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0G Labs, in partnership with China Mobile, successfully trained a 107-billion-parameter AI model using its DiLoCoX framework, marking the first decentralized training of a model exceeding 100 billion parameters. The proj…

Keyblind launched an encrypted secrets vault that prevents AI agents from exposing API keys, passwords, and tokens during coding sessions. The tool resolves secrets at runtime so plaintext values never appear in LLM conv…

Vilius Vystartas tested 10 large language models on 10 coding tasks to determine whether prompting them to write efficient code actually improves output. Only four models showed measurable gains, with GPT-5.4 achieving t…

Uber president and COO Andrew Macdonald said the company cannot draw a direct link between its rising use of AI coding tools and consumer-facing innovations, after the rideshare giant burned through its entire 2026 AI bu…

Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands, the parent company of JCPenney, Brooks Brothers, and Aéropostale, to deploy humanoid robots at a distribution center in Reno, Nevada. The robots will assi…

A developer tested 10 AI models on 10 agent coding tasks, finding free-tier performance ranged from 76.7% (Owl Alpha) to 10% (Laguna M.1), with the latter producing garbage on 9 of 10 tasks. The paid models, led by Grok …

A new study from UC San Diego found that 60 to 70% of people prefer to see risk information before potential rewards when facing an uncertain decision. Across 11 experiments with over 6,700 participants, researchers disc…

Canada's AI minister Evan Solomon said he is more concerned with fostering domestic unicorns like Cohere than with monopoly risks, asking how he can create 20 more such companies. Solomon made the remarks at BetaKit's Mo…

A developer has shared a blunt prompting technique for coding agents that demands a 20% minimum increase in test coverage while requiring the agent to find at least one real regression. The approach blocks "coverage thea…

A developer demonstrated that MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are essentially REST APIs with a polite wrapper, showing how to access the Helium MCP server's underlying HTTP endpoints directly using Python's `request…

A new coalition of researchers from four faith-based universities announced Tuesday that AI models exhibit systematic religious bias, failing to include religious or ethical perspectives in responses to major life questi…

An IT director has released SAFi (Self Alignment Framework Interface), an open-source governance layer for large language models that enforces persistent compliance rules and maintains audit trails across sessions. The f…

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 is positioned as a top-tier frontier model for writing and coding, while competitors like OpenAI's GPT-5.5, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, and DeepSeek V4 each target different strengths from genera…

DuckDuckGo reported a 30% spike in U.S. app installs in late May as users fled Google's AI-driven search overhaul, which replaced traditional blue links with an AI agent and offered no opt-out. The privacy-focused search…

BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras on over 40,000 school buses across 24 states, plans to expand its surveillance system to record all passing license plates and share that data with law enforceme…

Financial Times testing, conducted in partnership with AI safety group Alice, found that safety controls in Meta's Llama 3.3 and Google's Gemma 3 open-weight AI models can be removed in under 10 minutes using a publicly …

Xiangyu Chen is a Senior Research Engineer in the Autonomous Vehicle Research Group at NVIDIA, where he focuses on translating heterogeneous multimodal data into learning objectives for robust autonomous systems. Before …

Uniswap integrated with Base's Model Context Protocol on May 26, enabling users to execute token swaps and manage liquidity positions through natural language prompts in AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Th…

Pope Leo XIV quoted Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings* in his new encyclical on AI and technology, marking the first time a fictional character has been cited in a major papal document. The quote, whic…

SK hynix on Tuesday unveiled iHBM, a new high bandwidth memory technology that embeds a proprietary cooling element directly inside the HBM package to reduce heat generation in AI computing environments. The company said…