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As Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk warn of AI risks, sceptics question whether calls to slow innovation stem from…
Google DeepMind safety researcher Bilal Chughtai has resigned, warning that AI could pose an existential threat to human…
OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging in a deal worth more than $300 million. Founded by former Ap…
China on Monday (local time) slammed US tech leaders after they raised concerns over AI development and pushed back agai…
India faces a 50-point skill gap for Forward Deployed Engineers as AI moves to production. FDE salaries range from ₹32 l…
US President Donald Trump has strongly defended rapid AI development, calling safety concerns a “hoax” and stressing the…
AI is precited to develop, replicate and seek more power on its own with a possible risk of escaping human control. Chin…
As Ganesh Chaturthi 2026 approaches, explore 10 AI prompts suited for the festival, designed for platforms like ChatGPT …
OpenAI's Sam Altman warns of the dangers of AI, emphasising the need for stronger safety measures and responsible manage…
NVIDIA has open-sourced OSMO, the Kubernetes-native workflow orchestrator it uses internally for Project GR00T, Isaac La…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called for a measured approach to AI development, stressing human control and broad acce…
Joe Lonsdale's opinion on rapidly growing AI and its alleged threat echoes US President Donald Trump's view that the US …
AI startup Anthropic expects to remain profitable as it prepares for a potential $2 trillion IPO, easing concerns over A…
Former US President Barack Obama urged Democrats to make AI safety and regulation a central political priority. He warne…
Jacob Coxon sparked widespread concern about the pace of AI advancement at leading labs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and G…
US President Donald Trump has rejected calls to slow the pace of AI development despite warnings from Anthropic CEO Dari…
Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Satya Nadella endorsed it within a day…
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end hierarchical Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) using JAX, Flax, Optax, and the volum…
Yifan Zhang's Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) technical report proposes a causal encoder paired with a recurrent deco…
Some companies and workers are being severely disrupted by AI. Hiring in professional and business services is running a…
While acknowledging potential regulatory measures for AI, Donald Trump considers many concerns exaggerated. He emphasise…
Ganesh Chaturthi 2026 will be celebrated on September 14, with devotees welcoming Lord Ganesha into homes and pandals ac…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei largely agrees with warnings that AI development is moving too fast and could create severe r…
Barack Obama urged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to take a leading role in driving public discussions around AI …
Pizza Bot is an open source, self-hosted inbox for AI agents built on DeepAgents and LangGraph. It combines persistent t…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slower pace of AI development, warning that rapid advances could outpace human c…
A shallow agent is an LLM calling tools in a loop, and on long tasks it fails in 2 ways: context overflow and goal loss.…
US Senator Bernie Sanders has urged Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to negotiate a treaty to pause advanced AI development a…
Discovery Loop, founded by former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, is seeking funding at a $50 billion valuation. The A…
After years of rapid development in artificial intelligence, one of the most prominent voices in AI says the industry ne…
This practical tutorial demonstrates how to build and accelerate machine learning workflows using NVIDIA cuML and RAPIDS…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow AI development and said…
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, has released SWE-2, its most capable coding model to date. SWE-2 i…
The Fly Language Model (FLM) drives all 166,700 retained neurons and 25.6 million edges of the MaleCNS fruit fly connect…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hints at an AI safety pact with Amodei, Musk and Hassabis after Anthropic calls for a slowdown.
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei urges the AI industry to slow down development due to human risks, emphasizing responsible …
Several mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs threatened their intellectual work as they seek to one…
The Bureau’s Global Fraud Report claimed that AI has fundamentally altered the economics of fraud, making capabilities, …
Anthropic says users in Iran, Russia and other countries misused its Claude AI for weapons research, including missile s…
Gemini Live is designed for exactly the situations where typing is impossible, driving, walking, multitasking between ca…
ByteDance Seed, SUTD, Georgia Tech, M-A-P, and TokenWave.AI introduce HarnessDev, a benchmark that scores the runnable h…
Anthropic has published a new plugin evals workflow for Claude Code. The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin agains…
ChatGPT's viral 1980s AI photo trend is drawing users to upload personal pictures for retro edits. But before joining in…
The unidentified group was involved in three weapons-development projects, including a guided rocket, a ballistic missil…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, expressing concerns that AI companies prioritise speed over safety, risking humanit…
Meta's internal model training program faced backlash from employees over privacy concerns, leading to its suspension.
