Industry
AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI training
Amazon buys large quantities of printed books, scans them as AI training data, and destroys them in the process. The article AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI t…
OpenAI signs record Ohio data center lease with Nvidia backing up to $105 billion
OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becomes the exclusi…
AI video market has bounced back from Sora's false start
AI production companies like Promise are setting up shop around Hollywood's historic studios, using real-time backgrounds and other AI tools to cut film costs. Netflix already use…
Anthropic watermarks Claude's output, but critics question the tradeoffs
Anthropic's text watermarking for Claude is supposed to make AI-generated content detectable. But critics doubt that word choice stays unaffected, and lawyers are facing new trans…
AI and data centers have leapfrogged Israel, racism, and crypto as US campaign topics
AI shows up in nearly 40 percent of all US races, ranking ahead of Israel, racism, and manufacturing as a campaign topic. Data centers and their impact on electricity costs and lo…
Stripe is reportedly acquiring AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion
According to Bloomberg, Stripe is acquiring the AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, up from a latest valuation of $1.3 billion. OpenRouter offers access to over 400 AI…
Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers
Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for genuinely new mathematical i…
When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview
A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights, religion, and life satisfactio…
OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups
OpenAI shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been parceled out to existing groups, and…
Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests
In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During that time, around 50,000 …
Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared not just on quality but al…
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with lit…
Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwh…
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-writt…
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review
A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to manipulate a potential AI review system…
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments. From a single real-world…
The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise
A new research paper frames AI adoption as a "tragedy of the cognitive commons." Every company that cuts entry-level jobs benefits individually, but the collective expertise of en…
New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception
Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually "see," separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60 percent accuracy, and GPT-5.6 S…
Anthropic announces watermark detection API that will let third parties detect Claude's AI texts
Anthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The technology builds on Google's SynthID method and tweaks t…
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license
Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qw…
OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. The data is stored locally as unencr…
Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpub…
GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode powered by Cerebras
OpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware from their $10 billion partners…
Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays…