Anthropic published a study on August 28 showing that AI systems built with Claude Opus 4.8 can train other AI models to be safer, improving performance across 10 alignment benchmarks in about six hou…
Meta Platforms Inc. is racing to regain frontier AI status with its forthcoming 'Watermelon' model, but its history reveals a complicated path marked by early insight and missed acquisitions. Mark Zuc…
Yann LeCun, founder of Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, has launched Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, which raised $1.03 billion in seed funding by March, one of the largest rounds in his…
Meta Platforms Inc. reassigned approximately 6,500 to 7,000 engineers to its Applied AI unit in spring 2026, triggering a drop in employee favorability from 74% to 55%, and later cut about 8,000 jobs …
Dartmouth will host the AI at 70 conference from Oct. 29-31, convening leaders from academia, industry, government, and the arts under the theme 'AI at 70: What Must Remain Human?' to discuss human ju…
Meta has redirected its infrastructure strategy from virtual worlds to pervasive AI, positioning Ray-Ban smart glasses as the primary data collection engine for training AI systems, according to a rep…
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Ray-Ban smart glasses, made with EssilorLuxottica, have drawn backlash for enabling users to photograph and record people without permission, raising privacy, security, and ethic…
Chinese AI researchers have achieved a surprising leap in artificial intelligence, powered by a cadre of scientists who have returned from the U.S. to work on domestic projects, according to a Wall St…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued on X that AI centralizes by nature and that open models merely shift power to whoever owns the chips, responding to criticism from investor Gavin Baker, former White …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a rare post on X on Saturday that the AI industry can win over the public by delivering tangible scientific breakthroughs, such as actually curing cancer, rather tha…
Software engineering fundamentals matter more than ever as agentic AI tools become capable, according to an engineer's essay. The author argues that while agent harnesses have crossed the 'can it be d…
224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment platform with more than $100 million under management, is pursuing seed-stage bets in future-of-work software, robotics, and AI infrastructure, according to gene…
Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Meta, and well-funded AI startups are racing to build 'world models' that predict real-world consequences, a shift beyond language models that could enable robots, autonomous …
Meta released Muse Glimmer, its new open-weight model, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay advocating for open AI, drawing praise from figures like Yann LeCun, Aaron Levie, and Clémen…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on X that Meta is releasing the weights of its frontier coding and reasoning model Muse Spark 1.2, currently the fifth most powerful model on the Artificial Analysis…
Yann LeCun, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and former Meta chief AI scientist, has joined 224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment firm launching on August 5 with more than $100 million in …
Noa Khamallah's Don't Quit Ventures has closed its second round of Fund I at $10 million, achieving a 2.5x return on invested capital, with three of its 17 investments now valued above $1 billion, acc…
Gary Marcus and Yann LeCun, longtime critics of large language models, have adopted the term "pure LLM" to clarify that their criticisms were aimed at basic autoregressive models, not advanced systems…
In a commentary on AI market exuberance, Michael Pollan's coevolutionary tulip metaphor is applied to the current boom in GPU compute and language models, with the author arguing that AI systems are '…
Capy founder Vincent Chan is shifting the company's focus from CLI developer experience to broader secrets management UX and agentic-first API products, following conversations with industry figures i…