DeepSeek is planning a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round at a $52 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The Chinese AI lab…
Google Search will generate AI images directly in AI Overviews when no matching image exists on the web, using the company's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model that prioritizes speed and cost over qua…
OpenAI has re-enabled ChatGPT on WhatsApp in the European Economic Area, covering 27 EU member states plus Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway, after EU regulations forced Meta to open its platform to …
Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA to develop evaluation protocols for frontier AI models and coordinate a potential slowdown i…
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round, signaling that investors still see room for another winner in the AI video generation space…
Anthropic published a study finding that its Claude AI model expresses more warmth in Hindi and more rigor in Russian, revealing systematic differences in value expression across languages and model v…
OpenAI released a prompting guide for everyday users that recommends describing the desired result rather than the steps to achieve it, with four optional building blocks: goal, context, format, and c…
Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto to build AI agents that learn continuously from their env…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are calling for immediate action to prepare for AI's economic impact, …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized OpenAI and Anthropic for what he called a 'reverse information paradox,' accusing them of training on public data under fair use while banning distillation of th…
Google Research's SensorFM, a foundation model trained on over a trillion minutes of wearable data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, outperforms existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health an…
Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026, delaying a planned switch to pay-per-use. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit for Fable 5, i…
A Pangram analysis found that 41% of long-form posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, the highest rate among five platforms studied. LinkedIn accounted for nearly two-thirds of all detected AI content de…
Anthropic's Claude Code now includes a built-in browser that enables the AI to read, click, and type on external websites within the development environment. Write actions are screened by classifiers,…
S&P Global downgraded Oracle's credit rating to 'BBB-', citing OpenAI as a key credit risk. OpenAI accounts for roughly half of Oracle's $638 billion in contractual obligations, and if OpenAI walked a…
Meta removed a controversial feature from its Muse Image AI model that allowed users to generate AI images of Instagram users by @-mentioning their public accounts without consent, after widespread cr…
Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions and found that about half of all usage goes toward mundane office tasks like compiling status reports and building onboarding checklists, rather t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says he is 'pretty sure' AI has created more jobs than it has eliminated, reversing his earlier warnings about mass layoffs. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has also walked back s…
An economics professor at Brown University found that when students took an exam without AI, the average grade dropped from 96% to 48.6%, with 18 students dropping the course and 9 not showing up. Two…
Researchers developed AgenticSTS, an AI agent that uses five separate memory layers to play Slay the Spire 2, keeping prompts at around 5,000 tokens instead of ballooning past 500,000. The agent won 6…