Microsoft announced a new AI-powered security model that outperformed rival systems on a vulnerability benchmark while cutting costs by about half, unveiling its first security-specialized model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a m…
Moonshot AI released the weights of its Kimi K3 model on Hugging Face on July 27, along with a technical report and three infrastructure tools, and Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue reported that K3 hit the platform's trend…
Robert Martin, author of Clean Code, tweeted that he no longer reads code written by his AI agents, relying instead on extreme constraints such as unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testi…
Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson caught 32 of 35 students cheating on a midterm by embedding invisible white-font instructions in the assignment prompt that told AI chatbots to include nonsensic…
Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, inadvertently read an AI-generated prompt left in his speech during a legislative address, sparking criticism on social media. Reddit …
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 performed best on model welfare and alignment tests of any recent model, but the author suspects this may be because Opus 5 is the best test taker rather than genuinely improved welfare. The aut…
Lorraine, an open-source Flutter meeting recorder for macOS, captures system audio and microphone, transcribes meetings locally or via a Modal deployment running WhisperX, and recognizes speakers across sessions using vo…
AMD Corporate Fellow and Chief Architect for Datacenter GPUs Alan Smith revealed at the Advancing AI 2026 event that the new CDNA5 architecture, powering the MI455 and Helios, has been rebased from the legacy GCN archite…
Celeris launched Celeris-1 on July 27th, a diffusion-based language model API that completes short reasoning calls in milliseconds and generates long responses at 1,664 tokens per second, targeting voice agents, classifi…
Nvidia Corp. is investing $5 billion in a new AI venture led by Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist at OpenAI, betting on his breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology.
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman announced a deal worth "well in excess of $1 billion" to provide Google with dark fiber for connecting its data centers, calling it the first of multiple AI infrastructure deals expected by year …
A developer recounts a long vacation in Europe, traveling by train to Berlin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Lago di Garda, Munich, and Hamburg, during which they did not think about AI, LLMs, Python, or work. Upon returning to…
U.S. cities including Brownsville, Texas, and Las Vegas are expanding use of AI-powered cameras and sensors for public safety and traffic management, provided by SHI International, raising privacy concerns from advocates…
Canadian politician Bill Oliver, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, appeared to read an AI prompt aloud during a speech, saying, "Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like…
Microsoft unveiled Project Perception, a cybersecurity platform that orchestrates AI models from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic for threat detection, entering public preview on August 3. The system uses an intelligent …
UBEL, a free software composition analysis tool and install-blocking firewall, enforces security policies at install-time to block supply-chain attacks across dependencies, Linux packages, Docker, and AI agent runtimes. …
AMD and Cerebras Systems announced a partnership at AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event to create a disaggregated inference platform combining AMD's Helios rack-scale systems with Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine, separating promp…
Ramp engineers developed a Thompson-sampling-based router that dynamically selects the most cost-effective large language model for each query, reducing inference costs by up to 40% while maintaining response quality. Th…
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3's model weights and open-sourced parts of its infrastructure. The Chinese model nearly matches Western frontier models such as Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on popular benchmarks, but independe…
Nvidia stock fell 4% on Monday, leading chip stocks lower amid renewed concerns about circular financing after reports that the company may backstop $250 billion in funding for OpenAI to lease computing power. Apple surp…