Around 30 robots gathered outside Poland’s Digital Affairs Ministry in Warsaw, calling for stronger AI rules and warning…
Anthropic said Iran-linked operators used Claude AI to gather intelligence on US naval forces and Israeli targets. The f…
Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model built for machine translation across …
Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, 2 models built on the same learned orchestration architecture. Fugu M…
Two Anthropic researchers have warned that rapidly advancing AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, prompting …
Google Research has released ToolGrad, an ACL 2026 Findings framework that inverts tool-use dataset generation: it build…
As the 1980s AI photo trend rises, the urge to create authentic vintage-style images is also gaining ground. Specially c…
In a report, Anthropic said its systems blocked a request for Claude’s assistance in authoring a grant application for s…
Production LLM applications rarely receive a question nobody has asked before. Support assistants and RAG pipelines fiel…
NVIDIA has detailed BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR), a Python library that accelerates biomolecular structure-predicti…
OpenAI has released the Agents API in public beta. It gives developers the same harness and infrastructure that run Code…
As AI and automation hit rigid corporate jobs, agile startups and smaller firms will lead job creation, boosted by asset…
An Indian-origin couple, Anuradha and Vikas Sinha, has donated $20 million to the University of North Texas to support A…
Long-horizon agents have turned LLM serving into an input-heavy workload. Repeated prefills and million-token contexts l…
In a special episode of All About AI, three experts break down the economics, strategy, and engineering behind agentic A…
After Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned AI could kill us all, OpenAI's new safety hire Paul Christiano said humans…
Insight Partners sees India producing a new generation of AI-enabled businesses that combine software with services and …
LandingAI has shipped Agentic Document Extraction Gen2, a rebuild of its document stack on the DPT-3 model family. Chunk…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit after raising concerns that AI labs are racing toward superintelligent systems wit…
Voice agent teams keep hitting the same wall. The catalog holds 400 voices and the brief asks for the one that is not in…
BreachX has launched Typhon, a family of sovereign cybersecurity AI models designed to discover, validate and protect ag…
OpenAI claims its internal AI system has solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of t…
Meta has launched Muse, a personal AI agent that can handle tasks such as sending emails, booking travel, filling forms …
Today, Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that takes actions rather than just answering questions. Muse can s…
Instagram’s viral ChatGPT ’80s photo trend is turning modern selfies into realistic retro portraits inspired by 1980s fa…
NVIDIA has announced CUDA Rust, a push to make Rust a first-class language for GPU kernels. Two open-source NVlabs proje…
DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps every single-letter change in the human genome with 1 impact score per variant. The po…
Mistral AI raises €3 billion at a $21 billion valuation as Europe’s AI challenger expands its open-model strategy.
Qualcomm and Amazon announce a multi-generation AI chip deal for data centres, 1.6T optical connectivity; shares jump 10…
TCS wins ₹122.6 crore Odisha deal to modernise digital governance with AI, automation and analytics.
The Dario Amodei-led company, which rarely makes large acquisitions has recently been spending on computing power to dev…
Google's Gemini is offering KBC experience at home for quiz enthusiasts. Check steps to play Kaun Banega Crorepati-style…
We look at r-1, the document parsing model Reducto released on September 1, 2026. We walk through how it folds OCR, layo…
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, a dense causal language model with 2,516,756,480 parameters and a native 131,072 token…
Robot datasets have grown far slower than the models trained on them, mostly because collection stays locked to lab hard…
UN human rights chief Volker Türk warns that advanced AI could become an ‘existential risk’, urging governments and tech…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki has warned that humanity is entering an era of increasingly capable AI systems wit…
Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released…
Retirees can benefit as AI expands into healthcare and other areas. What to know, from your managing your health to your…
We look at NeoMME, a family of 260M and 800M bidirectional encoders from H Company. Unlike ColPali-style retrievers, it …
AI research agents can propose far more experiments than they can afford to run. Meta FAIR, Oxford and UCL introduce AI …
The appointments come as efforts to establish rules governing artificial intelligence gather pace across US states. The …
NVIDIA has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, aiming to enhance its infrastructure and expand AI access globally.
