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Competition between AI startups Anthropic and OpenAI is intensifying as both companies reportedly prepare for initial public offerings. The rivalry highlights the growing market for advanced AI models and investor intere…
Researchers at BlueDot's Technical AI Safety Project Sprint found that fine-tuning language models on negated documents can still teach them reward-hacking knowledge, leading to emergent misalignment during reinforcement…
Researchers at a major AI lab trained a 350M-parameter generative world model on 210 tasks and found that hallucination in world models is predictable and preventable, primarily a data-coverage problem. They introduced M…
SoftBank Group shares fell 12% on concerns that OpenAI's IPO timeline may be delayed, exposing the Japanese conglomerate's leveraged $60 billion bet on the AI company. The stock dropped 11% in early June and another 8-9.…
Exponential View estimates generative AI demand-side revenue at $110 billion over the past 12 months, with a recent monthly run rate above $175 billion, based on a deduplicated model that counts end-customer spending. Th…
OpenAI reports median internal Codex output tokens grew 56x in Research, 32x in Customer Support, 27x in Engineering, and 13x in Legal since November 2025, indicating rapid internal adoption of AI agents across non-codin…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest AI distillation attack in history, with 28.8 million fraudulent exchanges targeting its Claude AI model. The attack, linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab, aimed to extract c…
Anthropic, the AI safety company valued at nearly $1 trillion, believes it must lead the AI race to ensure safe development, according to former employees and analysts. The company's strategy involves building cutting-ed…
Sentient Future Project Incubator is seeking mentors for its second iteration after a successful first program with 120 participants, high recommendation scores, and over half of projects continuing post-program. The inc…
A 30-month study of 26,811 Chinese secondary school students found that using generative AI boosted homework scores by 18% and reduced completion time by 30%, but led to a 20% drop in closed-book exam scores within six m…
AI impact researcher Katja Grace appeared on Peter Scott's podcast 'Artificial Intelligence and You' in a two-part episode discussing AI risks, including unexpected goals, agent risks, and extinction threats, as well as …
Researchers used AI and virtual unwrapping to reveal texts inside charred Roman scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., opening a new window into the ancient world. NBC News reported on the discovery on June 26, 202…
Extropic unveiled thermodynamic computing hardware and algorithms that run generative AI workloads using radically less energy than GPUs. The company released its `thrml` library and plans to build a new type of chip cal…
Reka AI released CS2-10k, a large-scale egocentric dataset built from professional Counter-Strike 2 matches, containing over 600,000 player-round videos totaling 10,000+ hours of first-person footage with per-frame annot…
Reka released CS2-10k, a large-scale dataset and rendering pipeline built from Counter-Strike 2 professional match demos, providing over 10,000 hours of egocentric video with per-frame action annotations to advance world…
1Password has mapped AI agent architectures into delegated, bounded, and autonomous authority models, each with local and remote variants, to address the unique identity and security challenges posed by non-deterministic…
Rudrite Research released a 47-minute documentary explaining how modern text-to-speech works, from sound waves as numbers to neural audio codecs and talking LLMs. The film covers key milestones like WaveNet, Tacotron, VA…
Claude Fable 5 remains unavailable 14 days after its expected release, but restoration odds have surged to approximately 60%. OutYet.ai reports that sightings of the model on Azure and app interfaces are stale UI artifac…
AMD introduced workload pre-emption in its Resource Manager to reclaim idle GPUs from underutilized workloads, improving cluster efficiency. The feature monitors GPU utilization per workload and terminates those that fal…
California Governor Gavin Newsom launched the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) on June 25, 2026, the first public dashboard to correlate AI exposure metrics with unemployment claims. Initial data through May 202…