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to 'set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.' OpenAI would spend

Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had del

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing 300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wi

Ahmad Al‑Dahle joined Airbnb as CTO in January 2026 after leading Meta’s Llama generative‑AI models (2023–2025). He is steering an “inside‑out AI” strategy that deploys internal AI tools—such as the c

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run b

Snap is introducing 'Specs Intelligence,' a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar t

Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone

Omar El Chmouri / Bloomberg: Sources: Saudi AI company Humain is planning to raise an initial 2.5B fund to help finance data center capacity of 250 MW in Saudi Arabia — Artificial intelligence firm Hu

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO — Demis Hassabis di

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

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowd

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Sara Fischer / Axios: Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark Z

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Just when you thought the artificial intelligence model race might slow down, it starts up again double-time. This week alone brought new models and related services from OpenAI (twice), Meta (also tw

Editor’s note: Some of the most interesting questions in AI are being asked by information theoreticians, around how to provide context to an emerging class of AI agents. A few weeks ago, we waded int

In this post, we present a multi-step pipeline directed by Amazon Nova, which uses its contextual vision reasoning to coordinate complementary tools, including Meta’s open-source Segment Anything Mode

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart g

Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of

Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all

Katie Paul / Reuters: Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year — Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in an internal memo o

Meta Platforms Inc. and Ray-Ban will finally have some competition on their hands. At Google I/O 2026 today, Google LLC gave us a quick look at its first upcoming “intelligent eyewear” products, which

Iranian lawmakers have proposed charging tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft annual fees for fiber-optic cables running beneath the Strait of Hormuz . The proposal includes requiring these

ArXiv will ban authors for one year if they submit papers containing obviously AI-generated content , with examples including hallucinated citations, placeholder text, or chatbot meta-comments left in

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature in Instagram and as a standalone app in select countries — Meta just launched a brand ne

A meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT has positive effects on students' learning performance, perception, and higher-order thinking was retracted on April 22, 2026 . The retraction highlighted that 'educat

I'm currently wearing a pair of smart glasses called the Even Realities G2. Another two pairs, from Rokid, sit on my desk. A few feet away, I've got the Meta Ray-Ban Display charging alongside their N

Bloomberg: Chinese billionaire Chen Tianqiao says his startup MiroMind is adding strict “firewalls” between its Chinese and US businesses, as China blocked Manus' sale — The fallout from Meta Platform

Financial Times: Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials concerned a

Written by: JP Glab, Tufail Ahmed, Josh Kelley, Muhammad Umair Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a multistage intrusion campaign by a newly tracked threat group, UNC6692,

Reflection AI's Beam is an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks. This post shows how to deploy Beam on AWS: start with an Amazon SageMaker JumpStart real-time endpoint, or use A

Amazon.com Inc. today debuted two new wearable, artificial intelligence-enabled devices aimed at making everyday life simpler by listening to conversations and helping users remember what matters. Bee

Microsoft AI: Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base — In June, we announced M

Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than 500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It stated that private equity firm Boyu C

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

Mistral AI SAS today opened access to Mistral Large 4, its most capable large language model to date. On launch, the LLM is available in public preview through the company’s cloud platform. Mistral pl

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model — The focus of

OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI a

Financial Times: Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Si

Madison Mills / Axios: Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthrop

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Poly

Owen Walker / Financial Times: AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthrop

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent — Google is te

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,