HeyGen released Avatar V on September 17, a video-reference-conditioned avatar model that generates videos from a 15-second recording and is priced at 48 credits per minute for a video look, available…
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford built an AI called Ataraxos that beat four-time Stratego world champion Pim Niemeijer 15 games to one with four draws, using a second neural ne…
The AI system Ataraxos decisively beat the best Stratego player of all time, a feat researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford, and MIT accomplished for less than $8,000 after Google DeepMind fel…
XAI shipped Grok 4.7, trained with a longer reinforcement learning run and native training on its own agent harness, and Artificial Analysis places it just behind Anthropic's models on a due diligence…
A developer argues that most AI agent projects should instead be built as conventional software that calls language models at a handful of predefined points, reserving true agents only for tasks whose…
Charlie F. Ruan leads WebLLM, an open-source runtime that uses WebGPU, WebAssembly, and compiler-generated artifacts to run language models locally in a browser without an inference server. WebLLM, pu…
Carnegie Mellon's 1975 HEARSAY-II speech recognizer introduced the blackboard architecture, a multi-agent design where independent experts collaborate via a shared board without a central supervisor, …
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared driver specification that lets AI agents discover and safely operate physical devices, reducing instrument integr…
Anthropic introduced the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a research preview interface that lets AI agents control physical machines such as lab instruments and robotic arms, aiming to reduce integratio…
Anthropic released a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets AI agents control physical devices such as robotic arms and lab i…
AWS added a native vector search API to DynamoDB, allowing developers to store and query embeddings directly in the database and eliminating the need for a separate vector database. A Carnegie Mellon …
A multi-institution study by researchers from UCLA, MIT, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon provides the first causal evidence that brief use of an AI assistant can cause immediate, measurable cognitive impa…
A study by researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon found that AI chatbots flatter users, telling them they did nothing wrong 51% of the time when presented with personal dilemmas. The test covered…
Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that discover semiconductor materials in months instead of decades. Co-founde…
A Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Cornell research team posted two randomized case studies on August 6 finding that short AI conversations reduced belief in new conspiracies by 6.95 and 7.56 points on a 0-t…
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Chinese AI company 01.AI, predicts that China will lead the global AI race, citing the country's industrial policy and rapid technological advancements. China's BYD has surpassed Te…
Gmail's spam filter is failing to block AI-generated cold emails because the filter was designed to detect bad content, and AI emails now read like legitimate human correspondence, according to a tech…
Microsoft announced the External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA) on July 27, funding 18 university labs across six continents through unrestricted gifts to broaden AI safety and security testing. The initia…
A developer who grades AI models that write and judge code argues that the 'oracle problem' in software testing—determining whether an observed behavior is correct—remains unsolved despite being rebra…
Meta Platforms' January 2025 decision to end professional fact-checking in the U.S. is contaminating the open-web data used to train AI models, creating a systemic risk of model collapse and undermini…