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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout
Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it u…
Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails …
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda …
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as fair use. The filing directl…
We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applicat…
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its "working harder" reasoning burns abou…
US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform GenAI.mil
The Pentagon is expanding its AI platform with two new models, OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government. The article US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform Gen…
Protests against AI data centers play into China's hands, Trump says
President Trump has pushed back hard against growing opposition to AI data centers across the US. The article Protests against AI data centers play into China's hands, Trump says …
OpenAI calls Astra its most dangerous model yet - watching what it does is only getting harder
OpenAI is officially rating its upcoming Astra model as the first system with "critical" cyber capabilities. The company plans to keep it in check by monitoring the chain of thoug…
World Labs unveils Atlas, a single AI model that generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D worlds from just a few photos
World Labs, co-founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, has announced Atlas, a world model that generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D scenes from just a few images. The company cl…
Google Gemini's new agent-based video analysis cuts token usage by up to 88 percent
Google is adding agent-based video analysis to Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite. Instead of scanning videos frame by frame at a fixed rate, the model decides on its…
Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others
Anthropic is launching an API that lets regulators, media outlets, and researchers check whether text carries Claude's digital watermark. The EU AI Act now requires invisible wate…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 promises better coding and research at up to 45 percent less
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, its most capable AI models yet. Fable 5.1 doubles its predecessor's score on Terminal-Bench-Science and improves agentic coding…
Google’s answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.
Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google's current models are "a little bit below the frontier" but says he's "100% certain that we will be at the frontier." He didn'…
Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides
Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overview…
Runway's Solaris is an AI system that generates software interfaces in real time
AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls "Interface World Models." Instead of running code, the system generates the user interface frame…
Google's AI search dropped its emergency-call advice over nationalities but still flags people from Facebook
"Please get to a safe place or call emergency services": That's the advice Google's AI search gave users who typed that they were alone with an African, Indian, or Pakistani. The …
Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis
Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks from frontier AI models. Cross-investments between AI comp…
Instagram admits users often can't tell AI profiles from real people
Instagram is replacing its "AI creator" tag with a new "AI-generated profile" label because users can't tell AI profiles from real people. Singularity, defined by Instagram user c…
OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion annual run rate
OpenAI's advertising business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, according to the company. The article OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion…
China's CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap
China's top memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is producing HBM3E for the first time in small quantities, a fast memory found in many current AI processors. The arti…
ChatGPT now faces stricter EU oversight as a very large search engine
The EU Commission is classifying ChatGPT as a very large search engine under the Digital Services Act for the first time, with at least 45 million monthly EU users. By the end of …
OpenAI starts charging some customers only when its AI actually works
OpenAI is offering some large customers outcome-based pricing, where they pay only once the AI actually finishes a task. Salesforce, Adobe, and several startups are also moving aw…