Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications now requires AI firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Preferred Networks, and Sakana AI, to disclose training data sources, with violation…
OpenAI has halted reinforcement learning for its next-generation Astra model to strengthen safety measures, marking a shift from policy debates to engineering constraints in AI development. The pause,…
A team from the University of Cambridge's Machine Learning Systems Lab, working with NVIDIA, Flower Labs, MBZUAI, and Inria, introduced the Red Queen Gödel Machine, a co-evolutionary system that impro…
A Cambridge-led team with collaborators at NVIDIA, Flower Labs, MBZUAI, and Inria introduced the Red Queen Gödel Machine (RQGM), a framework that co-evolves an AI agent and its evaluator to prevent se…
Anthropic is rolling out an invisible watermarking system for its Claude AI model worldwide, using Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text protocol to comply with the EU AI Act, a move that sets the strictest …
A study posted on arXiv in late July found that AI systems are not yet capable of fully automating open-ended research, with an AI system built by Princeton University researchers scoring 2/6 and 1/6 …
Google's new ScientistOne framework recorded zero hallucinated references across 75 evaluated papers and 337 individual reference checks, compared to baseline systems with hallucination rates as high …
Japan's government is considering incorporating domestically developed AI into the Self-Defense Forces' command and control system for the first time, aiming to speed up decision-making and maintain A…
Four former Google researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals — left Google in August 2026 to launch Discovery Loop, a company betting that the fastest route to superintellig…
Locus, an automated AI research system developed by Sakana AI, achieves state-of-the-art results on PostTrainBench and surpasses the human post-trained Qwen3 1.7B model in the extended PostTrainBench+…
A benchmarking study of autonomous AI research systems found that FARS benchmark papers significantly outperform four leading AI Scientist frameworks, achieving mean scores of 2.14–2.47 on a 1–5 scale…
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI company, has released four products in rapid succession since March 2026, including Sakana Chat, Sakana Marlin, Sakana Fugu, and Sakana Translate. Sota Omura, head of produ…
Sakana AI released Fugu-Cyber, a cybersecurity-specialized orchestration model that reports 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, surpassing reported scores for frontier models like GPT-5.5-Cyber …
Jepang memperluas kemitraan kecerdasan buatan dengan India, Prancis, dan Malaysia, serta menyiapkan dialog serupa dengan Inggris dan Brasil, untuk mengurangi ketergantungan pada perusahaan AI besar Am…
Sakana AI released Fugu Ultra v1.1, an AI model router that it claims achieves gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0 and now outperforms Fable 5 without including it in the routing pool. The update adds…
Artificial intelligence has already saturated academia, with 88% of UK students using generative AI for assessments in 2025, up from 53% the prior year, according to the Higher Education Policy Instit…
Sakana AI released Fugu-Ultra v1.1 on July 24, 2026, the latest iteration of its open-source Fugu model family, announced via an X post that gathered 31 likes, 6 retweets, and 1,857 views in its first…
Sakana AI announced Fugu-Ultra v1.1, an upgraded orchestration engine that delivers performance gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0 and beats leading models like Fable 5 in complex coding and reasonin…
Khosla Ventures, the first outside investor in OpenAI, is in talks to raise up to $5.5 billion across a new set of funds, according to Bloomberg. The record raise would allocate about $1 billion for s…
Researchers at Sakana AI introduced UnMaskFork (UMF), a test-time scaling method that enables multiple masked diffusion language models to collaborate on a single answer, outperforming existing method…