Weekly use of AI chatbots for news has risen from 7% to 10% globally, according to the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2026, but trust remains low at 20% among the general population. Only 4% …
A new benchmark from Artificial Analysis, the AA-Briefcase, reveals that even the best AI model, Claude Fable 5, fully solves only 3 percent of realistic knowledge work tasks. The benchmark tests mode…
OpenAI researchers demonstrated that reinforcement learning on beneficial traits such as truthfulness and corrigibility improves AI safety across domains, with models scoring better on 44 out of 53 be…
Google is appealing a ruling by Germany's Munich Regional Court that held the company directly liable for inaccurate AI-generated search overview content, which falsely linked two Munich-based publish…
A new website called In the Weights reveals which individuals are encoded in the weights of large language models, assigning a strength score based on how prominently a person appears in models like M…
OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT with GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming its health-related answers now surpass those written by doctors in accuracy, clarity, and completeness, with a 71% reduction in error rate.…
Anthropic launched Artifacts for Claude Code, enabling teams to create and share live web pages from coding sessions. The feature generates interactive pages from session context, updates automaticall…
US officials grew alarmed over alleged China ties at SK Telecom, leading the White House to demand Anthropic cut off the South Korean telecom giant's access to its AI model Claude Mythos. The incident…
Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats, tying security measures to measurable AI capabilities in its new 'AI Control Roadmap.' An analysis of one million coding tasks re…
Two new studies in Nature show specialized AI systems MIRA and AMIE diagnose diseases and make treatment decisions as well as or better than physicians in simulated cases, but both run on base models …
Yann LeCun warned that AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic face a 'big bubble explosion' due to investor-subsidized operations and insufficiently declining costs. LeCun's own startup, AMI Labs, raise…
Midjourney, known for AI image generation, is building a full-body ultrasound scanner with Butterfly Network and plans to open a spa in San Francisco by late 2027. The scanner uses underwater sensors …
Adobe is rolling out AI agents across Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and Premiere, plus third-party platforms ChatGPT and Claude, to automate multi-step routine tasks. The agents, available in pub…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, has joined OpenAI. Shazeer had only returned to Google in 2024 from Character.AI as part …
A Microsoft researcher built a neural network using goats, bridges, and ice ramps in Age of Empires II to critique AI research methods. His analysis of 315 papers found over half already assume langua…
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD invested $310 million in AI startup Odyssey ML, which develops 3D world models, valuing the company at $1.45 billion. The funding round also included CIA-linked fund IQT and Go…
Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-source model with a 1-million-token context under the MIT license. On the FrontierSWE benchmark for long coding tasks, it trails Anthropic's Claude Op…
Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon University, and UC Berkeley researchers developed ENPIRE, a system where AI coding agents autonomously train robots in dexterous grasping tasks. Using a fleet of eight robots t…
OpenAI researchers developed a method called Deployment Simulation that predicts AI model failure rates before release by using real, anonymized user conversations instead of synthetic tests. In tests…
Epoch AI analysis reveals Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are increasing AI infrastructure spending by 70% annually while operating cash flow grows only 23%, potentially causing spending…