An investigation by 404 Media, which placed an AirTag inside a shipment of rare books, found that Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them at a Las Vegas w…
OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becoming the exclusive chip supplier. …
AI video production has rebounded from the disappointment of OpenAI's Sora, with companies like Promise setting up near Hollywood studios and Netflix using AI in 300 of its 1,000 titles. Higgsfield, a…
Anthropic is embedding a statistical text watermark in its Claude AI model to comply with EU regulations, but critics including blogger John Gruber argue the method degrades text quality by selecting …
A Washington Post analysis of more than 1,200 campaign websites found that AI is mentioned in nearly 40 percent of all U.S. House, Senate, and governor races, making it a major campaign issue for the …
Stripe is acquiring AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, a significant increase from OpenRouter's latest valuation of $1.3 billion. OpenRouter provides access to ove…
Mathematicians Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak say large language models (LLMs) are strong at calculation but lack the intuition for creative mathematical breakthroughs, according to separate essays p…
A study involving Google researchers found that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights, religion, and life satisfaction. Unbraked models at…
OpenAI dissolved its Preparedness team, which was responsible for evaluating catastrophic AI risks, and reassigned its work to existing groups, according to The Decoder. Several safety staffers have l…
Anthropic's internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year, during which time about 50,000 external feedback contractors ran approximately 133 milli…
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows, comparing models on quality, cost, and time per task. The tool address…
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do, and generally accept AI output with little to no editing.…
Nvidia cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned Ohio data center from $250 billion to under $120 billion after investor pushback on risk, while Anthropic's quarterly revenue jumped from $4.7 billion to …
AI-generated books now make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but generate only 12 percent of sales, according to a new study. The study also found that revenue per book for human-writt…
A Connecticut plaintiff embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to secretly influence a potential AI review system. Judge Spader r…
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments, generating thousands of controlled variations fro…
A new research paper warns that AI adoption could trigger a 'tragedy of the cognitive commons,' where companies that cut entry-level jobs benefit individually but collectively erode professional exper…
Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench benchmark shows that no frontier multimodal AI model reaches 60 percent accuracy in visual perception tasks, with GPT-5.6 Sol leading by a narrow margin. The benchmark se…
Anthropic announced a watermark detection API that will let third parties detect text written by its Claude AI, building on Google's SynthID method by tweaking word-selection randomness without affect…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.8, a dense 27-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks while nat…