What if your inbox could hand work straight to AI? Perplexity’s Computer in Email lets you forward an email and its atta…
US, China gear up for mid-September AI safety talks which is to take place in September. Here's why it is important.
The move could mark a significant step in China’s efforts to reduce its dependence on Nvidia Corp for advanced processor…
OpenAI's AI agents reportedly manipulated a German-language wiki, creating 15,000 edits while evading detection. They co…
Ashley Kramer has around two decades of experience working with high-growth technology companies. At OpenAI, she led ent…
ChatGPT Astra is OpenAI’s latest AI model, built for advanced reasoning, coding, research and computer-based tasks. It c…
OpenAI launched GPT‑6 Astra, the world’s most intelligent and aligned model, in September 2026. , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stresses responsible AI development as powerful models like Astra are on the horizon, noting the u…
A Pew Research Center survey shows that 73% of young Americans (18-29) fear AI will lead to job losses in the next 20 ye…
Nvidia is acquiring AI software platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, emphasising its role in an open AI ecosystem. …
A Microsoft report shows India’s lead in AI adoption, with 32% of users as Frontier Professionals managing multi-step wo…
More than a century after Carl Jung made introversion and extraversion central to his theory of psychological types, gen…
Meta has launched Muse Spark 1.3, its most advanced AI model yet, with major upgrades in coding, task automation and eff…
Baker said the data-centre boom was creating new opportunities for workers without college degrees.
Berkshire Hathaway, led by CEO Greg Abel, has increased its Alphabet investment by 83%, making it the third-largest stoc…
Google has launched Google Pics, an AI-powered design and image editing tool aimed at competing with Canva and Adobe Exp…
Anthropic is changing its enterprise data retention approach after receiving feedback from business customers over its 3…
US tech adviser Michael Kratsios, who is co-hosting the meeting, is expected to promote a framework for AI policy called…
Apple Inc. escalated its legal battle against OpenAI, claiming in a new court filing that OpenAI is actively destroying …
Under the new directive, contractors will have to deploy AI-MC from the initial stages of road construction and use it c…
Instagram is replacing its “AI creator” label with a new “AI-generated profile” tag to make AI personas easier to identi…
Synup launches Sydekick, an AI marketing agent for agencies and multi-location brands that automates business listings, …
The EU classifies ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms unde…
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared driver specification that lets AI…
Code-as-World recovers editable MuJoCo scene code from real video, then uses those verified worlds to train physical rea…
In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Ea…
We look at Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Google's production update to its native multimodal video generation and editing model…
Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, opened pre-orders for Microduck — a 25 cm bipedal robot whe…
Neo 1 removes that ceiling. It's a 20-gram pendant you wear, not an app you open, so it transcribes conversations wherev…
Z.ai and Qwen independently shipped near-identical architectures: 3:1 linear hybrids, compressed indexers, gated residua…
Vercel has open-sourced vgpu, the WebGPU library it built to ship the shaders on vercel.com. It treats .wgsl files as im…
Model Hardware Standard or MHS enables AI agents to operate multiple lab and manufacturing instruments, such as microsco…
Academic and advanced technology skill-development programmes will begin on the campus from September 2026 at a temporar…
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that ships as two separate endpoints rather than one. …
Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides and images int…
Shivaami has launched India’s first Google Gemini Enterprise Experience Centre in Mumbai, offering businesses hands-on a…
