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SAP is restricting hiring and travel spending to fund its AI transformation, focusing new hires on AI roles and suspending non-AI-related internal travel. The company is prioritizing AI investments while cutting costs el…
OpenAI fine-tuning team members Will Hang and Wenjie Zi presented on Agent RFT, a method to enhance agent performance through reinforcement learning. They discussed how agents interact with tools and the outside world, a…
Kuaishou's AI video division Kling raised $2 billion from investors including CPE, Tencent, and Citic Securities, valuing the unit at $18 billion. The funding round supports Kling's planned spinoff and IPO on the Hong Ko…
Major Korean conglomerates including Hanwha, Hyundai, Samsung, SK, LG and Doosan announced a combined 312 trillion won ($204 billion) in investment plans for the Yeongnam region, targeting AI, robotics, data centers, aer…
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and AI researcher, gave Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 access to Unity and an MCP server with a single prompt to create a first-person shooter, resulting in a playable WebGL game with proce…
Fireworks AI co-founder Benny Chen joins Ryan to discuss what makes an AI application good or bad, balancing qualitative signals with quantitative metrics in AI evaluation, and how open-source protocols and community eff…
Stanford researchers led by Louis Blankemeier, Ashwin Kumar and Akshay S. Chaudhari published Merlin, a 3D vision-language foundation model for CT scans, in Nature on March 4. The model was trained on over 6 million imag…
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to build AI systems that understand the physical world, arguing that current large language models cannot achieve human-level intelligence. The Paris…
Interfaze, a Y Combinator-backed startup, open-sourced diffusion-gemma-asr-small, the first multilingual diffusion-based ASR model. The model transcribes six languages using a single 42M-parameter adapter on top of Googl…
Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees in an internal town hall that the company's unreleased model, codenamed Watermelon, has matched OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks, giving CEO Mark Zuckerberg a talking point fo…
Anthropic is in early-stage talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI accelerator chip, The Information reported on July 2, 2026. The move follows OpenAI's custom chip and reflects AI labs' push to reduce…
Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated video series 'On This Day…1776' has become a surreal, grotesque blend of technical ambition and patriotism, drawing backlash for its AI slop and erratic weekly schedule. The project, produ…
Meta has released Muse Spark, its latest large language model, as of April 8, 2026. The model scored 40.6 on Humanity's Last Exam and 1487.4 on LM Arena, indicating strong performance. The release updates the AI communit…
Meta's next frontier model, codenamed 'Watermelon' and likely named Llama 5, has reportedly surpassed GPT-5.5 on internal benchmarks but is still in training. No official release date has been announced.
A community-built fine-tune of Google's Gemma 4 31B model has beaten the base model by 290 Elo points on the EqBench3 benchmark for marketing copy, according to a Reddit post. The fine-tune leverages Gemma 4's Apache 2.0…
A comprehensive analysis of 15+ large language model quantization methods categorizes them into four paradigms: CPU-optimized GGUF-based approaches, GPU-native weight-only kernels, NVIDIA's floating-point hierarchy, and …
AMD released AgentKernelArena, an open-source benchmarking framework for AI coding agents on GPU kernel optimization tasks using AMD Instinct GPUs. In tests on a 44-task subset, AMD's GEAKv3 agent achieved average speedu…
AMD announced the acceleration of large-scale LLM inference on its Instinct MI350X/MI355X GPUs using Eagle3 speculative decoding and AMD Quark quantization. The work enables lossless inference speedups for models like Ki…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, confirmed via official access on April 23, 2026. The model achieves a score of 96.6 on the Agentic#2 benchmark and 1474.62 on LM Arena, while Meta's rival model Watermelon reportedly matches …
Google released ADK 2.0, a hybrid agent framework combining deterministic code with selective LLM reasoning, achieving ~50% token savings and improved security. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted AI agent progress has lag…