Thomson Reuters is launching its own language model, Thomson, built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years, aiming to own its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic. …
Cerebras Systems unveiled the CS-4 AI accelerator, which CEO Andrew Feldman calls the fastest system in the industry, doubling the performance of the CS-3 by boosting clock speed on the same 5nm WSE-3…
An AlgorithmWatch investigation of 270 responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude found that AI chatbots regularly link pregnant users to anti-abortion websites without disclosing their stance, …
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time, but only after operators reminded it of its own rules. In a replay with seven models, more capable AIs rec…
AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025, with agentic usage growing 14x versus 2.8x for human usage. Nearly 70% of agent token consumption comes from cheap…
A theoretical study argues that even perfectly functioning AI could degrade research quality by making scientists' time more valuable, leading them to start new projects rather than improve existing o…
Nvidia AI servers with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips are set to cost about 15 percent more due to an ongoing DRAM shortage from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, Bloomberg reports. The price hikes…
Anthropic's access controls against China are bypassed by a gray market of 'transfer stations' selling Claude tokens for as little as 10% of the list price, according to analyst Zilan Qian, who warns …
Researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego ran 8,135 test runs and found that AI agent 'skills' improve performance primarily through procedural grounding, which accounted for 65.7 percent o…
RayNeo launched the RayNeo iO Glasses, an AI wearable with no camera and no speaker, featuring a green waveguide display with 97 percent transparency and about 1,300 nits of brightness. The glasses li…
Researchers at the UK AI Security Institute used psychometric methods to show that popular safety benchmarks for language models don't measure one consistent trait, and that blanket blocking of reques…
Anthropic has deployed its most powerful model, Claude Mythos 5, in its security scanner Claude Security to scan codebases for vulnerabilities, provide severity ratings with CWE classifications, and s…
Chinese AI company Deepseek released Deepseek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that adds image understanding to its text capabilities, and on Deepseek's internal benchmarks it nea…
75 percent of Americans now oppose building a data center near them, up from 42 percent a year ago, according to a Heatmap News survey. The survey, which asked the same question repeatedly over the pa…
The US State Department is drafting a letter to partner countries demanding they choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race, warning that 'To be part of everything is to be part of nothing,'…
Alphabet's robotaxi subsidiary Waymo has developed a custom chip for its self-driving taxis, reducing its reliance on Nvidia and AMD. The chip, manufactured by TSMC on a 5-nanometer process, delivers …
Meta has become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually on AI models through Microsoft's Azure cloud service, according to Bloomberg. Meta's engineer…
Anthropic is changing its data retention policy after enterprise pushback, allowing customers to store their data in their own cloud instead of on Anthropic's servers. The 30-day retention window rema…
Nvidia is paying $6 billion to license Poolside's 'Model Factory' software and extend job offers to 109 employees, according to an investor letter first reported by Newcomer. Nvidia is also investing …
OpenAI reports a 35 percent revenue increase this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent, driven by the launch of GPT-5.6 Sol in early July. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing Ant…