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Lawmakers Backtrack On AI’s Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Bill
Hours after The Lever’s report, legislators defanged a stealth provision that could have shielded tech giants from lawsuits.
Artificial Intelligence And Emotional Intimacy : 1A
ChatGPT has at least 500 million weekly users. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that number is growing extraordinarily fast.When the chatbot went through an update a couple weeks ago, it...
Nvidia orders suppliers to halt work on China-focussed H20 AI chip, The Information says
Nvidia has told some component suppliers to suspend production of its H20 AI chip, designed specifically for the Chinese market, the Information reported on Thursday, citing two people with direct...
Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion
Alphabet and Meta compete in online advertising, but Meta needs more data center infrastructure as it pursues artificial intelligence growth.
The Latest 20VC+SaaStr: Databricks Hits $100B, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Gamble, and Why We’re All Living in the AI Bubble
The latest 20VC x SaaStr episode with Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll is here! The team is discussing Databricks’ $100B valuation, the coming IPO tsunami, CoreWeave&…
Sam Altman calls AI a “bubble” while seeking $500B valuation for OpenAI
“Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money,” says CEO while fundraising at record prices.
Why Nvidia Earnings Matter More To Markets Than What The Fed Chair Says
Investors know what the Fed chair is likely to say. But uncertainty over Nvidia’s earnings could worry investors concerned about an AI bubble.
MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure
A new MIT report reveals that while 95% of corporate AI pilots fail, 90% of workers are quietly succeeding with personal AI tools, driving a hidden productivity boom.
From almost zero Swift knowledge to a million working apps, Apple’s surprise model proves that synthetic code training can twist AI learning in strange ways
Apple researchers created a loop where code writes more code
Building AI Products In The Probabilistic Era
AI turns products from deterministic functions into probabilistic systems. That requires expanding old playbooks (SLOs, funnels, siloed finance), and reasoning in terms of trajectories, Minimum Viable Intelligence thresholds, and data...
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative unveils rBio, a groundbreaking AI model that simulates cell biology without lab experiments to accelerate drug discovery and disease research.
Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People
Microsoft’s head of artificial intelligence has acknowledged that AI chatbots are fueling a massive wave of “AI psychosis.”
The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier
The industry’s apocalyptic voices are becoming more panicked—and harder to dismiss.
MCP-Universe: Benchmarking Large Language Models with Real-World…
The Model Context Protocol has emerged as a transformative standard for connecting large language models to external data sources and tools, rapidly gaining adoption across major AI providers and…
Anthropic’s Claude AI Can Now End Abusive Conversations For ‘Model Welfare’
Anthropic’s new feature for Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 flips the moral question: It’s no longer how AI should treat us, but how we should treat AI.
Did Google just give us the ultimate AI photo-editing tool? I tested it on the Pixel, and hard agree
Want to brighten your photos, straighten them, remove reflections, or add new elements? Just ask – it’s easier than ever.
Gearing Up for the Gigawatt Data Center Age
Across the globe, AI factories are rising — massive new data centers built not to serve up web pages or email, but to train and deploy intelligence itself. Internet giants...
How AI agents, synthetic data, and executive literacy build resilient organizations
AI agents, synthetic data, and leadership drive resilience
The Great AI Equalizer: How Legacy Players and Tiny Startups Are Suddenly Your Biggest Competitive Threat
Why the middle of the B2B and SaaS market may be in for the biggest disruption of all Here’s a truth that’s keeping B2B executives up at night, even if...
IBM and NASA create first-of-its-kind AI that can accurately predict violent solar flares
The new open-source AI model, Soraya, is trained on nine years of satellite imagery data and can accurately predict the sun’s activity up to two hours into the future. It’s...
Fears AI bubble is set to burst as tech stocks tumble after study
It comes after the U.S. stock market exchange lost $1trillion in just four days as a sell-off of tech companies escalated on Wednesday.
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI...
Scammers have infiltrated Google’s AI responses – how to spot them
The problem isn’t limited to Google. Scammers have also exploited OpenAI’s ChatGPT in much the same way.
AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally
AI Mode in Google Search is expanding to more regions and adding more features.
Anthropic develops anti-nuke AI tool
The company built a tool designed to prevent its AI models from being used to make nuclear weapons.
Anthropic can now tell when a Claude chat goes dangerously nuclear
The AI company’s new tool helps distinguish between real scientific research and potentially harmful queries.
Developing nuclear safeguards for AI through public-private partnership
Together with the NNSA and DOE national laboratories, we have co-developed a classifier—an AI system that automatically categorizes content—that distinguishes between concerning and benign nuclear-related conversations with 96% accuracy in...
Nvidia, Palantir, AMD, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft — the Stock Market’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Titans — Have a $23 Billion Warning for Wall Street @themotleyfool #stocks $NVDA $MSFT $META $AMD $PLTR
Insider activity for all five of these key AI stocks tells quite the tale.
GitHub – Growth-Kinetics/DiffMem: Git Based Memory Storage for Conversational AI Agent
Git Based Memory Storage for Conversational AI Agent – Growth-Kinetics/DiffMem
Moises app can now generate AI bandmates
AI Studio takes a recording of a single instrument and generates other instruments that match the original beat and style.
IBM and NASA Release Groundbreaking Open-Source AI Model on Hugging Face to Predict Solar Weather and Help Protect Critical Technology
/PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NASA today unveiled the most advanced open-source foundation model designed to understand high resolution solar observation…
Forecasting the Impacts of AI R&D Acceleration: Results of a Pilot Study
AI agents are improving rapidly at autonomous software development and machine learning tasks, and, if recent trends hold, may match human researchers at challenging months-long research projects in under a...
Artificial Intelligence H1 2025 Global Report Deal trends, fundraising, segment highlights, and market outlook
Despite uncertainty in global markets, AI remains a strategic priority among business executives, investors, and government, fueling sustained investment in AI infrastructure and dealmaking with…
Normal Computing’s new thermodynamic chip uses physics to cut AI energy costs
Normal Computing has big plans for scaling up its technology
AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds
Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.
GitHub – luminal-ai/luminal: Deep learning at the speed of light.
Deep learning at the speed of light. Contribute to luminal-ai/luminal development by creating an account on GitHub.
AutoBench Third Run: Revolutionizing LLM Evaluation with Record-Breaking Scale, Accuracy, and a New Home at autobench.org
A Blog post by Peter Kruger on Hugging Face
NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun
NASA is turning up the heat in solar science with the launch of the Surya Heliophysics Foundational Model, an artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on 14
Vantage Data Centers plans $25B AI campus in Texas
Vantage noted that he AI campus will include 10 data centers covering 3.7 million square feet.