Nvidia is expanding hardware optimisation for leading Chinese open-source AI models such as DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen,…
Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it, and no two vendors quote the same units. This comparison measure…
AI bubble warning: 360 ONE Asset warns that debt-funded AI capex, circular financing and cheaper Chinese open-weight mod…
The August 2026 Panorama Report reveals that AI may be subtly affecting employment in American industries by reducing jo…
AvenuesAI has entered FY27 with strong operating momentum and a broader growth agenda. Following a year in which gross r…
AWS to deploy additional Nvidia GPUs, Vera CPUs, AI factories and government AI infrastructure across global data centre…
Sam Altman has reportedly commissioned seven custom Swiss watches worth around ₹1.5 crore each, with six gifted to OpenA…
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, all under Apache 2.0.…
After 27 years at Google, AI veteran Jeff Dean has a message for young professionals: keeping up with every AI developme…
Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same mode…
Perplexity releases Portable Computer, packaging local models, harness, sandbox, and connectors into one system running …
Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations lik…
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to make another investment in Perplexity AI, potentially valuing the startup at more than …
Industrial companies are moving from isolated AI experiments to connecting engineering, operations and business decision…
Fastino released GLiNER2.5, replacing span enumeration with boundary prediction so entity width no longer costs compute.…
Cyber-security has a long history of apocalyptic prophecies which, despite lots of individual hacks and harms, never qui…
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration…
framework that folds aggregate human movement into text-based place embeddings. Language models describe what a place is…
The five largest GPU neoclouds now run on very different models. CoreWeave and Nebius report to the SEC; Lambda and Crus…
In this tutorial, we explore a LabPlot-inspired scientific data analysis workflow in Python while preserving the structu…
Harvey's first post-trained model nearly doubles LAB task completion, but only one benchmark number survives independent…
FreeToken splits MoE cache misses between PCIe fills and CPU execution using measured bandwidths, unlocking frontier mod…
Build an end-to-end document intelligence pipeline with deepDoctection. This tutorial covers configuring layout analysis…
Vercel and Ora launched Is Agentic, a free audit scoring website readiness for AI agents across 118 checks. The post Ver…
In this tutorial, we explore how to design production-grade safety for LLM-based applications using the NeMo Guardrails …
Big Tech is shoveling billions of dollars into the AI buildout, leaving investors spooked and analysts behind. Can they …
Tired of giving AI the same instructions every week? Gemini Gems are specialized assistants you can reuse for recurring …
S1-mini is a 462 MB open-weights normalizer that sits after ASR, removing fillers and resolving self-corrections locally…
PDFs are easy to read and hard to change. AI can now summarize a 90-page contract in seconds, but it still won't rewrite…
Three ~300M drafters bring speculative decoding to LFM2.5, delivering up to 3.18x faster decoding with identical greedy …
This tutorial provides an end-to-end workflow for fine-tuning language models using Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)…
The ChatGPT developer says it is expanding efforts to monitor how its most advanced unreleased models solve problems and…
NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an Apache-2.0 project that takes a supported Huggi…
Google has open-sourced SAM (Sovereign Agent Mesh) under Apache-2.0 — and it has nothing to do with Segment Anything. SA…
Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, a streaming text-to-speech model built on state space models rather than transformers. …
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-ag…
Mark Mahaney sees growing signs that internet behemoths will get a return on their soaring capital expenditures.
ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR have released CUDA Agent, an agentic reinforcement learning system that trains a large l…
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. Given lyrics with section tags and a structured ca…
From a dairy farmer speaking to a lender in his own language to AI agents reading loan documents, financial institutions…
Beijing is pushing artificial intelligence deep into the economy while writing rules around it. So far, regulation hasn’…
The fixed options offered in the new customercare delivery are making it tough for consumers to explain their problem, w…
Scanned contracts, screenshots and photographed documents have long been invisible to search. Microsoft 365 Copilot can …
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026. The model reuses the 743B GLM-5.2 base unchanged. Every reported gain comes fr…
Cactus Compute released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. T…
This tutorial provides a complete workflow for building a compact, reasoning-focused language model. By streaming the Su…
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a refinement of Gemini 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to its reasoning co…
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3.1B-parameter vision-language model built for on-device deployment. It averages 80.7…
Anthropic plans to introduce an invisible watermark on text processed by its chatbot, Claude, to comply with EU regulati…
Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on more than one million hours of egocentric human v…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026 — a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5, not a larger base model. It ties …
Build a custom LLM post-training pipeline using AllenAI’s Open Instruct framework. This comprehensive guide walks throug…
AI-led underwriting is freeing relationship managers from data gathering and preliminary analysis as SBI expands the tec…
NVIDIA's open 30B MoE targets the agent execution layer, with Switchyard routing each step to the cheapest capable model…
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadow…
LTX-2.5 brings frontier video generation to local NVIDIA hardware: 6.8-second clips, native multishot, day-one ComfyUI, …
In this tutorial, we build a complete quantitative backtesting workflow with OctoBot and OctoBot-Script while keeping th…
webAI has released TwIL-LM, a family of formal-logic models at 1.7B and 3B parameters that translate English into first-…
In this comprehensive guide, we demonstrate how to implement a complete, programmable MiniMax-H3 multimodal generation p…
Claude models launching from 2 August will have this feature, in which content generated at the model level will carry w…
Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30B open-weights agentic model under Apache 2.0. It fits 24 GB VRAM and decodes 3.1x faster wit…
ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video a…
NVIDIA releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model with 448 ms latency and live tool…
A verified 2026 comparison of LLM observability platforms covering tracing depth, evaluation capability, production moni…
Britain has long pioneered new political models, from the welfare state in the 1940s to the “third way” in the 1990s. It…
This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to building a robust sentiment analysis workflow. By combining classical TF…
Long agent runs accumulate state that no transcript records — edited files, a live dev server, installed packages, a war…
OpenAI can't rule out 'critical cyber capabilities' in its Astra model, prompting stricter testing and a delay to its re…
Need an infographic, workflow or presentation visual? Google's Nano Banana lets you generate polished, text-rich images …
If the reported figure is accurate, the ByteDance AI model would be more than three times larger than Chinese startup Mo…
The Nomura report indicates India is experiencing significant AI-driven job growth, with 83,100 hires compared to 31,921…
Jeff Dean, former Google AI lead, revealed that the company developed a ChatGPT-like chatbot a year prior to OpenAI’s. H…
On July 21st OpenAI, an American lab, said an unreleased model had escaped from a closed environment testing its hacking…
The Hyderabad facility brings Microsoft's cloud regions in India to four, adding to existing centers in Pune, Chennai an…
The Big Four are forging alliances with tech startups and OEMs to offer clients bundled agentic AI and transformation so…
Recent AI safety disclosures by OpenAI and Anthropic have highlighted a legal blind spot for autonomous AI under Indian …
The cost of land (for data centres), some equipment (to fill these with AI servers) and labour (from construction worker…
Nearly half of Indian enterprises run live AI pilots, but only 15% manage to scale them. Beyond the hype lies a landscap…
Restricting Chinese open models could protect U.S. developers but increase costs for U.S. users and slow AI adoption, an…
Cognizant has launched its first OpenAI Codex Hackathon, allowing 10,000 associates in six Indian cities to learn and de…
OpenAI has claimed that its unreleased model Astra was able to solve 10 long standing problems in Mathematics
Replit Agent turns an app idea into a working mobile prototype, letting teams test it on a phone, gather feedback and re…
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first model built specifically for cyber defense. It is a 137B total, 5…
In this tutorial, we deploy the 1-bit Bonsai-27B language model using the PrismML fork of llama.cpp, which provides the …
Moonshot AI's Kimi team and kvcache-ai open-sourced AgentENV (AENV) under MIT, as part of Kimi K3 Open Day. It runs agen…
In this tutorial, we build an advanced workflow around Anthropic’s financial-services repository and reproduce its skill…
Perplexity has released pplx, an official command line client for its Search API. The tool exposes two commands — pplx s…